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Dropped a full bucket of mud on a finished floor in a Richmond condo yesterday
I was working solo on a ceiling patch job in unit 407 and knocked my 5 gallon bucket off the scaffold. The whole lid popped off and splashed joint compound across 30 feet of brand new hardwood. Has anyone else had a disaster like that and found a quick way to clean it up before it dries?
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irisowens4mo ago
Scribble up every bit you can with a drywall knife before it kicks, that's the move. I used to think water and a sponge was the answer for everything, but then I had to clean compound off a client's engineered bamboo floor and watched it turn into a gummy nightmare. @nguyen.blake is dead right about that stuff finding cracks, I was still scraping residue out of the expansion gaps a week later. What actually saved me was hitting the spots with a plastic putty knife and a little WD-40 on a rag, then going back with diluted vinegar to lift the haze. Still took me two hours on my knees though.
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nguyen.blake4mo ago
That feeling when you're just trying to get through one job and the universe decides it's time for a test of your patience... joint compound has a way of finding every crack in the floor.
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the_wendy4mo ago
30 feet is brutal, that stuff finds its way into every little gap in the boards. I've had good luck scraping off as much as possible with a drywall knife before it starts setting, then hitting the residue with a damp rag and white vinegar.
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