Drywall Seams Second Coat

You are now at the point where you are ready to apply your second coat to your drywall seams and corner bead. Once again do a walk around your job and make sure everything is first coated so you don't have to stop and fix something you missed. now take your hand sander and lightly go over your drywall job, this can be done fairly quickly as you are doing a quick clean of any small spots that are a bit high or pieces of drywall that can get into your compound when you are coating, also make sure your corner bead is cleaned up on the edges and so on, once your happy with your clean up job you are ready to go.{Do Not Over Sand}.

Get your 12 inch knife and box and your drywall compound mixed nice and smooth and of course clean as well as the rest of your tools. Now pick a place to start to coat just your seams at this point, the best way is to do a room at a time and don't start another room until you have finished the room you started you should know by now that being organized is everything with drywall. OK fill your box with your mixed compound and scoop some onto your 12 inch knife now the same as your first apply the mud on your seam in a vertical manner making sure you completely cover your first coat by about 2 or 3 inches on either side of your seam and again keep applying the mud for three or four feet.

With the same 12 inch knife start to to scape off the compound and put it back into the box keeping your knife scraped off clean is of course important, but how you take off the mud is also so important. By starting at the top of your seam with the edge of your knife at the center of your drywall seam with the other edge of your knife easily encompassing the rest of the compound, draw your knife horizontally along your seam and take off all the excess mud and the same with the other half of your seam. keep on repeating this this process until your entire seam is coated, you should have a fairly smooth looking seam at this point as the idea of this is to feather out the edges of your first coat and to fill any imperfections .

Finish the rest of your room or rooms in the same manner until all the flat seams or your drywall are second coated. Now would be a good time to coat your nails or screws with their third coat if you have not already done so. This coat will start to dry much faster than the first so you should be able to second coat your corner bead the same day, but if not wait until the next day or when you have the time remember this is not a race.

Coating your bead is pretty much the same apply your mud from the inner edge of your bead to the outer edge until you have coated 3 or 4 feet then take your knife and scrape it all off filling the outer edge of your first coat and coating over any small imperfections, again when your are done your corner bead it should look smooth and clean for when you apply your third and final coat on your job. By now you should really see your drywall job coming together. Next you will apply your third and final coat on your drywall job and sand it out to make it ready for painting.