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7. Three floats, with successively larger blades.

On smooth wall we generally did four floats over the tape seams and nail heads, then sprayed a full covering coat of USG's First Coat, or Sherwin-Williams High Build drywall primer.

On some very high-end smooth wall jobs the tapers would skim coat the whole wall as their final step, and we would come in and shoot either the High Build or the First Coat.

After that, we used a screen on a sanding stick, using just enough pressure on the stick to keep the screen on the wall. It goes very quickly, leaves no dust, and provides an excellent base for a beautiful finish, especially in rooms where lighting was very unforgiving.