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My buddy showed me his new mud pan and it cut his taping time in half
He switched to a 12-inch stainless steel pan with a rounded corner about three weeks ago. I watched him tape a whole ceiling in this old house we're doing in Springfield, and he just kept going without stopping to reload. The mud flows way smoother off that rounded edge, and he said he's not fighting dried bits in the corners anymore. Has anyone else made a small tool change that gave you a big speed boost?
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aaron8841mo ago
Man, that reminds me of when I finally bought a decent chalk line.
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shane65521d ago
That chalk line probably felt like a betrayal after all that planing. Classic case of the tool being too good for the user, right @lopez.simon? Had a similar thing with a chalk line that snapped too hard once and left a mark I thought was straight but ended up being a curve because I was pulling it sideways.
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lopez.simon1mo ago
My uncle used a chalk line to mark where to cut an old door. He snapped it, cut along the blue dust, and the door was still two inches too tall. He measured from the wrong end. We spent the next hour planing it down by hand. The chalk line was perfect, the reading of the tape measure was not.
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