Have drywall or sheetrock repairs that need sanding but don't want to deal with the fine particles settling for the next week? Try wet sanding.
What is Wet Sanding?
Wet sanding is where you sand drywall compound with a damp cloth, as opposed to using sandpaper. In a lot of cases it's cleaner and easier. Great for when you have to fill a small hole in a wall or even nail holes for instance.
How to Wet Sand
- After your joint compound has dried, dampen a sponge, cotton or microfibre cloth and rub the area. Microfibre or sponges work the best because they also create a bit of abrasion.
- The area will become slightly wet and particle will disappear, smooth out and absorb into the sponge.
- Continue until you've achieved the flat smoothness you're looking for.
Mary Werner
Suggestion for next video - cleaning the porta potty - was that a discreet shot of your "amenities" in the final "end" shot? Now I have damp skivvies! Where did the name, skivvies, come from I wonder.
Stephanie Finucane
Love it, Karen! Just keeping it real and it was still really helpful!!
Ev
I find that some instructional videos are dry and boring. Not this one! Would like to see the cute li'l dancing robot though!
Erin
LOVE. I LOL'd so much I got strange looks from the others in the office - and it was totally worth it. Great vid ;]]
Debbie from Illinois
Ha! Love this video. :-)
marilyn
i feel sick
Linda S in NE
Ohhhhh, I got a little nauseated there, myself! But I'll be back.
Emily
I was drinking my coffee while watching so now I have to use a DAMP cloth to clean the coffee off my screen! Thanks you SO much for the laugh this morning !
Darlene
I think I will submit this to some organization for an Oscar, Emmy or whatever award I can come up with...GREAT video!!!
Su
great video! think you might have a future kid in this communications area :)
Nicole2
Oh yeah, much more enlightened on wet sanding there, lol! Your video is a microcosm of my entire life.
Janet
I love the beginning when you take us on a tour and comment, "Mess, mess, mess, mess...!" We all understand there is mess when you're renovating. Thanks for being REAL.
Rhonda SmartyPants
Yes, Janet. You and me both loved the 'mess, mess, mess' portion of the video. Hey, Karen, how about a contest where we send you videos of our homes and you can see our 'mess, mess, mess.' I guarantee I would win and I'm not doing any renovations - just livin' and making a 'mess, mess, mess.' In fact, from now on I'm going to refer to any mess as 'mess, mess, mess.'
Susan Preston
I should go pee before I watch anymore of your Oscar contenders!
Karen
Yes. Sometimes when things are of such high quality and so good I pee too. ~ karen!
Jenny
Do I love the robot or the wet sanding video!?! Do I have to choose!?!
Robots doing wet sanding....ohhhhh. Mind blown.
And why is it called wet sanding when it is really damp sanding?
Marti
I'm totally going to send this in for a "how (NOT) to do a DIY video" nomination. Where's that entry form? I'll win a ba-zillion dollars.
So your website is now going to number responses? And not only number them, but correctly number and align replies? Perhaps you should teach it Roman numbers and to use lettering from the alphabet, too. I'm always amazed at how your website grows and develops. Is numbering replies a trend somewhere?
Karen
LOL. I have no idea. Waylay recoded my site for me due to a few technical issues and BOOM suddenly the comments are numbered. ~ karen!
Marti
They have the BEST CUSTOMER SERVICE IN WEB DEVELOPMENT EVER. EVER.
Did I say EVER yet?
Did you get them to try the carrot soup yet? I buy the big 5 and 10 pound bags of carrots at Costco and just dump 'em in the pot... and then gobble that stuff up!
Larraine
I don't know if this is the proper time or place to jump in with an opinion but here goes anyway -- I do not like the "Name says: ..." part of the new format. Somehow it seems redundant, repetitive and distracting. Well, I can't get this to italicize "says" and I guess "redundant and repetitive " is redundant and repetitive -- but it is distracting.
Tigersmom
Ok, only 4 comments have been posted and only 3 are visible to me and yet, 2 of the comments say what I was going to say.
I love you, too. Not in a creepy way. In a you make me laugh way. I love your pointy halo in the beginning of this video. It gives you this strange angelic quality, but with an edge. If someone hadn't seen anything else that you have said, written or done, that chandelier might be, to them, the sharpest thing in your house. The rest of this video is classic Karen. Love. It.
As for your sharpness, we know better, your genius is evident in the fact that you purchased that first set of piggy salt and pepper shakers months ago. I know I said thanks already, but seriously, they are perfectly done with the exact amount of detail and look amazing on my counter next to my stove. I smile every morning when I use them. Thank you again.
Oh, and I like the new numbers on the comments. Very helpful for referencing another comment and for those of us who struggle with counting before coffee.
Kim
I don't know about the best. instructional. video. ever. but OMG, I died laughing while watching it! In fact, still chuckling. Loved loved loved your technique for switching the camera view around. OMG, just thinking about it has inspired another laughing fit. You are AWESOME!
dana
Great video. Instructional & entertaining. I watched it twice & giggled both times when you said "rag, butt"-yep, i am 8. You have pretty blue eyes. Love your blog!! Cant wait to see your finished kitchen. Its going to be so cool.
Karen
Thanks Dana - Yeah, I'm pretty excited about seeing a finished kitchen myself, LOL! ~ karen
Muff
Best. instructional. video. EVER for sure! A great technique though - have you tried using a damp scrubby sponge instead of a cloth? I found that to be quicker and easier to rinse the drywall compound out of when it got full. Whichever you use, it beats the tar out of getting drywall dust in your nostrils!
PS - the piggie salt and pepper arrived the other day! They are perfect for my cousin and will make a wonderful housewarming gift for her new apartment!
Michelle @ Sweetsuite10
Bahahaha! BEST. VIDEO. EVER! Well, except for the dancing robot from yesterday. Okay, maybe it's a tie. You'll obviously need to post another video tomorrow to break the tie - what will it be?
Emily
I agree... another video another video.. please please please !
Tash @ The Dreamhouse Project
Haha...ah-maz-ing! Karen that was seriously the. best. instructional. video. EVER! I love you. Wait is it weird to say that? Oh well...
Wet sanding!! Who knew?? SO smart, and way cleaner. I'll definitely be trying this. Thanks for sharing!
Karen
Well. It was a pretty amazing video, Tash. I have to agree. I mean, it would just be fake modesty to pretend otherwise. ~ karen!
Rhonda SmartyPants
Tash, there is nothing weird about telling Karen you love her. Nothing at all weird about it. I've done it several times; actually, only once, but I've thought it soooooooo many times that it feels like I've told her more often than only once. It isn't weird to tell someone who is fabulous and funny and talented and, well, a teensy bit weird, how deeply you care about them. I think that is the most wonderful reason the word 'love' was invented, just so people could tell other people that they loved them and everyone would get what that meant with only one word.
Lest you wonder how I came to be such an authority on this topic (easy answer: look at my name - duh!) I will let you know that when my daughter was about nine years old, this is how she would introduce me to her friends, "This is my mom, Rhonda Davis. She's weird." She had the cutest little speech impediment at the time but I have no idea how to translate that for the full effect. I've never figured out nor asked her what it was that made me 'weird,' but I've always considered my three children to be geniuses (my side of the family!), so I would just shrug my shoulders slightly and warmly smile as I extended my hand to complete the introduction.
I add this caution, please do not take my endorsement that telling Karen you love her is not weird and begin telling all sorts of people you love them. In other words, this whole subject is best dealt with on a case-by-case basis. Not being weird is a tricky business - it can become weird with just one misplaced usage and then you're on your own, Miss Tash.
Tash @ The Dreamhouse Project
Rhonda SmartyPants you are awesome. Thanks for the advice! And I think we should all embrace our weirdness. I know I do. It's part of what makes us unique and interesting in ways that make people want to read the things we post online - and I love that story about your daughter. Too funny!
Gail
Not weird at all- I told my daughters if I 'went that way', you'd be my first pick! Cause I just love everything you come up with- keep it going!!
cheryl
VERY cool video, who ever knew it could be fun....I'm wondering if the same tecnique will work on on rough feet....GO ahead an laugh, that was my intention to give you all a smile....happy sunday..