[Gregsoldtruck79]

Dang, a person skim coats a wall with Durabond 90 and it looks good enough to paint without topping over it with some easy sand JC, or topping mix ? Give that man or lady a ceegar for being, "Best Mudder of the Year !


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[Gregsoldtruck79]

Yes Durabond can be troweled smooth.
In the plaster trade we would trowel it smooth to match the existing, you will need to use a plastering trowel along with a blister brush or a plaster finish brush these brushes are used while you are troweling the material.

Sure it can, but D-90 is like working with plaster ground coat almost IMO. Tough to pull it down to a finish grade surface with no trowel marks or air holes being in it. for DIY'ers at least. Unless they water it down to a "soup".

Like I said, the OP has some serious skimming skims to lay down D-90 and not even need a finer texture top coat before paint. Thumbs up to the OP.

 

[Gregsoldtruck79]

I should 'fess up here and say that I don't have this paintable-smooth yet - just have the wall leveled out. It was quite uneven - the Durabond is 3/8 thick in a few places. I do have a back of EZ Sand stuff too - maybe I should use that on top of what I have before sanding it down? I've been able to sand the Durabond 90 but it does take a lot of work. Also don't know what the effect will be on maintaining a smooth/level surface if I were to use that as the final coat.

IMO of working with D-90 for years, I always found it best used as a high strength, high build bond coat. A person does not want to be sanding on D-90 much, as it is as hard as nails in composition.

So I do my heavy build with layers of D-90, (no sanding in between coats) then leave enough " build up" distance, to where I can get my finish coats on using JC, or Durabond 45 min or lightweight.

They sand much easier, and are a lot more forgiving and have a lot more "creamy" composition to work with...than the D-90. Which is very important on the final top coats of skim. Just to not work a person too hard while trying to get a flat, air hole-less and towel mark-less...final skim coat on the repair. JMO