Good Grief Charlie Brown, the cost of mud has sure gone up like a rocket. I can not remember what I paid for it about 15 years ago but it was pretty cheap, something like less than $10 for a 25 or so pound container.
I have also mixed a handful of the mud in with my paint to cover some "irregularities" in the wall and it gave me a very smooth and flawless finish. Cy, The Anasazi From: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com [mailto:blindhandy...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Dale Leavens Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 4:12 PM To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] knowing what your walls are made of? And filling up wholes in your wall? Don't know the cost, seems to me that a 30 pound pail of pre-mixed plaster is about 35 bucks but I don't remember and it would be a lot more than you would need. You can buy small pales and even boxes of powder to be mixed with water quite cheaply. ----- Original Message ----- From: Blake Hardin To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 5:40 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] knowing what your walls are made of? And filling up wholes in your wall? Hi, how much would this stuff cost? I would say tat the plaster mud would be the most expensive. On 8/25/10, Dale Leavens <dleav...@puc.net <mailto:dleavens%40puc.net> > wrote: > Drywall and jiprock or sheet rock are the same thing. > > Filling holes depends a little on the nature of the holes. If they don't go > right through then you just spread and force the mud right over the hole. > You may need to spread a thin layer of plaster and embed paper tape into it > to give better strength if it is badly cracked. If the hole goes through > there are a number of different methods used depending on the size of the > hole. > > You may be able to just stuff some wadded paper in there and work plaster > over it, you might work some adhesive tape to the back side of the jiprock > with enough exposed sticky to hold a little paper to form a base enough to > apply layers of the plaster mud allowing to dry as you build up the hole. > > Large holes may require you to cut a square out, screw some strips of wood > onto the back side with screws through the board on the front overlapping > enough to allow you to cut a filler piece and screw it into the strips of > wood then apply a thin layer of plaster around the cracks and press paper > tape firmly into the sticky mud before plastering over the lot including > filling the screw holes. This usually takes a couple of applications because > the plaster shrinks as it dries and the screw holes reappear through the > first couple of applications. The paper tape is used to reinforce the cracks > otherwise the shrinking plaster will form cracks which become visible. > > Many people now prefer the adhesive mesh tape. this is stronger but it is > also thicker and I don't much like using it because it takes a lot more > plaster to build up and hide the stuff and I find the lump left behind > unacceptable. It isn't bad along the formed edges of drywall where there is > a bit of a valley but across the ends and other butt joints requires more > work than I like to do. > > You sand smooth and paint. > > Hope this helps. > > Dale leavens. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Blake Hardin > To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com> > Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 7:49 AM > Subject: [BlindHandyMan] knowing what your walls are made of? And filling > up wholes in your wall? > > > > Hi, ok what is the difference between dry wall and sheetrock? Or are > they the same thing? Also, a room that im in has quite a few wholes in > the wall and i was wondering how do i go about fixing them? I know you > can use sheetrock mud and patch them up but how exactly do you do it > step by step? Do i just buy the mud if thats what its called, spread > it throughout the wholes as evenly as posible, then wait for it to dry > and take a piece of sandpaper and sand it down to be even with the > rest of the wall? I know that after its done you have to pait over it > but thats fine with me because this room needs to be repainted anyway. > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > -- Interested in guitar lessons? Im me at Blindboyblake1. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
