Designing Kitchens and Bathrooms - spackling bathroom top of suround??

We have put in a full new bath with a one piece surround, we are at a lose on how to spackle the top of surround! We put all wall board to top of the surround and have a gap of about 1/2 or
less. What should I fill this gap with?

Thanks old harley joe

Welcome to the forums Joe!

Not sure I fully understand, do you mean the gap between the surround and the wall?
If so, it is usually caulked.

Because of such a large gap, you could also use a sheetrock taping knife or wide putty knife to drag across the wall to make the caulk flat with the wall, rather than trying to let it be bulged out in a rounded fashion, like quarter round, or finger-tooled.

I have done many such acrylic latex skim jobs like this and it comes out really nice. Drag the knive along the wall, over what you caulked, and let the edge of the knife ride the tub unit. After you finish it off this way, you will notice that some of the caulk will have squirted out onto the top of the tub unit. Leave that. Let it dry. The edge of the knife will form a cut mark that will allow you, when it dries, to scrape off the excess without any damge to what you caulked.

Thanks for your replies.
What I'm worried about joint compound getting wet at top of
surround. When we moved in house was new, up stairs bath
looks like they taped all around the top and sides, and it's starting to come up in places. So I'm trying to avoid a problem down stairs. up stairs is the next fix up.

Thanks for your help Joe

As long as the j/c is primed and painted with latex enamel - water shouldn't hurt it.

What's a j/c?:)








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j/c - joint compound


too lazy to type all the letters :D