those little issues that you need to watch out for in the process. The first thing we need to do is get the area prepped and that means we have to make sure that there's no loose edges like these guys here because we're not going to be able to mud those over properly. So one of the mistakes I see people making is they'll take a sanding sponge and figure I'll just kind of sand this off and then that'll be good. But what you might not see is sometimes there's some still some loose edges just sitting under there and those are actually going to cause problems later on. So what you need to do is take a putty knife like this or a drywall knife and then get anything that's loose. There's a little lip right here. I want to get that off and see it catches there. You may end up making this bigger in the process and that's okay. Don't go crazy with it. Don't try to dig under it and you know dig this hole to China kind of thing. But see if you can make sure that it gets all the loose stuff off. That's really all we're going for. Another option that some people really like to do is they'll take a blade like this. This is my Milwaukee fast back and then they'll score a circle around it like this. I'll just do part of it like so. And then that way as you're carving with the knife here it's got a stopping point. See even there it didn't stop. But it typically gives it a line to stop at and if I would have scored that a little bit deeper then that's going to provide basically a border for that. What you just saw is the reason I don't like doing that. I figured just keep it as small as you can. So with a rip out that if I just do this lightly I'm going to be able to get that loose stuff off there just to where it needs to go and then be done with it. Okay at this point there's nothing that's loose. There's nothing that's sticking out and there are no little lips or edges hanging off here and there's also no little pockets underneath. So I'm ready to move on to my