is it me or does taping and mudding drywall suck

[buckhound]

does anyone else hate doing this crap   i don't mind putting up the board but i just dont have the patience for all the taping and mud slinging ugh... then i gotta hear the wife mumbleing how can someone have the patience to sit in a Fing tree in the cold for hours waiting for a stupid deer to walk by but not working in a warm house.

[tjfslaughter]

I hate it.  But luckily a friend of mine has a drywall sanding vacuum that he paid dearly for and I can borrow it.  

[Gunsmoke]

Taping is fine it's the sanding and reapplying another coat of spackle and then doing it again.

[tjfslaughter]

Just helped a friend do 2 rooms and 2 closets in his house.  I paid a guy I know to hang the boards.  He hung the 23 boards in 3 hours and I taped.  I do an OK job but the sander makes up for my lack of skills.

 

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Edited December 13, 2017 by tjfslaughter

[tjfslaughter]

Sorry about the pecan pie pic uploaded by accident.

[jerseyhunter]

I only use tape for inside corners, mesh for joints.  Take your time, not  so heavy  and wipe off excess. I'd rather put on 4 coats than to sand esp. in a occupied house.  New construction, who cares about the dust. Ps. some cold ones help to wash down the dust.

[jerseyhunter]

 

Sorry about the pecan pie pic uploaded by accident

Nothing to be sorry about, Looks tasty.

[tjfslaughter]

I only use tape for inside corners, mesh for joints.  Take your time, not  so heavy  and wipe off excess. I'd rather put on 4 coats than to sand esp. in a occupied house.  New construction, who cares about the dust. Ps. some cold ones help to wash down the dust.

Mesh on the joints with an 8" knife gives you effectively 2 coats in one pass.

[SPEARFISH]

Hate it. My advise is don't over correct.  Just slap it on and move along

[buckhound]

how long you wait between coats??

[MZW]

Taping sucks.I honestly hate painting too.

 

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[Haskell_Hunter]

This is why I work 18 hours a day...to pay someone else to do the things I cannot / will not / should not do.

[3Blade]

I'd rather jackhammer concrete in the middle of July!!!!

[rocky]

It sucks to do, but I never found a person that could do it better than me. I have been on 2 jobs where the professional tapers claimed that they were done. Then I bring out my light to show them how bad it actually is and they both offered to give money back.

[BowhunterNJ]

It sucks to do, but I never found a person that could do it better than me. I have been on 2 jobs where the professional tapers claimed that they were done. Then I bring out my light to show them how bad it actually is and they both offered to give money back.

 

Are you for hire?

 

Finding good drywallers/tapers seems to be a challenge, most just fly through jobs and don't pay attention to the details that matter.