Comments on: Drywall 101: Using Joint Compount for a Stucco Wall Finish

By: monica

monica — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 11:35:20 +0000

i am soooo bookmarking your site!
how awesome that i found your site, thank you so much! i’m a single woman with a house full of character, and am happy to utilize your know-how to do some improvements.
i have a big basement room with bumpy ugly sheetrocked walls. have a feeling the previous peeps had teenagers doing a mosh pit down there, big holes “repaired” bumpy and rough! now i can fix em all myself!

By: Kit

Kit — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:57:13 +0000

Kel has a great suggestion Teresa. It does happen when you get the compound too thick. I’ve also been known to fill in cracks with a little addl joint compound and really lightly sand it if necessary (not enough to take any of the texture off though!)

By: Teresa

Teresa — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:29:10 +0000

Great!! Thank you!

By: Kel

Kel — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:03:45 +0000

yep joint compound will shrink when it drys, thus the cracks. Dip your finger in wet compound and rub it in the cracks and let it dry …. like the old trick of toothpast in the nail hole. If you roll it on again….keep checking for cracks and just dip your finger in water or use a damp cloth or spunge and rub over the crack and smooth it together. Make sure you use a good base coat like 1-2-3 to seal it before putting your top coat on. Moisture in time will break down the compound.

By: Teresa

Teresa — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:25:23 +0000

I need some help! My husband and I used the compound in our bathroom and it has turned out gorgeous!!! Going to do another room next-we had a lot of fun doing it! BUT-we do have a part where it I’m guessing went on too thick and we have cracks-a lot of them around the top of our shower area. Whats the best way to fix that?

By: Kel

Kel — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 22:14:52 +0000

are you talking the 4×8 sheets that is like thin plywood? Personaly I am no expert but if that is what you are talking about I would get some scrap and try it out. Since it is made of thin plys and the jont compound is water base you may get some seperation between top and next layer down. Joint compound is not light. Also you have to consider how flexable the panel is. If you can push on it and it bows in then you will end up with a wall that will crack or flake at the first major bump.

By: Berenice

Berenice — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 21:35:42 +0000

can you do this on wall panel?

By: Christian

Christian — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 04:31:09 +0000

Wow, I love it. Every year in college, back in the 90′s, we would rent out old houses in Pittsburgh that needed serious repair. The first thing I would do is buy a 5 gallon bucket of Joint compound and go to town. LOL, I covered every square inch but see that you don’t really have to.

One question, I am about to do a project again but people have been telling me plaster plaster… what is the main diff in JC and plaster?

thanks.

By: Kel

Kel — Tue, 31 May 2011 14:19:02 +0000

ROFL….you should hear my hubby when I get tired of waiting for him to finish a “project” aka remodeling. I tell him I will do it myself and he tells me he will divorce me. Seven years and spare bedroom is still not done. Last month I figured if I wanted to combine the kitchen and dining room with built in island and cabinets I would have to take matters into my own hands. He got a text from me a few hours after he went (April 25, 2011) to work showing a major hole in the wall between kit and din and when he got home almost all the din side was removed. My “project” is almost complete now, he has helped some but I have done the majority of the work. I even made the blue prints and 3D images using my adobe AI program so that he sees what I am doing. My cabenits are Lowes cheap finish yourself ones, which I did in golden pecan, I have planes for a built in china closet and the finish will be pine tongue in grove. I figure do to money restrainst to be done by end of july. Not bad proving the point if you want something done then get up and do it yourself because most men can’t get past the me Tarzen you Jane thinking. Or is it the woman can’t get past I would break a nail…mine are an inch long and they don’t stop me from doing anything.

By: Kel

Kel — Tue, 31 May 2011 13:59:27 +0000

OMG, I have used joint compound with a paint roller over some of the most god awful surfaces and materials you ever want to see and have come up with some of the most delighful designs. Mixing the compound with 123 base coat seals the compound and keeps moisture issues down. I did my kitchen 10 years ago this way and have had not one ounce of trouble with the moisture. My house is over 130 years old and part of the walls were covered with…believe it or not….lenolium (sorry if spelled wrong). you got to love old houses built by imagriants, they used every thing, even card board boxes in the walls.

Do practice a bit to get a flow going and work fast so you don’t get dry spots and pull up to much off your designe.