Damn to hell the lazy assed contractor who discovered that spraying drywall putty on a ceiling and letting it dry was a fast way to "finish" a ceiling!! I hope he spends a few lifetimes in hell, and his penance will be to scrape, refill, sand and re-texture a million ceilings!!
Can anyone tell what I have been doing this weekend???? I swear there must be a special place in heaven for contractors who really "finish" ceilings. (you know, the pretty swirly ones, or the nice flat ones) This has got to be one of the WORST jobs I have ever done in this re-model. It may well be the worst job I have ever done. The wetting down and scraping was bad enough - now I have sanded all the areas that David filled (because the LAZY contractor who origionally did this house must have been running low on drywall mud, so didn't fill in all the low spots correctly...Hell, I tell you! ) After I finished, I realized that despite my very best efforts to avoid it, there is a fine dusting of - well, DUST! - all over the house! I have had to vacuum, dust and damp dust almost every surface in the entire house (except the rooms whose doors were shut) Tomorrow we will be spraying the new "texture" on the ceilings, and I will NEVER do this again!! Once these are done, I don't care how it looks, It is staying!!
I have to go blow more drywall dust out my nose..... :-(