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Posted by Cshenk on November 4, 2007, 1:29 am
"Harry K" wrote
>> > not want much, just enough to barely go through the paper and to the
>> > next
>> > level a tiney bit.
>>
>> Thanks! That's a good idea. I'd better get a fine belt; dw will get
>> eaten
>> up in no time with that sander.
>> > I do not know if my method is 'traditional'. It was something my Mom
>> taught
>> > me when I was much younger. Makes for a nice finished wall.
>>
>> Your mom? Excellent! Usually it's the dad! You have a good mom there.
>>
>> Anyway, who cares about tradition. I just wanted something to work.
>> Yours
>> sounds like a good idea.
>
> It will make a big mess for one, and greatly weaken the dw sheet where
> you put the fasteners in for two.
It does not make a mess. You seal it later. I'll add unless he seam is
along a beam, you do not fasten it there. Unlikely he landed right on a
beam there.
> with a very think coat under it, keep the next two coats very thin and
> feathered will out. The slight bulge will be unnoticeable unless you
> shine a light down the wall. If you ran your seams horizontally (the
> professional way) almost all your butt joints will fall above doors
> and above/below windows and thus practically invisible even under the
> worst conditions.
Invisible both ways but you do not have to do horizontal (harder unless you
have a team of people), just do it carefully and right if vertical seams.
Most of the houses I see with the visible seams, are horizontal ones.
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