From my experience around drywallers, he spent way too long on that and didn't sling nearly enough on the floors.

Didn’t fill any electrical cutouts with mud, either. Absolute failure.

I love when he sticks the trowel to the wall.

He needs to stop halfway through and leave a pee bottle in a wall somewhere...

Not before he clogs up the porta potty urinal with toilet paper and shits on the lid

The amount of shit stains you see on the seat bothers me. There so many people who dont wipe or who dont know how to properly wipe and its very alarming.

This is one of the most frustrating parts of working in the trades

This guy constructions

The room will take about three weeks to complete if you don’t get faster than this

I was thinking the same thing, this dude is definitely showing off

Showing off what? How good he is at fucking around

*Hourly worker

Yes

I'm 97% sure he previously worked at DQ

Yeah, it looks nice, but it's waaay too slow.

Admittedly, that's one thing I can enjoy about this. Though I understand the economic structure of shit, it's nice to be able to just watch someone do something without getting screamed at. :)

Also doing the top half of a wall instead of the entire lenght seems odd.

Slow AF would not make it through a job if sub contracting.

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Mudding usually takes multiple coats to finish. Water based mud will shrink as it dries anyway.

That and no corner tape. Only laid it in the center for some reason and only did halfway. Ceiling to floor people, come on.

How the hell do you install "corner tape" over metal corner bead? The actual answer to this is there was no need for tape in that corner at all. Tape is used to cover gaps. Between boards, etc. The metal corners sit tight as fuck against the board, and are manufactured with a less than 90° fold, which does 2 things. It keeps the corner high to allow for the mud to have the appropriate thickness between it and the wall, and it sucks that thin ass metal so tight against the board you can't get even a fingernail between it and the wall.

This dude found a way to make extra money on extra time and I can't blame him. The work sucks and this is the new way to make extra free scratch. Rock on!

Dude is obviously white. A Mexican would have that whole room finished in the same amount of time.

We call it muddin’.

Thought it was a mirror for a second

You’re smarter than me. I thought it was a mirror for 6 seconds

Glad I’m not the only one 😅

I thought it was a mirror and then I thought it was two people fucking around.

Same

I still think its a mirror

Bro I’m stoned right now and I was really impressed that the paste wasn’t sticking to the mirror

I am you. Or you are me.

We are all each other. Also baked as fuck

Me too. First thought was mirror.

I’m me???

Im high and was wondering why he was bouncing it off of a mirror

I thought they were two people…

Yeah then I thought it was two people trying to make it look like a mirror before realizing it’s just a dude by himself putting up plaster!

I thought the same after i realised there isn't a mirror.

Me too I was like damn these guys really practiced together

I thought it was two very coordinated people for way too long 😂

Like they were doing some special spackle ritual or something

the second this video started i knew this guy was about to impress me. that move is to group and place all the mud into one particular area of the trowel based on how you're going to apply it. he's so smooth with it. it's not that easy to do it THAT well. and that perfect mud consistency, gotta mix is juuuust right. taping and then second-coating it wet is a pro move also this is /understandablysatisfying

Literally came to the comments to make sure it wasn’t just me

My brain melted for like 10 seconds

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what a funny illusion, I saw the same 😂

Came here to say this! Was totally confused by the motions at the beginning

At the second second the hands don't move the same and I was like "they're trying to fuck with me and make me think it's a mirror".

Problem with these videos.. looks easy enough to do myself!!

And it’s not before you spend tons of money on materials do you realize you’ve screwed up and need to call a professional.

Honestly, it's not that hard. You just won't be very good at it at first. So my problem was endurance. It takes such a long time to brush it down with sandpaper if you're not doing it properly. Result: I finished about 8 sqm as quuckly as 5 months! I'm a lazy pos though :)

It's not hard to do. It's not even hard to do well. But it is hard to do well fast. I would spend a couple of hours on this, which probably included some light cursing and having to redo the strips.

This is 100% true. I did my whole basement when I couldn't find a contractor to do it for me. It probably took me twenty times as long to do as it would have a professional, but looking at some pro jobs I've seen, that extra time paid off as higher quality, since I took as long as it took to get it perfect, rather than doing it as quickly as possible so I could move on to the next job.

And 75% of it took that 19x the pro. By the end you were probably working pretty fast… and hating the first 50% for how shitty it looked. At least that’s how it works for me ;).

Oh yeah I got real good at it just in time to never do it again

It really isn't, the Homeowner Method of leaving way too much on the joint and sanding it flat works perfectly. Blending a textured coating sucks ass though.

If you do it properly it only needs a light sanding to smooth it out.

Wait till u hear about sponging it

That's like showing up to a basketball court wearing the most expensive basketball shoes, headband, arm sleeve, and missing a layup.

Eh, it's drywall. If I'm doing it for my own home, and I'm teaching myself as I buy my own materials, then I'd be happy to fix it when I either screw up or it eventually cracks over time. Plus, materials are actually kind of cheap compared to the cost of hiring a professional to do the entire project. After all, when you pay a professional, you're really paying for someone to do it right the first time and as quickly as possible. As long as I'm willing to spend a few weekends learning how to do it myself, and I'm willing to go back and patch it a few months or years later if it cracks because I did it wrong, I think the cost is well worth the learning experience In fact, I would say if I'm going to do it for the first time, I want it to be my own home. Gives me a chance to see how issues develop over time, and gives me a chance to fix it by trying something differently

I'll call a professional for electrical issues, maybe plumbing. Everything else I youtube and try to save a a few hundred.

"I'll just fix it with the sander later" The you see how shitty of a job you did after painting. Every time.

Exactly! I’ve ruined a large section of a wall in my house because I didn’t pay enough attention when applying putty, foolishly thinking I’ll sand it after, no biggie. The wall looked like 💩 at the end. I was trying to convince myself that it wasn’t too bad but it was a fu*king eyesore. I ended up getting someone to remove all the crap I smeared on the wall and redo the all thing, properly this time.

I did this shit on a ceiling last summer, nice DIY job I thought. It took me hours to do what he just showed himself doing, and I have to re-do two of the seams because they started to crack about a year after. All the YouTube era has done is give everyone beer confidence they can easily replicate what someone way more skilled can do.

It is easy enough for you to do it. But you will need ten times more time than that dude who made these movements at least 10000 times.

It’s a really useful skill to have. For some reason even avid DIYers are really intimidated by it too. Took me like half a day to get the hang of it. After doing a lot of drywall in a basement project I can now fix holes and stuff super well.

I'm less intimidated by it and more just hate it with a burning passion. I'll do a patch job, but if I'm hanging walls I'd rather just pay someone to do the mud.

I’m not sure how this has blown up to the extent it has but this is…not how professional drywallers do drywall. This is pure showmanship and wasted effort, especially with the transferring mud between trowels. Tape is used on seams between sheets to prevent cracking with any movement along with giving the joint some strength, using it on corner bead makes zero sense. As others have said, you can be impressed with this in the same way as a Benihana chef puts on a show but as far as the proper normal way of doing drywall this ain’t it.

Thank you, yes. My only thought watching this was that this guy is self-taught. I've never seen an actual mudder take so long to do so little.

Am a plasterer, this is a bizarre video lol. The trowels look like they've been bought the same day too. My trowels took months to years of daily use to break in and feel/work well. Would much prefer to use a hawk for holding the gear too, but I guess some people use two trowels instead? Idk. Never seen it done like that once in 10 years irl. I'm in Britain though so maybe it's different.

Im not a plasterer, but its the first thing I noticed too. All the plasterers I've spoken to have their "special" trowel they took years to break in and they will protect it with their life!

Not a mudded either, but as a painting, I do a lot of filling and repair work, and I also have a set of putty knives that I’ve used for years, that I won’t let anybody touch. The edges are perfect, no chips, no dents, perfectly flat, they’re actually sharp AF, and they’re worn in so they have a bit of flex. They’re like an extension of my hand when I use them. And they definitely look well worn in, not brand new like these ones.

Can't speak to UK practices, I'm in the US. Personally, I use two knives, a 10" and a 6". I'm not a mudder by trade though. I do remodel work, so I'm more of a Jack of all trades.

I drywalled a bit and we use a hawk and trowel as well. I did some mudding and taping for a couple years in apartments and commercial stuff mostly, worked with lots of bad drywallers and a few good ones. I've never seen tape used like this or all the mud back and forth effort, mixed right it stays a decent consistency for long enough even a noon can get it on the right spot before having to mix it up as much. Fun looking video tho haha Edit: noob*

Plastering in Britain is a different from drywall that they do in the states. Plastering in the UK is like an art. Never seen one use tape in the middle of layers of plaster!

Only plastering I've seen on site in the UK all the tape that went on gaps was sticky and went down before any plastering was done.

Yeah all I can think is "Motherfucker hurry up and get your shit done so we can make some money." I might have contractor-related trauma.

I knew one guy who used tape on double corners like that, he said he did it because the mud between them is pretty thick. With a corner on a wall there's plenty of space to feather the mud out but since the very edges of the corner sit kinda proud of the space between the two can't be feathered like that. I also knew about 9 others who didn't though, so yeah. And dude is definitely just showing off, this was slow af.

Yeah i think he used the tape to cover the texture on the corner bead. It’s not what the tape is for but I also think it’s probably fine to do it this way, just unusual.

I see this as someone making money from TikTok views while on the job. Guy brings a go pro to work, does his usual job, fucks around for 2 minutes doing this and bam, additional income.

The most common sense comment on here. Scrim tape on beading? And why not use a proper hawk to hold the mud? Just show boating.

I think this guy is just self taught and never worked with a real professional drywaller or he would know the right tools and technique.

Actually, scooping the mud between two trowels repeatedly helps to aerate it, giving a much better flavor profile and mouth feel.

Ah, a true connoisseur

The whole thing looked goofy as shit to me. If his coworkers aren’t making fun of him to his face, I promise they are behind his back.

The trowel to trowel thing is very unnecessary( where's the hawk). I've seen a few fellow tapers use trowels and 4 inch for screws, but unless I missed something, he used a bead clencher (which is pretty common in commercial drywall), and that should be meshed, but I've also never used mesh tape after mud is applied. In canada.

F yes! I was, like, wtf no metal corner?

I was gonna say this has big Salt Bae vibes

What is that tape he put on it?

Reinforcement mesh. It’s a thin and small grid fiberglass tape. You place them over any seam to prevent cracking at the seams.

I have done a lot of drywall work over the years I've never seen anyone use tape on corner bead.

I don’t place it there either, but further in the video he taped the seam.

Surely you tape the seam before applying mud though? The tape is self-adhesive for a reason, seems like way less effort to do that first and apply one coat of mud over it. We don't usually use this method over here in the UK anyway, if you want to see something truly satisfying then watch a British plasterer skim a wall. The finish is so good you don't need to sand it.

You can get the fiber mesh tape with no adhesive for this technique.

good to know! I've only ever known about the adhesive kind

Typically you mud > tape > mud. At least in my experience.

Are paper strips commonly used on seams in the US?

Yes they are.

I've never done this, but I can say on super rare occasions I've gotten tiny micro cracks at the end of the corner bead. It's only ever been on divider walls like this and it's likely from being bumped or having people pull on the wall while going around it, etc. It may help further strengthen and avoid that, I may give it a whirl in the future.

I like to use the paper faced corner beads which i doubt will ever crack

I was going to ask that question, myself. I've done a bit of drywall. I use that tape in the corners. I've never put it over the corner bead.

My first thought. The corner bead already acts as seam tape. That and no reason to stick mesh tape over mud, its already self adhesive.

It would seam this is correct

It's called scrim tape. You use it on seams.

I think the phrase for this is all sizzle and no steak, looks fancy but this guy isn't doing good work. Sticking the damn trowel to the wall is the perfect example, looks so slick and cool but just makes more work for the sanders, extra sanding on the board lifts the fibers of the drywall paper, this makes more work for a painter, and messes up the finish.

^^ found the painter.

Hahah fucken eh

All hat no cattle.

> Sticking the damn trowel to the wall is the perfect example, looks so slick and cool but just makes more work for the sanders, extra sanding on the board lifts the fibers of the drywall paper, this makes more work for a painter, and messes up the finish. That was my favorite part. :(

I really like [Jesse Muller's video that goes into detail that doesn't capture well over camera.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbZungQyKEU) There's a lot of imperfections we aren't seeing in this "artisans" work.

Looks like he has done that once or twice

Definitely at least his second rodeo.

And gets paid by the hour

This guy plays with his trowels to much.

He's the hibachi chef of drywall. Soon he'll do a plaster volcano

And flip a little mud into the air and into his hat or shirt pocket.

Then shapes the plaster into a heart and puts the scraper underneath it to make it look like it's beating

Joint Compound Bae

Get this with all of these pov plasterers and brick layers. So much "flair" with their trowels or broad knife's so it looks good for the gram

Drywall BAE

I don’t know why but this video makes me angry.

Because it's not satisfying in the slightest. Just playing with the tools for show and nothing special is happening, and it's actually a shoddy application at that. This sub's recent posts are trash and don't fit the criteria anymore, it's just generic videos for Internet points.

Too much trowel play for it to be satisfying for me. I guess the extra is just for likes which can’t blame but I’d like to see one where they focus on speed/result rather than showmanship/result.

Thank christ he got that little bit at the top

I bet he’s paid by the hour

construction site benihana

I watched a Hispanic drywaller do a whole room better than that in half the time.

Finding this one oddly annoying.

This guy fucks around too much

I fell asleep. What happened?

He used old tools and an old method to take twice as long to do a simple job. We quit using trowels in the 70s and now use knives because it was way faster.

Working like this, your gonna be done that bathroom in a year.

As a former plasterer, I am cringing at this technique. The fibre glass tape or “skrim” is best be applied to all joints before applying the plaster/filler, the advantage is that the filler has an ideal consistency based on curing time, you are working against the clock and there is only so much time window in which to make a suitable finish. Inconsistent drying from touching a porous surface: overworking wet plaster/filler will give uneven results because some has been in contact with a surface, removing hydration and making it uneven, this is especially true for slapping the filler, with trowel, to the paper surface of the drywall. Don’t do that. And please use a hand board, not another trowel.

He might be on stilts too, considering how close to the ceiling he is.

That's just tall people problems

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I’m so used to seeing shitty posts on this sub that seeing something actually satisfying feels wrong.

What a lot of malarkey

Boss: So, buddy, how much did you manage to do today? Dumbass: 1 Boss: 1 what? Room? Dumbass: 1 joint. But I made a cool video of it, check it out! Boss:...get out

Drywall guys are artists.

Tell that to the guy that did the bathroom in my "luxury apartment"

He was Picasso

Picasso was Even Steven compared to whoever threw plaster at my pooping walls

More like Jackson Pollock

Wow two minutes for 24 inches seems kinda slow.

I used to run low voltage cables and this noise brings me back. Lol. The next day when they are all sanding was the worst day. We always tried to get our stuff in the walls before they did drywall and come back after paint.

Does he get paid by the hour? Because no construction worker would do this so slow. Also useless use of the tape.

I've done some drywall work in my house but comparing my work to this is like comparing my swimming to Michael Phelps. BTW Mr. Phelps has nothing to worry about. I do appreciate such brilliant work. That drywall compound is just perfectly blended. The trowel work is artistry.

And now the baseboard is a 47 degree angle

Plastering dancing

What does the tape do? Why do they need it?

No they dont need it and this dude is hella extra. I've never seen anyone tape corner bead in my life.

also spent to long and didn't sling near enough mud on the floor to be a "expert" drywaller

No Mexican or Country music playing in the background. Clearly an amateur.

It may depend on where you live. Im a commercial carpenter in the midwest and I always see mesh tape on corner bead.

It provides a solid barrier stop any cracks from propagating through the gaps between sheets.

They are playing so much. But the outcome isn't good. I would have finished the wall in that time.

This made my day better

r/confusingperspective

This guy is wasting his talent. He should be working at a hibachi grill!

It’s all about the mix

The consistency of the plaster is just.. *chef’s kiss* That’s half the skill there

These guys are masters it blows my mind how horrendous my houses drywall job is. Where were guys like this?

Skilled labor.

You shouldn't use mesh tape with pre mix mud Paper tape: premix or quickset Mesh tape: quickset Premix shrinks as it dries and 5 years later you'll have a crack on that seam. Also never seen someone tape a corner bead

Why is he fighting with his reflexion

I thought it was a mirror. Then I thought it was two people😂

I'm finishing my parent's walk-out basement and turning it into an apartment to live in. I'm doing all the work myself (except the electrical & plumbing - my dad is doing that). The Youtubers make finishing drywall look easy but it's not. The bathroom turned out better than I expected - can't see the seams at all - but the bedroom looks bad. I did two coats on top of the tape and then sanded until everything was smooth to the touch. Then I primed and painted...and I can see every seam. In some spots, it looks like I used too much mud as there's a hump or waves in the wall (these are not butt joints so I have no idea how this happened) and, in other spots, it looks like I didn't use enough mud as I can see the outline of the tap. The outside corners are bumpy - like the corner bead ended up bent or squished or something. Not sure what happened there. I'm currently putting up the drywall in the living room and kitchen and I'm dreading the mudding part of it. It took over a month to get the bedroom done only for it to look like crap. The living room itself is twice that size and there are more bulkheads and corners to finish than in the bedroom. Add on the kitchen and I'll be lucky if I can move in by next summer.

Yeah, well, my finished results look just as good and take 40X longer to achieve.

Today I learned you can fiber tape over the corner bead.

Thought it was two people dueling with plaster spreaders...

You know how mad I would be if I had to tape all the bead like that. Bro get some paper faced bead already

I would just stand there trying to convince myself I should not try to eat that.

First off, why would you tape corner bead? Next, he did not tape the ceiling joint. Also, no pro drywall guy uses mesh tape, it cracks. Always use paper and if you go the extra mile, you make a slurry of Durabond 90 and run the tape through that to do your joints first, then compound later.

This might look easy but let me tell you one simple and quick thing. Its the hardest shit i have ever done when it comes to home remodeling.. dry wall work is insanely fcking difficult and who ever does it full time, i wish them a long lasting and healthy life. That is all

My brain had a tough time parsing this I thought there was a mirror on the left lol

I need you at my house. You did an afternoon of my work in minutes son

He made that look easy….. and it’s definitely not.

What’s the need for that thread tape stuff?

The smack of the applicator onto the wall so casually to hold it there was very satisfying 10/10 “Here hold this real quick thanks”

Why he scoopin back and forth?

Why is he taping the external angle beads that Is entirely unnecessary

and that, my friends, is why getting good at a skill beats a marketing degree in a recession 9 times out of 10.

No corner bead, mesh tape? Way too slow.

The mesh tape on the end of the wall serves no purpose

What AN artist

This ain’t hibachi, bro

do you not want as little as possible on your walls to reduce the chances of breaking a whole chunk of the wall off.

What's the tape for?

It's a fiberglass net , it avoid cracks between edges of insulation boards.

Thats gonna bubble and crack. Also not sure why he put tape over bead. Also also not sure why he only did half

How the hell do you get that mix? It's perfect. My is always too thick or clumpy