Drywall corner floating advice

[tjbnwi]

Regular dish soap works well tho slick the mud. The concentrated types do not work well.

Tom

 

[Kodi Crescent]

Awesome, thanks!  I'm using the green lid compound for a skim coat.  Which compound would you guys suggest?

 

[rizzoa13]

Green top will work fine for you. If you can find proform brand Spackle in the red top i definately like it better but either will work.

Best thing I did to make my Spackle work better was to mix the whole pail up with a paddle on an electric drill. You may think your mixing it well by hand but your not, you'll realize that once you use a paddle mixer.

 

[Kodi Crescent]

I'm pulling it from the 5 gallon bucket into a smaller bucket and mixing with a paddle drill.  I need to get in the habit of adding the soap.  The fish eyes are a real bitch to deal with.

 

[JimD]

I've never installed cabinets in a house that wasn't a bit out of square.  Trying to fix the drywall never occurred to me.  Maybe it's because I'd much rather make sawdust than tape drywall.  I need to fix a "professionals" job in my room over right now.  I could call the builder back and they would fix it but they would also make a huge mess like they did the first time.  I have the flooring in now and my wife would be extremely upset when she saw what I am sure they will leave behind.  It is the peak of a cathedral ceiling.  When I did another room I used the setting compound to create a smooth radius and it worked pretty well.  That is the thickest I've spread mud and it worked fine.  But it is also up in the air where it won't get contacted.  I'd be worried about thick mud anywhere it could get bumped. 

 

[Kodi Crescent]

I re-taped it. 

 

[rizzoa13]

I've never installed cabinets in a house that wasn't a bit out of square.  Trying to fix the drywall never occurred to me.  Maybe it's because I'd much rather make sawdust than tape drywall.  I need to fix a "professionals" job in my room over right now.  I could call the builder back and they would fix it but they would also make a huge mess like they did the first time.  I have the flooring in now and my wife would be extremely upset when she saw what I am sure they will leave behind.  It is the peak of a cathedral ceiling.  When I did another room I used the setting compound to create a smooth radius and it worked pretty well.  That is the thickest I've spread mud and it worked fine.  But it is also up in the air where it won't get contacted.  I'd be worried about thick mud anywhere it could get bumped.

I've stopped pushing my trim into the wall if there's a low spot it just creates a wavy moulding. I hate looking down a wall and seeing the baseboard waving back at me so I'll just install the trim straight and skip nailing any studs that would warp the base. Then I just float it in and it's made my work look so much nicer.  I do the same for crown now and it actually looks like I know what I'm doing. Short answer is learn how to skim Spackle its hella worth it.