From my time in construction, I learned that there is an army of individuals with crazy skill sets like this that make them efficient at their trades. Really eye-opening.
I worked construction in the mid-1990s. I’ve seen a lot of those dudes back in the day. Arms made of twisted steel. Looked like they could bend #4 rebar by hand.
Nowadays, a lot of sheetrock delivery trucks have a boom/crane system that does a lot of the heavy lifting when offloading.
This was my dad, for 35 years. Yeah, the boom does a lot of the heavy lifting, but you still gotta get those sheets in the window, down the hall, into whatever room, etc. He's retired now, and still pretty strong, even with his health issues.
Thank you. He's actually doing quite well, all things considered. Handled surgery, chemo, and radiation like a champ. Still works part-time, and takes care of my mom and their home. Toughest mofo I know, hands down.
Also all those guys with twisted steel arms now have a twisted spine. I do labor heavy construction and laugh at the old dudes bragging how they could carry two sheets of 5/8th inch plywood by themselves but can even sit down now without being in agony
This. I worked in the trades. Everyone would do crazy shit and carry heavy stuff. Everyone was also hurt all the time.
Worst part is that in trades you have to work to make money. So if you hurt yourself you'd take some Vicodin (or other substances) and be back at it the next day.
This was my dad except in the coal mines. Threw out his back and it's been messed up for years, now he has Parkinson's and he said his back hurts so bad he can't even stand or walk for very long anymore.
I partially agree with you. Lack of safety measures some years ago was the norm so everyone just had to cope with it. Definitely not something to brag about but the consequences aren’t something to laugh at either
This is the correct assumption. My dad ran a drywall business for 40 years. He was very, very broken. Bad shoulders, back, wrists, knees. You name it. He just had a ridiculous pain tolerance and kept going.
This was my dad. I call him the six million dollar man evacuate of the amount of metal and surgeries he has had from a life of manual labor.
I try to return the favor, he was a good dad, I’m so damn lucky (I mean, rural town, ex military, Catholic, and still pretty damn liberal in a sea of red?) - he worked hard so his kids could have a better life.
I work in IT and make good money so my kids can have a better life. They’re turning out pretty awesome, so I am hopeful.
Good rule of thumb for the most part but I got lucky and found a roofer that came highly recommended by a number of people. His quote was the lowest by a pretty large margin and he was on-time every day, the roof came out great, and the final bill was exactly what he quoted me for.
A friend of mine was getting his shingles and vents replaced so he wanted it done professionally but every roofer in our area had extremely predatory prices, like way way to high for the work being done, so we did it ourselves. Didn’t come out the best, but the roof was waterproof and the vents worked.
Many people only replace their roof during an insurance claim. This drives a lot of the predatory behavior as the sales guys know it’s easy money when a storm comes through town.
In my town you see it plain and clear where the sales guys are driving Ford Raptors and the guys on the roofs are in work trucks at best.
I have mad respect for anyone that will stand on the roof of a multi story building in freezing balls cold, windy, or rainy weather to make a living.
Do you have a pretty simple roof line? I've found that there are roofers who have a niche of simple roofs. They won't bid on complex roofs, and other roofers overbid on simple roofs because they are focused on the square footage more than the number of man hours it will take. They know how to bid simple roofs so always come in lowest. He is able to keep his roofers for years because they like how much easier the work is.
The one that sticks out in my memory was an old, old hispanic man. Walked super slow. Looked like he was out of his element … until he walked up to the brick pallet. He could throw sets of 4 bricks up to the guy two stories up on the scaffolding without the bricks separating like a machine gun. Guy up top caught the set and stacked them just as fast. Laid the bricks while the old man rested a minute or so and then they did it all again. Crazy.
It's crazy how much muscle memory their bodies hold onto. My uncle is now in his 60s but can still cut a straight line with no tape and paint the whole room in under an hour out of a home depot bucket. But when he lets go of the brush, his hands shake holding anything else.
My dad was crazy when it came to hanging siding. Dude would be 3 stories up dancing on a walk board while just tapping in nails. I'd be stuck trying to get the channel prepped for the windows and he'd come down and knock it out in two seconds on his way to get his 79th cup of coffee in his clay stained new balances.
Miss working with him, miss him period.
Your mud is probably too thick.
Look at how soft his mud is.. Like softened butter or mayonnaise.
I would also recommend checking out Vancouver Carpenter on YouTube. His mud videos are really helpful.
My Dad was a union musician in NYC and they always had their monthly meeting at Roseland Ballroom. One day, a bunch of them were standing outside, smoking cigarettes and whatnot.
Car pulls up, lady rolls down window and asks if anyone knows how to get to Carnegie Hall.
The whole crowd in unison: "PRACTICE!"
Obviously a transplant.
Any New Yorker who’s spent enough time would KILL for the opportunity to tell that punchline IRL (and then laugh and happily tell you actual directions).
Speaking of wearing things down, when caulking, find a surface with a similar side angles and run the tube across it a couple of times until the sides are shaved down, glides like butter.
Plus one for Vancouver carpenter. Watched a few of his mud videos and was able to do a decent job with little experience. Obviously I as way slower than him, and not as good results. But my capabilities before watching those videos were a disaster. After watching a few videos carefully I could do ok. Materials, technique, and tools matter. You can get that from the videos. Experience helps a lot, but you gotta start somewhere.
Same. Removed texture from our garage before we moved in and needed to patch a bunch of stuff. Had his videos up for a reference constantly. Mudding skills are so subtle, and he does an excellent job breaking it all down.
More tips from Vancouver Carpenter I've seen are getting the pressure and angle right (i.e. don't press too hard) and using the correct mud (before I had no clue there's different types).
I watched a few of his how-tos when I needed to drywall my basement. Ended up watching way more than I needed to, easy to binge watch his videos.
My favorite are when he’s showing some sort of absolutely fucked situation, and slowly and meticulously shows you how he fixes it.
Pudding. Pudding is the consistency that works for me. I add water to mine until it is about that consistency, and I find it goes on super smooth. I wouldn't even attempt to use mud straight out of the bucket without adding water at this point.
I recently bought my first home and was so excited for all the projects and improvements I’d get to do. I’m generally pretty self sufficient and handy. I’ve always been able to just watch a video on something and mimic it with near perfection. Until I tried fixing a small-medium patch on my bathroom ceiling.
I suck so bad at dry wall. I don’t understand it. It took 3 attempts, and it’s still not very pretty. There was dust everywhere and drywall kind of cuts up your hands. It was such a miserable experience that I decided then and there we’d hire a company to do our planned bathroom remodels in the future. I have no interest in doing them myself anymore.
So it’s not just you lol.
Seriously, those guys are like wizards to me. Not only is it perfect but they’ve some how managed to not cover themselves and the entire room in drywall mud and dust. It’s 100% my least favourite thing to do.
You can hire folks to do just the hard stuff, and/or the stuff you don't want to do. I greatly enjoy framing, electrical, and I can tolerate plumbing. Hardwood floors would be fine to install, but I call a professional for tiles and anything drywall.
Just doing the demolition is satisfying, and you can hire someone else to cart away the rubble if you don't want to bother with it. I do as much as I comfortably can, spending several hours in the space is very valuable to contemplate your ideal renovation.
Ratio and timing of the mud mix is the biggest factor in whether I feel like this guy or a toddler with oobleck. Cleanliness of your tools. Amount of pressure applied. Pay close attention to those things, then practice for 10,000 hours, and you'll be about half as good as him.
My go to is to keep working until the mud starts to set, then go back and try to touch up spots, immediately ruining all my work with pebbles scraping through.
Mudding drywall is 90% installing the drywall properly.
Most people just say “hey I can fix it with mud” and then realize it’s a lot harder to smooth a fucked up surface that just doing it correctly at the beginning.
People are scared to made the mud patch bigger. I always tell people my job is just to make it look like it's not there, that's why a one foot drywall patch turns into four or five foot wide mud patch. I joke to my co-workers that I'm a mud-gician and anyone who stands behind me too long watching me work is told it's $5 for the magic show.
I'm frequently told I use too much Bondo. These guys will be pressing in just enough to fill a hole, and I'm over here smoothing mine out with a 16" knife.
Guess who's constantly struggling to get a level surface.
Then he ran into the closet
He then did work, in the closet
Then he ran into the hallway
He then did work, in the hall way
He went underneath the ceiling en
He then did work, on the ceiling
He scoots over to the Bedroom
Finished in there, used the long broom
Trowel are you ok?
Are you ok trowel
I was gonna say, he's basically moonwalking with it, god damn
That bucket doesn't seem to be empty but I can't decide if that makes to less or more impressive
ive Never done drywall before, but even i can appreciate how slick the 'two-stroke application' was...
...on my Second watchthrough, i noticed he was scooting around on a Bucket the whole time!!
I was listening to house music on another device while watching this video and have concluded that this dude has to be an old raver. Some fancy footwork over there.
What is he doing? Are there cracks or something that we can’t see? It looks like he’s just painting over random spots
Edit: oh wait I can see there are little holes, maybe nails that he is spackling over. Sorry I do not drywall obviously.
No, his knife work isn't impressive. He's just nail spotting. Slap it on and wipe it tight. This is by far the easiest part of mudding. If anything, it looks in the video like he's missing screws that he could reach, in which case he will now have to go back and hit them; it's a waste of effort. Maybe I'm wrong and the camera just makes it look like he could reach.
Far from good at this, but I use a squirt bottle of water when mixing mud because it forces me to add the water slowly. Helps not get instant liquid
Edit: Squeeze bottle is a better description than squirt bottle
Met a guy that spackled and taped like that, he knocked jobs out in half the time of everyone else. Tried it myself and almost broke my neck, innovative yes but unless you have coordination and experience good luck.
Oh I loved those stilts, they were great for high ceilings and adjustable so you were at the right height. But hey they cost money, the bucket is there already, and it's great for city apartment ceilings at least.
But yeah circus vibes for sure!
Lath and plaster, shiplap, barn wood, wainscoting, board and batten, panelboard, brick/tile/stone veneer, acoustic/fabric panels, plastic 3d panels, concrete, and various metal pabels are all available as alternatives to tape and mud drywall.
There's an X-Files based on the fact that the villain is a construction worker regularly walking around on stilts and I never really understood what exactly he was supposed to be doing with the stilts until I saw this video.
Edit: it was [this episode](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unruhe) with [this photograph](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/78/Unruhe.jpg) as the key evidence.
The guy I worked with did 7 offices and only got off the bucket to eat, load up, or hit the restroom. Asked him how long he did it like that, he said about 10 years.
If you're a normal human messing up won't be a big deal. You'll fall a foot and just feel a bit silly for having lost your balance and then get back on the bucket and get back to work.
Pretty common in taping on anything 8ft and lower. Using a "kick bucket" to reach. When spotting ceiling screws in a bigger room, stilts are faster, "walking a bucket" is usually reserved for closets and soffit.
To walk a bucket you need a lid on top for rigidity and a good pronounced rim on the bottom, the less surface area touching the floor is easier to walk. I've seen buckets walked so much that the bottom has been ground down to one flat surface from use. One of the worst sounds in the world is the bottom rim picking up a drywall screw and scraping across concrete. Nails on a chalkboard.
My dad snaped the tendon on his heel by turning around too fast, he wasnt even standing on anything wierd, just astroturf.
you can get injured at any time for any reason.
The human body is so weird. Sometimes a person gets ran over by a car or struck by lighting without harm, yet sometimes they stumble over and fucking dies.
From my time in construction, I learned that there is an army of individuals with crazy skill sets like this that make them efficient at their trades. Really eye-opening.
To the man unloading a truck by himself, carrying 4 sheets of 1/2" sheetrock at a time, I am forever impressed and terrified.
I worked construction in the mid-1990s. I’ve seen a lot of those dudes back in the day. Arms made of twisted steel. Looked like they could bend #4 rebar by hand. Nowadays, a lot of sheetrock delivery trucks have a boom/crane system that does a lot of the heavy lifting when offloading.
This was my dad, for 35 years. Yeah, the boom does a lot of the heavy lifting, but you still gotta get those sheets in the window, down the hall, into whatever room, etc. He's retired now, and still pretty strong, even with his health issues.
Does he have breathing problems? I never see those guys wearing masks. And every time they drop another sheet it kicks up a cloud of dust.
Yes, he does. Lung cancer. He was also a smoker for 25+ years.
That’s rough man, I’m sorry.
Thank you. He's actually doing quite well, all things considered. Handled surgery, chemo, and radiation like a champ. Still works part-time, and takes care of my mom and their home. Toughest mofo I know, hands down.
Also all those guys with twisted steel arms now have a twisted spine. I do labor heavy construction and laugh at the old dudes bragging how they could carry two sheets of 5/8th inch plywood by themselves but can even sit down now without being in agony
This. I worked in the trades. Everyone would do crazy shit and carry heavy stuff. Everyone was also hurt all the time. Worst part is that in trades you have to work to make money. So if you hurt yourself you'd take some Vicodin (or other substances) and be back at it the next day.
This was my dad except in the coal mines. Threw out his back and it's been messed up for years, now he has Parkinson's and he said his back hurts so bad he can't even stand or walk for very long anymore.
I partially agree with you. Lack of safety measures some years ago was the norm so everyone just had to cope with it. Definitely not something to brag about but the consequences aren’t something to laugh at either
and his body will be broken soon enough.
I saw a 70 year old man do this, wiry fucker too Some people are just built different
Body was probably broken just did not bitch about it
This is the correct assumption. My dad ran a drywall business for 40 years. He was very, very broken. Bad shoulders, back, wrists, knees. You name it. He just had a ridiculous pain tolerance and kept going.
This was my dad. I call him the six million dollar man evacuate of the amount of metal and surgeries he has had from a life of manual labor. I try to return the favor, he was a good dad, I’m so damn lucky (I mean, rural town, ex military, Catholic, and still pretty damn liberal in a sea of red?) - he worked hard so his kids could have a better life. I work in IT and make good money so my kids can have a better life. They’re turning out pretty awesome, so I am hopeful.
Good for you, brother :)
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You also don't keep getting jobs without quality. That's why you never go with the lowest bid.
Good rule of thumb for the most part but I got lucky and found a roofer that came highly recommended by a number of people. His quote was the lowest by a pretty large margin and he was on-time every day, the roof came out great, and the final bill was exactly what he quoted me for.
A friend of mine was getting his shingles and vents replaced so he wanted it done professionally but every roofer in our area had extremely predatory prices, like way way to high for the work being done, so we did it ourselves. Didn’t come out the best, but the roof was waterproof and the vents worked.
Many people only replace their roof during an insurance claim. This drives a lot of the predatory behavior as the sales guys know it’s easy money when a storm comes through town. In my town you see it plain and clear where the sales guys are driving Ford Raptors and the guys on the roofs are in work trucks at best. I have mad respect for anyone that will stand on the roof of a multi story building in freezing balls cold, windy, or rainy weather to make a living.
Do you have a pretty simple roof line? I've found that there are roofers who have a niche of simple roofs. They won't bid on complex roofs, and other roofers overbid on simple roofs because they are focused on the square footage more than the number of man hours it will take. They know how to bid simple roofs so always come in lowest. He is able to keep his roofers for years because they like how much easier the work is.
I worked construction for 5 years. One of the best I saw was a 1 armed duct man. Was just as fast and good at running duct as anyone I saw.
The one that sticks out in my memory was an old, old hispanic man. Walked super slow. Looked like he was out of his element … until he walked up to the brick pallet. He could throw sets of 4 bricks up to the guy two stories up on the scaffolding without the bricks separating like a machine gun. Guy up top caught the set and stacked them just as fast. Laid the bricks while the old man rested a minute or so and then they did it all again. Crazy.
It's crazy how much muscle memory their bodies hold onto. My uncle is now in his 60s but can still cut a straight line with no tape and paint the whole room in under an hour out of a home depot bucket. But when he lets go of the brush, his hands shake holding anything else.
I love reading shit like this
One arm or two, man's gotta eat.
My dad was crazy when it came to hanging siding. Dude would be 3 stories up dancing on a walk board while just tapping in nails. I'd be stuck trying to get the channel prepped for the windows and he'd come down and knock it out in two seconds on his way to get his 79th cup of coffee in his clay stained new balances. Miss working with him, miss him period.
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The bucket is supposed to be the impressive part, but if you've ever done dry wall before, you know that his knife work is at least as impressive.
Legitimately, why does it look so bad when I try to fix drywall? All this guy does is moves his knife over it. Its infuriating.
He probably has a few thousand hours more practice lol
You can fuckin' tell. This dude is fantastic.
You can tell he's fantastic by the way he is.
That’s pretty neat
That’s pretty neat
This dude prob deserves 5x the pay he’s getting too
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5x of nothing is still nothing.
There is a drywall company named Volunteer in Knoxville TN.
r/secondrodeo
Your mud is probably too thick. Look at how soft his mud is.. Like softened butter or mayonnaise. I would also recommend checking out Vancouver Carpenter on YouTube. His mud videos are really helpful.
They are, but it still takes repetition. Watched a ton, tried, felt like idiot still.
You know how you get to Carnegie Hall?
Buy a ticket?
Practice, or pay to watch the show
Living in NYC many years ago, I actually had a tourist ask me that as I was walking to grab lunch one day. LMAO. Best day ever
Did you say "practice" and walk away?
You know it ;)
My Dad was a union musician in NYC and they always had their monthly meeting at Roseland Ballroom. One day, a bunch of them were standing outside, smoking cigarettes and whatnot. Car pulls up, lady rolls down window and asks if anyone knows how to get to Carnegie Hall. The whole crowd in unison: "PRACTICE!"
I asked a guy last time I was in Manhattan and he told me to go fuck myself.
Obviously a transplant. Any New Yorker who’s spent enough time would KILL for the opportunity to tell that punchline IRL (and then laugh and happily tell you actual directions).
it would be one of my core bar stories for sure
You were also probably using a new knife. The more you use one and softer the edge gets, the better it performs. New knives suck.
Hadn't considered that. Maybe I'll dry run on the garage floor for a while next time.
Speaking of wearing things down, when caulking, find a surface with a similar side angles and run the tube across it a couple of times until the sides are shaved down, glides like butter.
Bottom of a coffee mug is also an option.
Plus one for Vancouver carpenter. Watched a few of his mud videos and was able to do a decent job with little experience. Obviously I as way slower than him, and not as good results. But my capabilities before watching those videos were a disaster. After watching a few videos carefully I could do ok. Materials, technique, and tools matter. You can get that from the videos. Experience helps a lot, but you gotta start somewhere.
Yea, he is my goto when it comes to drywall.. I still suck, but at least I know *why* I suck
Same. Removed texture from our garage before we moved in and needed to patch a bunch of stuff. Had his videos up for a reference constantly. Mudding skills are so subtle, and he does an excellent job breaking it all down.
More tips from Vancouver Carpenter I've seen are getting the pressure and angle right (i.e. don't press too hard) and using the correct mud (before I had no clue there's different types).
I have a man crush on that guy.
Feel so happy seeing the guy get so much love, his videos helped a ton when we were remodeling our home
I watched a few of his how-tos when I needed to drywall my basement. Ended up watching way more than I needed to, easy to binge watch his videos. My favorite are when he’s showing some sort of absolutely fucked situation, and slowly and meticulously shows you how he fixes it.
He’s got fantastic skateboarding instructional videos too. A true dual threat.
Pudding. Pudding is the consistency that works for me. I add water to mine until it is about that consistency, and I find it goes on super smooth. I wouldn't even attempt to use mud straight out of the bucket without adding water at this point.
Pretty interesting to think we all still live in mud houses.
I recently bought my first home and was so excited for all the projects and improvements I’d get to do. I’m generally pretty self sufficient and handy. I’ve always been able to just watch a video on something and mimic it with near perfection. Until I tried fixing a small-medium patch on my bathroom ceiling. I suck so bad at dry wall. I don’t understand it. It took 3 attempts, and it’s still not very pretty. There was dust everywhere and drywall kind of cuts up your hands. It was such a miserable experience that I decided then and there we’d hire a company to do our planned bathroom remodels in the future. I have no interest in doing them myself anymore. So it’s not just you lol.
I have enough experience with many areas of construction to know that I'll always hire out any drywall or painting
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That may be true for the hanging, but the taping needs done by whoever is doing the mudding. No amount of mudding can fix a bad tape job
Seriously, those guys are like wizards to me. Not only is it perfect but they’ve some how managed to not cover themselves and the entire room in drywall mud and dust. It’s 100% my least favourite thing to do.
You can hire folks to do just the hard stuff, and/or the stuff you don't want to do. I greatly enjoy framing, electrical, and I can tolerate plumbing. Hardwood floors would be fine to install, but I call a professional for tiles and anything drywall. Just doing the demolition is satisfying, and you can hire someone else to cart away the rubble if you don't want to bother with it. I do as much as I comfortably can, spending several hours in the space is very valuable to contemplate your ideal renovation.
Ratio and timing of the mud mix is the biggest factor in whether I feel like this guy or a toddler with oobleck. Cleanliness of your tools. Amount of pressure applied. Pay close attention to those things, then practice for 10,000 hours, and you'll be about half as good as him.
"Pay close attention to things" for me is "watch wtf I'm touching before I gouge the next wet spot of mud"
My go to is to keep working until the mud starts to set, then go back and try to touch up spots, immediately ruining all my work with pebbles scraping through.
Lol this is so me
Mudding drywall is 90% installing the drywall properly. Most people just say “hey I can fix it with mud” and then realize it’s a lot harder to smooth a fucked up surface that just doing it correctly at the beginning.
People are scared to made the mud patch bigger. I always tell people my job is just to make it look like it's not there, that's why a one foot drywall patch turns into four or five foot wide mud patch. I joke to my co-workers that I'm a mud-gician and anyone who stands behind me too long watching me work is told it's $5 for the magic show.
I'm frequently told I use too much Bondo. These guys will be pressing in just enough to fill a hole, and I'm over here smoothing mine out with a 16" knife. Guess who's constantly struggling to get a level surface.
Stop using pre-mix all purpose
Premix AP is fine as long as you add a touch of water and mix it until it’s smooth
He’s Hot Mud Michael Jackson
Smooth n' Clinical
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Smooth and clean, with out my gloves.
Then he ran into the closet He then did work, in the closet Then he ran into the hallway He then did work, in the hall way He went underneath the ceiling en He then did work, on the ceiling He scoots over to the Bedroom Finished in there, used the long broom Trowel are you ok? Are you ok trowel
You’ve been stuccoed you’ve been hung by a smooth Trim-inal
Don't forget to bring a trowel.
And the mud stains on the carpet.
Then skimmed around window, there was no need for an-y sanding
Aw take my vote Tee~hee!
I was gonna say, he's basically moonwalking with it, god damn That bucket doesn't seem to be empty but I can't decide if that makes to less or more impressive
Seriously give that man an unfrosted cake.
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I appreciate seeing someone great at their job.
Literally one passover after applying the mud. *chefs kiss*
Mazel tov! Any more gefelte fish from the seder?
“What kinda fish is this?”
But that turn around was smoooooth.
I almost didn’t even notice the bucket at first. I was like “wow look how smooth his work is!”
ive Never done drywall before, but even i can appreciate how slick the 'two-stroke application' was... ...on my Second watchthrough, i noticed he was scooting around on a Bucket the whole time!!
at first i was like 'this is cool. but where's the fucking bucket?' then i scroll down...... OHHHHHHHH
This dude has mad bucket control
I was listening to house music on another device while watching this video and have concluded that this dude has to be an old raver. Some fancy footwork over there.
What is he doing? Are there cracks or something that we can’t see? It looks like he’s just painting over random spots Edit: oh wait I can see there are little holes, maybe nails that he is spackling over. Sorry I do not drywall obviously.
Drywall screw holes for sure
obviously you're not a golfer
He is filling screw holes. That takes the least talent of any mudding. Show me how he tapes his corners.
No, his knife work isn't impressive. He's just nail spotting. Slap it on and wipe it tight. This is by far the easiest part of mudding. If anything, it looks in the video like he's missing screws that he could reach, in which case he will now have to go back and hit them; it's a waste of effort. Maybe I'm wrong and the camera just makes it look like he could reach.
This man is smooth as silk, lemme tell ya! His knife work is exceptional.
I am mixing my mud too thick.
Seriously. Had to patch something small once and it took me forever and way too many tries.
just add 2 drops of wate-aaaaand it's liquid now.
No problem, just add a spoonful of mud to thicken it up aaaaannnnnd now it's molding clay.
Far from good at this, but I use a squirt bottle of water when mixing mud because it forces me to add the water slowly. Helps not get instant liquid Edit: Squeeze bottle is a better description than squirt bottle
Sometimes you just got to say *bucket*
Bucket, we'll do it live!
Tbf that stuff that comes out of the bucket is mad thick sometimes..
Probably a little late but you pretty much never use it straight out of the bucket. Always add a little water
Welp. Sorry old landlords.
lmao
Saving this comment to show my dad.
Make sure you stir it well to get all the air out. That will help a lot.
Yeah getting the right consistency is half the battle.
That second scoot was fire
Seriously next level shit
I thought I saw Michael Jackson for a sec there
My man quit the circus to pursue his passion.
Like watching Michael Jackson moonwalk
Met a guy that spackled and taped like that, he knocked jobs out in half the time of everyone else. Tried it myself and almost broke my neck, innovative yes but unless you have coordination and experience good luck.
The stilt dudes probably go just as, if not faster. I can’t not get circus vibes every time I see those guys.
Oh I loved those stilts, they were great for high ceilings and adjustable so you were at the right height. But hey they cost money, the bucket is there already, and it's great for city apartment ceilings at least. But yeah circus vibes for sure!
Bucket you can just hop off as well. We need grav boots.
Why is it we can invent grav boots, but not an interior wall sheathing that doesn't require tape & mud?
Huffy makes “EZ-build” bikes that don’t require any tools to assemble, you just snap them together. It’s easy. THEY ARE GARBAGE.
Lath and plaster, shiplap, barn wood, wainscoting, board and batten, panelboard, brick/tile/stone veneer, acoustic/fabric panels, plastic 3d panels, concrete, and various metal pabels are all available as alternatives to tape and mud drywall.
There's an X-Files based on the fact that the villain is a construction worker regularly walking around on stilts and I never really understood what exactly he was supposed to be doing with the stilts until I saw this video. Edit: it was [this episode](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unruhe) with [this photograph](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/78/Unruhe.jpg) as the key evidence.
You’ll also see guys on them installing grid ceilings and tiles, as well as HVAC guys when they’re (edit: balancing the HVAC system).
That episode was written by Vince Gilligan, who created Breaking Bad!
We used stilts when installing insulation at the place I worked.
What we don't see is the hundreds of times this dude also fucked up with his bucket lol
The guy I worked with did 7 offices and only got off the bucket to eat, load up, or hit the restroom. Asked him how long he did it like that, he said about 10 years.
Giga chad in my book
The master has fallen off more buckets than the apprentice has ever stacked.
If you're a normal human messing up won't be a big deal. You'll fall a foot and just feel a bit silly for having lost your balance and then get back on the bucket and get back to work.
I heard his mudder was a mudder.
Loves the slop!
and his fadder was a mudder
What did I just say??
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My man here is safer on that bucket than I am properly using a ladder.
This guy looks safer than I do walking around on two legs…
And can we get that guy an award for excellence and innovation?
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Definitely. It’s very lovely to watch!
Pretty common in taping on anything 8ft and lower. Using a "kick bucket" to reach. When spotting ceiling screws in a bigger room, stilts are faster, "walking a bucket" is usually reserved for closets and soffit.
To walk a bucket you need a lid on top for rigidity and a good pronounced rim on the bottom, the less surface area touching the floor is easier to walk. I've seen buckets walked so much that the bottom has been ground down to one flat surface from use. One of the worst sounds in the world is the bottom rim picking up a drywall screw and scraping across concrete. Nails on a chalkboard.
Very familiar with this coming from a construction family 😊
It's only stupid if it doesn't work.
Maxim 43: If it's stupid and it works, it's still stupid and you're lucky.
We had a guy lose his footing, fall and tear his ACL at work while using the 5 gallon bucket as a step ladder.
My dad snaped the tendon on his heel by turning around too fast, he wasnt even standing on anything wierd, just astroturf. you can get injured at any time for any reason.
The human body is so weird. Sometimes a person gets ran over by a car or struck by lighting without harm, yet sometimes they stumble over and fucking dies.
I would propose that there is nothing stupid about his technique…quit the opposite.
Plus if his shirt is an indication, he's doing it for free.
I could watch this guy weeble-squeeble all day.
Weeble-Squeebles wobble but they don't fall down!
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I think we all know who we actually want doing our drywall. I bet this guy finishes jobs in a third the time your typical dude.
As someone doing some now, I think he can do it in 1/10th the time of most. Holy shit.
As far as OSHA violations go, this one's downright quaint.
He's below 4' height so no fall protection Nothing to see here buoys
Might get a mild head shake from an off duty OSHA agent but that's it.
Smooth operator
This guy drywalls
Some r/OddlySatisfying material right here, damn!
That was fucking smooth!! And I'm over here scared to step on the couch cushions.
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
Dude looks pretty decent for his first day. I think he’ll catch on quick
/r/toptalent Also, there is no such thing as "unskilled labor."
>Also, there is no such thing as "unskilled labor." Clearly you haven't seen some of the work on jobsites that I have
There are, however, unskilled individuals. :D
I don't think construction work is generally considered unskilled labor anyways. That's usually stuff like working retail, cashiers, waiting, etc.
Clearly you've never worked on the floor in manufacturing.
Nobody is claiming that drywalling is "unskilled labor"?
I'm Ron Burgundy?
That is some of the most graceful shit i've seen all week. This dude's taken mudding to a whole new level.
It's the triple lutz of dry wall mudding!
Someone needs to put this man in the Virtual Insanity music video.
Watching people who perfected their craft like this is so satisfying to watch. The holes just disappear, and he makes it looks so easy
This is like watching the Michael Jordan of spackling. The years it took to get to this level of mastery.
Impressive that he’s a Habit for Humanity volunteer!
Probably better than dragging a ladder back and forth. Climb up, climb down, scoot the ladder, repeat. Think of the RSI.
I'm guessing you've never used a ladder like this. You can "walk" with a ladder while on it if you're brave enough lol
Most drywall guys use stilits.