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Originally Posted by bc-chris
to add to sa226...
back in my construction days i got to know a few of the guys in the drywall/mudding crew and probably the best advise i got from them was don't try to get the job done in "one mud application". expect 3 or maybe 4-5x of mudding/sanding. you get a lot better results with more "thin coats" rather than globing on a ton of mud with 1 coat.
kind of like painting - you get better results with multiple thin coats of paint a not one super thick coat
oh... and drywall/mudding sucks. not something i ever look forward to doing! ha!
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Definitely takes time. I did a small project and it would have looked good if I didn't need to be finished by a certain day. It was a pain in the butt to do but I'd do it again and I'd tell everyone in the house that they have to work on my timeline and be patient.
I'm totally patching and repainting the wall this spring/summer. I'm the meantime I tell people I was trying to make an artistic statement.