![]() Our room had a lot of areas that we felt needed to be spackled prior to skim coating. Can you feel them? It’s time to skim coat, my friends! Instructions Do they have divets or bumps? Run your hand over your wall. (Don’t worry! Colton went to bed in our finished basement right after this picture was taken! :)) There are pieces of drywall that are very obviously missing. Notice how there is a texture to the walls. ![]() To understand why a room needs to be skim coated, take a look at some of our room’s before photos. Joint Compound – we used USG Sheetrock Dust Control Patch and Repair Compound Spackle – we use Drydex Spackle because it changes color when it’s dried (and it’s pink, sooo…adorable!) So here is exactly how I did it and my very best tips and tricks to get you started on fixing those damaged walls! Supplies Needed Walls were almost instantly repaired and smooth! Ahhh!! ![]() From the moment we started this job, I knew what I had found was working. Thrilled it was gone, but we had a whole other issue on our hands.Īfter countless Pinterest searches and scouring YouTube for the best DIY video tutorials, I gathered enough tips, tricks, and strategies that I felt prepared enough to fix my baby boy’s room. Massive chunks of the wall were taken out as they ripped and shredded our poor drywall. □ Bad news? Oh, they must have removed the wallpaper with a baby raccoon or something. The good and bad news of our wallpaper situation is that one of the previous owners removed the wallpaper from our son, Colton’s, room already. Ohh…I’ll keep pushing back those images of peeling wallpaper and scraping glue to the back of my mind for just a little while longer. We’ve got floor to ceiling blue and white vertical stripes, very dark maroon and olive floral print, and some stars that reach throughout our kitchen and breakfast nook. Don’t make the same mistake many have made.Take a look through my Fixer Upper Home Tour post and you’ll see the previous owners loved themselves some horrendous wallpaper. You can do a great job on the seams, but after primer and paint, you’ll see the joints show through. I’ve learned this the hard way over the years. If you want truly smooth drywall finished you need to skim coat the entire surface area. Messing up with newly applied skim coat will cost your many more hours of time going back to apply more compound. Take the sanding tool, while applying very light pressure and use your light to see small details. If you’ve got a small surface area, try wet sanding, but if you’re dealing with an entire room, it’s best to stick with some simple manual sanding tools with a fine or medium grit. Now, we can get sanding underway – everyone’s favorite part. If you’ve learned how to skim coat drywall, you should have a nice, even skim coat on the entire surface area, where you took the time to apply a thin coat first, taped seams and corners, then applied the final surface coat to the surface, all while trying to keep it even to make sanding easy. You need a powerful shop light to help you see every little detail in the wall or ceilings while you work. And don’t make the mistake of working in the dark. If you aim for getting a thin, uniform skim coat, it will be much simpler to sand out imperfections. If you do it right, the paper should hold onto some mud in the small texture features of the drywall paper. I apply it thin, with my trowel at an angle, while working in an ‘X’ motion, then wiping it off. On the walls, I tend to start in the upper corners, then working my ways towards to the middle, then down. So, I use lightweight joint compound, for almost anything, besides drywall texturing. My Method: How to Skim Coat DrywallĪfter doing this for so many years, you get a bit set in your ways. If you don’t, it’s possible to get a light texture in some areas, which will leave an ugly, non-uniform look. Because, if you want a true “smooth” surface, then you need to coat the entire panel then go back and sand to a smooth finish. You can either skim only the seams and corners or you can do it the right way and apply a thin skim coat to the entire surface area, all while taping off seams and corners after you apply the first thin coat. Now, there’s a couple different ways to approach when you skim coat a ceiling or walls.
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