RicodJour wrote:
On Apr 14, 5:00 pm, stryped wrote:
On Apr 14, 2:08 pm, RicodJour wrote:
On Apr 14, 8:12 am, stryped wrote:
In a garage can I put just enough compound to cover the mesh tape and
it look ok? (It is a garage, not living space). I would paint the
walls maybe semi gloss white though for light.
Yep, one coat is fine. Like I said earlier, if you run the 10' boards
vertically, you won't have any but joints and the tapered joints are
the easiest part. They're almost hard to mess up.
Look at this another way - a garage is the perfect place to practice
your taping skills, so when the opportunity arises inside the house,
you'll be ready.
There are pluses and minuses to any wall covering, but drywall is the
easiest to repair if it does get dinged. If you expect the walls to
take abuse, 4' high paneling over the drywall would be the ticket.

Wont there be butt joints at the corners?

Nope. There'll be corners at the corners, not butt joints. You'll
have taped inside corners, and corner-beaded outside corners (if there
are any in your garage). Butt joints are non-tapered edges meeting on
a flat wall. The corners are just as easy to do as the tapered edges
if you have an inside corner taping tool. They're cheap, too, and
well worth the money.

I just bought a stainless corner taper thing for the same thing,
finishing off a garage. This is my second attempt at tape and spackle
and with what I learned since the first job, this one is going much
better. And yes I got 10' rock for the 9' 4" walls and am hanging it
vertically. I'm finishing the first phase of the job now and I think
I'm doing a lot better than the first time. (the garage is half full of
stuff already so I'm doing about 1/3rd at a time. When this is finished
I move stuff to the newly finished wall and start on the middle.) I
bought a drywall lift new for $200. Best $200 I've ever spent! The
ceiling is actually easier than the walls! When I'm finished, I'll sell
it for $250. ;-)