mud, tape, repeat

With the drywall up, our next moves in the bedroom have been to seal it up good and tight in preparation for painting. In preparation, we watched a couple videos on how to tape and mud, since neither Matt nor I had done it before. To be honest, it didn't look to bad, so we dove right in.

First we removed all the old tape and made sure we had a clean surface to work with.

Then, Matt mixed up a tray full of mud about the consistancy of "runny sour cream" (This was a tip from one of the videos for working with tape, since the tape will absorb some of the moisture)

Then we slathered it on liberally, laid a piece of tape up and squeezed out all the excess. Forgive the lack of "during" pictures... I was helping and got a little covered in mud, which I didn't want to get on the camera. The end results look something like this:

In the corner

At the intersections

Matt also put up the piece of board that we had to take down that it got wet

And patched the small hole we cut to run some wire in a pretty ingenious way. First he measured and then he carefully cut out a piece leaving some of the paper around it. That way when he put it up, he could mud around it and it would stick.

Like so

We'll float some mud around it to smooth it out and then you won't even be able to tell.

As an added bonus, we had to take down a bunch of the trim to get into the corners, which is fine because we were planning to replace it anyway.

And, because he loves us so much, Leroy even got in on the action, he must have sat in it somewhere (don't worry, we cut it out so the little guy wouldn't get it caught it in his throat.

We've still got some to go, but we're working out way through it.