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Sand Spackle Flat

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Flawless Interior Trim Prep & Paint | Pro Tips for Airless Sprayer Finish (New Construction)

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Allow the applied spackle to dry completely. Avoid sanding too early, as wet spackle will clog the abrasive and ruin the sandpaper. Using a power sander with a vacuum attachment (such as an Ekasand Series 2), sand down the spackled areas until they are flat and smooth with the surrounding surface. The vacuum attachment significantly reduces airborne dust, improving air quality and reducing cleanup time. Your goal is to remove all spackle except for what remains in the filled imperfections. For areas inaccessible to the power sander, use sanding blocks or hand sand. Regularly inspect the surface for any remaining proud spackle or newly exposed nail heads. If any nail heads are found, set them using a nail set or the back of a painter's tool and re-spackle as needed.

Goal: Once the spackle is completely dry, sand it down using a power sander with a vacuum attachment, ensuring a flat and smooth surface.

Tools and materials

  • Nail Set

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and not too not too much. All right. So, I'm going to get ready to start uh spackling or not spackling, but sanding the spackle. So, spackle's dried. I'm going to sand the spackle flat. I want to get rid of all the spackle except where the holes are. And then we're going to bondo over that. So this is kind of the next step of the process. This is what it looks like. [Music] I got the spackle sanded. You can see how fast it actually goes with a power sander. So, I'll just um kind of just let you know like back my early days doing new construction uh for years and years and years, all the sanding we did was all by hand. And some painters still do it. We just have two sanding blocks and literally just sand all this stuff, the spackle, bondo, everything by hand. And it's one of the reasons why I came to really hate new construction. Nowadays, uh, we've got this tool that makes it probably about 10 times faster. So, you don't have to invest in a tool like that, but it'll pay off on your first job that you actually um, use it on. So, not having to breathe dust all the time. It's hooked to a hepac also. So, I don't have to sit there and breathe sanding dust all day long. We would actually hand sand with blocks, everything. And by the time you were done, at the end of the day, you were just covered with dust. Another thing, having a tool. I noticed when I was sanding, one of the nail heads was exposed a little bit. That will actually damage your abrasive. It'll tear it. So, you definitely want to set those in. So, I just set that nail in. You know, hopefully it didn't. Um, it was barely showing, so it didn't tear my abrasive. So, that one there was that hole right there. And I actually when I was handing notice I missed the hole right there. So, I'm going to skim those tight. And then we're going to begin uh doing the Bondo. Okay. Now, the Bondo is kind of

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