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spinswizzle t1_izcg99e wrote

Reply to comment by sdfree0172 in Advice for first time drywall patch by astropiano1998

Where are these pros operating? What part of the world. Couple reasons why you sand. There is always going to be slight imperfections in the mud…these will break off as your adding your next coat

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spinswizzle t1_izcgqyz wrote

Hit send by accident. The bits of dried mud will then cause difficulty in skimming the coat. Your also going to contaminate your pail. The next reason is really an extension of the first. Any kind of fast setting compound is naturally going to be tougher than your top coat…again A quick buff sand to take any bits of grit off is going to go miles in providing a super slick top coat. I’m 51…and I own a construction company. It’s literally what I do for a living. Every drywaller I know sands in between coats. If you don’t…you do not make money at it. Amateur.

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spinswizzle t1_izcguox wrote

For reference I work out of the lower mainland in British Columbia, canada

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sdfree0172 t1_izcin83 wrote

Alright. You convinced me. Appreciate the knowledge dump. As an example of a source of my expressed opinion,, the Vancouver Carpenter on YouTube talks about not needing to sand. But again, you convinced me.

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spinswizzle t1_izckuer wrote

I haven’t checked him ouT. But a carpenter isn’t a drywaller. HavIng said all I have said….I suppose it’s possible to not sand a very small patch and recoat it. Not a great idea but possible if under duress. I do whole houses or hundreds of feet of cutouts at a time. The sanding between coats isn’t meant to be a grind down…just a buff. To make things easier. Bear in mind I’m only doing 1-2 coats after tape coat.

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SchwiftyMpls t1_izd96s7 wrote

Old tradesmen Fucking hate change or doing things differently then they were taught.

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SnowyNW t1_izdbinj wrote

Do you know how many people out there are trying to differentiate themselves by deviating their approach ever so slightly, usually adopting older parallel abandoned but slightly less effective methods? This is called ego and marketing and humans are sick with that stuff. There’s a reason things are done a certain way, and it’s a good reason. But this reason only holds if your source of knowledge isn’t a complete block head and is focused on doing things the right way for the sake of doing it the right way, rather than other reasons. Then there is also incompetence.

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SchwiftyMpls t1_izdboum wrote

Lol keep telling yourself this. It is stopping us from saving the earth.

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SnowyNW t1_izdg418 wrote

Are you kidding me? That’s the exact point that I’m trying to make is that all this needless deviation from historically proven traditions is causing terrible calamities such as the extinction of the entire biosphere! Plastic instead of glass and wood? Giving up millennia old forestry practices and causing historic and unnecessary wildfires? The earth is dead because we want to do things new and different instead of tried and true. You beat me to the punchline but somehow have the opposite point of view, I’m completely baffled to be honest. Traditional farming, building and social practices could have stopped a lot of this.

On the other hand humans are the most effective natural iterative design network the universe has ever seen.

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SchwiftyMpls t1_izdutw2 wrote

So you don't want to feed 8 Billion people.

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SnowyNW t1_izdwh9n wrote

Why don’t you want to feed people?

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SchwiftyMpls t1_izdwod3 wrote

I'm done here. I won't argue with Idealists. it's a waste of time.

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SnowyNW t1_izdwwqh wrote

You’re not saying anything coherent anyways

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spinswizzle t1_izezid2 wrote

It’s to prevent debris and floaters when you skim. It’s not about being stuck in old ways it’s about production and high end workmanship that dOesnt need a ton of filling afterwards. Scraping a joint might work on small patches. Try that on a whole townhouse complex and watch yourself get kicked off site. Plus….I’m only 51. That’s not old. I’m still learning all the time And I’m the first one to do something new…if it makes sense.

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Sunflowerslaughter t1_izd5s93 wrote

I find, at least personally, a lot of carpenters over estimate their work and underestimate how bad it can look. I'm biased, but carpenters are the bane of my existence

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