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That moment I stopped backrolling every coat of mud
Tbh, I spent like 3 years thinking you had to backroll every layer of joint compound to get a smooth finish. Then I was working on a job near Austin last summer, and this older guy I was sharing a site with asked why I was making extra work. He showed me how if you just lay it on right with the taping knife on the first two coats, you skip a whole step. Honestly, I tried it on my next room and saved about 45 minutes per wall. Has anyone else found a method they were taught that turned out to be optional?
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spencerm465mo ago
Hard disagree with @logan205 backrolling saves you from fixing holidays later.
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the_lee4mo ago
Hold up, you backroll? Like actually flip the whole mud job backwards from the edge? I've been doing this for eleven years and I've never once seen that work out in the long run. My guy showed me once and I laughed, then spent the next three hours fixing his tape lines on a Friday. You must have some kind of patience I don't have, because every time I've seen someone try it they end up with a weird buildup at the corners.
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