Getting Smoothing Compound to Dry – Fast

Digital Image  Many homes here in Houston have textured walls.  The texture will show through wallpaper and look bad, and it also prevents good adherence to the wall (because the paper wants to stick to a smooth, flat surface, not to the tops of bumps on the wall).

 

 

 

So I smooth the wall by troweling on a smoothing compound (drywall joint compound), which is similar to plaster,