

Repairing them requires an appropriate attention to detail to make your home a pleasant place to live. We take the time to skim every surface we work on to make sure the painted wall or ceiling is perfectly smooth and consistent. Old plaster walls with cracks or crumbling spots, dented or water damaged drywall, areas where wallpaper has been removed, and freshly installed drywall are all candidates for a good skim coating job. For a paint job to be aesthetically appealing, properly applied, and long-lasting, the wall and ceiling surfaces it adheres to need to be well prepared. Doing a quick rough sand between coats will allow you to skim tighter and you will have way less chunks getting in your mud.
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We are a team of professional interior painters proudly serving Minneapolis and the surrounding suburbs, and we understand that painting is really the final step of a longer, more thorough preparation process. Delaminated and damaged areas caused by wallpaper removal.


Before primer is applied or paint is rolled, a layer of skim coating can help smooth over and repair imperfections and damaged areas on walls and ceilings. Skim coating is one of the most important skills a professional painter can have. Probably would take longer to scrape as you would have to carry around a bench to scrape ceiling joints and stuff. In a job with 15,000 sq ft of drywall it might take an hour at most to rough sand. Starting with a smooth, even surface is the foundation of a good paint job. Skim coating is the process of applying a very thin covering of joint compound, also called mud, to smooth out rough wall and ceiling surfaces. Doing a quick rough sand between coats will allow you to skim tighter and you will have way less chunks getting in your mud.
