Notes on drywall, plaster, taping and paint.
Paint straight onto new board and the joints come back to haunt you. The reason is not the paint. It is that two different materials are drinking it at two different rates.
There is an industry scale from 0 to 5 for how finished a wall is. Knowing it turns a vague argument about quality into a specific thing you can ask for.
Not every wall needs plastering over the top of the taping. The ones that do are almost always decided by one thing: where the light comes from.
The hole is filled, the wall is sanded, the paint is on — and you can still see exactly where the repair was. There are only a few reasons, and none of them is the paint.
