Sentence examples for skim coat from inspiring English sources

Off went the skim coat of concrete.

What's the difference between skim coat and prep coat?

Replastering requires two coats: a basic, coarser plaster followed by a smooth, thinner skim coat.

The rest of the apartment was given a new skim coat of plaster and a new paint job.

Her skin had been plastered and powdered to the texture of prewar walls in need of a skim coat.

The only surfaces intact were the beams, the ceiling and the flagstone in the entryway — and even that was under a skim coat of concrete".

They had the walls skim coated and painted and, as their agent put it, "cleaned off 70 years of gunk".

His answer: judicious use of color (each room has one wall painted a distinctive hue) and texture (bleached wood paneling, high-end fabric wall covering, bare cement surfaces with a thin layer of skim coating).

Apply skim coats of drywall joint compound over ugly textured plaster, to get a smooth surface for paint, wallpaper or new texture.

You will only need a few simple tools to skim-coat.

If the walls are firm with perhaps an occasional crack or hole, then you can skim-coat them.