Now I want to see a video where you frost/decorate a cake. And a local cake decorator tries their hand at mudding/taping! Really enjoy your usual content.
Thanks for sharing your mistakes. Not enough tradesman have the humility to do so. These videos helps us diy'ers realize even the pros make mistakes yall just know how to fix em. Thanks!
I love the sound of the scraping when you're removing excess mud. I've learnt so much from thic channel. It's really helped my confidence when fixing imperfections in walls.
Same here on EVERYTHING you said. I just finished watching this and wish I had watched two days ago. Woke up to find three big blisters in my new corner beads and I pulled out everything and started from scratch. Wish I had seen this before. So simple to fix rather than driving to home depot to buy more and then reinstall. What a life savor this guy is. His craft is admirable.
For those of us who are non pros, this type of video is gold. Thanks for showing us how to fix this Ben!Bought the Columbia outside corner bead applicator for my compound tube set addiction you got me hooked on so am hoping I won’t get too many more of these type of blisters.
I have watched most, if not all, of your videos and I like this and similar content as it helped me recognize and correct a lot of bad joints before I primed and put 2 coats of $45/gal paint on my bedroom wall. Watching and listening to your explanations have changed the way I look at walls, which is a mixed blessing. I have new appreciation for smooth walls but now I can't unsee bad joints. It would generous to say my home's previous owner did mediocre work, so this has been the gift that keeps on giving. On the positive side all this bonus experience has given me the confidence to open my walls to run elecrical cables for better lighting and even put in a pocket door. Keep up the good work.
Once seen cannot be unseen. Sadly, sub-par work seems to be acceptable nowadays so you need to find a way of correcting it if it's your space, and keeping quiet if it isn't!
I'll never do drywall work if I don't have to but something about watching the mudding process is very therapeutic. You could seriously stream the process with or without sound on Twitch or UA-cam and pull a regular crowd.
you are a great teacher, i always struggled a bit mudding, but after watching your videos i have got so much better and a lot more confident! You actual explain what you are doing, not just video it. Thanks
Thanks! You gave me the confidence to do some drywall repairs in my bathroom and I had to just remove the tape once it blistered and start over. Have a Merry Christmas!
Ty for these videos. They've come in handy as I've branched out in recent years past from just being a sheetrock hanger. Need to go through your video lineup more. Really enjoy it
I enjoy your projects. I learn a lot of valuable skills and tips. I do wish the audio was a bit louder. Your relaxed approach is great and presents it as if anyone can with practice be able to attack their repair. Thank you.
I love the way you work. I have zero confidence in finding someone locally to do a big jobl So if I ever win the lottery and beed to commission a house to be reworked, I want to fly you out to California to do some work.
Had the same issue 2 days ago, came to the same conclusion. All my bubbles (7) were 3” or less so I skipped the fibre tape but did use 20 minute mud. Can only hope that works, I believe it will as 20 dries like cement.
I like his patience and expertise on these matters. After drying and sanding, can I actually paint over with the same left over paint or it will show the difference? Thanks in advance.
Have you ever used Fiba Fuse! I’m a painter finisher for PSU and we use it every day with awesome results! It works amazing when you set it with All Purpose (green lid) and top with 20min or Mid weight mud!
Love your videos and the way you break down the tasks. However, I have a difficult situation that I've not seen you cover. Have you ever been forced to "make" a tool for extremely odd inside angles? I have a very obtuse angle between two windows in a tight bay and have heard the best way is to cut some rigid plastic to the desired shape for a trowel. Do you think you could make a short video on weird angles in tight places? Thanks!!
Great video Ben I hate when I have blisters on my corner beads good to see how you repair, I’ve never thought to add the mesh tape to it. I’m a carpenter as well don’t do mudding all the time but been fixing my own house and I’ve been having to skim so many of my walls cause there so bad and it’s wreaking my wrist. Do you think it’s cause I’m a pan and knife guy, is it any easier on the wrist trying to use the trowel and hawk? Keep up the great work
A couple of days ago I found a different way to fix corner bead blisters. I'm a newb. Complete diy'er, done a bit in the past when needed, but it's always years in between doing any. Only for my own places. Now doing an entire house for renovation. First room I did I got blisters under every piece of corner bead (paper with metal... same as vid). Sucked. Started fixing things like shown in the video. Then realized that the mud layer that I had put on, that brought the blisters on full display, dampened the previously dry mud layer below just enough so that I could dig into the mud gently and peal back the corner bead right from the edge of it. Then it was a matter of carefully packing the mud into/below the corner bead (was easy/quick enough once I got the hang of it). Smoothed it out... blisters gone and no cutting the corner bead or doing anything else wonky that would mess up the structure of the corner bead or require anything additional. Also thought that one of those big honkin syringes would be absolutely perfect for fixing blisters. Lift edge of corner bead where blister is using method above, fill big syringe with mud, squirt under the bead, flatten as normal.... voila. FYI, subsequent rooms have been blister free, also my blister fixes are perfect... not the least bit noticeable. Bought a inside corner roller, a lambs wool corner mud roller, and a manual hand flusher. Game changer combo for a newb like me.
Ya know, if you don't prime a latex painted wall, the 45 min mud bubbles up and blows off the next day? Yeah, you did. I didn't. 2 days work flaked off with a putty knife. *Now* I follow your practices for priming - scuff, bonding primer, a bit of carpenter's glue. D'oh! Other painted surfaces I primed first are fine.
Ben I live in NY in the states (falls region) up here we use a lot of USG purple top midweight do you guys have that up there? I know even on the west coast of the states it’s unavailable. Midweight blows the lid off of plus 3
Just watched a lot of your videos a couple dozen times, and ordered a crap ton of stuff from your associate links. Gonna get busy when it arrives. Wanna drive to Arizona and show me how its done?
I'd like to see how the TV fits and works later, after the house is finished and the client moves in. If you could get some video of it....that would be greeeaaaat.
Question...why did you not use paper tape? I saw that you recommended paper tape most of the time in another video. Thanks for teaching me something new. I love your channel
I have a 25 years old house that has the ceiling to wall corner tape separating in almost every room. What is going to be my best option to fix this problem. Do I need to rip out all the old tape or can I undercoat the existing tape and then feather out with new mud?
For a quick amateur fix you COULD caulk all the cracks But personally I would re-tape all the cracks with paper tape. If they cracked in the first place I'm going to guess they were originally done with mesh tape
Dumb question - could you have put some superglue in that void? Or some hot glue? I'm doing a home renovation and it may sound silly, but I have found all kinds of applications for hot snot, like for filling in foundation voids around pipe holes before finish caulking. Easy to apply, and it does dry hard which is useful
I've used a lot of hot glue myself. My experience has been that it tends to suddenly detach a few months later. I found super glue to be a lot more reliable but only works with tight joints.
I haven't tried hot glue but even assuming it holds I predict it loses over joint compound in cost, suitable working time and sandability. Are you predicting advantages for hot glue over joint compound or are you just curious if it will work?
@@peep39 I am clear on what, but not why. I don't have a lot of hot glue experience, do you see any advantages in using it over joint compound? I am not qualified to say if it would bond, but the below video link makes me think it might. ua-cam.com/video/c9DTZYFdLgk/v-deo.html
The glue idea seems solid. I was thinking a mortar bag technique with a couple shims to hold it open during the squeeze. Good thing I'm a plumber and not a rocker/painter.
How do you feel about cutting at the ends of the blister perpendicular to the tape. Lift the tape like a flap so you can add some wet mud behind the blister. Then close it up and run a knife over to squeeze out excess. I’m a DIY hack job of sorts and this works well for me. Not sure of it will last though. Thoughts?
@@mattmccaughen8082 Right, but if your scope of work is on the busier side it is easy to miss something small like that. Touch up doesn’t exist in your world?
@@sundog8772 touch-up is in ALL fields! 😂 But I know you knew that so I should have left gone unsaid. 🤦🏼♂️ But now that the deed is done - I like your statement as it stands.
I thought the mesh tape, which has a sticky side, had to be applied on a dry surface and could therefore not be applied over a layer of wet mud like you would normally do with paper tape. Help anyone?
yea, that is mega annoying. i have tape in the inside corners. it was perfectly fine on the walls until I added the finish coat. suddenly random appearing blisters and large sections going off here and there... still don't know what I am doing so horribly wrong. (´△｀) All I can do is tearing off the tape there and fix it in-place somehow (that is, apply new tape on that spot).
are u sanding in between coats? Lots of time people do and are not making sure to completely remove dust particles before applying next coat. Secondly, you could be watering it down too much, mixing too much incorporating air bubbles, and humidity/moisture. Hope this helps
Hey flip you trowel around in your hand, hold it (backwards) it’ll be way more comfortable and more control plus you can at that point even use your fingers on the blade. Try it out let me know 😜 from a fellow Canadian renovation specialist 🍻
He has plenty of videos for that. I personally find that these are the most useful videos as it represents the reality of taping and mudding - knowing how to repair is just as valuable as knowing how to install.
Now I want to see a video where you frost/decorate a cake. And a local cake decorator tries their hand at mudding/taping! Really enjoy your usual content.
Frost, mud off. The fastest, smoothest cleanest lines with the least bit of clumping. The finishing is with the icing fight.
Thanks for sharing your mistakes. Not enough tradesman have the humility to do so. These videos helps us diy'ers realize even the pros make mistakes yall just know how to fix em. Thanks!
I love the sound of the scraping when you're removing excess mud. I've learnt so much from thic channel. It's really helped my confidence when fixing imperfections in walls.
Same here on EVERYTHING you said. I just finished watching this and wish I had watched two days ago. Woke up to find three big blisters in my new corner beads and I pulled out everything and started from scratch. Wish I had seen this before. So simple to fix rather than driving to home depot to buy more and then reinstall. What a life savor this guy is. His craft is admirable.
For those of us who are non pros, this type of video is gold. Thanks for showing us how to fix this Ben!Bought the Columbia outside corner bead applicator for my compound tube set addiction you got me hooked on so am hoping I won’t get too many more of these type of blisters.
I have watched most, if not all, of your videos and I like this and similar content as it helped me recognize and correct a lot of bad joints before I primed and put 2 coats of $45/gal paint on my bedroom wall. Watching and listening to your explanations have changed the way I look at walls, which is a mixed blessing. I have new appreciation for smooth walls but now I can't unsee bad joints. It would generous to say my home's previous owner did mediocre work, so this has been the gift that keeps on giving. On the positive side all this bonus experience has given me the confidence to open my walls to run elecrical cables for better lighting and even put in a pocket door. Keep up the good work.
Once seen cannot be unseen. Sadly, sub-par work seems to be acceptable nowadays so you need to find a way of correcting it if it's your space, and keeping quiet if it isn't!
This vid came just in time. I just finished the first coat of my first time drywalling. If I find any blister I don't need to panic now 😬
Depends how many haha
I'll never do drywall work if I don't have to but something about watching the mudding process is very therapeutic. You could seriously stream the process with or without sound on Twitch or UA-cam and pull a regular crowd.
you are a great teacher, i always struggled a bit mudding, but after watching your videos i have got so much better and a lot more confident! You actual explain what you are doing, not just video it. Thanks
You're a gentleman and a scholar
Thanks! You gave me the confidence to do some drywall repairs in my bathroom and I had to just remove the tape once it blistered and start over. Have a Merry Christmas!
Ty for these videos. They've come in handy as I've branched out in recent years past from just being a sheetrock hanger. Need to go through your video lineup more. Really enjoy it
Remodeling a bathroom and these videos have helped show me tricks to getting a better outcome.
Ty my man!! You make this look so easy and smooth:-) very good drywaller and would love hand on training by you:-) awsome work!
Cheers kido! Happy Holidays - I totally enjoy your content - keep on rocking it in 2021!
Thanks, you too! :D
Thank you for sharing. I’ve watched nearly all of your videos. Learnt so many tricks and techniques. Mary Xmas to you and family. 🦘🇦🇺
Thank you for this one! Its a common problem to us painters🤣& super annoying to fix..also nice to see your thumb is almost healed up!
I enjoy your projects. I learn a lot of valuable skills and tips.
I do wish the audio was a bit louder.
Your relaxed approach is great and presents it as if anyone can with practice be able to attack their repair.
Thank you.
This video saved me HUGE! Thanks Ben!
U always make it look so easy!!! Wish me luck ty for all your help
Great information as always. Thanks sir
Nice job. Thank You Ben!
I love the way you work. I have zero confidence in finding someone locally to do a big jobl So if I ever win the lottery and beed to commission a house to be reworked, I want to fly you out to California to do some work.
Awesome solution.
Had the same issue 2 days ago, came to the same conclusion.
All my bubbles (7) were 3” or less so I skipped the fibre tape but did use 20 minute mud. Can only hope that works, I believe it will as 20 dries like cement.
Thank god for this channel
Nice to see a pro has some of the issues I have in my diy stuff. Be nice for a montage of some of the errors Vancouver Carpenter has made in the past.
Seasons greetings from Davenport Iowa
I like his patience and expertise on these matters. After drying and sanding, can I actually paint over with the same left over paint or it will show the difference? Thanks in advance.
awesome job
Have you ever used Fiba Fuse! I’m a painter finisher for PSU and we use it every day with awesome results! It works amazing when you set it with All Purpose (green lid) and top with 20min or Mid weight mud!
Did a project with the super taper. Hilarious how messy but the tape laid so flat. Very quick
Love that mesh tape stuff for patching holes and stuff
Try Fibafuse. Never gone back to mesh since I started using it.
Not done a lot of mudding, but fortunately never had to do correct that, still good to know...
Great video! So...you used quick set mud over the mesh and then lightweight filler for the finish, correct?
Love your videos and the way you break down the tasks. However, I have a difficult situation that I've not seen you cover. Have you ever been forced to "make" a tool for extremely odd inside angles? I have a very obtuse angle between two windows in a tight bay and have heard the best way is to cut some rigid plastic to the desired shape for a trowel. Do you think you could make a short video on weird angles in tight places? Thanks!!
Have you tried the new 5 min mud?? Its a game changer!! With a heat gun, literally dry 5 min after. Perfect for patches.
Yes there was an echo. Like 👍 all your videos
Great video Ben I hate when I have blisters on my corner beads good to see how you repair, I’ve never thought to add the mesh tape to it. I’m a carpenter as well don’t do mudding all the time but been fixing my own house and I’ve been having to skim so many of my walls cause there so bad and it’s wreaking my wrist. Do you think it’s cause I’m a pan and knife guy, is it any easier on the wrist trying to use the trowel and hawk? Keep up the great work
Hawk n trowel are much easier on the wrists and for catching mud drips. Check out Jeff Thurman’s UA-cam channel for drywalling A-Z
A couple of days ago I found a different way to fix corner bead blisters. I'm a newb. Complete diy'er, done a bit in the past when needed, but it's always years in between doing any. Only for my own places. Now doing an entire house for renovation. First room I did I got blisters under every piece of corner bead (paper with metal... same as vid). Sucked. Started fixing things like shown in the video. Then realized that the mud layer that I had put on, that brought the blisters on full display, dampened the previously dry mud layer below just enough so that I could dig into the mud gently and peal back the corner bead right from the edge of it. Then it was a matter of carefully packing the mud into/below the corner bead (was easy/quick enough once I got the hang of it). Smoothed it out... blisters gone and no cutting the corner bead or doing anything else wonky that would mess up the structure of the corner bead or require anything additional. Also thought that one of those big honkin syringes would be absolutely perfect for fixing blisters. Lift edge of corner bead where blister is using method above, fill big syringe with mud, squirt under the bead, flatten as normal.... voila. FYI, subsequent rooms have been blister free, also my blister fixes are perfect... not the least bit noticeable. Bought a inside corner roller, a lambs wool corner mud roller, and a manual hand flusher. Game changer combo for a newb like me.
Do you ever add liquid soap to your mad to make it flow better. It also eliminates bubbles. What is your thought?
Ya know, if you don't prime a latex painted wall, the 45 min mud bubbles up and blows off the next day? Yeah, you did. I didn't. 2 days work flaked off with a putty knife. *Now* I follow your practices for priming - scuff, bonding primer, a bit of carpenter's glue. D'oh! Other painted surfaces I primed first are fine.
Ben I live in NY in the states (falls region) up here we use a lot of USG purple top midweight do you guys have that up there? I know even on the west coast of the states it’s unavailable. Midweight blows the lid off of plus 3
Just watched a lot of your videos a couple dozen times, and ordered a crap ton of stuff from your associate links.
Gonna get busy when it arrives.
Wanna drive to Arizona and show me how its done?
I'd like to see how the TV fits and works later, after the house is finished and the client moves in. If you could get some video of it....that would be greeeaaaat.
Almost sounds creepy lol
Yeaaaah...and if you could come in to work on Satuuurday...that would be greeeaaaat.
I’m gonna actually need you to go ahead and come in on Sunday too.. okaaaay
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Legend!
Was the mud under the corner bead originally put on "by hand", or was a hopper used to coat the back of the beads?
Is that a lighting recess at the ceiling/wall junction?
I have a room like this and also a few places where the edges weren't feathered very well. Any thoughts on how to make it look better?
Hey Daniel I would just put the mud on were it's not featherd. And take it all off and that usually feathers it into the drywall better.
Question...why did you not use paper tape? I saw that you recommended paper tape most of the time in another video. Thanks for teaching me something new. I love your channel
Hello Mr.Vancouver Drywaller, is there a reason why you don't just use the fully metal corner instead of the metal/paper corner?
I have a 25 years old house that has the ceiling to wall corner tape separating in almost every room. What is going to be my best option to fix this problem. Do I need to rip out all the old tape or can I undercoat the existing tape and then feather out with new mud?
For a quick amateur fix you COULD caulk all the cracks
But personally I would re-tape all the cracks with paper tape.
If they cracked in the first place I'm going to guess they were originally done with mesh tape
Dumb question - could you have put some superglue in that void? Or some hot glue? I'm doing a home renovation and it may sound silly, but I have found all kinds of applications for hot snot, like for filling in foundation voids around pipe holes before finish caulking. Easy to apply, and it does dry hard which is useful
I've used a lot of hot glue myself. My experience has been that it tends to suddenly detach a few months later. I found super glue to be a lot more reliable but only works with tight joints.
I haven't tried hot glue but even assuming it holds I predict it loses over joint compound in cost, suitable working time and sandability. Are you predicting advantages for hot glue over joint compound or are you just curious if it will work?
@@georgebush6002 Just to fill the gap. Not as a top coat, just to add some structure under the tape.
Hot glue won't sand and finish (and take paint) the way the rest of the compound will.
@@peep39 I am clear on what, but not why. I don't have a lot of hot glue experience, do you see any advantages in using it over joint compound? I am not qualified to say if it would bond, but the below video link makes me think it might. ua-cam.com/video/c9DTZYFdLgk/v-deo.html
Hey, that's the projector room screen/bulkhead thingie place you put up the 12' drywall in, yes? I see the wrist is getting better, no brace on it...
I just wanted to comment the exact same thing. 😄
When that happens, I inject glue into the void as far as it will go, then hot mud over with fibafuse
The glue idea seems solid. I was thinking a mortar bag technique with a couple shims to hold it open during the squeeze.
Good thing I'm a plumber and not a rocker/painter.
Do you always use tape with corner beads? Have you tried Fibafuse tape?
How do you feel about cutting at the ends of the blister perpendicular to the tape. Lift the tape like a flap so you can add some wet mud behind the blister. Then close it up and run a knife over to squeeze out excess.
I’m a DIY hack job of sorts and this works well for me. Not sure of it will last though. Thoughts?
Usually u can c the bubbles before it drys and your way would work
Watching this guy tape gives me anxiety lol I don't think hes a taper I think he does everything jack of all trades master of none
@@mattmccaughen8082 Right, but if your scope of work is on the busier side it is easy to miss something small like that. Touch up doesn’t exist in your world?
@@mattmccaughen8082 he is a carpenter that is very good at drywall. Simple yet complicated enough to be better than most in his field.
@@sundog8772 touch-up is in ALL fields! 😂
But I know you knew that so I should have left gone unsaid. 🤦🏼♂️
But now that the deed is done - I like your statement as it stands.
Usually happens to me under the tape sometimes. Haven't had it happen under corner bead yet.....lol
It will.....
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Yoink!
I thought the mesh tape, which has a sticky side, had to be applied on a dry surface and could therefore not be applied over a layer of wet mud like you would normally do with paper tape. Help anyone?
I was thinking that small blister might be able to fix with injection needle and some glue.
Cut out the ☠️!
Another reason why I still use metal bead.
Dry wall master
Nobody puts mud under metal Dura bead. It was probably crimped on. A couple screws would secure it.
it looks like it would work with ultraflex nocoat
yea, that is mega annoying. i have tape in the inside corners. it was perfectly fine on the walls until I added the finish coat. suddenly random appearing blisters and large sections going off here and there... still don't know what I am doing so horribly wrong. (´△｀) All I can do is tearing off the tape there and fix it in-place somehow (that is, apply new tape on that spot).
are u sanding in between coats? Lots of time people do and are not making sure to completely remove dust particles before applying next coat. Secondly, you could be watering it down too much, mixing too much incorporating air bubbles, and humidity/moisture. Hope this helps
Could of used a plastic anchor to pull it down
Hit it with rapidset one pass and call it a day.
Hey flip you trowel around in your hand, hold it (backwards) it’ll be way more comfortable and more control plus you can at that point even use your fingers on the blade. Try it out let me know 😜 from a fellow Canadian renovation specialist 🍻
Why Mesh and not Paper ?
Figured you would have to let all those layers dry one at a time.
He doesn't need to do that because he's using quickset mud, which cures via chemical reaction rather than just air drying.
I'm leaving because of UA-cam censorship. Are you on other platforms besides UA-cam?
wow look its ben degros' twin
He didn’t tell us to get her the edge :(
I hate when that blister happens....🤮
The 1 dislike is from the guy who installed the metal. 😩😩😩🤪
Wouldn't it be better to show how to install properly? Lol
He has plenty of videos for that. I personally find that these are the most useful videos as it represents the reality of taping and mudding - knowing how to repair is just as valuable as knowing how to install.
Then you wouldn't know how to repair your work! :D
In other words there is no reason the learn this as long as everyone is perfect.
@@georgebush6002 I didn't no he had a install video
@@mattmccaughen8082 really?
Your not a craftsman if you left that behind.
Steadiest hand ever.