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Sunflowerslaughter t1_izd5nuc wrote

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

I do it professionally, doing work for the union in cleveland for a multi-million dollar company. You don't "finish sand" on bed coats, you do what we call a brush down. The goal is any lap marks or edges will be buffed out, which means it's easier to box over. Then at the end you finish sand, using lights and hand sponges to make sure it's smooth. Some guys don't sand and just cut edges with a knife but personally i think their work looks worse than just brushing it down.

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spinswizzle t1_izf8kym wrote

I think the problem is that we are in a diy forum. What one homeowner or tenant may find acceptable won’t fly by industry standards. My company does a variety of different types of jobs. I used to do a bunch of restoration work but now I concentrate on larger jobs like rough carpentry for a new tower complex or installing appliances for same towers. When I do restoration work it’s larger jobs like dealing with the drywall issues in a hotel after mold remediation. None of the scrape down with a 6” knife would fly on any new tower project or townhouse develoment

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Sunflowerslaughter t1_izfa8qc wrote

Yea, i tell people to brush down in diy work because it can be a pain to sand down a lap mark you coated over, and i expect lower quality work from diy home owners. Scraping down with a 6 definitely works okay for diy though.

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spinswizzle t1_izfb9ug wrote

Yeah. What kind of houses are people living in. Here in Vancouver that wouldn’t fly at all. Our housing market is probably the hottest in North America right now. Cheapest most rundown house in Vancouver proper is over 2 million. People are always looking to flip their house and make a quick 100k. Everything has to be spot on all the time. And the homeowners know this so workmanship has to be top notch

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Sunflowerslaughter t1_izfcfn9 wrote

Here in ohio when the housing market got wild we saw a lot of very poorly done quick buy and flips which looked awful, but still sold. One such house had globs of paint that they never bothered to sand down. It was a shit show. Some of the best finishers I've worked with come from doing houses, but also all the worst finishers I've worked with come from doing homes too haha.

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spinswizzle t1_izff44x wrote

It’s mostly wealthy asians and Indocanadians that run the market here. Very particular. Sometimes they’ll change the wall color as soon as your finished the whole job and ask you to re do the whole thing They always expect the world

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