“Some of the coatings people put on drywall, textured coatings for ceilings or walls, drywall mud prior to 1990, some of those materials contained asbestos.” Complicating the situation at the ...
While a plastic putty knife is suitable for minor patching jobs, the lack of flexibility makes it more difficult to lay an even coat of spackle drywall mud, and it can’t function as a scraper.