Setting Mud

boman47k

For the guys that use setting mud, do you take your tools home to clean/scrape them? Or, do you have some way of cleaning them onsite?

BKFranks

How about a bucket with water and a sponge

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boman47k

I guess if you are quick enough that should work. I usually have to do some scraping. I find it hard to imagine using a 5 minute mud. It seems like it takes me that long just to mix mud.Maybe I am mixing mine, mostly 45 Easy Sand, too dry. Then again, I am not a mudder on a regular basis.

CrazyTaper

You are all a bunch of boners.

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Mike Finley

I use a drywall setting compound tool cleaning company. They are called "Your father was a mudder". They charge by the tool...

... um, or maybe just a bucket of water and a sponge.

Seriously, don't really know what the problem is. I toss my different knives in the bucket of water while mudding, pull them out as needed, before it goes back in the water bucket I scrape off excess mud on using the pan, throw knive back in bucket, grab the next one I need, clean if off with the sponge real quick, go at it. It just becomes a habit with enough time doing it. I clean all knives between batches, if it's 5 minute or 20 it's usually a pan batch and between mixing each pan I clean the tools. If it's 45 or 90 it's usually a batch mixed in a bucket and used by the pan. Then I clean the tools between each bucket batch.

Cleaning your knives at the end of the day doesn't work with hot mud.

jakester

We just scrape off the excess mud, let it dry and just sand down our tools after, I find that if you wash them you have to dry them off or they will rust.

davy crockett

a cheap cake mixer with the 2 beaters works wonderfully (try it before you knock it)for mixing right in the pan. The best trick in cleaning is to use all the mud or scrape it clean quickly. It's an art that is only perfected with experience, the faster you are the easier it is to clean and only mix what u need makes it even easier. I remember when I started I thought I would never get the hang of it and now I'd rather use setting mud than compound premixed.

MUDBUCKET

If you know what you are doing you should be able to hand mix a pan of 5 min mud , coat your patch or pre fill some bad stuff and be able clean you tools in a bucket of water with a brush or sponge before it's too hard wash off.
just don't use warm or hot water

Brockster

Hey Bucket, this would be true if this forum was for those who do this for a living but as you can clearly see, it's far from that.

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brutus17

fast setting muds are a gift from God...... embrace them....