How To Skim Coat A Ceiling With A Roller
If your walls are slightly uneven or damaged skim coating a light coat of drywall mud over the surface evens them out.
How to skim coat a ceiling with a roller. I m using a 14 drywall taping knife and mud pan to smooth out the mud. It s round two of skim coating over a textured ceiling series. Drywall mud is a thick substance that is spreadable and easily sanded to a smooth finish after drying.
If you re trying to cover up a knockdown or skip trowel texture be sure to use at least a 1 to 1 1 4 roller cover when applying the first skim coat. Choose between a dry powder you mix with water and a premixed mud. If you have a drywall texture you want to get rid of or a rough wall or ceiling skim coating is a way to get rid of an old texture and create a new wall te.
Then a 3 4 nap will work fine for the second skim coat of all purpose joint compound to the wall or ceiling or skim coating. In this skim coating video two part series i ll show you how to do the first coat and second skim coats on a wall to get rid of an ugly poorly done knockdown. In today s video i m going to show you how to skim coat a ceiling.