Hard to get a good picture, but after wiping knife on edge of pan, it leaves the entire pan edge with dried crumbly bits, along with light, dried streaks on the knife. Then smoothing out mud on the wall translates these faint lines into the mud. This happens less than 15 min after transferring mud from the big bucket to pan.
This is a brand new bucket of the green all purpose mud, thinned down pretty good using a drill + mixer. Doubly made sure walls were clean by vacuuming, damp MF towel, followed by brushing inside corners. Not sure what's going on, but it seems like the drywall mud is drying too quickly in my pan and on my knife while using and then the dried bits cause lines, streaks, etc when applying the mud. I'm spending more time cleaning the pan/knife every 20 minutes than actually working.
Suggestions?
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This is a brand new bucket of the green all purpose mud, thinned down pretty good using a drill + mixer. Doubly made sure walls were clean by vacuuming, damp MF towel, followed by brushing inside corners. Not sure what's going on, but it seems like the drywall mud is drying too quickly in my pan and on my knife while using and then the dried bits cause lines, streaks, etc when applying the mud. I'm spending more time cleaning the pan/knife every 20 minutes than actually working.
Suggestions?
