SKIM COATING DRYWALL DRYWALL PRO

Some of the tutorials I read said to prime the wall with a sealing primer before I did anything else. That was a bit messy.Īnyway, that was all cleaned off and vacuumed (get yourself a drywall bag for your shop vac). Unfortunately I sanded a bit too much in some spots, sanding off the paper layer of the drywall underneath. Between various sanders and the paint scraper (by the way, the scraper worked much better and was far less messy than the sander so if I were doing this again-and I’m not- I’d have started with the scraper), we were able to remove most of the texture. We started with a relatively flat wall, but it was far from perfect. And below I’ll tell you how I didn’t do what they told me to do. Rather than rehash everything that people who know more about it than I do have said about it, here are some of the tutorials I referenced. I watched a bunch of Youtube videos that were at least somewhat helpful and then I went for it. This was my first attempt at skim coating, so I started where all good DIY projects start: Google. Here’s the semi-before picture that shows the evil texture.

SKIM COATING DRYWALL DRYWALL PRO

Don’t get me wrong, I’m happy that texture is not in my face every time I walk out of the kitchen, but we’ll be saving our pennies to hire a pro to remove and replace the drywall for the other rooms. This was a messy and time-intensive project. If you’ve been following the progress of removing the wall texture in our small hallway, you’ve probably figure out by now that the remaining texture in the house (in the downstairs bathroom and the den) will be professionally removed.

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