How to Finish Sheetrock - Flip house Pt 9

[@spoly8139]

Your videos are so educational. It's easy for us to sit back and watch what you do but now we realize how labor intensive this work is and your attention to detail. I find these videos very interesting. You should be ready for a nice vacation after you're all finished!

[@WandaKay4u2c]

What a difference! I've viewed other videos of sheetrock finishing, but it all looks like playdough being applied to create a LOT of sanding work later. Your technique shows a lot of thought for the overall process and not just throwing it on there. Thank you for taking the time to teach others.

[@lorettataylor9902]

Bill you make dry wall finishing look so easy. I have a few family members that do that for a living they to are vary good . My first home had sheet rock in it I hated doing it 🙃 I was mo good . My brother helped us he new what he was doing. It's definitely a skill. In my second is a log home and all tounge and groove it was much easier. Someone's gonna get a nice home 🏡 😌

[@jmarie9801]

Excellent work Bill. My husband was an expert tape and bed man and i was always amazed to watch how smooth he could get it. Watching you do this reminds me of the times i would watch him.

[@wendyburston3132]

Nice tool. We've done quite a bit of drywall spackling in the past but still not looking forward to our fall project. Hate to say this but you made me feel tired just watching you. 😬 I'm 64 and my husband is 71. Add poor eyesight and failing health and you have a recipe for disaster. But having said that we did manage to fix our fallen fence with three new posts and the Lord blessed us with kind new neighbors you did the difficult part of attaching the final end piece. God is good and so kind. He gives us the strength we need for whatever He allows to come our way. Thank you for sharing with us all and may God bless all you do.

[@johnmelissaziech6207]

Looks great. It is an art. That's why my husband who renovated two of our homes, himself, always leaves this part to the experts!

[@gladysanderson1351]

The first drywall spackling I did: terrible! My Dad, a carpenter, said, when I asked him id he thought it wasn't TOO bead, said, "well, if you don't look at it, it's not too bad." LOL! Anyway, I learned that doing a good job of drywall is certainly an artwork. One of the maintenance guys at work, when fixing any little holes or dents in sheetrock on the walls, was absolutely great at it. He said he had lots of experience, as he was the Dad of a large family. :)

[@pammiedoodle8693]

My husband and I did our own drywall when we built our house (two story). I can sum it up in 2 words………. Never. Again. That is one job we’d leave to the pro’s if we were ever faced with that job again!😫 That room is going to look beautiful when it’s done!😊 Blessings 🙏

[@theoldfarmerswife5915]

😂😂. I understand that! I’ve never done a whole house, just a couple small rooms & repairs. I hire pros for any sheet rock jobs

[@benjaminziegler7437]

The elusive hawk and knife combination. That's how I learned, from Pennsylvania myself

[@doncc6080]

Thanks for tips on switching for verticals to horizontals. No one I've watched has used that technique.

[@skytechbits]

I am a very meticulous detail-oriented person so when I did this I preferred to do it as perfect as possible first because of the mess that sanding causes. I really like your technique. I loved working with mud. I also did lots of wet sanding too. I loved primer and painting. This room is going to look bigger and be much brighter now.

[@almurry8943]

Bill, I can see how if you take your time on skim coating, you save yourself a lot of time sanding. A genius way to approach it.

[@nancyl3843]

You are right; drywalling is a skill that most cannot do. It's really hard to do well.

[@jennifervalentine7519]

Molly....you’re being paged! Lol. Thanks Bill, Love watching any home improvements you and Barry do! 🦋

[@seekerbee4494]

Goodness! Your son has run into so many unplanned headaches in the remodel, I'm glad you got a break on the drywall in this room.

[@LiveSimpleLiveFree]

Unplanned headaches are a part of every renovation. You don’t know what they will be going into it, but you expect that they will happen!

[@karlab9557]

Now I know why I could never get a neat inside corner on the diy not-knowing-how-to-do-it drywall projects I have done. Beautiful job.

[@KM00Youtube]

LOL! Molly!! Can't wait to see what she does with this "canvas"! 🥰

[@JanesDough855]

Painting that room is going to look a lot brighter and give it an updated look. I had dark paneling in my back hallway, I ripped it all out. Since my walls are plaster, I used a thicker primer and troweled the primer on to give it a southwestern look before covering it with semi-gloss. Plaster walls are the worst. This is going to really look nice when done.

[@sarahmckenzie7989]

This process had more steps than I assumed. Learned something new! Thanks!

[@bl8680]

Excellent. Can hardly wait to see when it's painted ☺️

[@rickjobs638]

You definetly are a master craftsman, and a master teacher thanks for making taping sheet rock interesting.

[@SharaBinghamMills]

Well, I know what spackle is now. They did a horrible job doing that in my house. You can see the seams on the ceiling. Wow, thanks for the lesson. I feel like I learn so much from you.

[@whip43sd]

Everytime I watch one of your vids I think your channel could be called "The reluctant rehabber". 😁

[@LiveSimpleLiveFree]

I love it!

[@lylaschmooz]

I love watching you work. You are so neat and precise. I have to admit I enjoy doing the Spackle sheet rock it's so relaxing and therapeutic for me. I don't, however, like sanding. Keep up the good work I enjoy this type of videos.

[@sandicrounse5273]

Can’t wait to see it all come together. Have a fabulous rest of your day.

[@hollydolly6630]

Nice job Bill ✌❤🙏🤗

[@rainsofhealing]

You are a Master Mudder. 😁☺️. Excellent job. Appreciate your attention to detail! I wish I could afford this house and move. I pray that whoever it goes to is worthy and can deeply appreciate everything that your family is doing!

[@djterry1218]

Multi talented! Man of many skills. Thanks for the tutorial.👍🏼

[@yvonnegilmore712]

Hi Bill and Elizabeth 👋👋👋👋👋🎉🎉🎉🎉🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@Parakeetfriend4215]

You're definatly a pro Bill. I've seen walls in motels with that lumpy part on the wall. You show how to fix it when you're sheet rocking? Anyway, I'm impressed, you fix the lumps before you paint or wall paper.

[@patriciadurham815]

Hi I can’t believe it’s the weekend already Have a great weekend

[@mariayelruh]

Work smarter... not harder. That is why you and Elizabeth are a valued member of this flip.

[@beblessed2022]

Doing a great job and rocking the farmer tan!😂

[@purpletam5900]

So that's why builders make the Xs on the walls. My parents added to my early childhood home.

[@yvonnegilmore712]

I see the house is coming along 😊😊😊😊

[@tagladyify]

Great job, looks really nice. Sanding makes such a huge mess. Definitely not a job for the impatient person, unless it’s as a life lesson experience. It was for me. Feathering in became my friend. Lol

[@Randy8923]

Great job Bill! The first time I ever drywalled man did I make a mess. I mounded up the mud so wide and thick that it took forever to get it smooth and nice. I learned quick to never do that but I was taught wrong. I'm sure this video will help many. God bless you both 🙏.

[@theoldfarmerswife5915]

I’m too much of a perfectionist to do that job. Glad to see you are too 😉

[@jesuslovesyou919]

😇 & U exercise so much patience in all U do

[@Starrmiller]

Hello Mr. Bill That was one tedious job! But you did it! Lol

[@Rainstorm1301]

I think you have mastered this skill, along with several others! So good to see Elizabeth back with you!

[@pinksparkle4962]

What a lot of work but it will sure be worth it. That room will be bright and enviting. I don't like paneling, never have. I would of ripped it out of the Closet too. It will be so nice when you are done. You are such a hard worker. You be Blessed also.

[@LiveSimpleLiveFree]

The inside of the closet will be painted.

[@lindaSee89]

My dad was excellent with drywall prep and painting. He and my mother were perfectionist. You couldn’t find imperfections. His attention to detail from ceiling to wall was perfect when applying paint colors. His hand was steady.

[@juliebarnett9812]

I've made the same mistake on the spackling (mud). You do a nice job. (Of course. Lol.)

[@mlm7598]

Love to watch all the tips and tricks from a pro........we have just done some of this and I am wishingn I had seen this before we did ours. Ours turned out ok but I wish I had some of these hints. Blessings and thank you for sharing your knowledge and expertise!!!

[@janicew6222]

Had to laugh, as newlyweds in 1971, we built a small house (much like the house you and Elizabeth live in now.) My husband put the mud on thick and I didn't think we would ever get it sanded down LOL.

[@yvonnegilmore712]

I admire you and Elizabeth very christians people.💞😍😍💞

[@bonniekaye]

Loved the video! 🙂👍

[@brendahaire8824]

You make it look so simple

[@bessieoriotis5104]

I wish I had someone like you Bill to help me with the most minor repairs in my condo. May you and your family be blessed. GREECE

[@joybennett1903]

Love watching and learning! Awesome!

[@nancyh2378]

It’s definitely an art form. Lots of drywall flaws in my house. I’m glad you removed the paneling. The room will look much brighter with paint.

[@amma3536]

Take care and be blessed.

[@CHiley-nv7rq]

Great technique, Bill.

[@jan6293]

Nice job Bill, thanks for sharing!👍

[@candaceaustin4258]

I learn so much from you.

[@MrBobby781]

I don’t know, between Barry and his son in the crawl space you in the mud department youz will be done in no time…..looks great and no shortcuts. Some family going to get a nice home….Bobby L

[@glennrubel4326]

I did some diy spackling in my past and what a horror it was. I wish I had seen this video a long time ago.

[@lindayaya59]

You are good at what you do.

[@lindaSee89]

Looking great Bill. Great idea X areas. So you prefer sanding over wet sanding.

[@LiveSimpleLiveFree]

I’ve never really done wet sanding.

[@tomhanny2600]

Great job as always

[@PsalmS-vi8zl]

My word, that is a lot of work. Just think, this video may teach generations of your family and others, how to do this properly. Your great grandkids will say, "Look what an amazing job ole Grandpa Bill did." Do you listen to music, podcasts or scripture readings while you work? Be well and God bless.

[@LiveSimpleLiveFree]

I only occasionally listen to music, mostly jazz, or sometimes contemporary Christian.

[@stacyhackney6100]

Thank you for the great tips.

[@FamilyInOhio]

Job well done Bill i have done this a couple of times and I do not like it and I am not as good as you are i have learned from this thanks. I don't intend on doing this again but if I have to then I will lol God Bless thanks again

[@fjbutter1813]

Thank you Bill. I learned a lot! Great job!

[@spicynomad]

same.

[@dianajones8598]

God bless you Bill. Thank you so much for the lesson. I learned a whole lot from you that I hadn't considered before. 😃😇💙

[@rainsofhealing]

I very much appreciate and enjoy his teaching as well!

[@LaLadybug2011]

Great teaching video Bill. I've taped and floated a lot of walls through the years but I learned a lot from you today. Working with that light in your hand while you sanded....WoW! Never thought of that. Thank you so much. (All of the house flippers in my area should be ashamed at their shoddy work!). One question- will you put back all of the built ins that were in the room like the desk and bookshelf area? I think custom built-ins are a sure sign of a well done home. There's a certain price point in today's new home construction with custom built-ins and you just don't see it in the midrange homes. Thank you again for a great video. I should send this video to my ex-husband so you can show him how it's done! ☺️

[@LiveSimpleLiveFree]

We will not be putting any built-ins back into that room. It was obviously a sewing room. But we don't know what the new owner will want to use it for, and built-ins would limit the use. It could be a bedroom, sewing room, library, office... and each one would need a different design. So we'll just give them nice clean walls so they can do what they want with it.

[@iamwhoiamd7056]

What a nice tutorial.

[@pobo6113]

Very nice 👍

[@carlosmontoya8658]

Spackle es el rey cuando se prepara una habitación para pintar. buen espectáculo.

[@LiveSimpleLiveFree]

Muchas gracias

[@bobbydale1957]

Well done.

[@edithsens4868]

That was helpful to know. Thank you.

[@MissScrappy]

Wonderful job. A skill I could never master! I hope you are feeling well and not over doing. 😃

[@maggiesue4825]

A perfect job!!

[@chandrasutton4669]

Good job!!!

[@Cam-wi3tp]

never seen sheetrock under paneling, wish I could get that lucky!

[@LiveSimpleLiveFree]

That was done a lot in the 70’s. Paneling was too flimsy without the Sheetrock backing.

[@readtheinstructions1407]

Good Job!

[@kscheuerman5378]

It is a fantastic plan to do it that way. When we first had to do this we were sanding for days & the dust coming from it went everywhere throughout the whole house. It almost killed my house vacuum, too

[@thirzapeevey2395]

Back before the "everyone MUST go to college" mantra" this is just what guys did: they trained their sons up in their business, and then as the sons took over, they stuck around doing what they could as long as they could. They lent their expertise and wisdom, they did the lighter work, and they supported their sons and grandsons while they did the heavier work. By the end of their lives, they might simply have been sitting on a stump in the yard while the work went on around them, but they were still involved, with family, and stimulated by the work around them. They weren't sitting in a wheelchair in a urine scented hallway. This is being an elder as Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob did. I think it is a model we need to get back to. Not only do you have the pleasure of working with your son, but you get to help disciple your grandson.

[@ellenyoung9999]

Who gets to pick out the paint colours ? Hope we get to see the house when it's finished .

[@LiveSimpleLiveFree]

Molly and her mom are doing all the colors, light fixtures, floor selections, etc.

[@ej115]

Super!!

[@Marthacraftsandmore]

Nice!

[@carolfranco425]

Nice job, I was wondering why you wouldn't use caulking instead of quarter round on the seam between the walls & ceiling❓

[@LiveSimpleLiveFree]

The gap is too big. And with the textured ceiling it would be impossible to get the caulk smooth. It would look terrible. We’ll use quarter round, or maybe even larger crown molding.

[@sharonrhoads2461]

I agree, the concept looks easy, but getting that stuff smooth can be a booger.

[@elizabethreid9448]

oh I thought you were painting the wall with that white goop. I know NOTHING about renovations. this is such a learning / you and yours doing construction. oh btw. have you ever seen KZbin channel - southernprepper1. Good faithful man who reads the daily emails he gets on what is Actually happening around country/world as to how everyday people being effected and reports shortages and such. anyways. thanks for your updates.

[@LiveSimpleLiveFree]

no, never heard of southernprepper1

[@CVenza]

In a remodel after the mud, can it be sprayed with a finish if it still looked damaged? Or is it one or the other? Thanks Bill!

[@LiveSimpleLiveFree]

I don’t know what you mean by “sprayed with a finish.” Are you talking about a textured surface? In that case, you must completely finish the Sheetrock BEFORE you texture it. Texturing does not hide the seems if they have not been finished first.

[@CVenza]

@@LiveSimpleLiveFree Thank you!

[@Firestormlover]

I had a drunk driver try to park his car in my living room, so we had to have an entire wall replaced. The sheet rock team troweled the mud on, let it set about 15 minutes while they cleaned up their trowels, then used a lightly damp sponge and smoothed everything up immediately. No sanding, no dust. And I have checked the seams in a raking light, no edges, no lines. I am very confused why all the there is all this work and sanding, with how well this worked for them?

[@LiveSimpleLiveFree]

Well, I have no idea what they did, or how they did it!

[@sherimcgill5139]

Interesting how the drywall had never been finished at any point before the paneling went up.

[@LiveSimpleLiveFree]

There was no reason to finish it. The paneling just gave support to the flimsy paneling.

[@baikbaikmotorbike]

oh dear, there is the x again

[@mariannereno8501]

💖

[@robertf6343]

Where is Flip house Pt 8 ?

[@LiveSimpleLiveFree]

There isn’t one. I got the numbers wrong!

[@robertf6343]

@@LiveSimpleLiveFree oh thanks, i don't want to miss an episode

[@Ty-dt8xv]

👍👍👍

[@laurazemba1862]

That is one of the most frustrating 😤 time consuming jobs. I rather clean out a sewer line on a 100 degree day than mess around with coating and sanding.

[@MiscMitz]

👍😎👍

[@OldCritters]

👍💞

[@carlaifera5254]

🙋🏻🌄☕

[@mjvaquatics2626]

Hey Bill...I know yer 'old school' but sticky mesh tape, a corner tool, and 'sanding' with a damp sponge makes it all go quicker. :-) (I'm not in the trades but built my own two story Ridge home in 1979 on the 'learn as you go' method - lol)

[@LiveSimpleLiveFree]

Yup, I’ve used all of those things. But I just keep coming back to “ tried and true!”

[@jesuslovesyou919]

🤣the word "flip" just doesn't sound right with all the work put into it to sell it