HOW TO COAT INSIDE CORNERS BY HAND (drywall)
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- Опубліковано 29 сер 2024
- Not every job requires fancy drywall tools. Sometimes you just need a knife, some mud and a corner.
Tools I use often:
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Best drywall guy out there... short simple, exact, quality, no gimmicks, straight up and down principles, A+
Lmaooo
I studied your videos religiously mudding my first drywall two years ago. Studying them again now, my second time doing drywall. So many other tutorials just skim over (skim, ha) and make it look straightforward and easy. You manage to pack so many small gems in these videos that always crop up, plus you actually zoom in so I can see "oh, it doesn't actually need to be perfectly smooth." So helpful and thorough. Thank you so much.
You have no idea how much some of us appreciate these videos! My drywall work has improved exponentially since watching you. Thank you SOOOOOO much!!!!!
You explained this in another video where you pick one side of an inside corner, let it dry and do the other side. I’m finishing my basement and beside all the other tips you’ve given, my corners are AMAZING! Thanks for the tips!
“feather my edge” is my new drywall mantra. Your videos are a very helpful resource. Thank you
This guy's 'mistakes' are better than my best work!
I taught myself how to do drywall over many years, and it is remarkable how many of your tips I stumbled across by accident. One side at a time for inside corners is a perfect example. Thanks for posting these videos, it is nice to see I am not far off from a pro technique.
MY SENTIMENTS EXACTLY, but I still learned from these well-explained videos!
He cares for his work you can tell how treats it. That’s a professional to me. This is the guy I want to hire. This is work. But I hear ya. His approach caters to us novices
Thank you so much for teaching your skills to us. Hearing you talk through the details, tips, tricks and nuances as you demonstrate them in real time and emphasize them with up-close and well lit video, makes your tutorials incredibly helpful. Keep up the greta work. I keep coming back to learn more.
I’m going to have to live with a lot of sanding 🥴 way easier watching you than actually doing it ✅ Thanks for all the content. Helps so much.
The bow in the knife! What a tip! I literally just got up to look at my knife, and there it is. Another well produced video, thanks as always...
Very helpful and valuable video , thanks for all your tutorials ....
Your videos have been instrumental in helping me with my projects. Lost my helper and had to quickly start learning how to do things on my own and YOU have made that scary leap a lot easier for me. Thank you! Very much appreciated.
Yes man. I install cabinets for a living but also frequently have to tear out and replace backwall to prep for tile or painted backsplash. My drywall skills are pretty janky but I gotta say, doing what you say to do makes me really confident, and the product is decent, and getting better every time. It’s like you knew four years ago that I wound Need to watch your videos today, and for that I appreciate you. You never had to share your secrets with the world but you do.
Thanks for the video. One thing I figured out after a lot of anguish and frustration is that there needs to be a very acute angle (as shown in the video that I didn't appreciate) between the blade and the surface or the sharp corner of the knife will dig out debris and create an ugly channel in the corner.
Taped my first inside corner earlier, was nervous to try but after watching hours of your videos I finally built up the confidence to do it. First coat is great! A couple small danglers in the center of the seam but I’m pretty sure they’ll scrape off easily
Thanks for the very clear instructions. It is a pleasure to watch you. I am better because of you. I skim coated a bedroom, and it looks fantastic, and I am a female almost 70.
taping celling first time in my life, without you it wouldn't be possible... big thank you!
One great thing about these videos vs many others is camera work that isn't 40' away showing the whole room, while close up detail and dexterity of tooling is what makes or breaks this work. One thing that would make these even more valuable is a few ULTRA closeups of the finish to give us something to shoot for. 👍
You do great drywall, VC. It takes a talent a lot of construction guys just don't have. It's funny, where I'm from, Louisville, Kentucky, where everything is smooth finish and you get customers who pick it apart for flaws with lamps and flashlights. They need lives. You hardly ever meet a pro around here who uses a 4" for more than just tight spots. I used one when I first started and they'd laugh at me. Once I switched over to the 6, I never went back. You can still keep those corners just about as narrow as with a 4, but you can load a 6 with more mud so it's a lot less trips to the mud pan. Also, I usually run both sides at the same time. You can get small jobs done faster (mud drying) and you can run that corner trowel down the middle at the very last step and you can get an easy-to-sand corner that looks great. Similar results as with a TapeTech angle tool.
Nice. Lot's of good info in this comment.
Thank you VERY MUCH, Ben, for all this drywall content.
I am currently renovating a huge area of my basement.
I “just happen” to be at the taping and mudding stage.
You are helping me so VERY much!!!!!
Your way of filming abs explains Is immensely helpful!
Hi Ben, do you tape also inside corners between drywall and concrete/brick walls?
My supplier advices me to either use a sealant or a non sticky tape like Knauf's trennfix. Tried the trennfix too but it often doesn't stick properly to the brick wall leaving a tiny visible line at times.
Cheers and thanks for the vids!
Hi, some great videos and very informative. I’ve been a plasterer for the last 16 years. Never really done any dry lining but with all the shortage of plaster at the moment. (Nothing available for the last 4 weeks) customers are now asking for any type of finish just to get the job done. Your videos has help me so much just getting tips and advice on either materials, tools and textures. Thanks
i love watching this guy tips, explain as he goes, simple and great quality work
Love all he little tips & tricks. Definitely makes it easier & a lot LESS sanding.
It takes a little practice to lay down an even amount of compound with the thickness needed. Just about 3/32". Takes a nack. Was always a mystery to me why people don't use a gauged trowel to start with like tile installers use.
I started drywalling years ago and I hadn't tried it either. But there are trowels with the perfect size teeth (triangular) to lay down a beautiful first coat. Then, once the compound is distributed nicely, a regular knife can be used to smooth it out. For the homeowner that won't do enough jobs to learn and needs to do a good job now, this might be the way to start.
Interesting .Where are they
@@johnkay8778 They're used in the tile business. There are trowels with the finest teeth for laying down adhesives and giant teeth for terracotta. They even have margin trowels with the teeth. And of course you can always use a file on your own spackle knives. I would hate the sharp corners on all the new knives and file them off. And corner trowels were not set up properly. A guy that does it everyday doesn't need to do this. But for a DIY guy it's a home run.
Bro what are you talking about? The pointed corner is there for a reason. Im a commercial finisher i dont use that much like he's using, light coats save time. For corners fill the side of your knife that goes into the corner, start away from the corner and slide it into the corner as your work your way down. That does 2 of his steps in one action. 🤷♂️🤷♂️
Watched lots of your videos. You helped me to complete taping my basement. Thanks!
I hate sanding! That’s why I love your videos, it has saved me tons of sanding. Thanks.
At 7:13, skim over the spider webs! once in a while I like to see when a tiny gnat is crawling on the wall where I am mudding, and I instantly make him part of the solution!
Brilliant,,,, is it me or are these videos getting better all the time? Thank you for your attention to excellent 3 way corners, I too want mine to be perfect. Think bathroom , moisture and prefect 3 way corners with a very high quality paint job.
"Convex, concave, whatever." lol
I laughed when he said that then immediately corrected himself. 😂 He’s an imperfect perfectionist - entertaining to watch and you can learn a lot from him.
So I'm guessing the biggest takeaway is don't try and get both sides done at the same time
Too late 🤪
@@lollihonk honestly🤧
Wish I would have known to only do one side at a time when I did my home theater remodel. Would have saved me a ton of headache getting the corners right. Watching this I'm kicking myself for not being smart enough to just do one side at a time.
You beame my teacher.thx for all the tips, i just add a shower on my basement i been doing the mud work .thx to your videos it look amazing
"Im gonna do... somethin
It is very helpful to get very close to the mud sometimes so folks can see exactly what you're doing.
I've now watched several of your videos while trying to drywall my bathroom. I tried the "board leveler" for my corners with lack luster results at best. Your one at a time corner method has made a huge difference. I like this look much better. Much cleaner edges and way easier to do. Thanks for making some great diy videos.
Your methods are similar to mine.. And for good reason... The results are always terrific...
Thanks a lot for your videos. Very helpful.
I really wish I had known this when I did the basement in my first house, what a bad job that was. Now I'm getting square and accurate corners along with flat joints too. I'm having real good results with premixed mud and a 4" and 12" knife. I forgot how miserable it is working above my head though. Maybe mention how important good lighting is to see corners, especially when doing a basement.Thanks for all the videos and explanations.
Great videos. You're a great inspiration man
Thanks for making this video, it helped a lot to guide me on a DIY drywall project.
I new a guy that could finish both sides of the corner and very well.
It can be done big pain in ass
Yep I know how to do corners and it’s called I’m never doing it again lol
Learned so much from these videos, top notch!
Question, when you apply mud to the second side, how do you prevent the mud from getting all crumbly in the very corner where the two walls meet? I have a feeling it's maybe the way I'm holding my knife? Maybe scraping dried mud from the other side into the fresh stuff? Perhaps you would consider making a video about this? Haha
I've watched basically all your videos and love them. Thank you so much
Are you able to shed some light on this issue I am having - when I apply the coat on my angles over top of the tape (like you are in this video) - I regularly get mud that bunches/pulls right beside the angle periodically while I am making passes. It just gets worse if I try and pass by it again or add more mud. At first I thought my mud was too thick but I thinned it out nicely and still had the same issue. Maybe I am not holding the knife with the curve/dip properly? Any suggestions would be much appreciated! Thanks
I think it would also help if you tell us what type of mud your using in each step.
Why do I watch this? I dont drywall. I watch too much construction stuff lol. Its just so much fun
Do some drywall! Watch out, it gets addictive...
well...who cares!!
I have a dream team of UA-cam construction guys I would fly in to build my house if I ever hit the lotto jackpot.
@@MoneyManHolmes So do I , glad Im not the only one that has thought things thru LOL
Good video. I'm working a monster basement finishing job and I've done this work in previous houses so I'm good at it but I'm wondering... After you mud that first wall to ceiling inner joint, how many passes do you mud again after that? Anybody can chime in, but preferably the maker of this video.
fantastic set of videos, you have taught me loads, I'm in the middle of a house renovation and I've not done much drywall before. I am now using paper tape!, thanks. have you done a video when joining new to old? ie dividing a room so the new walls to old and the ceilings how to tape them etc, or have I just not found it? can't wait for the next video, picked up a couple of knives and a mud pan but I won't be adding a curved float to my collection. cheers
Millingtons Fishing Chorley just now issuing paper tape? 😱
dude? mesh are for holes!
There is so much to learn. I keep finding new videos. I don't mind tackling new projects, but I would love to have a sounding board to bounce ideas off of. I would feel comfortable paying for a service like that knowing I got answers I trusted in a timely fashion. I just did my first tape job, but it doesn't look smooth. Let me know the cost for me to send you videos and you tell me "yep, you're doing fine" or " hey dummy, why did you do that?"
I'm getting the basics down but I'm having trouble. No matter what I do, how much I clean the corner prior, I'm still getting dry plaster going into my corner when I wipe in with the knife. It all collects in the corner and ruins it.
I wish I could mud this well. Sadly, 20+ years being a property manager and I still mud like shite.
Yep, I got this one. Sweet
IM A WOMAN AND I DRYWALL MY ENTIRE HOME JUST WATCHING YOUR VIDEOS
The all caps made everyone not give a fuck, congratulations dipwad
What difference does being a woman make?
@@alexthomson7465she did a horrible job
Cap
Hey nice work, can you make a video how to do really shallow inside corners like 120 degrees and make them straight and crisp?
Thanks for all of the tips. God Bless you buddy
When I do it, blobs everywhere. When he does it--frickin Picasso!
Actually, you should see me work on a Friday afternoon with two hours work ahead of me. Not so tidy then🤣
I am trying to coat an inside corner between two walls and got one side of the tape done with no problem. A day later I attempted to coat the other side. As I draw the knife down along that side, after the first few inches, I consistently get a shallow trough in the mud, about 1/16" wide and just a little more than that distance from the corner. I have tried both a 4" and 6" knife, held at various angles, and with varying amounts of pressure, but seem to always get the same result. Do you have any idea what I may be doing wrong? Thanks.
How do you put mud on the wall without big globs dropping on the floor?
Knife and hawk! That’s how I roll!
so how many coats in your corners counting the tape coat?
Great video. Learned so much from you!
Love your knife work!
Who else is here because they just tried mudding both sides of a corner at the same time?
The John Mulaney of drywall
We've used your videos during our renovation and they've been super helpful. We are currently doing a first coat on the inside corners and running into an odd issue where very dry crumbs appear during the finishing pass. We've been sure to use very clean mud, keep our bucket tidy, and clean our tools. We've also knocked down any crumbs before loading the corner and everything was looking sharp until we started. Any ideas on what we're doing wrong? We had to coat a lot of the ceiling and are thinking that may be the issue but it's happening in nearly every corner. Thanks!
I am touching up inside corners on new mud where the sub who did them missed some exposed tape, and I am running into the same issue - dry crumbs at the inside corner while trying to coat. I am guessing I am putting on too thin of a layer and also taking too long to wipe it due to inexperience and this is making the very thin edge of the compound dry out in real time. Did you ever figure this out?
You should sell merch... like ''feather my edge'' t-shirts !!!
Yeah Ben Why not ?
Nice. I like all my knives to be stainless steel so they don't rust.
Hey quick question about corners, recently i took on learning how to mud for renovation purposes and well doing the corners one side at a time i noticed that on some corners when running my finishing passes the very inside part of my knife/corner would have some small peices of crudd just randomly appearing and leaving drag marks all in the pocket of my corner, i scraped my corner and have clean knives/buckets/etc... just would like an idea as to whats causing this
Can be small particless in plaster or your knife have small mircocracks on side you plaster it and then leaves marks, buy more quality knife not cheap one and it will be done, in drywalling everything need to be very clean otherwise small dust cab be problem.
Have a blessed day
First time doing a mud job by myself. I have a ton of sanding to do 🤣
Hey never before commented but your videos killed it. I wanted to ask you a question and hope you could give me some guidance. Is it possible to tear out existing drywall in the room and leave the crown moulding then butt the new drywall to the molding? The wife wants me to save time and it makes sense but can it be done? The drywall is ripped off already and I have cut the moulding flush?
Why are there not more contractors of your quality around.
There's too many good contractors but few of them are willing to teach you how simple this really is for the fear of losing business. If people start learning how to do this then why are they going to pay you to do it.
@@DundyMuffs Understanding the process is the easy part.. It takes years of practice to solidify a method.. I am always willing to show the homeowner how and why I'm doing things.. Most people will call me if another project comes up, and I'm always happy for the people willing to try.
Jane bc there no mexicans in Canada. but they're in 48 states.com
@@DundyMuffs If one has some money, why would you do it? It's much more involved than I thought and I am only doing 1/2 of a small basement.
The corner of my knife always scrapes from the other side and builds up some dry bits as I'm moving the blade, then it creates streaks in the area I just passed over. Any advice in how to prevent that?
The simple concept of never doing a wet side next to a wet side in a corner... most people fail to understand you have to do one side at a time and let it dry for the finish coat 🤔
Should you wait the full 24 hrs to complete the other side of corner or could you do it after 12hrs?
Thoughts on the knives they claim are for doing corners? The ones that are bent 90 degrees? Are they worth the money?
They should be opened a little more than 90 degrees for obtuse wall corners. I use them, load up the corner top to middle with a 4" blade, quick wipe down. Load up the corner bottom to middle, quick wipe up. With pressure learning you can flare it out both sides evenly. Then LEAVE IT ALONE until it drys or you will mess it up. Next do a pass on one side with a 6" blade to feather it out and LEAVE IT ALONE until its almost dry and you can remove any bumps or ridges. Then do the other side with the 6" blade. Almost no sanding.............
Looking Good !
Fantastic
I am a DIYer and plan to smooth my knock down texture. Based on your experience do you recommend doing the inside corners first as you are doing in this video. Or smooth the walls first leaving the inside corners without mud and come back for them?
Do you have a video on doing 22.5 corners on a Ceiling? Boss screwed them up, not straight and I am left to fix them.
I can live with that
What are you standing on, friend? Cheers,
that's why my corners were coming out messed up do one side at a time ado you don't take away from the other side. man who i can't go up a ladder twice tho
Great video. Question how do you get that down the wall section in that nook @3:25 and finish it properly when you can't even get a 1" knife in there? Thanks
The sandpaper that you use would it be 120 grit? Or a higher number.
Back 2 years later watching this video again. 😅
Do you coat it a second time?
doing a room in my house. a lot of sanding... even after watching 50 of these videos i still stuck so i gotta sand a lot. with all the time waiting for stuff to dry, not doing both sides of the corners at the same time, sanding and so on it takes like 1 week for 1 room. im never doing it again..
Lol, remember, whatever you put on, you can sand off🤣😂
Sand it, skim it, buff, be done
Your videos are awesome. However, I have not seen one that addresses new drywall at an inside corner with the recess gap at 48" AFF. I'm remolding my bathroom and at the taping stage. I thought I would do the inside corners first and then do the horizontal recessed joints at the 48 " seams, but then it occurred to me that the corner would be recessed at that joint due to the recess at 48" and both wall meet. So I am doing the horizontal joints first, then doing the corners last. Is this correct? Am I missing something? Thanks for the great videos!
I have taped all my
Flats and butt joints and am
Ready to start all inside corners I watched your videos and you used taping mud do you tape inside corners and coat over top right away with taping mud like you did in the 3 way video or do you tape it all with tapeing mud let it dry and then use all purpose over top? Or light hoping mud and do you do two coats or
Three? Thanks
Are you using hot mud or all purpose mud?
So Ive watched all your inside corner videos and theyre great; but I have a problem. Im skimming the texture off of all the walls and the texture inevitably leaves ripples (or worse) when I slide the knife across the corner to smooth one side. Is there any way around this other than skimming the wall smooth; then doing the corners after the walls are detextured?
How do you keep it from looking wavy? I’ve been putting the coat on really tight (I can still see the tape) because when I leave a thicker coat I can see waves in the mud where the pressure changed in the knife. I’m sure it’s all in experience but will my corners fail if I leave to thin of a coat on my corners?
Do you usually put 2 utility and one finish coats on? Also, the first and second coat with the 4-6” knife and then the 10-13” knife for the finish?
You have massively decreased my sanding time!
Amazing videos! Great work! Keep them coming! I just got a hawk and man! That is amazing!
How do you prevent mud from running out over the side of your knife? The side further from the corner. I always seem to have mud pouring out and making a huge mess.
Also do you have problems when doing a long run and meeting in the middle? It looks like you go from the corner towards the middle.
Jay Maglione make your mud thicker it helps allot
I go from one end to the other. As for the mud running off the side, keep your mud thick and load it on the corner of the knife not across the whole blade.
convex/concave - as a skateboarder I think we know the difference.
"its pretty simple" haha i know youre trying to be user-friendly for the purpose of the video, but what cant be shown on camera is all the fine adjusments of pressure, control and coordination that takes years to learn and master.
Did you mud than tape than mud again?
Please let me know kind of mud you are using for this post taping step. Thanks.
lite weight all purpose. the blue lid. since you need the glue of the black lid only for the taping part. The blue lid is light and easy to sand so it's better for getting a smooth finish.
So only two coats for inside corners?