Puttying any surfaces ispreparatory operation before finishing. With its help, make sure that the walls were smooth and smooth and the wallpaper, pasted on them, looked beautiful. Puttying the corners of the walls is also necessary before they are whitewashed or painted. 
Putty is the preparation of the surface beforefinishing finish. Putty is a special composition, by which various defects and roughness are eliminated. If puttying a flat surface is simple enough, puttying corners can cause difficulties for a novice master.
Mixtures for puttying
Scheme of preparation of putty. For finishing works, two types of putty mixes are used. 1st - starting - serves to level the walls. It has large fractions of the composition and after it it is necessary to perform the final puttying. It is designed to prepare the surface of the walls for subsequent finishing operations. The building market offers putty as in dry form for further independent preparation, and in the finished one. For the preparation of putty, the dry mixture is poured into the water at room temperature in the proportions indicated on the package and mixed thoroughly. Prepare a fresh solution, shpaklyuyut wall. Back to contents</a>
Methods of puttying
It is enough simply to fill the room, ifBefore this, the walls were high-quality plastered or for gypsum plasterboard construction. In the latter case, use a fiberglass mesh, which is simply pressed into the plaster solution, on top of which a layer of putty is applied. If the corners are uneven, then in order to putty them, use different methods. Specialists, as a rule, use 3 methods. 
Filling of corners: a-in - internal; r - external. 1 - Sheeting sheets; 2 - paper tape; 3 - putty over the tape; 4 - the covering layer. The first option involves puttying with a wide spatula. This is the most qualitative method. However, it is worth preparing for the fact that this work will require significant labor and time costs. Even if the angle has excess plaster solution, this method allows them to completely eliminate. Putty put a thin layer in any direction - from the bottom up or vice versa. Puttying the corners of the walls begin on one side, putting as much pressure as possible on the spatula. Then wait for the final drying of the composition and proceed to the other side. If the surface has been stuccoed before the puttying, the process becomes more complicated. In order to remove excess plaster, use a variety of tools - sandpaper or grinder. In particularly difficult cases, the Bulgarian are used. Removing excess solution, make a putty using a wide spatula - first one side of the corner, and then the other. If the corners of the walls are uneven, but in the future it is planned to decorate the walls for painting, they can be leveled with a finishing putty, preventing the formation of sags. Since puttying with the finishing putty should be carried out in several layers, preliminary plastering is not necessary. If in the future we plan to glue the wallpaper, this method is not recommended to fill the corners of the walls. To the angles were perfectly even, professionals advise to use perforated corners, placing them on a still raw putty.
