Gotta Love 20 Minute Mud!

Sir Mixalot

Arrival time @ customer residence 8:30am.

The Job: Repair failing tape joints @ exterior entrance ceiling. 9' x 12' and 14' up. Skim Coat entire ceiling. Re-texture ceiling. Prime and Paint.

Before repair.




Tools needed to do the mud work.


So I retaped and muded all of the tape joints 2 coats with two seperate batches of 20 minute mud. Don't have pictures of ths stage.

Skim coated one side of the vaulted ceiling. One batch of 20 minute.


Skim coated the other side of the vaulted ceiling. One batch of 20 minute.


Ate lunch.


After lunch it was dry enough to texture.






Clean up & roll up. Outta there by 2:30pm.

Next day, time to Prime w/ Zinnser 123 and Paint w/ Sherwin Williams exterior super paint.

Primed & Painted. (Took 3 hours total.)


Total time for entire job: Less than 9 hours.

Thanks Sheetrock 20 minute mud.

So I'm a little bored tonite.

mickeyco

Nice work, nice presentation!

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Heritage

Yeah, I second that...nice work and presentation.

20 min mud made me good coin when I started out. It's the #1 most indispensable tool for b.s. jobs.

It's the only way you can tape, sand, prime and paint in 2 days. I used to make min. $500/day profit, clocking out by 2 or 3 in time to beat traffic.

THANKS 20 MIN MUD

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Tim0282

Looks great!!
How did you do the texture?

Cole

Nice work!

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BUTCHERMAN

Great job. If you use 45 and dropp plaster on your hawk you can excellerate drying and do less mixes.

Sir Mixalot

Thanks alot guy's!

Hawk & Knife.

Sir Mixalot

So your saying mix 45 minute in a bucket. Then customize w/ plaster each pan or hawk load to drying time desired. Interesting. What kind of plaster?
And what are the ratios.

PS. I use a pan for doing the mud work. And the hawk in the picture I use for texturing.

A.W.Davis

Did you use 20 minute mud for the texture also? Nice repair btw.


Looks like my lunch except I use the Albacore steaks.

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Sir Mixalot

Thanks A.W., No I used regular bucket mud (green lid) for the texturing.

Yeah the Tuna bags come in handy for lunch. Alot less messy than the can. The Teriyaki tuna one is my favorite. Oh yeah, I just tried the Sweet and Spicy, very close second to the Teriyaki.

mdshunk

I experimented with 20 minute mud for fixing up some of my own little things an electrician might mess up. I found out the hard way that 20 minute mud, when mixed with warm water, is more like 30 second mud.

dkillianjr

I don't know how you drywall guys do it! Nice job I like the 90 min myself thats about as quick as I can work it



Dave

boman47k

Is that regular drywall used on the exterior?

Sir Mixalot

No not regular drywall. Exterior soffit gypsum board.

TooledUp

Yeah that's a nice finish. I hope the HO reflected their appreciation with a nice big tip.

We only have 90 minute setting stuff (apart from regular) here in the UK (or if there is any then they're keeping it well hidden). The stuff we use just isn't much good to finish over. If you roll anything over it, primer or paint, it just comes off in a sheet. First roll over is fine but when you come back again with a second sweep of the roller it just skins up and wraps around it.

We have to put a finish coat of regular over the top or it turns out a disaster.

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BUTCHERMAN

I like diamond plaster ( because you can smooth set compound after the fact by pulling a dry knife over it) but plaster of paris works as an accelerator also. What i do is mix 45 to taping mud thickness and load plaster (about a handful ) to desired thickness. If you have a patch to float let's say a removed window. Mix a bucket then load your pan and drop plaster in the pan. Mix with 5" knife and apply it should set i ten or fifteen minutes. The mix in the bucket will still be fresh and ready for the next coat which should be a cross sweep for better fill. If need do again but at this point you should be ready to top with light weight or mid weight compound. The ratio varies depending on the amount of plaster used and the softness of your mix. You adjust that to your needs just remember the later mixes will need less plaster because the 45 will be setting up

LukeOR

hell, it prob took u longer to write the post then the job did....nice work

genecarp

thanks, nice post

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Tapingfool

YA!! Anything to get finished faster and make the $$$ quicker while maintaining top quality..I used 45 for 10 replacement windows used it for the no coat, then went back around and repeated but coated them, then once more to finish all one 3 hrs=$$400.00 COD!!!