In Episode 5 of the "How to Finish a Basement" series, the focus is on drywall installation techniques to transform an ...

Question: I am ready to put up drywall in an at-home office for my business. I have put up drywall before to divide one large bedroom into two, but the joints look bad. This room must look better ...

If you scrape the surface clean in an area, reapply compound, because the paper tape won't stick to the paper-covered drywall without compound. Once the compound is smooth, cut a piece of joint ...

taking care to use only as much mud as necessary to fill the joint and bed the tape. Mudding drywall can be messy, difficult, ...

Bradley Ford First I laid down a bed of joint compound across the seams of my large patch. Then, I cut strips of the tape to length for each seam. Next, I used a 4-inch drywall knife to press the ...

You want the same 1/16 inch of joint compound between the tape and the drywall. I use a 5-inch-wide flexible taping knife to do this. You need to round off the corners of a new knife with a metal ...

drywall joint compound (“drywall mud”), tape, sandpaper, dust mask and screws, to name a few. Once you understand the overall process and have everything you need, you’re ready to repair the ...

Small holes are quick and easy to fix with joint compound and a putty ... (smaller than 6 inches) Piece of drywall, drywall compound, drywall mesh tape, mixing pan (unless you use ready-made ...