Apply First Coat of Joint Compound

thinking of the right thing. Tray here. Throw a little bit on there. Make sure a drywall knife is always clean. That's why you can't do those on those plastic ones. They glue up and gunk up so fast. And then what you want to do is start spreading it. Doesn't matter how. Left to right, top to bottom, who cares? Building stuff can be intimidating and difficult. So, we need to find places where we can just simplify things. Simplify things, understand things. Then, after you got a good amount on there, you want to start working its way out in a circle to blend it. Now, the reason why you want to do that is because this mesh sits higher than the finished drywall. So, what we want to do is put a little bit more pressure on the outsides so we can blend it nicely. And then just control your pressure so that you can't see that mesh. By the way, I'll tell you exactly why [snorts] this patch is steel reinforced down the middle. Cuz if you didn't have that steel mesh there, everything that we're putting on right now would start bubbling out this way cuz that would be heavier. So, it' be essentially pulling everything down. Get it clean again. We got a nice little covered area. This is going to dry overnight. Then we're