Skim Coat Over Textured Ceiling

Pull the magic trowel over the compound smoothing it out.

Skim coat over textured ceiling. In today s skim coating tutorial. Skim coat over texture with joint compound. The smaller 6 taping knife is great for mixing mud and skim coating small areas such as a window sill.

In addition skim coating can be done over a small area or it can be done over an entire wall ceiling surface. Watch this entire skim coat over texture like a pro video. Joint compound aka drywall mud.

Some of the helpful resources are affiliate links. In today s video i m going to show you how to skim coat over texture how to mix skim coat mud and all the skim coat tools you ll need to skim coat over painted popcorn ceilings or any type of wall or ceiling for that matter. Materials and tools to skim coat and smooth a textured wall or ceiling.

About skim coating compounds. Squeegee the mud in the same direction that you applied it with the paint roller. Mud pan and taping knives.

Use your damp rag or spray bottle to wet the blade before use. Check the bottom of this page for a video demonstrating how to apply a skim coat. On this painted popcorn ceiling project i ll be skim coating over it using a 14 inch drywall taping knife 16 inch stainless steel mud pan and an all purpose joint compound made by usg.

I m going to show you how to skim coat over painted popcorn ceilin. After our little popcorn texture removal experiment we still had an entire kitchen ceiling with a lovely stippled or stomped ceiling texture bonus now we had a terrible scraped patch to disguise but it was no problem the plan from the beginning was to skim coat the ceiling anyway.