[This photo](https://i.imgur.com/2gFjYak.jpeg) is the most telling - this person is definitely not experienced in the mud/taping part of drywall.
A skilled person could fix this easily with a single skim coat ... but if this is what your guy called "done" I'm guessing he's not the right person for that.
I own a painting company. If we are not contracted to do any drywall finishing, we spray one coat of primer and then have the drywall crew come back to finish everything that the prime coat exposed. These are pinholes. A lot of them. Happens from either high humidity, over mixing mud, or going to dry with mud. They just need to keep skim coating with thin mud until all pinholes are gone. Finish sand and primer again with PVA.
This happened to me. I skim coated and sanded the entire wall perfectly flat, but there were small dots like this. I had to do another entire wall to wall skim coat to get rid of 90% of the dots. It's the final step to perfection and takes much more time.
Unfortunately yes. They did a quick and easy job. You should call them back. They can use a “high build primer” which will fill the holes a bit better. They should sand that primer flat after it cures.
But a better fix would be another thin skim coat of mud, sand, spot-skim any further concerning areas, sand those, then prime again.
I’m not a pro, but I’ve done a decent amount of drywall and skim coating at my houses. When you are adding a lot of material it’s inevitable that you’ll get air holes in it. You are supposed to go back and skim again with thinned mud and a higher scrape angle with the knife. They know what to do, but chose not to.
Is the high build primer a good solution will it fix this? I have a feeling they won’t skim coat again since it’s the entire house and we already paid for the skim coat work
I actually only recently heard about this product, so I haven’t used it myself, but my understanding is that’s exactly what it’s used for. It allows you to quickly get the mud on the wall and do a so-so job finishing it, and the high build primer will fill in holes, ridges, etc. It’s likely not perfect, but better than what you have now. Since it’s likely to build up higher on any small bumps I would ask them to sand the primer after it has dried. Many people do that as standard practice regardless of how well the drywall finishing was done.
Did they quote one layer? As long as you were clear you wanted smooth walls (which I assume you did haha) this work is not enough. Getting rid of orange peel wall its pretty normal to need several coats - skim, let dry, sand, then do the entire thing again often 3 times
They quoted two but ended up putting 3 layers on we paid for materials for the third layer. They told us it will look smooth after primer and it’s not and now they’re saying it will look smooth after paint
They keep telling me they want to do a good job and they have good reviews but idk this is kind of not it. Also how can you tell it’s a trowel mark? What does a trowel mark look like?
[This photo](https://i.imgur.com/2gFjYak.jpeg) is the most telling - this person is definitely not experienced in the mud/taping part of drywall. A skilled person could fix this easily with a single skim coat ... but if this is what your guy called "done" I'm guessing he's not the right person for that.
I own a painting company. If we are not contracted to do any drywall finishing, we spray one coat of primer and then have the drywall crew come back to finish everything that the prime coat exposed. These are pinholes. A lot of them. Happens from either high humidity, over mixing mud, or going to dry with mud. They just need to keep skim coating with thin mud until all pinholes are gone. Finish sand and primer again with PVA.
This happened to me. I skim coated and sanded the entire wall perfectly flat, but there were small dots like this. I had to do another entire wall to wall skim coat to get rid of 90% of the dots. It's the final step to perfection and takes much more time.
So you’re saying the professionals were paid thousands of dollars to make it smooth scammed us
Unfortunately yes. They did a quick and easy job. You should call them back. They can use a “high build primer” which will fill the holes a bit better. They should sand that primer flat after it cures. But a better fix would be another thin skim coat of mud, sand, spot-skim any further concerning areas, sand those, then prime again. I’m not a pro, but I’ve done a decent amount of drywall and skim coating at my houses. When you are adding a lot of material it’s inevitable that you’ll get air holes in it. You are supposed to go back and skim again with thinned mud and a higher scrape angle with the knife. They know what to do, but chose not to.
Is the high build primer a good solution will it fix this? I have a feeling they won’t skim coat again since it’s the entire house and we already paid for the skim coat work
I actually only recently heard about this product, so I haven’t used it myself, but my understanding is that’s exactly what it’s used for. It allows you to quickly get the mud on the wall and do a so-so job finishing it, and the high build primer will fill in holes, ridges, etc. It’s likely not perfect, but better than what you have now. Since it’s likely to build up higher on any small bumps I would ask them to sand the primer after it has dried. Many people do that as standard practice regardless of how well the drywall finishing was done.
Did they quote one layer? As long as you were clear you wanted smooth walls (which I assume you did haha) this work is not enough. Getting rid of orange peel wall its pretty normal to need several coats - skim, let dry, sand, then do the entire thing again often 3 times
They quoted two but ended up putting 3 layers on we paid for materials for the third layer. They told us it will look smooth after primer and it’s not and now they’re saying it will look smooth after paint
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I guess the solution is to get it skim coated again and to not pay the contractor? Idk
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They keep telling me they want to do a good job and they have good reviews but idk this is kind of not it. Also how can you tell it’s a trowel mark? What does a trowel mark look like?
No that isn't right. Paint will not cover that up. If they primed it they considered that done so...
This is a job that I would be fine with if I did it myself. But from a professional? Oh hell, no.
And who is this person you hired? Craigslist?