Here's my situation: I hired someone to do my drywall. I'm trying to have the entire d*** kitchen done by about August 22, when about 50 people are coming over for a party, but I think I'll give up on that and just route 'em all outside. Here's the problem: The guy came for three days then left for a week to go camping. Before he left, he told me that he'd come over and fix anything that I didn't like. OK, so I started really looking at it the next day (after paying him ... SIGH... idiot alert). Well, he wasn't that great of a drywall guy. You can see patches, etc., and he actually missed a few parts. So I, being the town idiot, tried to do it myself. Then I thought "hey, let me see how it looks with primer on it." It looks AWFUL. The primer that I used was some wierd cheap stuff from Home Depot that my carpenter lugged over (called 'the gripper') that says that it's a water-based enamel paint. I THOUGHT that I could paint primer, then sand, but now when I try to sand the primer, it kind of chunks off in a layer. aargh. Emotionally I am now convinced that I have totally wrecked the wall. Also, I am so mad that after I paid to install the entire new wall (I was replacing wood paneling), it's wrecked, that I could spit. It's now 5 AM and I've been up stewing for a while on this, can anybody offer advice? The problem is that there are patches of drywall that are obviously not flat underneath primer now. Can a painter help me? Can a drywaller help me? Mine will return next Monday. idiotically yours, cat Hmmn, since everybody has siglines, I guess mine should be: impatient mom from CA (btw, am still trying to install 4 new sprinkler valves by the 22nd also.