I absolutely LOVE that you did this US based comparison. Typically in the areas I’ve lived in on the east coast, I’ve been limited mainly to the USG green and blue lid buckets, and since watching your videos I have been hugely interested in knowing how they match up to the products you typically use. Thank you, Ben!
Currently doing a skim coat in one of our bathrooms and my wife randomly popped in the room and asked if Vancouver Carpenter would approve of the job I’m doing. Not sure you would, but you’ve taught me a lot!
My typical Home Depot experience. “Hello there sir, I am looking at your website and I see that in aisle 7, bay 10 there are 300 listed 1/2” valves in stock, but I’m not seeing any here”. HD associate “Yeah I don’t know what to tell ya”. “Awesome, I’ll just go ahead and borrow your ladder and find them”.
Wow. I live on the east coast and the HD here has totally different products. The stuff you use in your demo videos look more familiar. I've never seen that trowel in my life. And have never seen those solid stainless knives before either.
I'm doing taping and mudding for the first time ever and these videos of yours have been super helpful. It's lovely that you actually explain why you do the choices you do instead of just saying "do this, not this". I have a century old house where nothing is square and there are decades of bad decisions that I now have to deal with when trying to make things nice. Understanding the reasons behind your choices helps me make decisions on what to do in all those little spots where things are not quite how they're supposed to be. Thank you!
If you have an old home, you should watch Kirk Giordano's channel. He's a master plaster and stucco applicator in California and has a thousand videos on everything to do with plastering.
For trowels he recommended curry or marshalltown or gold steel, 13x5 straight with no curve, made of stainless. He also said, you may have to look in the concrete aisle. I'm on the east coast (Atlanta, GA) and regarding mud at the box stores we have mostly USG and not as many choices as in your video. USG all purpose (green), plus 3 (blue), and lightweight (light greenish) - all in buckets, no boxes. Then USG easy sand (hot mud) in different setting times - in bags. Then there is usually one other all purpose brand and that's it.
Same in PA/NJ/NY. So based on the video it’s all purpose (green) for joints, Plus 3 (blue) for everything else, and the unmixed quick sets when time is an issue?
Retired now, did drywall finishing for years, here in the US, we always taped with the USG/Sheetrock green lid all purpose, prefilled with the Sheetrock Durabond lite 90 quick set, did all butt, flat and corner bead bed coats with the USG durabond lite 90 quick set, and all top coats with the USG/Sheetrock Plus 3.
Thank you thank you thank you. This was awesome. One for validation on some the tools and products I own/use that you showed and two for showing comparable products to the ones you regularly use back in Canada. Takes the guessing game out of what to use when I’m lamely attempting to replicate what you’ve demonstrated in past posts while working on my projects at home.
I'm on the East Coast of the US and our Home Depots carry both the USG lightweight that you showed as well as the USG green lid that you showed briefly.
Here in Kentucky I know the two different common muds as blue top and green top because of the colors of the lids. Green top is for tape, blue top is for everything else; pretty simple. Thanks for making this video.
I have been following you for over a year. Now that I’m helping my husband build his shop I re watched all your videos. Thank you for great content. I learn so much from you. Aka a somewhat helpful wife hahaha😅
Yep, so Home Depot will carry whatever they can get. Westpac in some, and USG Easy Sand in others for hot mud. Home Depot Pro stores in the US will almost always carry USG Easy Sand instead of Westpac. All of them will likely carry USG Plus 3, and Westpac stuff in boxes. Westpac Taping mud is exactly that, it's mud with lots of glue.
You were at "my" Home Depot!!!???!!! I always joke with my gal about hiring you to come do your magic on my walls but figured you would never come to CA - you could've had another "what not to do" video featuring my never-ending headache! But on a serious note, this video is perfect for someone just getting started on their project. I've watched so many of your videos for some time now (thank you for making them). I can remember writing down all the Canadian products you recommended and then heading to the local HD, but couldn't find them. By mere luck I managed to buy the bags of quickset 40 and 90 you noted in this video, as they were the only dry versions that seemed similar. I'll be working on my finishing coats this week and will give the recommended ones for that sort a try as well. That mixer attachment, however, will indeed "zest" the orange homer buckets (many "niblets" found their way onto my walls). So, my advice is to get a better bucket if mixing to avoid the "where did that line come from" after applying a coat. Thank you!
I just use the 3 quart 'dust control'. I figure it's got a blue lid too, so it's probably the same as Plus 3. They just market it differently expressly for the homeowners. Because contractors are gonna use the big bucket as it's more cost effective.
Wow, as an American living in the Northwest, this is extremely useful. I'm wondering how many of your viewers in other countries are going to be asking you to do their Hardware stores next. 😂
That one pass wall repair stuff is actually pretty good stuff ! It's not traditional drywall compound, it's a "repair material" made out of hydraulic cement that works great for "structural" repair of drywall, cement board, plaster, stucco, masonry, etc.
I first bought it by accident thinking it was 90min, but after getting home realized it was 20min. I have since been through several boxes. I like how it's hard but still sands/scrapes reasonably.
On all commercial jobs, we don't touch any premixed blue or green lid stuff. We always tape with 20 or 45 minute quickset. Then follow with the same for your block coat. Everything is drying hard and fast so you can go right back over your coats within a couple hours tops. Then you skim with purple bucket premixed. Any other methods I have seen people try to use, is just too slow. Also mesh tape will work if you do it my way. In my opinion, nobody who cares about the longevity of their work should be using premixed on your first 2 coats. It is weak garbage that is only good for a final smoothing coat. We only use paper tape on inside corners because we have to. Mesh tape lets you get right to block coating so you aren't wasting time. Time is money.
Thanks for pointing out the Plus 3 mud. I have never used Plus 3 despite recommendations from other drywallers. I am skimming an aggressive floor to ceiling popcorn texture on 1960s drywall. The paper is weak so my first two coats were all-purpose mud. I bought a box of Plus 3 and said “let’s try this”. Wow it goes on so smooth with a skimming blade. Like marshmallow crème walls. I love this stuff and so does my back.
for popcorn just lightly wet it and scrape it off with the drywall knife. I use a sharpened 12 inch knife for lower and I have a carbide knife for ceilings. It comes right off as the base is light weight mud. no glue in it. For skimming I would still use Green lid All purpose for the 1st coat to get maximum adhesion. Then you could switch to plus3 if you wanted. USG green lid will sand if you slick the top coat. Wont need to sand much at all this way.
@@kendallwillis bummer. elbow grease it is. Scraped a lot of it that way. Carbide floor scraper from any paint store is worth the investment. grind the edge flat so you basically have 2 cuttings edges and it helps a ton.
I recently did a small half-bath. The bottom half of the walls were tiled & the customer was on a tight budget - so, naturally, I just grabbed the multi-tool & zipped off the whole slabs of sheetrock that the tile was on- Schluter strips and all (leaving the top half/original sheetrock in). The house had good, straight bones, so I was very comfortable with scabbing/sistering studs & joints to fasten to. Had to do a little pre-filling & leveling, cut out previously unaddressed high spots that were painted over & mend some round corners... but all went well considering. Until I went to tape the butt joints & found that I only had MESH TAPE!! &, due to financial constraints on the job, that mesh tape would just have to do!! Anyway, to shorten this novel... because I used USG all purpose & applied the mesh tape on semi-wet mud, the joints came out rock solid!! I even dug into the tape a bit when sanding ( to guage floating parameters) & the fibers didn't split or fray. F With towel bars & rings, toilet paper holders & frequent condensation, im curious to see how well the joint work holds. Hopefully forever ... & HOPEFULLY at least a year 🤞! I buttoned the job up with super-paint, so I doubt condensation will creep its way in over time & wreak havoc. We shall see!!
Been watching you for last 2 or 3years. Hey man don't sleep on the patches. Lol. Love the Content. Helped me with my confidence. Helped me to know that I know and I was and have been doing it right. I no longer do home repair, but we had one hell of a ride together. Only I knew, lol. Thanks again Brother!
Thank you! Welcome to SoCal! Since Long Beach is So “old”❤️…..the HD tend to have a deeper mix of repair supplies than the HD in younger communities here in the OC.
You've helped me greatly in improving my home jobs. Thanks for that! Sadly, I don't do it often enough to get good at it, but my work has improved 100% since I started watching.
I'm not sure; however, I think tapers and finishers used Plus 3 when taping with mesh.... I always used the green bucket mud for taping and cornerbead and the Plus 3 for first/finish/skim coating.... Thanks for explaining about the other products! You're a Master of the craft Sir! 🙂
In Toronto here and Home Depot ships Marshalltown 13x5 trowels pretty quickly. In-store they carry some other size flat and curved trowels and hawks. There's a bit of a learning curve but I definitely see why you recommend the hawk/trowel combo so much! As for mud it's mostly CGC stuff in the stores near me. Thanks for all the videos Ben!
This was so helpful! I’ve had to guess what you would think is best when buying here in the states. But primarily because of you, I’ve been able to do some significant repairs myself. They may not be quite as pretty as a professional, but the price was right 😂! Plus, it’s been fun. Thanks!
Thanks for putting this out. The mud questions I had were answered in this video. I won’t be an expert when I start but I will have enough knowledge to get me going in the right direction on my drywall jobs.
Warning. I bought that exact same Walboard mixing paddle. Exactly the same. And I got a home depot bucket as I was doing personal work for myself without access to the good buckets my company gets. That paddle absolutely tore up my home depot buck and left tons of carrot peelings in my mud. Real pain in the rear to pluck them all out while I was coating. Ended up spending 10-15 minutes with a grinder trying to knockdown any place that could be sharp. But yeah, Home Depot brand buckets suck and it was in fact partially the mixers fault. I'd buy a different paddle if you could. Or take this one, stick it in a cheap bucket, fill it with gravel, and run it slow to medium with a high torque drill. Just to try and really knockdown any place that could cut into buckets.
@@KGrant-ty3oy Thank you for the info. Yeah, the orange Home Depot bucket are definitely not good for mixing mud. The buckets we used at work were left over primer buckets (white in color) after using an airless to prime our sheetrock before texture. Those buckets were awesome, never had to fumble with getting "dried coconut flakes (love that name)" out of our coats after the fact.
Thank, Ben! I appreciate all your videos and they've been very helpful to me. I switched to hawk and trowel due to your videos. Lowe's here in Central Kentucky sells Marshalltown QLT and gold stainless trowels here in various sizes. Hawks at Lowe's are only QLT. I am going to order a Kraft Magnesium hawk for better feel, lighter weight, and no more black aluminum oxide streaks. Thanks, again! I really love doing drywall work using the hawk and trowel and that is thanks to you! 😁
man you are a library of knowledge on this stuff! thank you for sharing and giving me the confidence to be able to do this on my own and saving me thousands in the process. YOU ROCK!
Thank you! I've been struggling with repairs I'm doing myself (no choice there) and not understanding the different products. I'm in the US midwest. I am learning a lot from your videos and gaining confidence.
Thanks for posting US based products. I have been following along and learned a great deal from you. So far the project in coming along thanks to your expert advice
That's my Signal Hill Home Depot! Wish I would've seen this sooner. If you're still in town, I'd love to take you to lunch for all the help your videos have been and show you the duplex I'm working on downtown
Thank you! You taught me well. You confirmed most of the products I use. Tools I purchased online from All-Wall Equipment. One thing you don't speak much of, and I found out that I needed, is drywall shims. I spent more time making sure my walls are flat vs. hanging drywall.
@@vancouvercarpenter I use a wooden carpenter's scrub plane to remove high spots from framing... bows, mis-nailed framing, etc. I find that getting rid of the high spots is at least as important as filling in low spots! The plane originally belonged to a carpenter who worked from about 1920-1950. I inherited it and his tool box from his son, also a carpenter, along with his son's tool box. Lot's of hand tools that most people wouldn't want to or know how to use!
Great video, I feel like I will never learn everything even as my own work is finally satisfactory to me. this was as helpful as any mechanics/technique video has been. Thank you.
WOW! Thank you so much for answering the question of which USA mud products do I use to try to come as close as possible to VC's awesomeness with his CAN products has been answered! I can now toss all my little scrap notes about about US vs CAN mud which were referenced in your videos!
That extra strength mesh tape is actually really good as it has diagonal threads. However, it's a little thicker than other mesh and paper tape so use only when you have the available depth. But it is really strong for repairs. (I use it on tile backer board sometimes too.)
West Coast HD has WestPac (they are based in Southern California), East Coast has USG products. WestPac muds are pretty good. Low shrinkage, easy sanding, even with the quick sets (as long as it is lite version). The TNT lite is a low shrink lightweight taping mud, good for 1st coats, not so good for 2, 3 coats because it has a lots of glue. Plus 3 shrink a ton, but it has a superb finish.
Thank you for so much for the good information. If I understood correctly, is best to use all purpose heavy compound for taping, but for the successive coats you suggested Plus 3 including the last coat.
This was super great to watch. I have been doing drywall patching and touch up so knowing I bought the product you would is very reassuring. I really appreciate your info and hope you are enjoying your time in the States!
I actually use Home Depot for all my smaller jobs that I load myself because their sheetrock prices are pretty good. Anything larger though I use local drywall supply houses because the local HD's don't have boom trucks. I don't see much boxed mud here in CT either. It's all bucket mud whether it be Proform Black and red lid or , especially at HD, USG green lid or the plus 3. I love their purple top midweight for topping and skimming..
CTS Rapid Set One Pass is a do it all, cement based 20 minute joint compound. Cool stuff for small jobs that that works both indoors and outdoors. I only bought it because it was the only thing that came in a small box. Definitely worth a try.
The part of the trowel that connects the handle to the blade is called the shank. The part of the shank that is riveted along the back length of the blade is the spine, and the part that connects the spine to the handle is the neck.
Guaranteed is stands for Western Pacific. We have the words west and pac in business names all around here on the coast. Wespac is the name of the first electrical contractor I met.
So it took a CZcams video to flesh out the good, the bad, and the alien where Home Depot products are concerned. This was a super helpful video for those of us who still in large part use the shelf selection to determine our needs. (Always problematic). You not only know what you like, you know WHY you don't like what you don't like making this' comparison' a truly great resource. Much appreciated!
Thank you so much! This is incredibly valuable information. I've been buying the wrong products and now I know better 😬 and just in time too, going to be doing a lot of work in our kitchen soon.
And if you come to the east coast you will find even more different products out here and better trowel selections. We take pride in our trowels out here! Great video as always!
I have a bathroom repair coming up. Need to tear down a small wall repair the sheet rock. Nothin huge. Haven’t done tape/mud in over 20 years, so lots has changed. Even back then I was a definite DIYer. 😂. Your videos are very helpful, succinct and informative. Mahalo.
Very useful. About to start a garage project on my new build going from a pretty decent quality Level 2 they left me to a Level 3/4 (don't need perfection, it is a garage). This helps with what I should be buying.
Eastern Oregon, In the 90s, and early 2000s, I was a sheetrock contractor. We didn't have big box stores. We had 2 lumber yards. The one I shopped at only had Hamiltons mud. I used that for years. Fast forward 20 years and I can't even find it locally. We do have a Home Depot and the lumber yard has been bought and sold 3 times. Love your channel, I don't always agree on everything but you can teach an old dog new tricks. Thank you.
I’m more excited about this than I should be
Right there with ya😂
100%
Same. I was about to put my iPad away and saw this. I guess kids bedtime can wait ten minutes,😂😂
Same here!
Haha Same
I absolutely LOVE that you did this US based comparison. Typically in the areas I’ve lived in on the east coast, I’ve been limited mainly to the USG green and blue lid buckets, and since watching your videos I have been hugely interested in knowing how they match up to the products you typically use. Thank you, Ben!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Currently doing a skim coat in one of our bathrooms and my wife randomly popped in the room and asked if Vancouver Carpenter would approve of the job I’m doing. Not sure you would, but you’ve taught me a lot!
My typical Home Depot experience.
“Hello there sir, I am looking at your website and I see that in aisle 7, bay 10 there are 300 listed 1/2” valves in stock, but I’m not seeing any here”.
HD associate “Yeah I don’t know what to tell ya”.
“Awesome, I’ll just go ahead and borrow your ladder and find them”.
I'm so glad that your still making videos. You are definitely a Master of All Trades and you deserve your own show on the HGTV channel.
Wow, thank you!
Ben is better than those HGTV shows. They are so scripted. If they let him do a tv show like his videos? Then that would be amazing
HGTV series would be INCREDIBLE.
@@susanwayne3333 That's exactly what I was thinking. Stay the way you are, Ben!
Wow. I live on the east coast and the HD here has totally different products. The stuff you use in your demo videos look more familiar. I've never seen that trowel in my life. And have never seen those solid stainless knives before either.
That's interesting because my dad was an east coast carpenter and had a couple of those. Makes me wonder what the story is there
Westpac is sold on the west coast. My local Wisconsin Home Depot carries only USG brand mud. Lowe's sells USG and Proform.
I'm doing taping and mudding for the first time ever and these videos of yours have been super helpful. It's lovely that you actually explain why you do the choices you do instead of just saying "do this, not this". I have a century old house where nothing is square and there are decades of bad decisions that I now have to deal with when trying to make things nice. Understanding the reasons behind your choices helps me make decisions on what to do in all those little spots where things are not quite how they're supposed to be. Thank you!
If you have an old home, you should watch Kirk Giordano's channel. He's a master plaster and stucco applicator in California and has a thousand videos on everything to do with plastering.
For trowels he recommended curry or marshalltown or gold steel, 13x5 straight with no curve, made of stainless. He also said, you may have to look in the concrete aisle. I'm on the east coast (Atlanta, GA) and regarding mud at the box stores we have mostly USG and not as many choices as in your video. USG all purpose (green), plus 3 (blue), and lightweight (light greenish) - all in buckets, no boxes. Then USG easy sand (hot mud) in different setting times - in bags. Then there is usually one other all purpose brand and that's it.
Same here in the midwest (Wisconsin)
Same here in NE Ohio.
Also, not nearly the selection of drywall either.
Same here in North Texas.
Same in PA/NJ/NY. So based on the video it’s all purpose (green) for joints, Plus 3 (blue) for everything else, and the unmixed quick sets when time is an issue?
@@billsedutto8824 unmixed quick set is used for the nylon mesh style of tape, and for filling larger gaps because it doesn’t shrink.
Retired now, did drywall finishing for years, here in the US, we always taped with the USG/Sheetrock green lid all purpose, prefilled with the Sheetrock Durabond lite 90 quick set, did all butt, flat and corner bead bed coats with the USG durabond lite 90 quick set, and all top coats with the USG/Sheetrock Plus 3.
Thank you thank you thank you. This was awesome. One for validation on some the tools and products I own/use that you showed and two for showing comparable products to the ones you regularly use back in Canada. Takes the guessing game out of what to use when I’m lamely attempting to replicate what you’ve demonstrated in past posts while working on my projects at home.
Glad it was helpful!
Literally one of your best videos ever.
This video was really informative and important for someone like me who dabbles in diy drywall work around the house. Thank you very much.
Glad it was helpful!
I'm on the East Coast of the US and our Home Depots carry both the USG lightweight that you showed as well as the USG green lid that you showed briefly.
Thanks for coming down. This is the video we needed!
I hope I'm down there again soon!
Here in Kentucky I know the two different common muds as blue top and green top because of the colors of the lids. Green top is for tape, blue top is for everything else; pretty simple. Thanks for making this video.
I'm from Belgium watching a Canadian guy showing me US drywall stuff i cant buy in Belgium, but i enjoyed the video!
I have been following you for over a year. Now that I’m helping my husband build his shop I re watched all your videos. Thank you for great content. I learn so much from you.
Aka a somewhat helpful wife hahaha😅
You are so welcome!
Yep, so Home Depot will carry whatever they can get. Westpac in some, and USG Easy Sand in others for hot mud. Home Depot Pro stores in the US will almost always carry USG Easy Sand instead of Westpac. All of them will likely carry USG Plus 3, and Westpac stuff in boxes.
Westpac Taping mud is exactly that, it's mud with lots of glue.
I've never seen Westpac in HD, at least not here in the east coast.
You were at "my" Home Depot!!!???!!! I always joke with my gal about hiring you to come do your magic on my walls but figured you would never come to CA - you could've had another "what not to do" video featuring my never-ending headache!
But on a serious note, this video is perfect for someone just getting started on their project. I've watched so many of your videos for some time now (thank you for making them). I can remember writing down all the Canadian products you recommended and then heading to the local HD, but couldn't find them. By mere luck I managed to buy the bags of quickset 40 and 90 you noted in this video, as they were the only dry versions that seemed similar. I'll be working on my finishing coats this week and will give the recommended ones for that sort a try as well. That mixer attachment, however, will indeed "zest" the orange homer buckets (many "niblets" found their way onto my walls). So, my advice is to get a better bucket if mixing to avoid the "where did that line come from" after applying a coat. Thank you!
I wish the USG Plus 3 was available in smaller buckets for homeowners who do small repairs.
I would think anything that says lite all purpose would be comparable. We have many brands of lite all purpose in small tubs around here.
I just use the 3 quart 'dust control'. I figure it's got a blue lid too, so it's probably the same as Plus 3. They just market it differently expressly for the homeowners. Because contractors are gonna use the big bucket as it's more cost effective.
Wow, as an American living in the Northwest, this is extremely useful. I'm wondering how many of your viewers in other countries are going to be asking you to do their Hardware stores next. 😂
Thanks for this Ben! You should see our Condiment aisles! 🤣💕👍
PS- California tan looks good on ya! 😎👍
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glad while you were down in the states skating you made this video of the product that i see down here in the big box store. thanks Ben
That one pass wall repair stuff is actually pretty good stuff ! It's not traditional drywall compound, it's a "repair material" made out of hydraulic cement that works great for "structural" repair of drywall, cement board, plaster, stucco, masonry, etc.
I first bought it by accident thinking it was 90min, but after getting home realized it was 20min. I have since been through several boxes. I like how it's hard but still sands/scrapes reasonably.
I wonder if it's the equivalent of Confill?
@@brianwolf2902 Yes I believe that is a US comparable to Confil.
I hope your project's going well, but more importantly, I hope you're doing even better!
On all commercial jobs, we don't touch any premixed blue or green lid stuff. We always tape with 20 or 45 minute quickset. Then follow with the same for your block coat. Everything is drying hard and fast so you can go right back over your coats within a couple hours tops. Then you skim with purple bucket premixed. Any other methods I have seen people try to use, is just too slow. Also mesh tape will work if you do it my way. In my opinion, nobody who cares about the longevity of their work should be using premixed on your first 2 coats. It is weak garbage that is only good for a final smoothing coat. We only use paper tape on inside corners because we have to. Mesh tape lets you get right to block coating so you aren't wasting time. Time is money.
Everything he says is spot on! 👍👊
Thanks for pointing out the Plus 3 mud. I have never used Plus 3 despite recommendations from other drywallers. I am skimming an aggressive floor to ceiling popcorn texture on 1960s drywall. The paper is weak so my first two coats were all-purpose mud. I bought a box of Plus 3 and said “let’s try this”. Wow it goes on so smooth with a skimming blade. Like marshmallow crème walls. I love this stuff and so does my back.
Night and day difference. The few times I’ve used a real all purpose I’m like “what is this stuff and why doesn’t it spread!!!”
for popcorn just lightly wet it and scrape it off with the drywall knife. I use a sharpened 12 inch knife for lower and I have a carbide knife for ceilings. It comes right off as the base is light weight mud. no glue in it. For skimming I would still use Green lid All purpose for the 1st coat to get maximum adhesion. Then you could switch to plus3 if you wanted. USG green lid will sand if you slick the top coat. Wont need to sand much at all this way.
@@terrygonyon4490 painted popcorn texture won't soak off. I tried
@@kendallwillis bummer. elbow grease it is. Scraped a lot of it that way. Carbide floor scraper from any paint store is worth the investment. grind the edge flat so you basically have 2 cuttings edges and it helps a ton.
I recently did a small half-bath. The bottom half of the walls were tiled & the customer was on a tight budget - so, naturally, I just grabbed the multi-tool & zipped off the whole slabs of sheetrock that the tile was on- Schluter strips and all (leaving the top half/original sheetrock in). The house had good, straight bones, so I was very comfortable with scabbing/sistering studs & joints to fasten to. Had to do a little pre-filling & leveling, cut out previously unaddressed high spots that were painted over & mend some round corners... but all went well considering. Until I went to tape the butt joints & found that I only had MESH TAPE!! &, due to financial constraints on the job, that mesh tape would just have to do!! Anyway, to shorten this novel... because I used USG all purpose & applied the mesh tape on semi-wet mud, the joints came out rock solid!! I even dug into the tape a bit when sanding ( to guage floating parameters) & the fibers didn't split or fray. F
With towel bars & rings, toilet paper holders & frequent condensation, im curious to see how well the joint work holds. Hopefully forever ... & HOPEFULLY at least a year 🤞!
I buttoned the job up with super-paint, so I doubt condensation will creep its way in over time & wreak havoc. We shall see!!
Been watching you for last 2 or 3years. Hey man don't sleep on the patches. Lol. Love the Content. Helped me with my confidence. Helped me to know that I know and I was and have been doing it right. I no longer do home repair, but we had one hell of a ride together. Only I knew, lol. Thanks again Brother!
Thanks!!!
So thankful for you doing this!
Thank you!
Welcome to SoCal!
Since Long Beach is So “old”❤️…..the HD tend to have a deeper mix of repair supplies than the HD in younger communities here in the OC.
Thank you for your content!! I've been watching a lot of your videos and this is a great companion to understanding what to buy.
Thank you for sharing your helpful thoughts
Thanks Ben, appreciate all your tips
I live in south west Idaho, never heard of Westpac or most of what you showed. We have usg everything.
I've been waiting for this exact video after watching for a long time! Excellent
You've helped me greatly in improving my home jobs. Thanks for that! Sadly, I don't do it often enough to get good at it, but my work has improved 100% since I started watching.
Really appreciate this video. Thanks Ben. You're the goods!
Thank you for doing this. So helpful!!
Awesome video Ben-you've answered many of my questions in this one! Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
Very great information every bit of time.
Thanks.
This was more useful than I think you realize. Thank you!
Great review and very helpful! Thank you!!
Appreciate the insight. Useful to know comparisons.
I'm not sure; however, I think tapers and finishers used Plus 3 when taping with mesh.... I always used the green bucket mud for taping and cornerbead and the Plus 3 for first/finish/skim coating.... Thanks for explaining about the other products! You're a Master of the craft Sir! 🙂
Love that you did this. I was trying to look through your vids to see brands of muds u keep using
Great video. Very helpful! Glad you're enjoying your time here in CA!
In Toronto here and Home Depot ships Marshalltown 13x5 trowels pretty quickly. In-store they carry some other size flat and curved trowels and hawks. There's a bit of a learning curve but I definitely see why you recommend the hawk/trowel combo so much! As for mud it's mostly CGC stuff in the stores near me. Thanks for all the videos Ben!
This was so helpful! I’ve had to guess what you would think is best when buying here in the states. But primarily because of you, I’ve been able to do some significant repairs myself. They may not be quite as pretty as a professional, but the price was right 😂! Plus, it’s been fun. Thanks!
This is such an awesome and informative video. I know nothing about drywall but I love all your content. You’re very knowledgeable.
Thanks for putting this out. The mud questions I had were answered in this video. I won’t be an expert when I start but I will have enough knowledge to get me going in the right direction on my drywall jobs.
Thanks for this! Taping bathroom this weekend!
Warning. I bought that exact same Walboard mixing paddle. Exactly the same. And I got a home depot bucket as I was doing personal work for myself without access to the good buckets my company gets.
That paddle absolutely tore up my home depot buck and left tons of carrot peelings in my mud. Real pain in the rear to pluck them all out while I was coating. Ended up spending 10-15 minutes with a grinder trying to knockdown any place that could be sharp.
But yeah, Home Depot brand buckets suck and it was in fact partially the mixers fault. I'd buy a different paddle if you could. Or take this one, stick it in a cheap bucket, fill it with gravel, and run it slow to medium with a high torque drill. Just to try and really knockdown any place that could cut into buckets.
Anecdotal observation: Watch out for colored buckets- orange, blue etc. Seem to always produce “dried coconut flakes” regardless of mixer.
@@KGrant-ty3oy Thank you for the info. Yeah, the orange Home Depot bucket are definitely not good for mixing mud. The buckets we used at work were left over primer buckets (white in color) after using an airless to prime our sheetrock before texture. Those buckets were awesome, never had to fumble with getting "dried coconut flakes (love that name)" out of our coats after the fact.
*Thank you for making this episode, Mr. Ben!*
It is 💯pure 🔥🔥🔥 --TEXAS USA
Good material. Thanks!
Thank, Ben! I appreciate all your videos and they've been very helpful to me. I switched to hawk and trowel due to your videos.
Lowe's here in Central Kentucky sells Marshalltown QLT and gold stainless trowels here in various sizes. Hawks at Lowe's are only QLT. I am going to order a Kraft Magnesium hawk for better feel, lighter weight, and no more black aluminum oxide streaks.
Thanks, again! I really love doing drywall work using the hawk and trowel and that is thanks to you! 😁
man you are a library of knowledge on this stuff! thank you for sharing and giving me the confidence to be able to do this on my own and saving me thousands in the process. YOU ROCK!
Thank you! I've been struggling with repairs I'm doing myself (no choice there) and not understanding the different products. I'm in the US midwest. I am learning a lot from your videos and gaining confidence.
Thanks for posting US based products. I have been following along and learned a great deal from you. So far the project in coming along thanks to your expert advice
Nice! Glad to see you in my area, big fan of your videos
East coast home depots sell almost none of that. What country is that? 🤣 bless california's heart
east and west coasts are very regionally different in some trades, and drywall is definitely one of them.
For sure it will be different everywhere. It's different from coast to coast in canada as well.
I worked in La Jolla for an international pharmaceutical organization. Pure Leftist insanity. I left the California crazy acres...
YOU ARE A GREAT TEACHER THANKS FOR THE COMPARISONS
Thank you!!! I've learned so much from your videos but have been less than confident when choosing products in my local HD.
what an amazing video keep up the amazing work Ben.
Dude you're my favorite youtuber and an amazing drywaller/carpenter
That's my Signal Hill Home Depot! Wish I would've seen this sooner. If you're still in town, I'd love to take you to lunch for all the help your videos have been and show you the duplex I'm working on downtown
"I don't see fibafuse", but it's right in the middle of the screen, lol! I do this all the time
That was all Fibatape.There was no Fibafuse.So Yes he was correct.
Thank you! You taught me well. You confirmed most of the products I use. Tools I purchased online from All-Wall Equipment. One thing you don't speak much of, and I found out that I needed, is drywall shims. I spent more time making sure my walls are flat vs. hanging drywall.
True. I walked right by them.
@@vancouvercarpenter I use a wooden carpenter's scrub plane to remove high spots from framing... bows, mis-nailed framing, etc. I find that getting rid of the high spots is at least as important as filling in low spots!
The plane originally belonged to a carpenter who worked from about 1920-1950. I inherited it and his tool box from his son, also a carpenter, along with his son's tool box. Lot's of hand tools that most people wouldn't want to or know how to use!
@@johngrossbohlin7582 I use a Ryobi cordless plane for high spots AND cardboard shims for low spots.
Great video, I feel like I will never learn everything even as my own work is finally satisfactory to me. this was as helpful as any mechanics/technique video has been. Thank you.
WOW! Thank you so much for answering the question of which USA mud products do I use to try to come as close as possible to VC's awesomeness with his CAN products has been answered! I can now toss all my little scrap notes about about US vs CAN mud which were referenced in your videos!
That extra strength mesh tape is actually really good as it has diagonal threads. However, it's a little thicker than other mesh and paper tape so use only when you have the available depth. But it is really strong for repairs. (I use it on tile backer board sometimes too.)
West Coast HD has WestPac (they are based in Southern California), East Coast has USG products. WestPac muds are pretty good. Low shrinkage, easy sanding, even with the quick sets (as long as it is lite version). The TNT lite is a low shrink lightweight taping mud, good for 1st coats, not so good for 2, 3 coats because it has a lots of glue. Plus 3 shrink a ton, but it has a superb finish.
West coast lowes has USG. if you want USG you go to lowes, if you want west pack you go to HD.
Here in WA state and Oregon we carry Hamilton drywall products in HD not WestPac. Never knew they had a sister company
This is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you for crossing the boarder to help us southern brothers out!
Very helpful. Thank you.
Thank you for so much for the good information. If I understood correctly, is best to use all purpose heavy compound for taping, but for the successive coats you suggested Plus 3 including the last coat.
This was super great to watch. I have been doing drywall patching and touch up so knowing I bought the product you would is very reassuring. I really appreciate your info and hope you are enjoying your time in the States!
Thank you very much!
I actually use Home Depot for all my smaller jobs that I load myself because their sheetrock prices are pretty good. Anything larger though I use local drywall supply houses because the local HD's don't have boom trucks. I don't see much boxed mud here in CT either. It's all bucket mud whether it be Proform Black and red lid or , especially at HD, USG green lid or the plus 3. I love their purple top midweight for topping and skimming..
Just amazing information!!!!😊
Trowel and Hawk for LIFE. Ive learned so much from you over the years. Thank you from USA!
Thank you soooo much for giving us the U.S. version of what you use. Super helpful!!!!
Happy to help!
CTS Rapid Set One Pass is a do it all, cement based 20 minute joint compound. Cool stuff for small jobs that that works both indoors and outdoors. I only bought it because it was the only thing that came in a small box. Definitely worth a try.
The part of the trowel that connects the handle to the blade is called the shank. The part of the shank that is riveted along the back length of the blade is the spine, and the part that connects the spine to the handle is the neck.
Thank You So Much For This! 🙏
Love your videos, especially this one because we’re at my local Home Depot😮
Great run down, thanks!
We have the USG heavy mix in the north east United States. I haven't seen the Westpac stuff. Given its name it's probably a west coast product.
Guaranteed is stands for Western Pacific. We have the words west and pac in business names all around here on the coast. Wespac is the name of the first electrical contractor I met.
So it took a CZcams video to flesh out the good, the bad, and the alien where Home Depot products are concerned. This was a super helpful video for those of us who still in large part use the shelf selection to determine our needs. (Always problematic). You not only know what you like, you know WHY you don't like what you don't like making this' comparison' a truly great resource. Much appreciated!
Very helpful. Thanks!
Awesome content thank you!
straight to my favorited videos. Thanks!
My pleasure!
Thank you so much! This is incredibly valuable information. I've been buying the wrong products and now I know better 😬 and just in time too, going to be doing a lot of work in our kitchen soon.
I hope your kitchen project goes well!!!!
And if you come to the east coast you will find even more different products out here and better trowel selections. We take pride in our trowels out here! Great video as always!
I have a bathroom repair coming up. Need to tear down a small wall repair the sheet rock. Nothin huge. Haven’t done tape/mud in over 20 years, so lots has changed. Even back then I was a definite DIYer. 😂. Your videos are very helpful, succinct and informative. Mahalo.
Thanks for the video ben
Love this video! Always wanted to know what you thought about USA mud.
Very useful. About to start a garage project on my new build going from a pretty decent quality Level 2 they left me to a Level 3/4 (don't need perfection, it is a garage). This helps with what I should be buying.
Completely different variety of products from out here on Long Island in New York. Fun stuff!
Eastern Oregon, In the 90s, and early 2000s, I was a sheetrock contractor. We didn't have big box stores. We had 2 lumber yards. The one I shopped at only had Hamiltons mud. I used that for years. Fast forward 20 years and I can't even find it locally. We do have a Home Depot and the lumber yard has been bought and sold 3 times. Love your channel, I don't always agree on everything but you can teach an old dog new tricks. Thank you.
Here in southern Oregon Hamilton is all they got at Home Depot. Weird you don’t get it on the east side.