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You really are skilled and patient to do mud work over head! My husband and I built our first house from the ground up in the 80s… mud work was my least favorite trade. I sincerely respect those with the ability to do mudding and/or plastering! 👍🏻👍🏻
My family's house has ceilings and even walls like this. This seemed to be a popular thing in the 60's and again in the 90's. Nice to know you can just skim coat over it. You do make it look easy because I am just terrible at mudding. lol
Thank you so much for this video! I have to do this to my kitchen ceiling (I bought a fixer a couple of months ago). I had no idea what to use or how to do it.
Sorry about your loss this year, brother. Thanks for all the great content. I have several rentals and I've learned so much and saved a fortune from videos that you put out. Hope you have a great year!!
That smooth ceiling looks so good! We have the orange peel finish (spray on mud) on our walls and ceilings. No issues with it, it's easily painted and has stayed intact since the house was built in 1978!
Nicely done sir. I took the lazy route and hired my plasterer to do my entire house. Well worth it because I suck at mudding lol. If you're doing a lot of this stuff then consider a high quality air scrubber. It's just an air purifier on steroids. Between the unit and extra filters I was around $600. Worth every penny to keep the dust down while working in houses. You can completely wreck an entire room of lath and plaster and walk away for 5 minutes and come back to crispy clean air.
nice results, one thing that makes one apply mud better is having to sand. You quickly realize the effort in trying to mud accurately is worth it. For sanding novices using the pole you can stand on the first or second step of a ladder while sanding as well, I found it to be less stressful on the arms/shoulders. I was a painter for 40 years and at the end just holding my arms upward was painful, a few years of retirement they have become almost normal again.
Thanks for your always informative videos. I do not like the textured design ceilings. Growing up my dad mixed in a bit of sand with the ceiling paint. It was good at hiding imperfections in the ceiling and diffused any uplighting but was not ‘in your face’ textured. Keep the videos coming. Happy New Year.
We have this ceiling design and texture on all our walls. Painting the ceiling a flat ceiling white helps to camouflage the design on the cheap as well.
Been doing this in my home in various rooms for the past year. I started with the roller method in the first room. In subsequent rooms I ditched the roller and just used the mudding knife. I do most stuff with the 6" knife... It takes longer but I have more control than with the 12 inch.
Hi all. Thanks The Fixer. Dust solution: Get a cheep window fan and pull out the dust as your sanding. When done sanding, use the same fan and an electrical leaf blower to blow out the room. It gets the rest of the dust out quick and easy. Enjoy the ride.
Great video....but you need to get a Bucket Scoop to transfer mud from bucket to the pan!! Game changer. I wish I had an affiliate link to include, because EVERYONE needs one!!
As far as the dust get a livestock fan and have it blow out a window if available. Prop open the door to the room a little so that you can pull air into the room
If you were going to do a level 5 finish like this then you could have made it easier on yourself by applying the mud using a roller rather than knife; especially with that nice finishing knife you have. It would have been a nice thick coat you could smooth over and reduce the number of extra coats or imperfections that show up under certain lights.
I highly recommend you look into an electric power sander for drywall if you are going to do all the ceilings in your house. Sanding will cut down on the amount of drywall mud you need to use, and in some areas, you may not need to do anything other than sand the texturr off. Have done this on textured ceilings and only needed to fill low spots. Works great and a lot cheaper than mud.
Hey! I actually bought one. Will probably use it to knock down stuff on the bigger ceilings. My particular ceilings are plaster so they probably won't sand too well. I left it out of the video because I feel like a sander is not really beginner friendly. Thanks for checking out the video!
Are these sanders inexpensive? After you use it will you continue using it? Questions one might ask before you buy one. I suppose if it saves time and mud money it may be worth it. I am sure when your friends and relatives find out you have one …. Are you sure want to buy one? Thankless job but if it needs to be done you’ll be the new go to guy
@@epk2027 A good one with a good vacuum and hoses and the whole setup together will be around 1k. But you could buy cheaper ones, just don't expect them to last as long as the professional ones will.
@epk2027 the time spent sanding is probably 1/2 or less the amount of time spent standing on ladders to scrap, put minimum 2 costs of mud, time in between coats, sanding flush.... and then on top of that money for mud. Now imagine spending 100+ hours on skimming the whole house. You can cut that down with the sander. It does take patience to learn it, but small areas are the best place to learn. Even if family asks to borrow it, you still are up on time saved and more time for kids. You can also flip it on marketplace quickly when done.
@ maybe looking for one on market place right off would be cheaper. Are they heavy? I have finished a 10 ft ceiling in my garage using one of the pole mounted screen devices and it worked just fine,turned out pretty nice too. I hate spending time and money buying tools I might need only once. I am sure the guy who does this every day might have a better reason to buy this tool but from a do it yourself perspective that $15 dollars I spent seems more reasonable. It’s still sitting in my garage in an empty mud bucket along with all the other drywall tools I bought hoping to never use again.
For a beginner, make a line of mud at a wall, then a second line 8" to 10" away & repeat the whole ceiling. Then when it is dry, come back and fill in those spaces between your lines of mud. To minimize mud from falling, wipe the mud off the ends of your trowel into your pan 2' from each end. Never put any unused mud back into your bucket, because it will have chunks. If you have to wait a while to use your mud again, wipe the sides to make the mud flat and add a thin layer of water on top of the mud. Then wipe the sides down with a damp sponge. If you allow the mud to dry on the sides, it will flake off into your mud. You can remix it, or dump the water out, then remix it when you are ready to use it again. Mud has a shelf life, so use it all or discard it, or it will mold. When I was a professional drywaller, I went through at least 7 - 5 gallon pails per 8 hour shift. I used frog tape to mask off a 5' x 3' rectangle on my textured classroom wall. Then skim coated it & sanded. Then added two coats of chalkboard paint. I used a router to add grooves in a board and attached it at the bottom with pocket hole screws to keep the chalk on.
Another tip for your next ceiling, make a walk board with 2x6, then have a "lane" to walk the entire legth of the room (or stilts) but mudd a straight line from a wall to wall with the big knife, then skip over about 10 inches, and keep that pattern you will have a stripped ceiling. A row of new mud and the old texture. After the new mudd drys run the next stripes the ones with texture, the striping acts like tracks.
I must be the only one who likes the fan textured ceilings! 😂 Maybe not in every room, but definitely any room where company gathers, like the living/dining room. Always thought it gave the space a little extra flair.
Do you think it would be a similar process for a crows foot style ceiling texture? Some of the paint drips are pretty long, so I feel like it would be a lot of scraping.
@@tommy8716 I don't think so. Think about the fact you have to finish the new drywall too + material cost + who knows if you end up with a can of worms. Just my opinion though.
This is a labor intensive job for sure. You may also find the original builder hid their mistakes by over spraying. A flat surface may bring that out, so look carefully.
I need to scrape and skim coat ceilings. My mostly healed broken shoulder will not be amused with that challenge. Many breaks will be involved. I want that task completed prior to moving any furniture on-site. (I will probably sleep on a cot in the basement.) Over 2,000 square feet of textured ceilings.
20:05 = Fun fact: Milwaukee and Ryobi are owned by the same company/business (Techtronic Industries)... so anyone questioning why you use ryobi instead of milwaukee is the same kinda person who doesn't understand that a lexus is just an overpriced / rebranded toyota... I will admit that sometimes the higher priced version does have a few more "features" but at the end of the day... its the same damned company.
Get a full face respirator, it's really nice for keeping all that garbage out of your face and doesn't seem to trap breath smell. Also when doing really dirty stuff a full suit with hood wraps around the mask really well and keeps your beard hair and clothes clean.
My 1st question is did the dog get mud on him? My 2nd question is have you ever used a power drywall sander and does the power sander actually save time and your shoulders and arms. I know it may seem a stupid question
Hey! 1. No. 🤣 I made sure he was comfortably resting on the couch. 2. I actually bought a power sander to help because I am doing all of my ceilings eventually. I tried it out on a wall before the ceiling and quickly realized I will probably not use it on the ceiling. It just burns through the mud too quick and hard to control. I am sure people with years of practice with it could use it but I would rather take my time and do a nice job with the compound so I don’t have a ton to sand. That is the plan anyway.
I hate any kind of texture, on ceilings or walls. The result of skim coating is always satisfying but that dust during the sanding stage is so bad. Makes you wish you had that festool sander with attached vacuum.
my parents have that same texture. i called it records. because i thought it looked like records. now i call it perlage, because la dee da. oh la la. pearlahge.
@@epk2027 Never had a problem painting my smooth ceilings. Just use a good paint roller. I could never live in a property with textured walls and ceilings.
It sucks that ALL your ceilings are textured, you seem to have a good sized house. A former house I owned had popcorn ceilings in every room. I lived there 15 years and never knew you could get rid of them. It wasn't something I looked into, the house was nicer than the place I lived prior so just accepted that's what it was. Years later after discovering HGTV and getting hooked on all the renovation shows discovered they could be corrected. The house I own now is a 1945 craftsman and all the ceiling are the original square tiles, probably asbestos, since the house is from that era. I have no plans on changing them except for the kitchen. The kitchen is a small galley style and want tin look ceilings.
As God is my witness, I hate ceilings. This newbie WILL buy an electric sander because when it’s all new, nothing is really newer than anything else. Oh, and Columbia makes a good 3” wide pole sander that does not easily flip over. I’ve been working mostly with a hawk. On some days, the mud just drips to the floor despite the hawk being held level. The mud literally jumps off the ledge, I swear. Part of my issue is that both my hawk and my trowel are the same size (12 inch.)
Dumb question from someone who knows nothing about this. Why wouldn't you just sand the fan design down and not mud? I have these ceilings in every room of my house (and walls), trying to figure out if I want to update it or not.
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Thanks for watching! 😃
You really are skilled and patient to do mud work over head! My husband and I built our first house from the ground up in the 80s… mud work was my least favorite trade. I sincerely respect those with the ability to do mudding and/or plastering! 👍🏻👍🏻
My family's house has ceilings and even walls like this. This seemed to be a popular thing in the 60's and again in the 90's. Nice to know you can just skim coat over it. You do make it look easy because I am just terrible at mudding. lol
Happy new year for your and for all your family in peace , joy ,health , happiness ,blessing .
Awesome results for all your hard work. Loving the out-takes, so much fun. Thank you for the content 🛠
For a man that doesn’t like drywall work.. you did an awesome job. 😂🎉
Thx For the tips. That’s a lot of work.
Love the out takes. 😂 very inspiring. We all do the same thing. Haha. Keep up the good work Brother.
I keep water and a rag handy. Also a damp sponge is helpful for high spots and keeps dust to a minimum. Thanks for the video.
😂😂😂 I knew when I saw the intro that there was gonna be bloopers of the mud throwing! You did NOT dissapoint 😂😂
Dude, you're doing well great thing with this channel. Keep up the good work
Thank you so much for this video! I have to do this to my kitchen ceiling (I bought a fixer a couple of months ago). I had no idea what to use or how to do it.
Sorry about your loss this year, brother. Thanks for all the great content. I have several rentals and I've learned so much and saved a fortune from videos that you put out. Hope you have a great year!!
Love the intro! Get right to the point and let folks know what they’re getting into
That smooth ceiling looks so good! We have the orange peel finish (spray on mud) on our walls and ceilings. No issues with it, it's easily painted and has stayed intact since the house was built in 1978!
Loved the intro. You’ve done a lot of good ones over the years
My previous favorite was the bulkhead when you were working on the basement stairs head height.
Nicely done sir. I took the lazy route and hired my plasterer to do my entire house. Well worth it because I suck at mudding lol. If you're doing a lot of this stuff then consider a high quality air scrubber. It's just an air purifier on steroids. Between the unit and extra filters I was around $600. Worth every penny to keep the dust down while working in houses. You can completely wreck an entire room of lath and plaster and walk away for 5 minutes and come back to crispy clean air.
Dishsoap reduces the surface tension of water, making it more wet. Anything emulsified in that water will become more fluid.
nice results, one thing that makes one apply mud better is having to sand. You quickly realize the effort in trying to mud accurately is worth it. For sanding novices using the pole you can stand on the first or second step of a ladder while sanding as well, I found it to be less stressful on the arms/shoulders. I was a painter for 40 years and at the end just holding my arms upward was painful, a few years of retirement they have become almost normal again.
Thanks for making these videos. They’ve definitely helped me out with fixing and stuff!
Great video as always. I love the outtakes at the end 😂
Thanks for your always informative videos. I do not like the textured design ceilings. Growing up my dad mixed in a bit of sand with the ceiling paint. It was good at hiding imperfections in the ceiling and diffused any uplighting but was not ‘in your face’ textured. Keep the videos coming. Happy New Year.
¡Feliz Año, The Fixer!
Dusty work, Matt. Happy New Year to you and your lovely family. 👍😊🎉
Thank you! Happy New Year!
We have this ceiling design and texture on all our walls. Painting the ceiling a flat ceiling white helps to camouflage the design on the cheap as well.
Happy New Year, my far american friend.
Hey, so I would use a hawk and trowel for this, it's easier to catch to blobs and it's better on your wrists.
Yup, that works too!
Whilst tou have very many great skills this job is one for a plasterer for sure and worth the money...
Hope your neck isn't too sore. Nice job.
Been doing this in my home in various rooms for the past year. I started with the roller method in the first room. In subsequent rooms I ditched the roller and just used the mudding knife. I do most stuff with the 6" knife... It takes longer but I have more control than with the 12 inch.
❤❤ thank you for showing this step by step
Hi all. Thanks The Fixer.
Dust solution: Get a cheep window fan and pull out the dust as your sanding. When done sanding, use the same fan and an electrical leaf blower to blow out the room. It gets the rest of the dust out quick and easy.
Enjoy the ride.
Great tip! 👍
Wow - looks great!
Great video....but you need to get a Bucket Scoop to transfer mud from bucket to the pan!! Game changer. I wish I had an affiliate link to include, because EVERYONE needs one!!
I made mine out of a garden trowel. My son in law keeps threatening to swipe it.😂😂
I did the same with jointing compound.
As far as the dust get a livestock fan and have it blow out a window if available. Prop open the door to the room a little so that you can pull air into the room
If you were going to do a level 5 finish like this then you could have made it easier on yourself by applying the mud using a roller rather than knife; especially with that nice finishing knife you have. It would have been a nice thick coat you could smooth over and reduce the number of extra coats or imperfections that show up under certain lights.
I highly recommend you look into an electric power sander for drywall if you are going to do all the ceilings in your house. Sanding will cut down on the amount of drywall mud you need to use, and in some areas, you may not need to do anything other than sand the texturr off. Have done this on textured ceilings and only needed to fill low spots. Works great and a lot cheaper than mud.
Hey! I actually bought one. Will probably use it to knock down stuff on the bigger ceilings. My particular ceilings are plaster so they probably won't sand too well. I left it out of the video because I feel like a sander is not really beginner friendly. Thanks for checking out the video!
Are these sanders inexpensive? After you use it will you continue using it? Questions one might ask before you buy one. I suppose if it saves time and mud money it may be worth it. I am sure when your friends and relatives find out you have one …. Are you sure want to buy one? Thankless job but if it needs to be done you’ll be the new go to guy
@@epk2027 A good one with a good vacuum and hoses and the whole setup together will be around 1k. But you could buy cheaper ones, just don't expect them to last as long as the professional ones will.
@epk2027 the time spent sanding is probably 1/2 or less the amount of time spent standing on ladders to scrap, put minimum 2 costs of mud, time in between coats, sanding flush.... and then on top of that money for mud.
Now imagine spending 100+ hours on skimming the whole house. You can cut that down with the sander. It does take patience to learn it, but small areas are the best place to learn.
Even if family asks to borrow it, you still are up on time saved and more time for kids. You can also flip it on marketplace quickly when done.
@ maybe looking for one on market place right off would be cheaper. Are they heavy? I have finished a 10 ft ceiling in my garage using one of the pole mounted screen devices and it worked just fine,turned out pretty nice too. I hate spending time and money buying tools I might need only once. I am sure the guy who does this every day might have a better reason to buy this tool but from a do it yourself perspective that $15 dollars I spent seems more reasonable. It’s still sitting in my garage in an empty mud bucket along with all the other drywall tools I bought hoping to never use again.
For a beginner, make a line of mud at a wall, then a second line 8" to 10" away & repeat the whole ceiling. Then when it is dry, come back and fill in those spaces between your lines of mud. To minimize mud from falling, wipe the mud off the ends of your trowel into your pan 2' from each end. Never put any unused mud back into your bucket, because it will have chunks. If you have to wait a while to use your mud again, wipe the sides to make the mud flat and add a thin layer of water on top of the mud. Then wipe the sides down with a damp sponge. If you allow the mud to dry on the sides, it will flake off into your mud. You can remix it, or dump the water out, then remix it when you are ready to use it again. Mud has a shelf life, so use it all or discard it, or it will mold.
When I was a professional drywaller, I went through at least 7 - 5 gallon pails per 8 hour shift.
I used frog tape to mask off a 5' x 3' rectangle on my textured classroom wall. Then skim coated it & sanded. Then added two coats of chalkboard paint. I used a router to add grooves in a board and attached it at the bottom with pocket hole screws to keep the chalk on.
Another tip for your next ceiling, make a walk board with 2x6, then have a "lane" to walk the entire legth of the room (or stilts) but mudd a straight line from a wall to wall with the big knife, then skip over about 10 inches, and keep that pattern you will have a stripped ceiling. A row of new mud and the old texture. After the new mudd drys run the next stripes the ones with texture, the striping acts like tracks.
Those bloopers😀
I must be the only one who likes the fan textured ceilings! 😂 Maybe not in every room, but definitely any room where company gathers, like the living/dining room. Always thought it gave the space a little extra flair.
I like the fan ceiling too.
Do you think it would be a similar process for a crows foot style ceiling texture? Some of the paint drips are pretty long, so I feel like it would be a lot of scraping.
Yes, it should be similar but also yes, more scraping.
@@TheFixerHomeRepair I wonder if it would be worth the time/money to just rip down the ceiling drywall and put up brand new drywall.
@@tommy8716 I don't think so. Think about the fact you have to finish the new drywall too + material cost + who knows if you end up with a can of worms. Just my opinion though.
This is a labor intensive job for sure. You may also find the original builder hid their mistakes by over spraying. A flat surface may bring that out, so look carefully.
The good old days of popcorn ceilings, and the better days of scraping that crap off.
Happy New Year 2025 to you and beloved family !!! 😇😇😇❤❤❤💪💪💪
Thank you! Happy New Year to you and yours!
Can you do this over a textured and painted wall or ceiling? Or would you need to remove the paint/mud with a sander first?
Nice video!
Thanks!
Does this compound work with plastered ceilings? Mine are plaster and it's the circled pattern.
Yes... in fact mine are plaster! I would definitely recommend the green top joint compound over blue for the first coat at least.
Will this work for high textured ceilings?
"why don't you pay three times the price for Milwalkee when its a DIY channel showing people how they can do it themselves" idgi either.
I live in Texas in a 87 house and every wall in the house is textured, and different textures in each room, will this work on walls?
I need to scrape and skim coat ceilings. My mostly healed broken shoulder will not be amused with that challenge. Many breaks will be involved. I want that task completed prior to moving any furniture on-site. (I will probably sleep on a cot in the basement.) Over 2,000 square feet of textured ceilings.
20:05 = Fun fact: Milwaukee and Ryobi are owned by the same company/business (Techtronic Industries)... so anyone questioning why you use ryobi instead of milwaukee is the same kinda person who doesn't understand that a lexus is just an overpriced / rebranded toyota... I will admit that sometimes the higher priced version does have a few more "features" but at the end of the day... its the same damned company.
Mine has spikes all over it. Wish it was smooth but I don’t even have the energy right now.
Hopefully the camera didn't get too messy with that intro !!
Oh, it was indeed a mess. 😂
@@TheFixerHomeRepair Is there a "behind the camera" video on the cleanup process 😂😂
Get a full face respirator, it's really nice for keeping all that garbage out of your face and doesn't seem to trap breath smell. Also when doing really dirty stuff a full suit with hood wraps around the mask really well and keeps your beard hair and clothes clean.
My 1st question is did the dog get mud on him?
My 2nd question is have you ever used a power drywall sander and does the power sander actually save time and your shoulders and arms. I know it may seem a stupid question
Hey!
1. No. 🤣 I made sure he was comfortably resting on the couch.
2. I actually bought a power sander to help because I am doing all of my ceilings eventually. I tried it out on a wall before the ceiling and quickly realized I will probably not use it on the ceiling. It just burns through the mud too quick and hard to control. I am sure people with years of practice with it could use it but I would rather take my time and do a nice job with the compound so I don’t have a ton to sand. That is the plan anyway.
Sanding
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I hate any kind of texture, on ceilings or walls. The result of skim coating is always satisfying but that dust during the sanding stage is so bad. Makes you wish you had that festool sander with attached vacuum.
"Did you do drywall today? There's white stuff everywhere?!"
😂 One of the few who will get the reference haha
my parents have that same texture. i called it records. because i thought it looked like records. now i call it perlage, because la dee da. oh la la. pearlahge.
I don't understand why anyone would put texture on ceilings and walls, here in the UK we have smooth walls and ceilings.
@@epk2027 Never had a problem painting my smooth ceilings. Just use a good paint roller. I could never live in a property with textured walls and ceilings.
It sucks that ALL your ceilings are textured, you seem to have a good sized house. A former house I owned had popcorn ceilings in every room. I lived there 15 years and never knew you could get rid of them. It wasn't something I looked into, the house was nicer than the place I lived prior so just accepted that's what it was. Years later after discovering HGTV and getting hooked on all the renovation shows discovered they could be corrected. The house I own now is a 1945 craftsman and all the ceiling are the original square tiles, probably asbestos, since the house is from that era. I have no plans on changing them except for the kitchen. The kitchen is a small galley style and want tin look ceilings.
😂❤
As God is my witness, I hate ceilings. This newbie WILL buy an electric sander because when it’s all new, nothing is really newer than anything else.
Oh, and Columbia makes a good 3” wide pole sander that does not easily flip over.
I’ve been working mostly with a hawk. On some days, the mud just drips to the floor despite the hawk being held level. The mud literally jumps off the ledge, I swear. Part of my issue is that both my hawk and my trowel are the same size (12 inch.)
Dumb question from someone who knows nothing about this. Why wouldn't you just sand the fan design down and not mud? I have these ceilings in every room of my house (and walls), trying to figure out if I want to update it or not.
Textured is so 70s lol
Blessings to you and your family in 2025, Matt. 🎉🎉🎉
Right now! 🫵🫵🫵. 😇