Comments on: How To Finish Drywall With Joint Compound http://www.homeimprovementsdepot.com/how-to-finish-drywall-with-joint-compound/ Home Improvement Tips and Tricks for the Average Homeowner! Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:22:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tom http://www.homeimprovementsdepot.com/how-to-finish-drywall-with-joint-compound/comment-page-1/#comment-57056 Tom Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:57:25 +0000 http://www.homeimprovementsdepot.com/?p=476#comment-57056 Rosalie, Ooo.. a dent? Did it kind of "mush" in or did it "chip" apart and crumble? If it just sort of "smooshed" in then I'm guessing you may have put on too much joint compound at once and it just didn't dry. I usually only put on shallow layers of joint compound at one time (never much thicker than a cheap cardboard box) of about 1/16th of an inch or so. Was it particularly humid when you put up the joint compound? Humidity can affect how joint compound dries. Rosalie,

Ooo.. a dent? Did it kind of “mush” in or did it “chip” apart and crumble? If it just sort of “smooshed” in then I’m guessing you may have put on too much joint compound at once and it just didn’t dry. I usually only put on shallow layers of joint compound at one time (never much thicker than a cheap cardboard box) of about 1/16th of an inch or so.

Was it particularly humid when you put up the joint compound? Humidity can affect how joint compound dries.

]]> By: rosalie keenan http://www.homeimprovementsdepot.com/how-to-finish-drywall-with-joint-compound/comment-page-1/#comment-56906 rosalie keenan Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:00:38 +0000 http://www.homeimprovementsdepot.com/?p=476#comment-56906 i have a old house ,the walls are bumpy so i got premixed joint compound and smoth it all over the walls. waited 3 days and sanded it. it was smoth so i painted it. when the paint was dried i put a peice of furniture in the room and slighly bumped it. i got a dent in my wall and now im wondering if i used the right joint compound. or will it still harden several days later.? i have a old house ,the walls are bumpy so i got premixed joint compound and smoth it all over the walls. waited 3 days and sanded it. it was smoth so i painted it. when the paint was dried i put a peice of furniture in the room and slighly bumped it. i got a dent in my wall and now im wondering if i used the right joint compound. or will it still harden several days later.?

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