Joint Compound - Page 4 of 5

Simple Curved Corners
Bending plywood and joint compound make graceful curves in white walls.
Mud-bucket power station
Someone was always kicking my extension cord (and its four-outlet gang box) all over the job site. To make it easier for my fellow workers to see the sockets, I…
Mud-bucket toolbox
Joint-compound buckets are just too durable and plentiful to ignore as containers for carrying tools, but I've always been bothered by the way tools end up jumbled together in a…
Taping and Finishing Drywall
How to get smooth walls with minimum sanding.
Mud-bucket bench revisited
In the final phases of a building project, it seems like you can never have enough benches. The drawing shows how I assemble components that would otherwise be headed for…
Removing wallpaper paste
Here's a little trick I stumbled upon that is too sweet to keep to myself. After removing some heavy-duty wallpaper, which came away from the wall easily without the use…
Mud-bucket bench
Whenever I used to do finish work, I was always looking for a short stool, a concrete block or a bucket to stand on to reach a few pieces of…
Mud-bucket boots
A carpenter friend of mine doesn't have any trouble reaching a typical ceiling when he needs to install insulation, tape drywall, or nail on the crown moldings. As shown in…
Taping knife pans
If you're having difficulty finding a large enough pan for your biggest drywall taping knife, try a piece of vinyl rain gutter fitted with two end caps. In addition to…
Mud-bucket helpers
Recently I came up shorthanded on a job site where we had planned to lay a 3/4-in. T&G plywood deck. Knowing this can be a frustrating job even with help,…

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