Tinting Drywall Mud

Tim0282

I take it you are a dealer for Never-Miss...???
Sounds like it would work just fine.
But the lady here wants to use chalk.
You say this product makes it easier to prime. How so?
I ordered two bottles to try. I would rather have blue in the big bottle...

A+ Texture LLC

Not sure, I'd just go and wipe out their denim blue. If someone wanted to dye a shirt that day. Nuts to them.

A+ Texture LLC

I did a dark test spot, It did not bleed through the texture or straight paint so I'm not sure what your basing that on. Maybe it depends on the color you use. But I have to say that if it really primes the mud, thats pretty cool. All the same I'll probably stick with rit. But I will look into the free sample. Does it affect how texture would shoot thru a hopper gun?

Never-Miss

No sir it doesn't affect anything and I base it on feild testing where to much color is added and with NM that can't happen. because the color sands away

JustMe

Where did you get it? I liked mine, with its big footprint, especially for things like initial rough sanding. Could move along, with no flipping. But I leaned it against a wall and it fell over and broke where the metal pin meets up with the plastic head.

brdn_drywall

there's a link to it on the trim-tex site right on the homepage.

JustMe

Thanks, brdn. For others, the homepage:

http://www.trim-tex.com/

Offer is in the upper right hand corner.

brdn_drywall

free is good........but man i have got to learn how to post links I'm gettin embarrassed.

JustMe

Well, there's something to work on. The part about getting embarrassed about something like that, I mean.

Tim0282

Just type the website like you are going to get on their site. Then highlight it and do the command key while holding down the command key push the letter C. Now go back to the forum and start typing in a reply and when you are ready to put the link in just push the command key then the letter V. And viola, there appears the website all ready to be clicked on. How's that for a simple explanation?

brdn_drywall

http://trim-tex

brdn_drywall

hahaaa thanx tim....oops don't think that worked as well as i thought it did.

JustMe

Another way to create links is to type in the link and then hit your 'Enter' key. Your cursor will drop down to the next line, and the link will go blue on your screen.

www.trim-tex.com

or

http://trim-tex.com

brdn_drywall

www.trim-tex.com that's much easier....thnx justme

JustMe

You're welcome. There's a few ways to do such things. That's one of them.

There's still things like linking to a page in a website, and bringing it back and entering it into your post. Those addresses can often get too long for what you just did. There's a few ways to do it, too, and somewhat longer to describe how to do. At least the 2 ways I mostly do it. If you're interested in figuring out that one - eg. linking to the actual free sander page on Trim-Tex's site: http://www.trim-tex.com/giveaway.htm - let me know.

brdn_drywall

now your just freaking me out way to much to handle for 1 day , i'll continue my tutorial tomorrow.

JustMe

Make sure you're considering all factors here. The company I'm involved with does lots of new construction, and some things can get missed when sanding, and sometimes do. Then unhappy painters, unhappy GCs, unhappy ......, time tied up, more labor costs, less profits, ...... . If the benefits are as stated - which Never-Miss says they are, and is willing to supply samples - just taking care of those aspects a little better would make bottles of this more than pay for themselves for my company. We'll also be looking at other things such as the potential no flashing benefits of it as well, especially for some jobs.

And if the color sands off each time because it's supposed to come to the surface when the mud dries, then you should be able to reuse a color more than once on a job. Yellow, blue, (green?), yellow, blue, ...... . Some of our guys could just go to something like yellow, sand, yellow, sand, ........ .

Your GC might be willing to accommodate you if you talk with him/her/them about some of this. And if that one doesn't go for it, other GCs you work for might.

LadyFinisher

Justme, you have some really good points and I take another look at it. I don't remember reading about the color coming to the surface when dry but I could have miss it. Thank you for your input.

Darren@Partners

You color tint salesmen ought to review the posting rules

Never-Miss

Hey Guys I am not tyring to sell you anything everybody likes free! Thanks for listening