Garage to Sewing Room – Part 2

We have the outside wall, interior time!

Installing, taping and "mudding" the interior drywall

Hanging Drywall

With the exterior part of the project complete it was time to move inside. We carefully laid the insulation in the newly framed portion of the walls. and then hung the sheet rock. With only two of us there were no spare hands for taking pictures until they were screwed in place.

Drywall Tape

Once the drywall was up it was time to tape the seams. Pictured right you tape up the seams and then use joint compound to paste over the seams.

Next, Joint compond. I like the kind that goes on pink, and dries white. Spread joint compound over seam tape

spreading the joint compound over seams.

In order to keep the seams and tape from showing, you spread joint compound over the seams trying to get as even a coat as possible. It’s kinda like icing a cake. Once the seams are done, it’s time to paste over the entire wall. Try to get a very thin, but even coat.

Fixing my mistakes

I didn’t have one seam hit on a stud, and the problems compounded and I had to get creative with the fix.

It all started with about an 1/8 of an inch gap between one panel and the other, caused by them not meeting on a stud. I tried to fix this by working a small piece of wood into the crack and screwing the wall to that. Which helped and let me get the tape and mud on. But the rest I tried to fix with a thicker layer of joint compound, and that failed too. Hence this crack. So when all else fails….

Sand it down and start over, and get creative…

So once I sanded the wall down, I had to get some leverage on the wall to push it in line with the wall next to it. So this was my solution, use a beam and a cabinet to push the wall in, and then reapply the joint compound. It was a kinda janky fix, but it worked, and that’s why I’m showing you. It may not be the professional job I wanted, but it still turned out and ended up looking ok.

Do It Yosself