Do a walk through eyeballing the job carefully. You will find obvious mistakes this way and can either correct them immediately or mark them with a pencil to come back later and do a touch up application.
Change lighting and search again for flaws. After all, your room will be used with natural and artificial lighting. Some errors will not appear unless there is bright artificial lighting.
Use “touch” to find uneven drywall application. Run the palm of your hand
over areas to make sure the whole wall feels even.
Perform another inspection after applying the primer coat of paint. Do this again using both natural and artificial lighting.
There are several things to look for when inspecting your drywall finishing work.
Obvious scratches. These need to be coated with joint compound again and re-sanded.
If you find a swollen area in the finished mud, it can be one of two things. Hopefully, it’s only that the area needs to be sanded down.
Sometimes though, it will mean that the tape coat does not have enough mud (joint compound) under it and there is an air bubble. This requires carefully cutting a small...