"RicodJour" wrote in message
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Greg O wrote:

As for the OP, I would take the time to do a real mud job, tape, screw
holes, and everything, but take some time and put on 3 coats of mud. Then
when it looks just about good enough, rent, borrow, or steal a texture
gun
and put a good layer of wet texture over everything. With a wet texture
it
will lay down a bit and not be so rough, but still hide the mistakes in
the
half-ass mud job, kind of an orange peel surface. Give it a coat of good
primer and some semi gloss white paint and you will have a garage to be
proud of!

Why would he need three coats if he's going to texture it? I thought
the idea was to get this done "quick and dirty" like the subject line
says. I also don't see what the texture achieves.

The quickest and easiest way for a beginner to get reasonable results
is to use a bucket of standard joint compound over perforated adhesive
paper joint tape, followed by a second coat of the same compound. If
he's careful to not goober the stuff all over the wall, he can probably
get away without sanding (the wet sanding advice is spot on). From
there he should hit it with primer and see what it looks like. If he
can live with it, keep painting, otherwise hitting up the rough spots
with a little touchup spackle or compound prior to spot priming and
finish paint will give him as good results as a garage would need.

R


Why three coats? Because three light coats will generally give better
results than one or two thick ones. Texture takes very little time or money
and covers allot of sins.
The OP will end up doing what ever he wants, I just gave my opinion as to
what I would do.
Greg