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DIY. Completed all paneled walls in a manufactured home....the hardest thing was to make the wall have even amounts. The walls do look like drywall now but lots of sanding and reapplying to even out the build up. This process looks easier to do the ceiling...glad I found this. YES, I would rather have drywall but at 66yrs old the compound was able to be purchased, transported in my small car, carried by only me, and completed at my own pace.

I'm a carpenter/ handyman. I've been doing drywall repairs and drywall installation. I've applied textures using a technique very similar to yours. These have always been on fresh drywall though. I have NEVER retextured over a previously textured wall before. This video has helped me out BIG TIME on how I am going to retexture my folks popcorn walls. Thank you very much Paul and much love from Southeast Texas

This retired-female-whose-dad-did-everything-except-teach-his-daughters-how-to-everything thanks you many times over. Your video makes it look do-able and like I could really finish this. I've spent days removing the texture that was painted before I owned the house 25 years ago. Now, I am happy to learn I don't have to finish de-texturizing the bathroom! I can see a few sloppy days ahead of me as I haven't done this before. Yeah, kind of naive, but I'm determined. Thank you.

We’ve kinda been thrown into a handyman/maintenance/fix all job to a 100 year old renovated hospital. It was renovated and made into apartments in the 80’s and nothing was done consistently. It’s a huge paya! Thank you for these videos!

You are a drywall god. Thank you for making my DYI drywall repair simple and quick to finish. I actually used your method to add texture rather then remove it as only 1/2 of a bathroom wall and a portion of the ceiling was repaired and mud smooth. 🧎🏽‍♀️

Paul. THANK YOU! my wife and I just bought an older house and has this textured wall on it. we used this technique and it worked like a charm! Thank you for your great informational Video!!

DIYer gone wild. I started one room the next thing I knew I was removing cabinets and installing flooring; didn’t realize that I wasn’t that good of a sander until I started painting.

I like how you use the drill to mix it, very savvy technique! You are so gentle with your scrape away! I agree, 2nd coats are so much more forgiving! My husband is a property manager and usually deals with a few water leaks a year with his clients. Some are so good you can't even tell where it starts or ends. It's really an art 👍

Bought a house a year ago and tolerating the heavy knockdown on every wall and ceiling. I can’t stand it and now I think you have become my teacher on how to fix it. Well explained, easy procedures are a key. I will watch your other videos. Thanks!

Paul, I've been painting for over thirty years, my painting game is pretty good but you've definitely have me stepping up my drywall game. Thanks for these tips and videos!

I’m a homeowner trying to fix a messy wall after I removed wallpaper. No clue how to do it, so this video series is fab! Thank you for detailed explanations. I greatly appreciated the visual list of tools and materials needed. Perfect!

Complete beginner finishing a bathroom by myself (40 year old woman with disabilities) and I absolutely adored this video!! Transitioning to the ceiling that already had texturing will be so much easier with the roller trick! Thank you thank you

I’m a 60 yr old female , kinda handy Trying to skim coat and repair my whole house after 35 years of neglect and some sagging issues

DIYer. Bought an old home with orange peel walls and hoping to skimcoat them on my own. Your videos give me hope.

I'm a painter / carpenter , I love this type of work all ways looking to stay busy doing this kind of work , I've been working for years and and im always looking for new work . .great job ,preparation is the key .

I don't know anything about the home improvement, and this video gives me a hope. Thank you.

Thank you so much! This video convinced me to just do shiplap to cover my textured dining room 😂 but it was awesome to watch. So much work goes into this and your little tips on where to apply pressure helped me with painting! I was constantly leaving lines but not anymore. Thanks so much for your videos!

I'm actually a cabinetmaker, but I enjoy skimming a wall or two once in a while. I will try the roller method next time I do a wall. In the past, I've used thick mud and a wide knife to get it on the wall faster.

I used this technique to make a seamless coat on a cyclorama wall in my photography studio. Worked SO well!!! Thank you!!!

DIYer here. Can't wait to get rid of my textures walls

I'm a 68 year old handy woman who is redoing a home and apartment that I will be starting over in. I have to do this as economically as possible.. thank you for making such a helpful video!

I’m a Handyman, I do a lot drywall repairs and texture. Always looking to improve my skills and your videos have helped me tremendously! Thanks 👍

I am so grateful for this. I've been cramming my brain trying to figure out an inexpensive way to cover ugly walls and ceiling in a house I've purchased and the full restoration has been intense!!!

Dryer fixing up my sister's house from 1963 before moving on to working on our childhood home from 1974. Lots of fun to be had! Sisters house hasn't had any updates except storm related window, siding, and roof replacement, other one has new exterior and new electric box. Fun fun fun!!! Much love from Oklahoma!

I use your tips as a homeowner. I have done so many repairs since watching your videos.

The scooper is like my favorite knife! Love that thing!

Thank you!!! I just bought a house and EVERY wall has this ugly textured wall. I thought I’d have to rip them down. It’s going to take forever but I’m so happy to find this video!

Thanks for sharing your knowledge! Bought a house 900 miles away during the pandemic. Turns out all of the walls are textured. You're giving me hope!

Hi Paul. I am a DIY’er. Just wanted to thank you for the video. This was a game-changer for an entire bedroom where I am finishing the walls. Mudding and skimming is definitely harder than it looks. Like a lot of things for me, learning as I go and tips from pros like yourself to keep improving!

I spent about 15 years doing drywall, trim and paint. I now have a cushy job with the state but still enjoy home projects. Also enjoyed the video.

My garage drywall was painted without primer. Now it’s peeling all over. After I scrape it this will take it from ugly to awesome! Thank you!!!

I’m a general contractor and I normally put my mud in the pan and apply it to the wall. I used your method and it went great. Thanks for the tip.

DIY ,thanks for this video, I like paying pros whenever I can but sometimes money is an object, very informative

Wow!!! This is so cool. It is like it is just like magic. Thank you so very much for sharing your skill set with us.

Middle-aged DIYer. My home has smooth walls and I need to do some sheetrock repairs. I'm also gonna skim coat all my popcorn cielings. Thanks for all your great & EZ to follow videos! 👍

Nice work. I've used the roller for texturing before but never for skim coating. Skimming texture i typically use a drywall sander to knock it down and pull a tight skim with a 10" to fill voids, no thinning. Final coat with a 12" and mist wall as I skim.

I'm an elder woman with crappy walls in my bedroom,, so after re-taping and fixing the holes, I want to change the texture from 70s textured to something exciting (since I'm an artist and was thinking about adding designs and graphics..)

I do the same for a living and love watching how other people do things

Contractor- tryed this for 1st time last year, GAME CHANGER!!! Best results half the time

I was a full time Hanger, now a Handyman trying to learn some new tricks of the trade. Very good tutorial 👍

Great idea. You’ve just saved me a days work. Thanks!

Great how to video. One thing I'd recommend for a beginner watching. Green lid mud is great for taping and applying some corners. But for skimming I think beginners should use purple, red or blue lid mud. These are formulated as mid and light weight compounds. They shrink less and sand even easier than green mud. Green mud shrinks more then other compounds and it's harder to sand

Worked great. I did a full ceiling that we stripped the popcorn before hand. Spent the money on a wen 9in orbital drywall sander with dust collection system. Saved me a lot of work.

Thanks for this. I am rehabbing an upstairs of a 100+ year old building. I have always done work like this for others as a subcontractor of sorts, usually very good results, but for slave drivers. This job it is all me, and I am out of practice. I had a few ideas of my own to try, and this video showed them to be valid. The only thing I did not get (and now probably will) is the roller grid for the bucket, I was just using a paint roller tray. You mentioned taking out the lines later with a six inch knife, which will work, but I saw and bought a knockdown knife that I tried out and it is super. Not only does it flex to keep you from putting on too much pressure, but there is also a hole in the handle for an extention pole. This is great, because the building I am doing has 10 foot ceilings.

You my man are a steeley eyed drywall man that is the easy way no more messy hopper for me thanks

Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I am a DIYer and needed this tutorial. I am in the process of finishing up skim coating my moms bathroom.

I think most ppl watching are amateurs trying to learn how to DIY because I know I am. Thank you sooo much

I'm a DIY'er raised & taught by my father a Gen Contractor & my mother, an Artist. I've done a lot of drywalling, painting, plumbing & electrical & also some mural painting. I recently did a venetian plaster look on my bedroom walls & it looks great. Anyway, that's my story. Thank you for sharing your expertise. I know this info will come in handy!!

I'm going to attempt a DIY on a small powder room. Wish me luck!

Paul, My wife and I just moved into a new home last August. We have a full, un-finished basement that we want to finish. We'll do it a little at a time as finances permit. We're both retired so time is no issue. I've pretty much finished up the framing, so drywall is next. The garage, however, is drywalled, and taped, but no texture, so I'm going to practice the texture in the garage first. I worked construction most of my life, from housing to power plants and refineries, mostly plumbing and pipefitting. I've seen a lot of joint and texture work, but actually done very little myself. I want to do a decent job on my home so I looked up your video. I find it excellent instruction, and it answered some of the questions I had. I'm confident that I can do a decent job, thanks to your easy to follow instruction. Thank you.

The mixing is oddly satifying, wish I'd seen this video a few months ago! I just noticed the last comments on these were quite a while ago. Thank you for leaving them up!!! Great help for a DIYer in AK, I bought a little cottage built in 1947 that was built by a DIYer after WWII, and it's been a project. I love this little house and want to do as much as I can to fix it so it never gets torn down to make ugly apartments. Can't wait to try this in the ARCTIC entryway...

hi paul was sent over from blood x and glad he did because man my house is old with horrible older looking wall so this is actually very helpful for me!! Of course Im not going to do it myself lol but Im totally gonna get my husband to try this! thanks for sharing!

Can you use this technique on semi gloss painted textured walls? Great video!

Contract and DIY it’s so satisfying to mix.

I'm just a DYI'er. I removed an intercom unit from the wall and now have to patch and texture the hole. Thanks!

I’m a Handyman. I was a journeyman glazier for 15 years but the last few years I’ve been doing the self employed handyman thing. I’m always looking to pros like yourself for helpful tips and tricks

Daughter and grandaughter of 2 of the best drywall men there ever was or will be....lol Thanks for sharing, kinda made me want to go back to finishing again, it has been a few years for me, but Im sure my 6 inch will still fit my hand perfectly. I can knock them walla down like no other....lol

For a homeowner you are saving a lot of time for us. Thank you sir

DIYer. Framing, carpentry, design, electrical, painting, tiling, sewing, small drywall repairs, plumbing....always looking to up my game and learn from professionals.

Do you prep the wall by sanding before doing the skim? Or do you just start right away? A house we may be purchasing has a bit of textured walls and I'd want to redo most of them and get them smooth. Also around how much does that compound cost, and how much does a bucket do?

Paul always love your videos and Thanks much for doing this for all us DIYer's out here I and everyone else greatly appreciate what you do! - I have an entry way that was plastered back in the 40's with a texture I just hated so I applied 90 min mud to smooth out the wall initially and to cover my repairs to some joints and a hole that was caused by ripping out an old shelf that was attached into the wall. This was my first time ever trying this and allowed me to practice with a taping knife in applying mud. Still learning knife technique but it's come out great to this point. So now I want to roll on the first smoothing coat with the USG GP mud as you used but one of the wall has an Octagonal window and I am wondering what is the best technique for working around this window so I don't get all sorts of lines and messiness going on around the window frame and it all ends up looking uniform? Would you work around the window first and then work out from there? Thanks again Paul and appreciate any suggestions on working around an octagonal window!

Thanks for the excellent instruction! You sure made it look easier than it is, but with practice, my repairs came out great!!

retired commercial construction suppie, we used to use set 45 dry mix for skim coating, troweled on, then just as it is setting up spray lightly with water and finish trowel. we used plastering trowels for finishing

DIYer. Trying to fix up my new home to perfection!

Paul, first thanks for the subscribe 🙏... that was super cool 😎. I love this trick and it is super easy to “understand” how much mud to start with. Biggest thing I’ve learned with drywall is that if I am patient my work looks much better. Thanks for sharing and great work! #drywalltube

Great info!! Thanks I have textured walls and ceilings hate them. We tried to remove it and it was a total mess. your way was much better!

I appreciate that this video is really detailed. We just bought a house that has a light orange peel texture that wasn't done very well. I'm looking forward to trying this. This will be my first time trying skim coat, but we have a small bedroom in the back of the house where I'm willing to test it and learn the technique. Out of all of the videos I've watched on skim coating, this is hands-down the best one. Thank you for all the information!

I buy and renovate houses in Philadelphia and then rent them out. Most have old plaster and lathe that need at least a skim coating or more repair.

My entire upstairs was done with popcorn walls and ceilings! My goal is every day off to do as much of the walls as possible with this technique. Fingers crossed looking at a long project but the outcome is so worth it!

I'm a painter I'm refreshing up on the ways of doing things right, as years go on I tend to just keep using short cuts that work but maybe should not be using so it's nice to do a refresh course

I've been watching these videos all morning, yours is the best I've seen, a lot of ppl do not know what they're doing and have poor technique. Thanks!! I'm doing this over drywall in new rooms, I'll let ya know🙂

Should mention a 2nd bucket in the list of tools. :)

I would like to do this on some walls in my house that have already been finished and painted for a long time as it's an old house. The walls have a lot of patch marks and holes, etc. in them. Do I need to sand the wall before doing this?

I'm a painting contractor. I'll do some basic prep with Joint compound. I've patched many holes in walls; for this I use 20 minute mud. The key is knowing how to mix the powder with water, as it has a tendency to set up quickly. The results are excellent; the finished product doesn't shrink, and is hard as a rock. Like anything new, It a little takes time to be proficient. Thanks for your post; I'm going to follow your process!!

Nothing is more beautiful than a hand filled and hand sanded wall to a perfect smooth finish. Followed by a beautiful flat pastel color paint. With fancy moldings painted gloss white and smoothed out with caulking. The end result is fantastic. Hard work though.

I'm a electrician who likes to leave a job better than I found it .

I swear you've done this trick a dozen times now -- am I going crazy?? That said -- killer shoes!

I'n a DIY'er and watch all your vid's. I am removing all the popcorn sprayed concrete ceiling in a condo I rent out. I used this technique in the closet first and it worked great. I scraped off texture, cleaned concrete with ammonia as recommended by primer, primed with bin shellac based primer and rolled on all purpose. But I used the Marshalltown 22in knockdown knife I got at L***S. It has a rubber blade and with a slight learning curve I think it works great with the wide blade. 2 coats with light sand in between them and very smooth flat results. Thanks for all the great info on the vid's, its provided the confidence to attempt a rather intimidating job for me.

Thank you for your awesome detailed in all of your products used including the mixing of the compound.

Widow...now a dyi. I wish I had helped my husband more!

DIYer. 2 questions: When doing larger walls, does the whole wall need to be coated before skimming? Or can it be broken into sections? Also, I have a 40yr old home and I can look around and see all the joint seams due to age and sagging (which makes it handy because I know where the studs are!). Will skimming cover that up? Will it just return in a few years? Thanks!

I'm a do it yourself kind of person and really i appreciate your videos fir the content. I'm doing my bedroom my wife wanted textured 5 years ago and now can't stand it, go figure. Well thanks for all the great advice and techniques they are certainly not falling on deaf ears.

DIY'er. Thank you for the video! Made the mistake of believing these patch kits actually work. Then found good information on being patient to get the job done right and smooth!

DIY’er. My house was flooded and doing everything myself

Scrolling the comments to see if anyone else noticed those nice new sneakers he was wearing.

watching as I am preparing to texture a tiny house ....great info for tyhis DIYer

Maintenance Technician, in a cabinet factory for years, so of course I'm an amateur electrician, welder, plumber, fire inspector, always doing the safety guy's job (who doesn't in a production plant, except for the safety guy!). Spent 23 years in the Navy so I'm a jack of all trades, I would always kind of laugh I've floated ceilings that looked like a snake before starting, walls that have never seen a square or plumbob, in Louisiana growing up in that swamp climate in Southern Louisiana, any piece of your house gets a leak, which is highly possible that climate will eat and you if not careful! So I've never done this before, I'm not a painter by trade, I'm probably better than 60%, of the population, but a professional knows what he doesn't know and more importantly what he needs to learn and from whom! You're only as good as the people in the room are, listen to idiots and you'll most certainly become one! Luckily sometimes moronic state is transient and smart people can recover some others are born to be stupid! ***only one observation from one professional to another....invest in a light stand! Thanks and makes perfect sense. I thought I was doomed to those ugly knockdown walls and ceilings, I hate them son of a bitches! My eyes over 50, years of working mostly nights and using Night Vision Devices (NODS/MVGS), although the GEN III are monocular, the last 8 years I was in and I used them in Afghanistan as well as other locations in Latin America. Those freaking binocular GEN I and II from the 80s and early to mid-90s after around 3 - 7 hours your eyes would be fucked up for hours. It manipulates light and angles so imagine how that must be bad for you, no depth perception with GEN I and IIs! Ok enough BS'ing for the night!

Coved 19 pandemic I trying open painting company.

Paul, I am a homeowner-DIYer. I like the demo of skim coating with a roller, I'll check the others out as well but in the meantime, this seems like something that could be done on a ceiling, no?

Great teacher ....step by step...I am a contractor ...late in the game older dude....right tools ... right technique ...

The more I watch your videos, the more confidence I get in doing my walls. Thanks for sharing. DIY here.

Painter/handyman.. Dallas Texas

Can I use this process on textured ceilings to smooth them out

Thanks for answering my question Paul

Walls are prepped and about to try this method.

Im a DIY’er, just bought a home and very much dislike the textured walls.

Hi I’m an astronaut - going to try a skim coat on my shuttle tiles as they are loosing their efficiency on re-entry 😉

A DIY'er trying to get rid of old knockdown texture. Thanks for the video.

So glad I came across this video thank you for the tips.