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I just finished demoing my kitchen and there is adhesive remaining from where the tile was and where paneling was. I would rather not spend the time using chemicals to remove it and just prime it and then skim coat it. My walls are lath and plaster, so removing them isn’t an option for me. My...

Hi, I’m having some trouble with a repainting project in the bathroom. I hired a company to repaint the bathroom — cheap price, cheap paint, cheap results long story short. With high risk family members and COVID, I decided to DIY and have painted w/o problems before. I removed the (new)...

Hi Team, I recently attempted to remove wallpaper from one of my living room walls and it turned out to be a disaster. The wallpaper appears to be actual paper and not vinyl. In the removal process, the primer and first layer of the Sheetrock peeled off in sheets. In order to fix, I was going...

I know this topic has been discussed ad nauseum here and on paint talk, which I have spent the last 2 weeks reading through, but I find very few people have posted photos. I can't really gauge my situation against others without photos, so I've decided to post my own. I removed a wall and...

I've researched this as much as I can before posting, but my use case does not seem to have a solid consensus. I have brand new drywall with a skim coat for level 5 smooth finish. I want to use the best primer possible before painting, and looking for options, especially if you have used...

Hi everyone, Looking to do refinish existing concrete slab (under old carpet flooring) to a finished floor. We want to try concrete floors, it is good for allergies, and it goes very well in the modern/industrial looking building the unit is in. Looking to pour a polymer based micro-topping or...

Hi All, First time posting here. I recently removed some old drywall in the basement of our 1921 home. Behind the drywall was our foundation which a previous owner had covered in wallpaper. Yeah, weird. After removing the wallpaper, I noticed that some of the concrete was loose and chipping...

In this Part 3 video, I'm going to show how to skim coat a wall after drywall repairs with many diy drywall tips and skim coating tricks! Once the drywall repairs were dry was time for me to skim coat the walls. In case you missed the first video where I had to repair all the black mirror...

In this video I’m going to answer a question I get all the time. Can I skim coat over my painted popcorn ceiling? A lot of times when someone goes to scrape off and remove popcorn ceiling that’s been painted it’s very difficult to remove. If not impossible to scrape off that’s where skim coating...

I’m on a remodeling project where I’ve installed some new drywall and did the drywall finishing. Now we’re ready to skim coat for a nice smooth finish. So, I figured why not get the skim coating process of just one wall on video and share it with everyone so they can learn just a couple skim...

Ok, I have skim coated my ceiling. What is the steps for cleaning prior to painting? Which skim coat should I use? I am doing the whole house so I can't afford to use something to expensive.

I am attempting to do a skim coat over our old walls after tearing out some wallpaper. My first coat is cracking as it dries. My guess is it's a combination of putting it on too thick and/or mixing the mud too wet (I don't think it was that wet, but I've read that is a common cause of cracking)...

The contractors used duct tape to tape up my windows for an outside job to prevent lead/asbestos from spreading into my apartment. Now, duh, the paint has peeled off my skim coat job. It's just the area around my window, and I don't want to redo the entire kitchen. Obviously, I don't trust the...

We're currently remodeling a very small half-bathroom. After removing the old medicine cabinet, towel bars, moulding around the door, etc., there were a lot of large holes to repair. So, we put a wood backing in for support and I filled the holes with EasySand 45, and just put mesh tape on...

Hi all, I have various paint questions--primarily with how to deal with painting over peeling, chipped or (likely) lead paint. We are moving into our first house and money is TIGHT, so we had planned to do this mostly ourselves--especially once we got a $7000 quote for skimcoating alone. So...

Every year my paint peels off the exterior foundation blocks, every year I scrape it and repaint it with a latex. The blocks were coated about 30 years ago with something. I don't know if it was Thoroseal or a skim coat. Anyhow, most of it has turned to a sand texture and the paint has...

Hello - We just built our new home, and we learned alot. One thing we didn't think twice about was wall texture. Our contractor seemed pretty confident that he was a good drywaller. (We know now that drywall is an art, and he should have subcontracted this out). It all started with...