Taping Drywall Corners

Creating perfectly smooth wall corners with This Old House general contractor Tom Silva. In closets and other low-priority areas dont tape and mud inside corners.

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The basic premise for laying a drywall inside corner.

Taping drywall corners. Lay down joint compound on both sides of the corner. When taping and finishing drywall people seem to struggle most with inside corners. Taping inside corners is done in three steps on three different days.

For links to purchase the. This advice also applies to the newer tape-on or glue-on beads which I prefer over nail-on metal beads. The temptation is to try to work on both sides of a corner at once.

In addition there are usually no seams or gaps along the corner bead edge if there are gaps use joint tape. After each coat dries I use a pole sander with 150-grit paper to knock down bumps or rough spots. Scoop some pre-mixed joint compound onto a hawk then apply the compound to the wall corner with a 6-inch drywall knife.

Pull it tight and press it into the compound every foot or so. Tear the end of the tape to a slight point that fits the corner. Follow my system for professional quality drywall finishing even if it is your first time.

Use a drywall knife to embed the tape into the corner one edge at a time. Finishing drywall can be fast and easy. Smear the compound down the wall completely covering the wall corner and corner bead.

To tape outside wall corners start by attaching a metal or plastic corner bead to the drywall corner. Also can you caulk drywall corners. Remove the wrinkles and feather the edges.

Next embed the tape in mud with a corner tool. I first tried this trick on wall and ceiling corners 20 years agoand those corners still look good. Finish all the tapered joints and get a coat of primer on the rock before you caulk.

One day for taping and two days for the finish coat. A load of patienceyou can do this. Position the folded precreased paper tape in the corner.

There is no need to put any tape on the corner bead though you can tape the edge of metal corner bead to reduce corner cracking. If you dont have a pole sander you could use. See below for a shopping list and toolsSUBSCRIBE to This Old Hous.

If you do that while you are working one side the edge of the taping knife or the wet drywall compound mud that can build up on its edge will mess up the mud on the other side.

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