hi I'm Jordan Jones with Bauman and today we're going to teach you how to skim coat your walls skim-coat is a way to resurface them that'll leave you with a nice smooth finish after we moved into our house which is about a hundred years old we noticed a lot of wall imperfections that were due to many years of wall repair so we decided to hire someone and spend about $2,000 for a room after watching the process we decided to give it to ourselves after spending $200 we had a successful project and so now we're going to show you the products that we use for our project skin coding is a messy project so personal and ruin protection are very important for rim protection we recommend putting a plastic drop cloth over your entire floor and securing it tightly to the baseboard using a quality painters tape personal protection it's really highly recommended to wear 100 respirator which you can do a disposable version or a half mask version that you can invest in and use from multiple projects and top off personal protection where coveralls goggles shoe covers and gloves now when it comes to the materials you need for actually applying the compound most importantly you have your joint compound which we like to use the lightweight version because it's much easier to stand at the end and then we have our paint tray our paint roller cover and the roller handle which you'll use to apply the compound to the wall and to get your edges we use a four-inch putty knife with a trough and as you apply the compound you might notice it drying quickly so we highly recommend having a spray bottle filled with water that you'll use to get a little spritz and keep it nice and moist it does take about twelve to twenty-four hours your compound to dry so when you is time to come back through you'll want to give it a sand to remove any little you know little nubs of compound that are on the surface so you'll use a fine sanding pad and then you'll wipe it down with a microfiber cloth to remove any dust that might still remain on the wall and you know we do acknowledge that this might seem like a lot of products to use and mention it is a messy project you know but that's okay because the cost savings by doing it yourself in the final reward of having a smooth walls we think is really worth it so we do suggest giving it a try you so here we have our four point five gallon bucket of lightweight joint compound as you can see it has a thick consistency to make the application process easier we like to take another five gallon bucket and mix in some compound of water to create a frost you like consistency to mix the compound with water we use a power drill with a mixing at Apple we're going to start in the corner by applying the joint compound with our four inch putty knife and our top so if again you want to take a little bit out of the trough get all of the excess from the back and start plotting it going up put it on too much because you can always get off the key to a successful project is to work in four foot sections you try to overshoot it'll end up drying out on you and that's never fun so as you can see I'm pressing the sharp end of the putty knife up to the edge of the baseboard once again don't worry about these lines here you're going to come back and smooth it out so I'm gonna stop here and now move over to applying the joint compound with the roller so quick note you always want to have a spray bottle and some paper towels close by spray bottle for in case the joint compound starts to dry out and for your paper towels to clean off your 12th and your sleepy now that we've applied the joint compound to the edges it's time to move onto the roller roll the joint compound onto the roller and start rolling away probably get about two rolls in until you need to refill and if you feel like things are starting to dry out on the edges take a second give it a little mist keep going and once again it seems like it's a little too thin in terms of the application on here we're always going to be doing a second coat of the skim coating process so don't worry about all right now that that's like that you want to take your magic squeegee as they call it it is pretty magical and start in corner and move horizontally I like to hold the squeegee I probably a 45 degree angle once you've done a pass take the squeegee and take the excess and wipe it off on the side of the trough now I'll move on to your second pass your first pass is never going to be the last pass so don't worry about a fan perfect keep going all right now that you've done a horizontal pass let's do a vertical pass get tight to the edge of the baseboard and move up you want to put very little pressure on the squeegee it's very very sensitive and if you start to notice some you know little particles in there just take your finger pull them out and just go back over with this squeegee sometimes you make it a little too much buildup on the squeegee just take your paper towel give it a good wipe and move on so now that we finished one section it's time to move on to the next you are kathira can go horizontally or vertically we're going to keep going up the wall you so as you can see we left some rough imperfections here to show you that through the sanding process it actually so we finished standing the walls with our extra fine sanding pad and now we're going to wipe it down with our microfiber cloth because you throw some dust I'll remain on the wall once remember that we'd like to do inspection using a flashlight because we've learned through our experience that we do tend to miss any imperfections just looking at it in natural light so we're going to see what we find it came across a spot which in natural light you can't really see it but once it flashlights on it becomes very apparent but it's not a big deal all you have to do is come through with your extra fine sanding pad and get rid of it