hey guys and welcome to Green Acre Homestead I'm Angela and we are doing a
mobile home renovation join us today as we do some drywall work with Bob from
the self-reliant Roadshow you got it so we're gonna do drywall huh yeah it's
my not so favorite thing to do in renovation but I want to show you a few
basic tips a few little things too that the old-timers have taught me over the
years to work smarter not harder and just a different way of looking at it so
with showing you how to do this let's start off real easy do you like to make
cake sure and what's the best part of making a cake eating it frosting and
that's exactly what we're gonna do today we're gonna show you how to do it just
like putting on frosting it's actually pretty simple and I'm just gonna show
you a few tricks as we go along and it's not very hard at all alright a couple
things basic tools that you need other than the drywall in the tape it just
depends on what you're doing is a stainless steel or a drywall mud pan and
I'll show you why a spatula or scraper now I get one here that's just a little
bit flexible you don't want it too stiff and you want it a little bit wide and
then I usually just get a 10 inch knife you can do just about everything with it
now when you buy these brand new they're straight and so what I do is and it's
probably hard to see but I put a I go up to a corner and I put just a little bit
of a bow in here all right the reason that I do that is is I want to be able
to go down through here and put just a slight crown to this that way when the
drywall mud dries it drives more flat and I'll show you more about that as we
go along a couple things as we're getting started here went ahead and put
some mud into the pan it's usually a little bit stiff when you get it from
the store and I'll show you how to make that consistency it's not real hard the
other thing is the salmon Angela are renovating their kitchen area so a lot
of this drywall is going to be covered by upper and lower cabinets so really
all we need to do is just go ahead and mud and tape the seams to keep to give
it more of a vapor barrier protection and then we're not gonna have
to really finish it all the way out like you would normal drywall once you get
you drywall mud into the pan you're gonna just use regular water you're not
going to use anything special but just make sure that it's room temperature you
just put a little bit in and then like I said once once you get it mixed up you
just want it to be about the consistency of cake frosting see how that looks like
frosting that's just about right let's apply our first coat on the seam put the
tape over then put the top coat on that
alright now that I've got a little bit about on here I'm just using that to to
stick the tape to the drywall then I'll even that out all righty having my belly
down just load up the trowel with just a little bit of mud on there and then go
across the mud put plenty of mud on and then you'll do a finish stroke at the
end
in this last part what we're gonna do is go ahead and cover up the screw and nail
holes a lot of times this is a great debate among drywall ders whether you
use screws or tails be honest with a weave use nails a thousand times over
people worry about pop outs it's not whether it's screws or nails it's a
depth of the recess what you basically want to do is the recess of sure nail
just deep enough that you have a small pocket to fill with drywall mud but not
so deep that it breaks the paper as long as it doesn't break the paper you're
good a couple places here where we missed just take a hammer and use the
head flat create just a small divot then you'd be able to fill it with drywall
mud and everything will be fine and that's what I'll do for the rest of
these if there's any nails that stick up the hit the scraper as we're going over
them I'll recess those just slightly and then everything can be good then you'll
have to worry about pop outs alright we got the first coat on everything's fine
looks good I will let that go ahead and dry and then we'll either hit it with
the second coat or go ahead and set cabinets we'll let that we'll let Sam
make that decision so time for cleanup
squeeze usually hit bear claws what we'll do next now we have the cabinet's
roughly put in place on a bed and measure and cut the hole for the pipes
that come through for the supply and drain lines of the sink we made sure to
get a sink base that's 36 inches wide and that's how why this window is so it
makes for a pretty easy reference so we're coming over 11 inches from the
right side coming out four and a half
here we go now I get a lot of questions about what
kind of to up and use them to use all these floor cuts and staple trims and
everything and the tool I use is what I love I've had this for probably about
six years it's a porter cable oscillating cut-off tool and the best
bits I found for this project are bi-metal carbide tip I'll put a link to
this tool and the bits I use in the description below for anyone who's
interested obviously I've used this a lot in this renovation I've had this
tool for a very long time and I'm extremely pleased with it
so I would definitely recommend it
it's not a perfect cut shape but the pipes themselves are not perfect shaped
either I purposely kind of kicked this back corner out because I know my supply
lines on that side and they kind of stick out a little bit all right I'll
try tilting it and feeding the supply lines through first all right I'm trying
to walk back over top of the drain line and that's it however I need to yeah no
that looks great this is just a rough test-fit of everything this is an
installation time just yet just want this to look pretty good for Angela when
she gets home from work in about any second this will also allow us to
measure and get a better idea of our countertop requirements
well you think guys doesn't look awesome well we're due for
Ansley the home from work any second now so I'll set the camera up we'll get her
first take on it and see how surprised she is yeah you can't marry Susan
hey that's the spot like you wanted which fingers so what do you think
they're pretty cool it is it looks great yep so you got four drawers here uh-huh
and you got one tool right there next the stove cool so why did you decide to
do the cabinet right here instead of leaving it no cabinet there yeah cuz at
the store if you bought five cabinets you got 10% discount that one was pretty
much free was it really that's why that's pretty good it's been
money saved money for plus that's a perfect cabinet for like your baking
cookies sheets or whatever they're called true and your large spatula
cooking utensils under there mm-hmm and it gives a nice balance I mean that's
how it kind of was and otherwise the stove was kind of like hanging out there
by itself and then that wall cabinet was kind of hanging hangings of it anchors
that it does hang good yeah nothing's locked down nothing's in place it's just
kind of set here I did cut the hole for the water line and drain line mm-hmm but
that's it the walls got a little bit more drawing to do with the joints so I
got it pulled off a long will be dirty okay we definitely get it together for
you so you can see you when you got home from work well it's wonderful it's a
great surprise to come home to you we've been throwing around some ideas on
to do for countertops will probably look on Pinterest and see what ideas we can
get but we'll keep you guys posted thanks guys for coming along as we did
some spackling and got our cabinets we'll see you guys next time bye
join us today as we do some drywall work with prep stutter Bob from the Reliant
Roadshow sulfur layers ah hey guys and welcome to the homestead
alright alright all the things as we're getting started here and when you get
old you need these treats just a small little sterling it's amazing how just
throw it some camera cameras
well geez I just lost what I was gonna say
yep don't know what else I guess I don't know I don't mean I am tired I think
it's it for tonight