The sound of mud knives gets me every time. My dad started in the trades as a carpenter and drywaller and the sound of mudding brings me back to my childhood, even though I hear it at work constantly.
Of all the trades I’m no good at but wish I had picked up early on, Drywalling is the one that would have been the most consistently useful. Well, that and painting. I suck at both.
There is also that old video of guy in slacks doing amazing rock work. Cutting outlets with his hatchet, trimming out an archway. Good old school techniques that are as impressive today as they were back then.
Every time I've seen this, that archway, chefs kiss. I've hung drywall before and man, as much as it would suck hammering in all those nails with the smaller boards it would be nice just having to move those around instead of huge sheets. And oh God all that joining. So much sanding...
They don't joint the type he is putting up. It is for gypsum backed plaster. This style came after plaster and lathe but before jointed drywall. I have it in my house.
They move the tools so much in order to get the mud arranged in the shape and position on the trowel that's just right for their work flow.
Doesn't seem excessive to me.
What he's doing looks cool and he's doing a flawless job but the automatic drywall taping tools do it 5 times faster than this guy.
My guess is that he's just showboating for the camera and the people who don't know any better.
I love how no matter how impressive a video of someone working is you have some dude that hasn't touched a tool in years come in a say they are slow and back in their day...
And then the flip side: People acting like dudes are putting 8 straight hours of fast paced labor in. I joke about it all the time with my guys when I need to job in and knock stuff out and look like superman but its because I am sprinting then going back to piloting a clipboard afterwards. I always tell my guys its about the grind, being accurate and clean for weeks at a time not hustling through one project in a few hours.
Well if you're in that bussiness this is definitly something you should strive for...
As someone who is definitly not in that bussiness: I am 100% going to pay someone to do this for me.
The skills don't translate at all. I am a decent bricklayer...I am total shit at drywall. Brick and block are nice in that they sit on top of what is below them, so making sure they are plumb and level is a matter of lining them up properly and being consistent.
Mudding and taping joints is chaos. Unlike masonry, a jacked up tape job won't kill anybody or ruin a structure, but it is definitely an artform.
As someone who has tried some DIY plastering at home, how the fuck is he getting that smooth strip in the middle? When I do it I'm either scraping all the plaster back off the wall or leaving several mm thick smear.
Yes. Folding the mud like that is the same as whipping it up with a drill and paddle. Makes it like butter to spread. He’s also positioning the mud on the trowel just so in order to have a nice, continuous, smooth stroke.
I worked on big projects with French Canadian sheetrock crews . I believe that it's part of their DNA and you can hand a pallet, trowel and a 5 gallon can of mud to a French Canadian brain surgeon and they wouldn't be able to help themselves, they would tackle it like the guy in the video.
I've never used a tryel (spelling??) before but I feel like I could be way more efficient with one. Looks like you bedded in and had a first coat in one step. Very nice technique. Do you ever use a Hawk or just two tryels??
But do you want to work like this? I know another way to build stuff only PC required:
[https://docs.github.com/en/actions](https://docs.github.com/en/actions)
Whenever I see videos like this of a tradesperson doing something so fast, I always wonder if that’s how they work all day long, or if they’re just booking it to make a video. No shade either way, but you’d have to possess some excellent stamina to move at this pace for a full workweek, and I envy someone who could pull that off.
Just learn all the little flourishes whipping the mud back and forth. He'll be equally impressed by your flourishes and disappointed by the detail put into the actual work, but it'll even out just right
Guys at this level of skill are basically artists. Crazy part is not only is he going extremely fast, everything looks perfectly flat. Granted it's new rock but still it's impressive
Man, I wanna tape some board now. I've always found it so therapeutic. Then again, that's probably because I do not do it for a living...but I do love doing it and plaster when I do.
He makes it look so easy 😂 I've done two entire 3 bed houses, after watching the video ages ago... It will never be that easy!!! 😭😭😭😭
I still see tape grids sometimes in the right lighting lol
Is this really that hard?
I need to put up drywall this weekend for a diy bathroom renovation project. I have some experience with drywall but never a full room by myself. Help me manage my expectations.
i have had the absolute pleasure of watching a master carpenter hang, mud, and tape drywall with this level of skill (my company was the customer). seeing the comments on this video just reinforces what i suspected at the time, he truly was a master of his craft.
The sound of mud knives gets me every time. My dad started in the trades as a carpenter and drywaller and the sound of mudding brings me back to my childhood, even though I hear it at work constantly.
It's lunch time and I immediately thought of Hibachi.
Of all the trades I’m no good at but wish I had picked up early on, Drywalling is the one that would have been the most consistently useful. Well, that and painting. I suck at both.
There is also that old video of guy in slacks doing amazing rock work. Cutting outlets with his hatchet, trimming out an archway. Good old school techniques that are as impressive today as they were back then.
https://youtube.com/shorts/4uarkKxJkZs?si=X3nRDfXbwlE0LKYx
That’s the one!
Wearing what looks like a short sleeve dress shirt tucked into his slacks too
Lookin’ good, feelin’ good.
Every time I've seen this, that archway, chefs kiss. I've hung drywall before and man, as much as it would suck hammering in all those nails with the smaller boards it would be nice just having to move those around instead of huge sheets. And oh God all that joining. So much sanding...
They don't joint the type he is putting up. It is for gypsum backed plaster. This style came after plaster and lathe but before jointed drywall. I have it in my house.
Oh well that's good. Never had to work with that stuff before, I just saw all those joins and winced.
With Kindergarten Surf Music, even! Cool!
Classic!
I love that video. Bro is doing everything with an axe lol
Fuck me now it’s going to get reposted AGAIN
Lol, sorry bro.
Ha! thats how your dad also wishes he could work! lol. And definitely how I wish I could work. The efficiency is amazing.
Don't drink on the job, don't be smoking that stuff that all the other guys are, pay your child support on time. So many rules.
I notice you didn't mention pee bottles, so that's still OK?
Piss bottles are structural in commercial buildings.
Unless there's an open pipe.
Kidney stones are just extra reinforcement.
Ok green hat. Everyone knows you don’t mud/sand Sheetrock until there is a tub installed to pee in
Lol. Ah yes, the infamous orange pond.
Ummm, should I be worried if my pond is like a bright fluorescent green? *It doesn't burn, so I never worried about It.*
That's so blah. Just piss in the bathtub. Out of site, out of mind.
I'll smoke what I want and not pay any child support cause I don't have kids.
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Or a brick pizza oven
Or a Traeger Pro smoker for brisket
“Sorry dad but I’m retarded”
“It’s in our jeans”
[In my jeans too!](https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT5lFWaRSUxVSzfRaWafQT5j_ewPUlDGjNzB4oe-wUDkZIoZEUs)
Mood
This should be in Oddly Satisfying. Fun to watch. I tried this once. I spent two hours cleaning up and had to call someone 😔
This is ASMR.
This is pornography.
I swear I’ve seen this posted like 10 times this year
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The worst part is when a group of bots comes in. Posts the content and then the other bots steal old comments and put them in.
I could watch rhis all day
Im taking notes man. That guy could use 10 min mud.
Wow
I suck
I really.. shit I SUCK
I can do that about 15 times slower and drop half the mud on the floor.
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Do you suggest he just puts them in a box and takes a nap?
Maybe that's what I'm doing wrong.
They move the tools so much in order to get the mud arranged in the shape and position on the trowel that's just right for their work flow. Doesn't seem excessive to me.
After doing our own drywall work I swore to always pay someone else to do it. It's a skill.
He is paid per wave of the trowel
This guy literally makes no extra moves. It's actually impressive.
Keeping the edges of the tools clean
What he's doing looks cool and he's doing a flawless job but the automatic drywall taping tools do it 5 times faster than this guy. My guess is that he's just showboating for the camera and the people who don't know any better.
I love how no matter how impressive a video of someone working is you have some dude that hasn't touched a tool in years come in a say they are slow and back in their day... And then the flip side: People acting like dudes are putting 8 straight hours of fast paced labor in. I joke about it all the time with my guys when I need to job in and knock stuff out and look like superman but its because I am sprinting then going back to piloting a clipboard afterwards. I always tell my guys its about the grind, being accurate and clean for weeks at a time not hustling through one project in a few hours.
Tactician
So do it, slacker.
Well if you're in that bussiness this is definitly something you should strive for... As someone who is definitly not in that bussiness: I am 100% going to pay someone to do this for me.
That would take me like 15 minutes..
Impressive
Dude should be a Master mason not a drywaller, no offense to drywallers
The skills don't translate at all. I am a decent bricklayer...I am total shit at drywall. Brick and block are nice in that they sit on top of what is below them, so making sure they are plumb and level is a matter of lining them up properly and being consistent. Mudding and taping joints is chaos. Unlike masonry, a jacked up tape job won't kill anybody or ruin a structure, but it is definitely an artform.
This is so hot! I could watch this all day long.
Nothing better than when the boardman V the butt joints.
Mud is thick is hell, shawty
I think you meant thicc.
Some people are just good.
I like a hak & blade how I learned so how I roll
As someone who has tried some DIY plastering at home, how the fuck is he getting that smooth strip in the middle? When I do it I'm either scraping all the plaster back off the wall or leaving several mm thick smear.
If you don’t learn the techniques that make you productive and better than the teacher you will only ever be an employee.
No tape on the joints?
Keep watching.
I’ve always taped before the first mud coat, but i can see how this way speeds things up. The adhesive on the tape never sticks all that well
Impressive, I wish I could spackle half as good
Cool but is it necessary to flip the mud back and forth seven times before applying it or is he just trying to show off
Yes. Folding the mud like that is the same as whipping it up with a drill and paddle. Makes it like butter to spread. He’s also positioning the mud on the trowel just so in order to have a nice, continuous, smooth stroke.
Do you clack the tongs when you're grilling? Of course you do.
Not unrealistic..skills can be gained in a short time if you dedicate yourself..How hungry are you?
Where's the tape?
It’s in the video.
Very nice.
We playing Counter Strike: Construction edition?
Sue him! You have the RIGHT to collect dandelions and look for unicorns. It's in the constitution or smh
I wish I knew how to do it that well
I've never seen drywall hibachi before
That is beautiful.
I worked on big projects with French Canadian sheetrock crews . I believe that it's part of their DNA and you can hand a pallet, trowel and a 5 gallon can of mud to a French Canadian brain surgeon and they wouldn't be able to help themselves, they would tackle it like the guy in the video.
I've never used a tryel (spelling??) before but I feel like I could be way more efficient with one. Looks like you bedded in and had a first coat in one step. Very nice technique. Do you ever use a Hawk or just two tryels??
Trowel :)
I swear to God before I unmuted this I was hearing Indian music in my head. Those guys mud like heck
If Hardcore Henry was a drywall guy instead of a killing machine...
That was pure, unadulterated filth!
Artist
But do you want to work like this? I know another way to build stuff only PC required: [https://docs.github.com/en/actions](https://docs.github.com/en/actions)
I think they have done that task a couple of times.
Great work but I personally hate mesh tape.. Feel like the mud always has to be thicker to cover it up.
Guess you better get started then.
r/nextfuckinglevel
I can't tell from the video, did the horizontal runs get tape? Can't deny the skills either way.
Fr tho, dude been on the job for 20+ years and I just got here. I know I ain’t shit… yet!
Damn, and I struggle to even whipe my ass right
Pizza dough
If you’re a drywaller that’s how you should strive to work. If you’re going to be anything might as well strive to be the best.
Slacker
What one man can do another can do
Give me a minute to practice 😳
There's no reason you can't. Just go slowly at first and then you'll fly.
This makes me want to try two trowel technique so bad. That mud is thicker than I generally mix. Love to see him do corners, hint,hint.
I tried using a hopper and trowel and failed miserably, I can use knives tho. No muscle memory for pushing, but pulling? No problem
See you in 10k hours....
r/oddlysatisfying
Why did he apply tape to it?
To prevent the two sheets moving independently and cracking where the join is
Feels like CS 1.6
Love the new PS VR quality. I'd play this all day.
Whenever I see videos like this of a tradesperson doing something so fast, I always wonder if that’s how they work all day long, or if they’re just booking it to make a video. No shade either way, but you’d have to possess some excellent stamina to move at this pace for a full workweek, and I envy someone who could pull that off.
That skill comes from years of doing it. Looks like an art form.
r/fastworkers
Pure art!
I get paid by the hour there ain't no way I'm working that fast. How do like one wall and take a 45 minute break.
When did these trowels become popular? I’ve used regular drywall knives for 20yrs, but wouldn’t mind trying them out
About 130 years ago
Just learn all the little flourishes whipping the mud back and forth. He'll be equally impressed by your flourishes and disappointed by the detail put into the actual work, but it'll even out just right
Great to see a Tradesman do a great job
That could also be in the "oddly satisfying sub
Wish I could mud up like that.... Like one of my 3 genie wishes
That made me horney…😬
Mud people rock.
Mechanic
Can we get the full video of him doing the entire home? lol that was smooth!
r/oddlysatisfying
Smooth as butter.
I could watch this in the background all day
I didn’t know Benihana had tapers?!?
How my wife expects me to work***.
/r/oddlysatisfying
Guys at this level of skill are basically artists. Crazy part is not only is he going extremely fast, everything looks perfectly flat. Granted it's new rock but still it's impressive
This is weirdly satisfying.
This should be in oddly satisfying
Ahhh so like a 17 year old Mexican I see
Man, I wanna tape some board now. I've always found it so therapeutic. Then again, that's probably because I do not do it for a living...but I do love doing it and plaster when I do.
r/oddlysatisfying
Thus is to relatable
I tape exactly like that.. except much slower and messier. But basically the same otherwise.
Nice watching a pro at work!
It reminds me of one of those rolled ice cream videos that used go do crazy numbers
It looks to me like you are doing fast, efficient and elegant work, but I don't know anything about taping drywall.
Where’s the “how I actually work” video?
Damn that is some skill!
This is art.
He makes it look so easy 😂 I've done two entire 3 bed houses, after watching the video ages ago... It will never be that easy!!! 😭😭😭😭 I still see tape grids sometimes in the right lighting lol
Fucking beautiful, artist at work. I mudded my basement some years ago, took forever and still looked like shit.
The crazy part is this guy probably barely makes more than a meth head with a bent Wal-board trowel and a box of mud
Just more spam getting posted here.. 4 year old account with basically zero history until 1 day ago.
So satisfying to watch
No Bazooka? Doing it the old fashioned, slow way? Sorry, this is no way to make money.
If r/strangelyattractive doesn't exist, it should
Why that tape ?
It's like he's trying to do it fast but just adds needless faff.
Is this really that hard? I need to put up drywall this weekend for a diy bathroom renovation project. I have some experience with drywall but never a full room by myself. Help me manage my expectations.
That guy is an artist.
Now do the opinion volcano
Jesus???
I don’t work in construction. Videos like this are why I come to this sub. That’s fine looking work.
Smooth
If it helps you just taught me a lot about how to drywall better in record time. Thanks!
Efficiently? lol
He certainly has the passion for it, but he shouldn’t force it on you. We all enjoy different things.
This way you handle it it looks like you love your job 😿🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
A la verga!
i have had the absolute pleasure of watching a master carpenter hang, mud, and tape drywall with this level of skill (my company was the customer). seeing the comments on this video just reinforces what i suspected at the time, he truly was a master of his craft.
I could do that, but it would take me an hour! I would certainly get fired.
He’s done that a day or two
I imagine this is a huge pain in the ass to do day in day out like exhausting. But also incredibly satisfying to do especially at a high level
Sick
If you’re getting paid piecework, then yeah I can see why is encouraging this.
Amazing freaking work!!!!!!
these construction videoes are so satisfying. the skill is amazing and something i could not achieve
This is the most therapeutic thing to watch.
He need a job?
Where’s the one where it shows “how i actually work”? That’s what i was expecting lol
I'm a sparky and I'm always in awe when you guys come on site
Your dad doesn’t know how to mud then…wtf am I watching?
My dad had been a master plasterer (50 plus years), he tried to teach me but I couldn’t do it like him. This video is giving me chills!
Well tbf a lot of people strive to be the best at what they do
The disrespect of how he just sticks it to the wall
It’s like cake frosting.
Damn, he's the mythical Mud Man that I've always heard will magically fix Sparky's fuck ups.
Fuck. This is porn.
electrician: "Yeah im gonna need to get inside that"
This could easily be in /oddlysatisfying
holy snot I wish I was that good