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Applying the Base Layer of Mud

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Simple Way To Apply Wall Texture. DIY Sun Valley Texture.

What happens here

Once the trowel is loaded with joint compound, begin applying it to the wall. Spread the mud in random, overlapping patterns, ensuring that the hawk is balanced to avoid spills. The goal in this initial phase is simply to get a consistent layer of mud onto the wall surface. This layer should be relatively thick to allow for the creation of voids in the next step. Work your way across the wall, covering the surface with the mud.

Goal: Cover the wall with a consistent layer of joint compound.

Tools and materials

  • Hawk — Holding mud during application
  • Trowel — Applying mud to the wall
  • Prepared Joint Compound USG Sheetrock — Applying to the wall

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that just like that so now we're going to take the mud after we've got it up on our trout and we're just going to spread it around in some random patterns and you just kind of keep an eye on your Hawk make sure that you're you're keeping it pretty well balanced and then you'll just work on the TR work and the big thing is just in some randomized patterns you just want to move that mud around onto the wall and the first task is going to be just to get mud on the wall so usually I'll work through most of a hotk p edges there and then I'll end up having a bunch on the trout there you'll just take it from the corner scrape it onto the hawk so it's like that and then that's the side I will load up from and that keeps whatever mud is left right in the middle of the hawk and then I'll just let the the excess mud kind of kick back there so now that I've got a nice kind of thick uh kind of thick thin coat it's all moved around um we're trying to recreate voids like are in the rest of the house that the the client wanted match so I'm just going to knock some of these edges down spread some of this stuff around on the wall you want to get it so it's got at least kind of a similar thickness to how deep you want those voids to

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