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Two coats with a 14-inch taping knife vs my old 4-inch, night and day on this hotel job
Last month in Reno I was finishing a hallway with a 4-inch knife, chasing every bubble and burying each joint three times. Switched to the 14-inch for the second pass and knocked out the same straight run in one smooth pull, no pinholes, no touch-ups. Anyone else find that going wider on the finish coat fixes more than just speed, or was my old technique just garbage?
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claire6421d ago
Man, my buddy had the same thing happen on a school gym job last spring. He was fighting popping screws with his little 4-inch and blaming the mud, the humidity, the phase of the moon, everything. His lead handed him a 14-inch mid-job and he said the mud laid down so flat he thought he was using a different bucket. Funny part is he never went back, said it feels like cheating. Wider blade just covers more ground and feathers it out so you are not chasing your own edges.
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