Found that using a 6 inch knife for the second coat on butt joints saves me about 20 minutes per room.

I was struggling with too many passes on butt joints in a house near Tacoma last month, but switching to a wider knife spread the mud flatter and cut my sanding time way down, has anyone else tried going bigger on those joints?

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quinn_nguyen16d ago

You and @sean_murray are making me feel like I've been living under a rock with my 4 inch knife. I switched to a 6 inch on my last job and it was night and day, way less time fighting with mud ridges.

sean_murray16d ago

... and here I thought my 4 inch knife was the perfect tool for everything, guess I've been the slow kid in class this whole time. Switching to a bigger one for my last job near Seattle felt like cheating, but the mud actually laid down flat instead of looking like a topographic map. Guess I'll have to apologize to my sanding block for all those extra passes it suffered through.