Repair failing tape joints @ exterior entrance ceiling in Melbourne , Fl

Gotta Love 20 minute mud!

Arrival time @ customer residence 8:30am.

The Job: Repair failing tape joints @ exterior entrance ceiling. 9' x 12' and 14' up. Skim Coat entire ceiling. Re-texture the entire ceiling with an Skip Trowel texture. Prime and Paint with Sherwin Williams A100 exterior Paint.

Before repair:

Tools needed to do the mud work.


So I retaped and muded all of the tape joints 2 coats with two seperate batches of 20 minute mud.

Skim coated one side of the vaulted ceiling. One batch of 20 minute.


Skim coated the other side of the vaulted ceiling. One batch of 20 minute.


Ate lunch.


After lunch it was dry enough to texture.

After the Skip Trowel texture was applied:


Clean up & roll up. Outta there by 2:30pm.

Next day, time to Prime w/ Zinnser 123 and Paint w/ Sherwin Williams exterior super paint.

Primed & Painted. (Took 3 hours total.)

Total time for entire job: Less than 9 hours.

Thanks Sheetrock 20 minute mud.