so i was putting up picture moulding today and reach over and lean on the sr and it feels pretty rough. so i run my hand over the wall and some spots are smooth and some are rough. now i used a new sr crew and they were very efficient, hangers did a nice job,covered the prerequesit number of boxes and didnt pull the vanity wires through, the next guys worked through the nigh or at least late into the night and trash everywhere. these are things i have come to terms with to a point. the hangers and the prelim mud guys were all hispanic. the owner and three other caucasion types cmae in and did the finishing. they used pc’s power sanders for all of the sanding. this is the first crew i have encountered who used these sanders , 2 or 3 sanders, im sure they sanded the inside corners and hard to reach places by hand.
so i ask my painter if she encounters a lot of this. she says somewhat, but before they had power sanders she said she never encounterd this problem, and she also said she used a sanding pole between coats.
my question to you is: do you encounter this much? and how do you deal with it?
I live on a small island so finding a good crew to come the island is kind of difficult.i intend to ask the owner, the next time i need sr job done, about these little dingleberrys and what his cure might be.
whadya think?
tyke
Just another day in paradise
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tyke, I have a finisher that uses the pc sander on occasion. Never left any rough spots. Could it be that they are trying to sand out the finish, and then roughing up the paper more? Either by grinding away or using coarser grit?
Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
Quittin' Time
Im a painter, and have followed many bid finishers who used a power sander. I usually put a bit of a buffer in expecting that the finisher will leave less then the job that I want to paint.
I did a hallway a bit back and the drywaller left half the thing undone, and circle pad marks in the spots he hit.
So I guess one way is to find a painter that would at least fix the problem if he comes across it, even if he adds it to his bill.
-zen
Does dingleberries refer to the walls or your finishers?
yestyke
Just another day in paradise
ha.
I think your guys have new sanders they are not expeirenced with, yet. They're oversanding and chewing the paper. Not good, but easily done with that thing in a rookies hands. All of this notwithstanding the fact that the perfect drywall finish seems to be like looking for the holy grail, and competition and cost drives the labor forces skill set ever lower. "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man." - Mark Twain
Yep same thing with us tile setters. Haven't found a concrete floor that was level nor a wall that is straight yet. Always having to clean mud and paint off of the floor before starting.
Had one job not long ago were the floor was so bad that one of the doors wouldn't open all the way before we started, let alone after we finished.
We also clean up after our selves too. Haven't had to come back and do that for a long time nor get docked from our pay for some one else to do it. But then it takes us a few minutes longer to do the job and we have been criticized for that.
Every body wants the job done right and want things clean when you leave. But they don't want to pay you for it to be done that way.I will always be a beginner as I am always learning.
couldnt have said it better myself
tyke
Just another day in paradise
We had trouble on a job where the drywall we had had streaks of the gypsum on the paper--like when it had gone through a roller at the factory that had gypsum on it and it just put these fairly uniform streaks of it. Not saying that was what caused your problem, just made me think of our probelem of getting that off the paper.
I think drywall is a medium that just sets u up for failure. " Here take this perfectly flat sheet ..nail/screw it up to another..cover the seams with mud.. and make it perfectly flat again so the rising sun or sconce on that semigloss paint looks flawless!" Rite!