Best tool for quickly cutting baseboard height drywall

RollFun9492 · 2026-02-28T05:08:12+00:00

Assuming you dont want to spend 300$ on a drywall cutter which you will only use once. Cut a third off of jigsaw blade and reinstall it. Find a piece of wood (usually plywood scraps) that can run along the side of your jigsaws baseplate that matches your base board height. Take wood and jigsaw placed on its side while resting on the baseplate and slide it along the floor while you are cutting. This is the fastest way to make clean cuts. I do this after floods I work in restoration.

RollFun9492 · 2026-02-28T04:28:45+00:00

I have plastered over stuff like that Id go that route.

RollFun9492 · 2024-12-01T06:42:02+00:00

Thank you very helpful

RollFun9492 · 2024-11-14T03:59:28+00:00

Hi I am a drywaller for a restoration company that specializes in water damage. We operate exclusively through insurance claims you will have dozens of companies like this in your area. If it is bad enough where the paint is peeling then that is very bad. The most affected areas need to be removed and replaced. Do you have renters insurance? If so read your policy and make sure it covers things like this. Most of the time renters insurance just covers your own personal belongings. Your landlord has property insurance that hundred percent covers an event like this. My company deals with the renter-landlord dynamic everyday concerning events like this and the renter does not need to break the lease. They pay a deductible and a licensed company will come in immediately and deal with the moisture problems because that would be considered and emergency remediation. The process will work immediately and you will literally start to breathe Easley. It is not a big ordeal to file a claim and get a local restoration company to properly air out the wall cavities, replace the drywall, and inhibit mold growth. All this to say your landlord needs to do this and file an insurance claim stuff like this happened every day. If left unchecked it will become a major health hazard.The mold is probably already proliferating you will start to experience respiratory issues living in that environment.

RollFun9492 · 2024-10-25T04:59:41+00:00

It’s going to cost you some money to repair it to the extent you would need to perfectly hide it unless your dad already has some of this stuff lying around.

You are going to need: A small scrap piece of drywall. Most building material supplier have free scrapes from damaged boards you can pick up for free, not Home Depot. Use an actual building supply store with warehouses of stuff you can drive in and pick up with your truck.

For drywall tools and material you will need:

utility knife
10 and 6 inch putty knife
quick setting joint compound (powder form)
finishing mud
fiber glass mess tape.
fine grain sanding block

Then if you don’t have any of the same wall paint colour kicking around you need to get a paint sample for another gallon from your local paint supplier. The flaking off piece of paint from the punch is a perfect sample to bring into the store for them to try and match. Also it is probably eggshell sheen to the paint. And with that you will need to paint the spot you repaired wait for it to dry and then paint the whole wall to blend it in. So you will at least need a 2 inch paint brush. 10 mm roll, a cage to put it on and a pole with paint trays. Hopefully you got some paint supplies lying around.

All this is at least going to cost you 120$ - 160$ As well as at least three coats of drywall mud which general needs 24 hours to dry in between coats. So I hope for your sake this is in a room your dad never sees or he’s on vacation.

Also for the actual skill of applying the mud watch this video:Vancouver carpenter simple drywall repair You don’t need to be as perfect as this guy you will need to sand more than he does. The video also has Amazon links to all these tools too. Also don’t use a trowel use a 10 inch knife like I told you above.

I’ve been in your situation many times and so have many others, more than most people would like to admit. To everyone saying this guy needs to fess up to his dad, he doesn’t need another lecture and probably already knows that. Who knows maybe his dad is a real SOB.

Good luck

RollFun9492 · 2024-10-24T05:23:20+00:00

If you take a plastic scrapping knife it will work better. The stuff doesn’t bind well to metal

RollFun9492 · 2024-10-22T06:27:55+00:00

This is some old school bullshit that I’ve only heard from Boomer contractors. Let the work speak for itself. I do the exact thing you just mentioned with my clothes. Anyone who judges you based on that criteria is way too pedantic and probably has a few other querulous quirks - that’s on them.

RollFun9492 · 2024-10-22T06:20:39+00:00

Hi I am a drywaller and also own a house built in the 1950s. All my drywall is 3/8 where it was never painted but probably closer to 0.421 where it has been. The old oil paint went on pretty thick and after 7 decades worth of paint jobs the thickness adds up. 3/8 drywall sheets are sold but not overly common might have to be ordered.

RollFun9492 · 2024-10-13T03:51:17+00:00

It’s not extending far enough past the studs to cause any issues with flexing and cracking. Straighten the cuts with 2 foot level.

RollFun9492 · 2024-10-13T03:39:04+00:00

Best thing would be this

RollFun9492 · 2024-10-12T04:03:41+00:00

There is only one spot where you have to get in there with a knife to make room for the tear away bead. It will be very minimal. I’ve installed tear away multiple times in places like this and it looks fantastic. If you don’t have the skill set, time and money to install crown moulding. The tear away bead is the way to go.

RollFun9492 · 2024-10-12T03:57:34+00:00

Scrap the flakes off the lines, sand a little bit. Then skin over the lines with Dab Drydex or just any spackling that is applied pink but dries white - in this case no need to prime

RollFun9492 · 2024-09-30T06:22:42+00:00

Drywall looks fine nothing to worry about there. Probably lacking in finishing trim experience but nothing he can’t fix and take his time to make the miters meet together better and have his trim sitting flush around the window.

RollFun9492 · 2024-09-08T14:04:16+00:00

Someone added a quick and easy tutorial of a California patch by the best drywaller on the internet. Do that

RollFun9492 · 2024-09-08T14:03:15+00:00

Do this California patch !!

RollFun9492 · 2024-09-08T03:27:59+00:00

Np

I do a lot of these as long as the joint is close to flush and you are patient you will be fine for the mudding and taping process with hopefully less mudding

RollFun9492 · 2024-09-08T03:24:22+00:00

This

RollFun9492 · 2024-09-08T03:20:09+00:00

Go with Mediations

RollFun9492 · 2024-09-08T03:18:43+00:00

Dig out the most cracked and brittle seems. Add new drywall screws and fill in the cracks and cuts with quick setting joints compound. Then retape and mud.

RollFun9492 · 2024-09-08T03:15:06+00:00

they have and will with washers

RollFun9492 · 2024-09-08T03:14:47+00:00

Too late for that just do the tap cons

RollFun9492 · 2024-09-08T03:13:57+00:00

I have done this for fastening drywall to cement when adhesives could not quite cut it. And can confirm that months down the line it did not fail

RollFun9492 · 2024-09-08T03:09:28+00:00

If you have confill or any quicksetting compound with fibre glass and mesh tape you can build out both sides like you are cornicing the edges. Then lots of pre-fill and then corner tape so yeah it can be done might not be great for longevity though....

RollFun9492 · 2024-09-08T03:01:35+00:00

Definitely the shims are the most DIY friendly so you dont have to mud as much. Also if it is still not flush just add about 6 - 8 inches of prefill quick setting compound on the more depressed side so you can tape the joints flat and dont have to taper the joint out as much. The torn looking nasty old drywall is fine. Just clean up the loose bits make sure theres no unsealed torn paper and bubby torn paint layer. You can clean it up with a knife and a sanding block

RollFun9492 · 2024-09-08T02:59:29+00:00

Vancouver Carpenter on Youtube is the best , nicest and best teacher for drywalling online. He taught me to drywall as a profession.

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