02-16-2009, 06:49 AM
Thank you Carey,
Sounds like both you and Rob did a similar process of mesh taping and finishing of the Hardie panel joints, with one exception, you also applied a skim coat of joint compound. We have plaster walls in our house now, and when we did all of the renovations plus repairing of cracks in existing walls I used thinset as a finish to the interior layer of brown coat and then a coat of mud over the thinset...only then was I able to get a perfectly smooth finish. So it is good to know that it is something I am familiar with, thus could do it if the money runs short. It will certainly be alot easier than doing a full plaster wall, except for the fact I am a few.... years older!!!
Thanks again,
Barbara Taylor
Hawaii Dreaming
Sounds like both you and Rob did a similar process of mesh taping and finishing of the Hardie panel joints, with one exception, you also applied a skim coat of joint compound. We have plaster walls in our house now, and when we did all of the renovations plus repairing of cracks in existing walls I used thinset as a finish to the interior layer of brown coat and then a coat of mud over the thinset...only then was I able to get a perfectly smooth finish. So it is good to know that it is something I am familiar with, thus could do it if the money runs short. It will certainly be alot easier than doing a full plaster wall, except for the fact I am a few.... years older!!!
Thanks again,
Barbara Taylor
Hawaii Dreaming
Hawaii Dreaming