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Had a humbling moment 3 years ago when I realized I'd been holding my taping knife wrong the whole time.
At a job in Tucson last week, a guy my age showed me a 6-inch taping trick that cut my corner time by half, and it made me wonder how many other bad habits I picked up from just rushing through early jobs.
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riverdavis4mo ago
@pat_moore Kyle's mud story hit close to home, we all have those blind spots.
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juliarodriguez4mo ago
Did that with tile adhesive once. Had to chip it all off.
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susan_adams4mo ago
Your buddy mixing mud backwards doesn't really matter though. I've dumped powder first for twenty years and a drill with a paddle mixer handles lumps just fine.
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pat_moore4mo ago
My buddy Kyle spent two years drywalling basements before somebody at a job site finally told him he was mixing mud wrong. He was dumping powder in first then adding water, which made it lumpy every single time. The whole crew just watched him struggle for months cuz they thought he knew what he was doing. He said he felt like an idiot but honestly it happens to all of us when you're just trying to get shit done.
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