Full Ceiling Skimming Tutorial - Smooth Your Ceiling in 11 Minutes with Patch Dudes!
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- čas přidán 13. 10. 2022
- Get quick and clean ceiling smoothing, stucco/popcorn ceiling removal, or drywall patching with Patch Dudes! In this fast tutorial, you can learn how to skim a ceiling yourself, getting it ready for a clean coat of paint. Wondering what to do before you paint your ceiling? Watch us!
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THIS is the only way from now on!! Never looking back to the old ways 😂😂💪💪
Great video and those TOOLS! Old retired restoration specialist, skimmed miles walls and ceilings with a set of Marshalltown wood-handled knives, up to 24". What you have today is a big upgrade. Awesome work, thanks for putting out here. You guys are total pros.
Thank you so much! We appreciate the kind words
Thanks for the tips and your sense of humor. Joe
Well done. Thank you, sir!
Level5 hook these Patch Dudes up! Do it.
Yes please!
Excellent work. Thanks for the video
Thanks for your comment :)
Nicely done. very informative. very handsomes.
really cool video, didn't expect that !
Thanks! We try :)
great video
very skilled.
Great video you make it look easy. I know if I do it on my house I’ll be sanding for days in between coats. Thanks for the video
Thanks for watching!
well done
I just found this video, this was absolutely a great video, i'm going to buy me a set of those knives, got to skim ceiling of a remodel job, Thank you very much for making this and sharing you skills and knowledge, if I was closer to you i would hire you in a second!
Coming soon to a town near you :)
“We’re not just beautiful, but we’re smart” lol
Nice work. Wish my boss had those tools
He can! just send him our discount link! these tools pay for themself after 1 job!
level5tools.com/?ref=patchdudes
Prettyyy prettyyy awesome guys m ready to do my place
We're Prettyyyyy prettyyyy prettyyyyy good at this :) call us
good !👍
Nice
Those ridge lines were killing my ocd. Thanks for finally smoothing them over.
No ridge line will be left behind!
It was like the cliff hanger in a movie. I kept waiting and waiting, thinking with each close pass, he has to get it this time. Man my OCD was kicking in also until he finally got them. Man, what a relief. LOL
I have been using a 24-inch stroke for 32 years now I use it for everything concrete drywall Plastering everything the only thing I had to keep with me at the time is a spray bottle of water in case certain areas get too hard but this one you showed me a lot easier and faster keep up the good work young man
Much appreciated!
I also use the same method, but much more carefully apply the putty to the ceiling and walls with a roller, then I have almost no waste when smoothing.
Man, I appreciate you guys doing this video. I bought a house that turned out to be a money pit. I have to do the work myself and after replacing exterior walls on over half the house and doing the sheet rock which I had planned on removing all but now I'm going to save the ceiling and hopefully it comes out as yours did. Buying a house to redo is a little harder than I thought even being in construction but its getting easier with lessons learned
How'd it work out?
Glad we could help a bit! Goodluck with everything!
Come to Calgary and skim coat my popcorn living room!
Just the way I do it
Good video. Try to follow joists as you wipe the ceiling instead of cross wiping. Since most ceilings have hollow spots between joists and also that takes care of all the bad butt joints.
Thanks for the advice!
Learned something today!
Our job here is done :)
My first coast I did by hand with a 10"blade and has a few ridge lines. Can I sand them out and do a 2nd coat?
What do you use to tint the mud yellow
Great video man! I tried doing this before with a columbia skimmer. Only problem was getting the mud on the ceiling. What kind of roller do you recommend?
great video! tell little freddy el freddito im interested in him
Are you all ever in the Florida area?
I’ve never rolled the mud, always used a spray gun but I might try a roller too just see how good it works. Knocking it down with my knife’s the same but your way might be faster. I’ll try it atleast once!
Give it a try let us know how it went 🙏
What spray gun did you use? I am a DIYer working on slanted ceilings
So my question is why skim the whole ceiling? Why not just the tape joints and particularly the but joints?
Nice 24" is good, but try that with ceilings that aren't level with lots of dips. You'll have to spot treat the dips with thick mud otherwise you end up with voids while skimming.
Thanks for your comment, we deal with old homes that have unleveled framing all the times, sometimes we have to pre-fill those "valley"s before skimming, but the skimming blade makes it easier to manipulate how much mud you take off or leave on at certain spots
@@patchdudes yup thats what I am doing with the 24" inch blade. spot treat till it levels out then skim
I just trowel with a 18 flat way less scrapes just keep moving . I leave lines and just sand red pro form comes off with your finger anyway
Thank you for your comment, everyone has their own way, we just trying to show ours :)
Dude needs a hat, falling mud...can't be good. ;) Thanks for presenting this!
But that would hide my sexy hair
Boston, Ma here. What do you have to do to prepare a kitchen ceiling for a skim coat that has oil paint and grease etc.?
I would TLC the grease spots and simply skim on top with Blue lid mud or dark green lid mud as they have a bit more glue in them. good luck!
Great video, do you service the Hamilton area?
Sure do! check out our website
Nice, but try doing this in a rough wall is very difficult!
Hello, I appreciate your tutorial. I wish that you were in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY; I would hire you today for a small ceiling skim coat. You're not planning to take a trip to New York are you? What skim coat mud do you recommend. Perhaps they're the same in the states? Regards, David
For the right price I would love a road trip haha
you can use any pre-mixed all purpose mud, I belive in the states its called Plus 3 by UGC
Also I've seen on another comment you offered up adding dish soap to the mud. I'm a beginner but fairly decent at walls, ceilings I haven't done. I've heard of the dish soap trick for bubbles.... What soap do you use? Does it matter? And how much? Really curious to try. Thanks for all the advice as I valve all those with much more experience than I.
Any dish soap will do! and it makes it smell nice as an added bonus :) just a sprinkle is enough
Someone said, which makes sense: make sure the soap is lye free so it doesn't irritate your eyes during sanding
Any recommendations on what brand/type of mud to use? (premixed ideally, since I suck at mixing)
USG or CGC depends on where you are are great. I'd go for the blue or red box/ lids and add in about a quart of water and mix real good
@@patchdudes thanks! I’m in Ontario. Ended up going with USG ultra light, which seemed to work out decently.
I'd like to try it . I do almost as fast with my trowel.
You need to wet your mud for the roller which adds water and therefore little bubbles and a step . Your getting plaster on the walls too. So that needs addressed if the walls are not supposed to be touched.
Thank you for your comment, there is extremely minimal mud on the walls, however, in this particular case, the walls are being painted afterward.
You're right, we thin down the mud with 1 sponge of water and some dish soap. We do 2 skimcoats and it comes out perfect everytime
Thanks for your input!
You can greatly reduce bubbles by mixing mud a little slower. Otherwise you’ll whip air into the mud and as you know, bubbles can be a pain to deal with
@@patchdudes how do you deal with incomplete tape joints that become obvious after popcorn is scraped off ? Your not using that wide custom strike for that are you ?
@@bjones218 use miracle mix by (westpac)
What mud were you using? To confirm you used the premix mud and just lightened it up a little with a cup of water? Is that correct?
We use Ultralight weight mud, but you can use any pre-mixed all-purpose mud and add 1-2 sponges worth of water or until it reaches a smooth yogurt-like consistancy.
Beautiful results + Great video Patch Dudes! Does that Ultralight mud work on concrete ceilings or do you treat it differently to adhere?
Thanks! We typically use sheetrock 90 as our base coat on bare concrete and add a tiny bit of glue to make sure it sticks really good but we've done it before with simply all purpose mud with some water and it worked great!
Cool tool I’ll buy it level 5 on eBay is around $600 Dollars in the USA 🇺🇸
Use our link!
I used 40” DeWalt finish blade it’s faster. I like inside corners comes perfect.
Thanks for your input! We have a 32” Columbia blade as well which we use interchangeably with the Level5 for bigger ceilings
anyone who comments "you're leaving too many lines" doesn't understand the process ...... the lines get smaller and smaller as more and more mud is skimmed off ...... and as the mud firms up a bit
Would this work over painted popcorn ceiling?
Absolutely, might take 2-3 coats
we do it all the time
How much mud do you take off???
As much as possible! You want to do 2-3 very thin layers versus 1 thick one
How much charge per square metre?
Including materials
Prices differ between each job but visit our website for pricing www.patchdudes.com
So, how long does it take a DIYer to get a handle on this?
A few years haha
Whats your ratio? How many gallons of water do you add soap
just a squirt or two of soap and about 1 quart of water per bucket of mud
Can you skim an unpainted popcorn ceiling?
You sure can after you scrap it off or sand it off.
what mud/compund do you guys prefer?
Big fans of the CGC Ultralight all-purpose mud
@@patchdudes on walls do you use all purpose green, blue or the ultra as well?
What do you recommend for the Compound?
Machine Mud or Ultralight Weight mud works well but any pre-mixed all purpose mud would do the trick
@@patchdudes Thank you, Sir!!
That’s such an art to perfect, im sure anyone feels can do this and sure they can however u really learn your mistakes when that mud dries and your sanding your ass off I’m diy all day long but this one I’ll leave to the professionals lol
Lol thats why we invested in our Festool and Mirka dustless sanders, makes life so much better! also leaving your skim coats super tight leaves very little to sand
Why were you skimming in the first place? Looks like new construction.
20 years old home, we removed popcorn texture from the ceiling and skim coated twice before painting
Do you ever reuse the mud you scape into the bucket ? Which brand of mud is the best? Holy Cow , your shirt Isn’t too messy
We sure do! Good mud gets reused but any mud with "hitchhikers" gets thrown out
You didn't fill up those lighting boxes with mud, amateurs! JK, nice job guys.
Damn amateurs...
Do you need a lot of upper body strength to use that skimmer? I'm an old lady, lol. Stronger than some but still an old lady 😂
I would warm up really well haha good luck!
@@patchdudes I'm thinking it might take me a couple of days instead of 12 minutes, but I could do it.
please wear a mic… I can hear the cameraman wheezing into the camera’s microphone. Really hard to focus on what you’re doing when his breathing and mouth noises are as loud as you are
Don’t tint it yellow. It looks like a house of smokers I’m talking heavy smokers like five packs a day type of people do not tent it yellow.
haha yeah i hate yellow ceilings too... nothing worst than a house thats been smoked in!
We tint it yellow on the first coat so we can tell where we didnt skim 2nd coat or where we sanded too much
@@patchdudes Tint a very light blue. On another note: you’re doing an awesome job, it really looks good.😎✌️
Ruined by the camera guy’s breathing like a Willder beast.
He works hard 😎
You want him to hold his breath for 11 minutes?
We typically encourage our employees to breath...
What is the product names, Like paint name and also knife name please??
@@abdulqadar9971 We use CGC Ultra lightweight drywall joint compound, rolled on with a regular 30mm paint roller, skimmed with 24'' Skimming Blade by Level5 here is the link: level5tools.com/?ref=patchdudes
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Not even close… I’m middle eastern…. Don’t ever put us in the same sentence with Trudeau 🤢
You’re doing it wrong, you don’t have any in your beard
When I was scrolling at first glance I thought you were that Ukrainian president that our government is using to launder money.
Nope, just your average tax paying Patch Dude
What an idiot comment.
@@papichulo7187 thanks
😂
Ridiculous.