Never seen before skim coating tips and tricks to skim walls yourself

Never seen before skim coating tips and tricks to skim walls yourself. This is the part 2 video of the skim coating video series Skim coating walls for beginners tutorial. In this video I'm going to show you never seen before skim coating tips and tricks to skim walls yourself. I'll also show you my skim coating techniques that I use after I finished the first round of skim coating. So stay tuned and let me know in the comments what type of skim coating or drywall project you’re working on? Thanks so much for watching! Take care, -Paul
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Part 1 of the skim coating video series:
Skim coating walls for beginners tutorial
• Skim coating walls for...
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How to apply a skim coat series:
Part 1
Here's the link to the video where I showed How to apply a skim coat to your walls for a smooth finish- Skim coating drywall. • How to apply a skim co... In this video tutorial I showed you how to apply a skim coat to your walls.
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Part 2- How to Skim Coat Walls Demonstration
• How to Skim Coat Drywall
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Part 3
What to do after skim coat dries? No sanding!
• What to do after skim ...
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Part 4
How to touch up a skim coat before sanding skim coated walls • How to touch up a skim...
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Part 5
How to sand a skim coat fast and easy!
• How to sand a skim coa...
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Here's a couple of the Skim Coating Demonstration Videos:
*How to skim coat a wall in less then 10 minutes | Diy Drywall Tips and Tricks- • How to skim coat a wal...
*(Part 1)How to skim coat using paint roller trick- Getting rid of Knockdown Texture- • How to skim coat using...
*(Part 2) How to skim coat trick with a paint roller and joint compound- • (Part 2) How to skim c...
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[@PaulPeck]

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[@RayBecker]

Paul....Excellent video series. What I'm doing is removing the batten strips from all of the butt joints and corners in our doublewide home. 3/8" rock laid on the vertical throughout. Instead of taping all of the exposed joints, I'm pulling all of the brads and hammering down the joints with a piece of hard oak. Then I'm filling the joints with green mud, sand and then cover with skim. I love the roller trick; makes a lot of sense and will make the skim consistent. On all outside and inside corners, I'm using that Strait-Line product; it's awesome especially with 45 degree outsides. Let me know what you think about not taping the butt joints. Great videos!

[@christopherdavila2272]

I just started a new job as Maintenance. I've never done texturing before, so I subscribed to your channel. It's coming out like I was a pro. 😂 One question though. How often do you change out the roller?

[@OnThis_Journey45]

Hello Paul, I love your videos. I'm getting ready to work on my bathroom walls after removing wall paper. Can you tell how long do I wait to skin coat after applying the primer? How long does it take to dry before I apply the second coat?

[@QIKWIA]

Hey Paul! Damn, you make this all look so easy....looks great! These are really good instructional videos for anyone trying to learn this technique...ive watched the video twice already and will most likely watch many more times to build up my confidence and skills👍... Practice makes perfect! (so I've been told,😃)....TFS,✌

[@I_am_Rosy]

Hey, I’m from the UK and I live in a small cottage with really lovely wavy old walls - building’s made of lime stone and is about 200 years old. I think your videos make the process seem quite easy and straight-forward. Hopefully the same principals can be applied when going on these naturally curvy walls. Although, I do have some old wood beams on the ceiling to manoeuvre around! You wouldn’t happen to know how one would deal with that would you? You’re channel’s great. Keep it up

[@PaulPeck]

Hi Rosy, when you’re going around the beams, just get close to them beams with the roller. Then when you come back to smooth out the skim coat mud with your drywall knife, you can get right up to the beams that way.👍🏻 I hope this helps. Let me know if you run into any questions along the way. Thanks so much for watching and subscribing!🙏 -Paul

[@esnoke51]

Paul, I love following your videos and feel this series will help me immensely. I am getting ready to fix a room for my son. He and his wife just purchased a house that had every room wallpapered. When they removed the paper (with a steam gun) all of the walls were damaged to the point painting them will leave the rooms looking terrible. This method should work (I hope).

[@MediaSubliminal]

thanks for the video. I did this a couple times when I was in highschool about 25 years ago when my church would go to mexico to build houses and stuff. I tried to do it on my own just a day ago and it was a disaster. But when I did it before, there was a member of the church guiding me and stuff. I forgot all about using a roller.

[@tonysorcinelli]

Would you recommend rolling for ceilings too?

[@PaulPeck]

Do you have a smooth or what type of texture do you have on your ceiling?

[@lotuslove6753]

We were removing wallpaper with raw drywall that was never prepped more than 30 years ago. We tore the wall in several places before giving up. Some diy home renovators suggested to skim coat over what’s left of the paper backing and damaged wall. Would you say to do this??? We need HELP!!!

[@roberttantao7909]

Paul I'm fixing my garage cealing because when we bought this house the company that fix this house did a very poot job and the old skin coat is coming apart & craking so i did remove the old joyning tape and I'm replacing tbe tape im planing to do the brusch skin coating as you did one of your videos, after i het that done the cealing was not painted so im planing to prime it. Them skim coated, and finally do the skip trawl as you did on your videos, and i hope my plan is the correct thing to do this task I'm planing to do it this week end 01/08/21 let me know if i shut do something different Thanks for all your videos. this video's

[@cre8tivity06]

Today I used your paint roller trick. 1. The paint roller was pulling the tape off the wall on the joints! This was very frustrating as I used Durabond and pre-filled those joints when I laid the tape then went over it with quickset 45 once that dried. 2. The other issue I had I noticed specks of red/pink lint in the roller and it was getting on the wall. I thought maybe the roller was bad so I grabbed another one out of the package. That too had that pinkish lint in it. I’m not sure what that was but I had to use my 6” knife to keep pulling it off the wall. Should I use the paint roller on the second coat or do without it? Any suggestions on what to do about the tape issue? It only came up in two sections. I put some JC under it hoping it would hold it down but noticed it was still coming up off the wall. Thanks a bunch!

[@61mhall]

Hi, I have a 240 yr house with plaster. Can I use this technique to skim coat it? If so, do I remove any loose chunks or skim coat over it? Thanks

[@ashpea208]

Hi Paul! How would you do the corners of a wall? And what about steering clean on crown molding? Can I just tape those areas off with painters tape? I’m totally new at this. I took the wallpaper off in my kitchen and most of the paint underneath came off with it.

[@JonKovach]

Your tips have helped a bunch. I just did a small bedroom and needed 3 coats but how smooth should the last coat be? I have some spots that are pretty smooth other spots a little rough, will sanding even all this out or should I spot fix rougher patches?

[@hokkaidogaming8664]

This is so nice video !

[@maplehouseknives]

*PLEASE HELP* I'm a totally inexperienced drywaller and just renovated my guest bathroom. I've dry walled and taped but the tape lines are extremely visible. Will a skim coat help me blend the tape lines? Thanks in advance for any help you can offer!

[@crcc5282]

Hi Paul any tips on a 10' wall on skimming trying to avoid stop and starts and lines with limited reach without a ladder ?

[@reedrobb]

Paul, step up your drywall skim coating game and use the “magic trowel”. A spritz with a water bottle and you’re golden!

[@PaulPeck]

I do need to try one of those for sure!👍🏻 Thanks so much for watching and subscribing my friend!😎 -Paul

[@robford41984]

I know that this is a dry wall tip, but 2 questions. I’m moving in a new to me house, it’s old (160ish years old) and there’s wood paneling covering most of the house, and plaster walls with a very broad stroked texture. I’m looking to smooth out the walls before painting. Would this method shown in the video work for the wood paneling (mostly because I don’t want to pull them and hang drywall), and what’s a good method for the plaster? Please and thank you!

[@PaulPeck]

Hi Robert, I have skim coated over paneling successfully several times before.👍🏻 one thing I did do, was to treat the joints where the panels meet like a drywall joint to prevent them from cracking. I hope this helps. Thanks so much for watching and subscribing!😎 -Paul

[@richardlug6139]

Robert Ford: I would lightly sand the paneling and use a oil primer or shellac so the mud will stick to the paneling.

[@FryNeedsCalm]

Just moved into a prewar building with 9ft plaster walls. The ceiling and walls in the are foyer are chipped and peeling. I'm a complete beginner with skim coating, but I work in construction so I've seen tapers do it all the time. Should I scrap the peeling off then do this technique or is there something additional I should do? Thanks!

[@PaulPeck]

Yes, scrape and prime with a product called Gardz problem surface sealer. Then skim.👍🏻 I hope this helps. Let me know if you run into any questions along the way. Thanks so much for watching and subscribing! -Paul

[@carlosmoffett5676]

Hey Paul I'm an amateur diy'er recently removed both painted and unpainted textured ceiling, is it necessary to sand before skimming or I should I sand after skimming 1st coat?

[@PaulPeck]

Hi Carlos, I would sans after the first skim coat.👍🏻 I hope this helps. Thanks so much for watching and subscribing!😎 -Paul

[@emangf]

Paul I'm looking to skim and not remove plaster and that is loose from the lat board. Can this be skimmed or do I need to tear out and just drywall?

[@nordan00]

Let me give ya a tip; instead of wrapping the roller in a plastic bag, just hang the roller by its hook on top of the metal grid, (the handle will obviously be sticking above the level of the 5 gallon bucket lip, but that doesn’t matter because you won’t be putting the cover back on the 5 gallon bucket of joint compound). Then, just drape a 13 gallon garbage bag over the handle and bucket. (You don’t have to secure the bottom of the garbage bag to the bucket. Just let it hang there.) By a process of physics too complicated to get into here, the joint compound and saturated roller will not dry out for days if not weeks. With paint, I’ve had it last for 3-4 weeks without the paint drying out at all. In fact, I also simply hang my paint-saturated brush with a paint hook over the inside lip of the bucket, too. This way, I never have to clean the brush until the job is finished.

[@winnguyen443]

That’s awesome!

[@PaulPeck]

I appreciate it Pat!💥👊🏻 Thanks so much for watching and subscribing!😎 -Paul

[@lifestylelisted]

Project; remove battens from prefab home, skim coat over vinyl textured wallpaper. Do I need to prime over the vinyl paper? What do you suggest? My mother wants me just to pull battens and tape and fill joints. I refuse to do it because it will look terrible. Any help or suggestions for a DIY girl helping her mom.

[@PaulPeck]

Hi Erica, is the wallpaper stuck really good? No lifting or bubbles? -Paul

[@lifestylelisted]

Paul Peck the sheetrock is prewallpapered and then hung (because it's a pre-fab factory). It's wrapped around the edges even. So yes it's stuck good. The reason behind the renovation is her tenants left a hole in the wall. The wallpaper is no longer available, she checked with sun homes the manufacturer.

[@Eric-ye8ip]

Do you throw away the roller when your done with the skim coat job? Or can you wash out the joint compound. Thanks again for the video.

[@PaulPeck]

Hi Eric, Yes the roller cover is pretty much done after using it for skim coating. I don't recommend cleaning it and using it for painting. Thanks for the question a stopping by! -Paul

[@lifestylelisted]

Eric I buy my rollers from our neighborhood discount store and love them.

[@hhprogressiveconstruction1140]

Nice buddy 👍👍👍

[@PaulPeck]

Thank you William!👍🏻

[@cre8tivity06]

How many skim coats do you apply typically? This would be for new drywall.

[@ram12e6]

How about some tool box tours did I see the dewalt tstack system with the miter saw on top? Great video by the way

[@PaulPeck]

Hey there Ram, Yes exactly! I absolutely love my tstack boxes. I also have the Dewalt radio which sounds really good and the 20V cordless miter saw is well worth the money. Haha. Its funny you say that about making a toolbox video. I’ve been wanting to do a toolbar video like that for a while now. But now you’ve got me wanting do a tstack video on how I have mine set up. Thanks so much for watching and taking the time to comment! Great suggestion!👍🏻 Take care, -Paul

[@soulr33p3r84]

nice vids bro met u from blood x too

[@djsalvador4947]

Can i add color paint water base instead of water pls answer. Tnx

[@PaulPeck]

Hi DJ, it takes to much paint to change the color. A paint tint would be better. You might be able to get the guys at local paint store to or big box store to give you some. Or just paint the wall a darker color and use the joint compound (which will be whitish when it dries. Good luck and let me know how it goes.👍🏻 -Paul

[@sutoyooyong4031]

Sempurna frend

[@marybauman264]

I’m trying to cover sand textured paint in my kitchen. I want smooth walls that I can easily clean.

[@PaulPeck]

Here's Part 1 of this skim coating video series: Skim coating walls for beginners tutorial- kzbin.info/www/bejne/o4usk3SfjbRmpZY Thanks so much for watching! -Paul

[@eddiehernandez4809]

How Paul do you need thick roller for walls that are not textured?

[@Quicksmoke]

great tips than you im new here met you in Runnyeggs stream these tips will help ty again

[@PaulPeck]

Awesome!💥👊🏻 Thanks for stopping by my friend!😎 -Paul

[@UDoIt2]

Why do you use green for skimcoat instead of blue?

[@PaulPeck]

Hi John, I like the All Purpose joint compound with the dark green lid because it goes on smooth, sands easy and has more glue in it. This means I can go right over a painted and textured surface like on my demonstration wall in this video. It was a knockdown texture painted with a egg shell paint. The light would be good for the next skim coat. But, I just prefer the green lid over the blue lid compound. Thanks so much for the comment and watching my friend! -Paul

[@mehow1603]

But you're putting water in it to thin it?