Your frustrated ranting from yours truly lesson for this week is skim coating damaged drywall. Jump to section: Tools Needed | Sealing Damage | Skim Coating | Sanding | Painting | Cleanup Tips How to repair damaged drywall after wallpaper removal First of all, we should start by clearing up...
Skim coating is the process of applying a layer of muddy plaster compound to rough or damaged ceilings and walls to either smooth or repair them. Both professional plasterers and Do-It-Yourselfs (DIYs) can use this method to repair entire walls; to smooth out cross-hatching on dry wall pa...
Should we skim-coat or drywall over a textured plaster wall to smooth it out? 0 Is the skim coating on my ceiling ok? 0 Drywall skim coat over painted CMU? 8 Can I smooth a knockdown-textured ceiling with spackle? 1 Skim coating over plaster walls with semi-gloss paint on them...
1. knock off/sand any really high spots—those will be a pain during skim-coating, so get rid of em. 2. Clean the walls with TSP substitute. Good step before painting anything! 3. Especially if the walls are glossy, but either way just as a precaution, paint a coat with drywall pri...
If you need to coat a significant area use pre-mix drywall mud. Most big box stores have smaller containers than the 64 pound pail. To smooth the lightweight stuff for small repairs hold the knife almost parallel to the wall. If it is not perfect after 1 or 2 passes, let it dry ...
Skim coating has other uses as well. When I worked in the scene shop of my college's theatre, we used skim coating and other, similar things a lot of the time to coat props, set pieces, or walls for effect. It was especially useful in one show we did, where there were trees that...