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Just realized my old foreman's mud mix ratio was way off
Guy I worked with back in 2012 in Columbus swore by this super thin mix for taping, said it let the paper float perfect. Took me about 3 months of fighting bubbles and blisters before I tried a thicker mix on my own. Anybody else have an old timer give them advice that just didn't hold up?
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riley_taylor20d ago
Used to think wet mud was the ONLY way because that's how a old timer showed me. Then I switched to a medium consistency and it was like a light switch flipped, everything just stuck and stayed flat. Definitely a lesson in questioning the "pros".
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the_hayden20d ago
Riley, that medium consistency trick saved me from floating joints that went to hell over winter.
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terry_jones19d ago
My buddy Dan tried that same thing last year with his retaining wall project. He was dead set on wet mud, like his grandpa taught him, and spent two weekends cursing at blocks that kept sliding around. Then I showed him a video of some guy using medium consistency on a frost wall and he decided to try it on his own corner unit last March. He texted me a photo later and the joints looked like they'd been set for years, flat and clean as glass. Now he won't shut up about how simple it was and says he wasted three summers of his life for nothing.
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