"DAC" wrote in message
ups.com...
In the past 2 months, I used a carbide 2.5" paint scraper to remove the
many layers of built up paint and the crappy blobs of texture from all
vertical walls in my 1973 built POS.

This process left many divots where the texture pulled off the wall,
but by using 2 coats of thinned mud, after sanding the wall was
perfectly smooth. In addition, like yours, the tapped seams were
terrible, but when I was finished they were nearly invisible.


Just out of curiosity, if you knew then what you knew now, wouldn't you
have just torn out the drywall and replaced it? It seems to me that the
work to recover from a crappy drywall job exceeds or at least is as much
as the work to just tear it out and do it over correctly.

Obviously the materials cost might be higher, but ignoring that,

Ted