Another great video Ben. If I could give a word of advice, don't be so hyper aware of the critics while filming videos. I follow many home repair channels and I see that the most popular ones get attacked the most. I'm not fully certain, but my gut feeling is that there's a certain subset of seasoned professionals who absolutely do not like seeing these skills being taught to DIYers. These types do not like regular homeowners knowing these skills and want them to be dependent upon the pros. Especially the shadier ones. So my take is they are overly critical on purpose just to discourage helpful youtube content. Keep doing what you're doing and worry less about the critics in the comment section. Know that you're efforts are appreciated by 99% of the silent viewers.
I don't think Ben worries too much about what the critics say. I think he addresses it in the videos so that other viewers don't get too drawn into the debate. By acknowledging that there different approaches or philosophies it gives him a chance to state why he does things the way he does.
@@tay13666 It wasn't just today's video, but I've noticed it for several videos in a row. I could be wrong, but my guess is that he's over thinking the critics and it sometimes affects the quality of his work where he's focused on critical comments rather than explaining it to the audience and then some mistakes are made that he then goes backs and corrects. Not saying I'm right, but it's a hunch.
@@robertgiresi9515 You have a good point. Though, as seasoned finishers, sometimes our mind wanders because it's a rather repetitious task. Add to that, making a tutorial video Ben may have so many thoughts going through his mind. Whether he's concerned with negative feedback or not his mistakes give him the perfect opportunity to show how to remedy them. All the best to you.
@@shongo2k15 Thanks. Nice to get good perspective from a seasoned finisher. BTW, I'm not a seasoned finisher or anywhere close. I'm a home DIYer looking to learn how to hang drywall, finish work and repair work. Not someone looking to do this for a living, just someone looking for self reliance skills to do work on my own home.
I feel like there's also older pros who are just real adamant and stubborn about their ways being the "ONLY" way to do things. You run into them a lot on the real world, especially when it comes to newer technology and methods, etc. Probably plenty of both in the comments war zones.
Yeah, absolutely agree with this. Always like watching your vidz and this was good to see from a slightly different take by teaching those guys in Whistler. Envious of that drive up there on the sea to sky highway, it's one of the world's most stunning drives.
Doing a job that needed to be drylined. So looked at utube and your channel seemed by far the best chanel. Did the first coat and tape today on ceiling and walls. To my knowledge no blisters but will see tomorrow. I'm 63 now still looking to learn. Many thanks for you videos.
This is the first time, ever, that I have commented on a UA-cam video. Your videos are super helpful and beneficial to me. My wife will ask me what I am doing, then she will hear your voice from the video and say, "Its okay, as long as you're watching the Vancouver Carpenter!" She knows I am learning good stuff! Thank you!
Love watching your videos! I’ve been in commercial work in SF Bay Area for 33 years and taping for 37 years! Always learning new things from different taping backgrounds. Keep up the great videos.
Wow. I think you're on to something here. Watching you teach others was educational & entertaining. Although, I already knew most of what you taught cuz well I've taken many of your courses. Professor VC. Love it!
You are the best teacher! I have been following you for years great work! You've helped me broaden my scope of work for people in an industry where there isn't very many people anymore around here.
I agree M V. He's a really good teacher. I recently shared with him that although I am not a drywall professional and have absolutely never done jobs for others. I simply started remodeling my home a year ago. And now, I can do drywall pretty good. My partners company saw my work and they were so impressed that they threw out some notions about hiring me. And I owe it all to Ben. He is a great teacher but even more, awesome at his craft. However, I must add, that one's gotta have the touch for mudding too. (LOL).
@@Cindy25Cox that's awesome! Yes Ben is awesome. I was able to learn how to use a trowel from him as well and got myself a nice 13x5 Marshalltown flat trowel. The way he teaches is really detailed and articulate and I'm able to apply his methods with great success. Even skim coating for clients and have ran into the bubbles etc. Love this channel!
Love that paint scraper idea, I'd always wondered about a good way to embed the tape deeper so that the repair could extend out less and create less work!
I liked the last few videos because they were about garage quality repairs. I like this one because it’s a in home quality repair. Get out all the bad and ugly then do the repair. It can be tough sometimes to remove bad like you did with the corner bead because “it looked okay”.
Great video! I just did a crack, I used a glazing bar to scrape back mud. The back end of the bar with the 90 deg part is designed to be used as a scraper. Not sure what the difference is between fast set, and confill but I taped it with fibafuse, and confill. I also put a bunch of screws, and scraped just wide enough to make sure tape is below the surface. Never seen that bead crimp, good to know. Thanks for doing good quality work.
I am working a 48” x 70” ceiling panel with all of those issues on the joints, seasonal temperature changes, water damage, and in too many spots, ring-shank nails that bent and just bashed in, cratering the drywall around the nails. 20 linear feet around the replaced panel and another 10 feet of crumbled joints. I sistered furring strips on the ceiling joists to get a better screwing surface. I wish I had known about adding PVA glue to the Easy Sand 45 before I prefilled the joints. I did brush and vacuum all of the joints before I pre-filled, so I am hoping it will hold. Thanks for post all of this content. I am a lot more confident this repair will work.
Man your videos are priceless! Been redoing my attached garage that was a rental before we bought this place, so it’s old and in rough shape, your tips and tricks have really helped me start my process, a process of something I’ve never done before, and you’ve helped substantially, right up to me figuring out from your video today that all my corner beads have failed because they to were all ‘clenched’ on. So I’ve been scraping, rescrewing and re mudding! Thanks again! Keep it up!
Very helpful Ben. Nice of you to take time as a consultant to help other teams. Shared knowledge is power. Essentially you helped put food on other guys' family tables.
I'll be taping and finishing my garage soon and this was the most helpful video I've seen yet on the mixing and application of mud and what tape to use. Thanks for being such a great instructor.
This style of teaching is fine. I learned just as much on this as your other videos. As to my motivation for watching this I have two large horizontal corner edges that have failed similar to one you showed here. You just saved me the time I would have spent papering over the flange on drywall area I imagined I’d need to do. Thanks!
I am a bit of a DIYer. I got quoted to mud my basement for 50 bucks an hour. I said nah. I don't even make that much. I came across your mudding videos and it all turned out great. Really appreciate your time and patience in the videos.
Thx, I'm doing a repair between plaster and drywall in a new addition. Thanks for the tips. I did it like this last time but not with glue or quick set. I'll see if this one lasts longer! I think you missed one popped/ bulging screw towards the right.
Yes. This morning I installed a drywall patch in a bathroom ceiling around the ventilation fan replacement. This was very helpful as I have larger cracks around some of the perimeter. Just sent you some pics from this morning. Looking forward to revisiting previous videos for how to use quickset with glue. I now also check my blades for curvature. New skills for me. Thanks.
just what I was looking for brother! I'm working through some foundation damages at one of our properties and there's been a fair amount of cracking in the drywalls. I've been watching your content & learning for years my man, I can't thank you enough! 🙏
I was just looking at a job today that is exactly like this. One length of corner bead actually fell off the ceiling and a bunch more was cracked the same way as in your demo. There was no sign of mechanical fastener in the corner bead and I was thinking what kind of drywaller does not fasten the corner bead. I'll have to look at it when I return, but I'm pretty sure the corner bead must have been clinched on. And I bet it all would have survived the earthquake had it been screwed or stapled on. Cool seeing you teach on video while teaching a group in person. Double teaching!! Two for the money.
Just did a very similar thing (Houston B.C.) but it happened after I had the water running in an upstairs sink and the overflow didn't work due to a clogged drain😩. The drywall swelled some what on old nail on steel cornerbead. I'm the guy who fixes these issues not causes them. After "exploratory surgery" like you said there was very little to know mud on a lot of joints and the house settled. A main tape ran right off the joint even. There were cracks in a nice looking ceiling. I just expedited the fixing being an idiot, flooding the ceiling. Used a Richards 2" scraper and a random orbital sander hooked to a large shop vac. LoL I had the same epiphany about the hollow sounding bead. Told the home owners that the guy may have not set the bead with mud. Was nail on and pinched.
good stuff. I have two stress cracks in my den, one above and one below a window, and I have stress cracks in the corner bead of my dining room, but on the ceiling portion. I haven't seen you do one of those, but it can't be all that different. These types of videos sure do come in handy. thx!
Excellent video! I'm a DIYer the way I dealt with cracks in my drywall was to just replace the sheetrock in whatever area I found cracks. I was replacing all the trim and adding crown anyways so I felt this was my best solution. However, now that I'm mostly done with my walls should I ever experience a Crack in my walls from this point forward I will be using what I've learned in this video! So I want to thank you so much!
Have you ever thought about becoming a college instructor? For a 'drywallery carpenter' guy you sure are good at what you do. It's great that you share your knowledge and experience here.
I'm glad you included what the veteran critics would say because it shows the purpose, longer term benefit of the longer route and application. I could watch these videos all day. So much fun.
I came on here to look for repairing stress cracks in drywall (VERY common in California due to E.Q's). I searched for it hoping to find a video by you, Ben (KNOWING you would have one out there in cyber space)! There it was! The perfect video. Thank you, again. You have been such a help to me in the drywall end of construction.
Ben is by far my favorite - just a humble and relatable guy who is extremely knowledgeable. Keep it up Ben!!! You've got a real fan in the U.S. Pacific Northwest....
Just saying thanks again for sharing your knowledge. What I consider the hardest trade to master, drywall finishing. I can do an acceptable home install or repair after 50 years thanks to your you tube channel.
I’ve followed you for quite awhile now & you still amaze me with you talent. If you ever find yourself wanting to head on down to Scottsdale, Az you have a place to stay while you fix a crack in my wall.😁
I'm so glad I found your channel. You are really helping me understand how to do home repairs and giving me the confidence to try some of these repairs that my 1970 house is needing!!
Excellent video! I have watched it multiple times and taken notes beside. Fixing 3 cracks is part of a 3 room project so the temptation is to get the cracks patched and move on. However your detail makes it plain that doing it right will make it last longer. Thanks a bunch.
Great video as usual, thank you. I’ve been hanging drywall for 17 years and now learning how to tape and do small repairs. I always enjoy your videos and how useful they are. My daughter change my profile picture by the way 😅
GREAT video stumbled on it, love the format with the before and after. I too have had failures from wrinkage in the shrinkle, I get to go back to customers places for other jobs and I often check my previous work. I have found places where the tape was not flat , ( no prefill ) and you can see tiny wrinkles. I do the painting as well, so that finished product is very important to me. Thanks for posting !!
I was skeptical about reapplying mud to my cracked corners that I installed tape on, and I did the entire room before really watching any drywall videos. The corners were so bad and the tape applied with so little mud that while notching out my Vs, most of the tape just fell off without much effort. I had to just laugh about it. I've watched so many drywalling videos since then, that I am pretty confident that I could repair or install drywall in an entire house. I doubt I could do it at the same speed as professionals, but I would make it look professional! Vancouver Carpenter videos has been my training guide for all of the skills I have now. This was another great video, that I took a lot of good information from. Keep up the good work!
Did an entire house with just the advice from Vancouver Carpenter vids. It's not perfect and took a loong time but my corners are better than any local drywal installer. These vids provide enough to become a professional drywaller.
Agreeded. The paper tape and paper bead have always proven to be stronger with far less fails related to the Sheetrock itself. Structural issues will always defeat sheetrock. Thanks for the video 👍
I felt like I should have to pay you now. I definitely felt like I was in a class. Doesn't matter what it is, you always have informative videos, and you always teach in an easily digestible way. Not many people can do that. 👊
Thank you for your content. I wish everybody would follow your model of getting to the meat and taters while still being very detailed about important info. I wish every time I searched UA-cam, I found videos like these. Thanks!!
Informative as always Ben Shout out to the business that hired you for training, that shows they care enough to want to learn proper technique and pass that workmanship onto their customer. 👍
As per usual, great video. I never get tired of learning from excellent work. I know you have been saying it for awhile now, but I enjoy hearing your signoff; very nicely personal, even though you don’t know me or most of your audience personally. Thank you!
Ormond Beach Florida here! Thank you for being a teaching professional. Now, I know what to look for as I am watching my local dry wall contractors who claim to have a professional skill set.
Thank you for this video. Me and my wife are redoing our home and your video has been by far the most useful one on how to fix settlement cracks. Thank you.
lots of paper vs mesh vs fibrefuse debate but given that paper tape is still the preferred product in drywall finishing as well as more likely the higher sales of all the product indicates to me what the best choice is. Be interesting to contact CGC/USG (and other vendors) to obtain that yearly sales information? And if you are proficient with paper tape installation, the other products are a breeze to use.
love to see professionals teach great lessons.. you will always get comments, tons of trolls looking to sharpshoot folks from their chairs. You are definitely a tradecraft specialist and amazing skills. thanks.
I always use a clincher. It pushes the corner bead tight to the rock. It will not hold on light weight rock but does the job on regular rock. I can say I have never had a failure. I tried nailing screwing the corner bead but if you hit the bead it will dent or screwing it will bend the bead. I always use speed set on the first coat and never had a failure of the bead getting loose. On long runs when I need to butt two pieces together the clincher does a perfect job joining the pieces together. It turns out flawless.
REEAALLY wish I seen this before I fixed the "stress" cracks in my home that have all returned worse than before. I spent time cleaning everything out but didn't pre fill. I did flex tape with all purpose on top. They literally look like dog s**t now. House was built in 1946 so pretty much everything cracked. It looked great for all of 6 months. I will rip it all back out and start over using your pre fill, glue, and 20 minute method.
Extremely interesting and informative, as always, thank you! I especially enjoy the bonus content, like the VC vocab words of the day (flange, clinching), and who doesn't love a fun game of joint tape peek-a-boo!
Thanks for the video! Love the channel. After about 3 months of watching, I became a better finisher than the pros that were working on my project. Had to go back and fix all their mistakes. Question on prefilling you did here.....why not embed the tape at the end of the prefill so it gets sucked in slightly and fuses into that really strong joint? My thought was that it would be even stronger with the paper laminated on that deep prefill layer and with a little shrinkage into the joint, you would have more room for finish mud on top of the paper. thanks for the feedback!
Nicely done…again! Thanks! I like how you look to understand the process/product and why it would/wouldn’t work. That’s how I work … I appreciate your videos and time.
I’ve only done drywall around my home and my daughters but I’ve Learned a lot of his videos and if I haven’t done it for a few months I forget things since I have not done drywall for years back and rewatch the video
I def learn a lot on that one because fixing those every two years especially when the whole house except for my family room payment last year and the bathroom inside of the family room that I’m about to repaint i start looking on the Pinterest web site it’s great who needs an interior decorator when you have all that great work people have done to their homes 😱😳 my wife always says you just painted that room my family room when I painted it last year I change the color on the walls three times and now I’m about to change it again lol keep up all the great work I hope my message does not sound crazy I don’t have my glasses and I just hit the speaker and just start talking
Lol I’m read my message and talk and text as a mind of its own if a word sounds like another word or if you talk too fast or if there’s any noise in the background it will write words you some say i’m done i’m gonna finish read iMessage to take a picture of it and blow it up broke my glasses and come into the 16th and I’m blind as hell lol i have Bedroom to paint the walls to fix and paint
I watched a video of that DAP patch because my wife bought two of them so I was watching your art work i I still am I go to Home Depot those things are going back to the store lol looks like a flower on the wall
Your opinion please? If you don't feel like writing you can address it in your next video if you'd like. Since you already had a crack in the corner bead, why not tape the corner bead and just float it out wider? I find myself taping corner bead more often lately especially if it's repair work or a small jobs less than 400 linear feet of corner bead or bullnose whatever. If it's a whole house I'm not going to tape all that bead. Once again great video! 👍
If it is available in your area, I highly recommend priming the repair area with a product called, Gardz. I even use it on raw adobe walls, which we have an abundance of in New Mexico. You will transform a dry, dusty or chalky surface into a clean, dry and relatively hard surface that is ideal for mud to adhere to. Plus, if you flood the surface well enough, it really glues everything together to make a tight prepped surface to work with. A weenie roller or hvlp works well depending on surface. For an example, an electrician carved out a bunch of channels to run conduit in the kitchen of an Adobe house. Roughly 4" x 6" deep into the wall. I flooded the crap out of it with Gardz to the point of it just flowing down the wall. Once thoroughly saturated, it pools or runs as you would expect. No worries, just wipe off. Once dry, I filled the channels with 20 minute mud and it was literally stronger than new. Then skim, prime again and paint!
I've had good luck recently with crack tape (pretty expensive for what it is) on some 60 year old nuisance cracks from settling as well as poor carpentry design. So far so good 2 years in. I also add extra glue, seems to be a good practice with any patch. Excellent detailed video . Thanks
@@KristiEllKay I use a latex additive it can be used on plaster grout .it works great for packing sheetrock. The crack tape is thick but super strong length wise. I've got a couple houses with pretty long hallways and some heavy beam framing that settled after about 10 years. It looks like the crack tape worked its been a couple years and no cracks. I bought it on Amazon but some home depots sell it .it's ridiculous ly expensive but I thought I'd try it .I think it was 30 bucks for 50 ft.
Amazing work your videos are so entertaining also being so fun to watch and also very helpful for when I have an issue with my drywall. Keep up the amazing work Ben.
Use durabond on your 1st coat. The crack should have a backer board so cut out a wider strip where the crack is. It'll help reinforce things. Being that this is a residential home this is a prime example of why you don't use steel only beads. I believe the certainteed setting powder can be used to bed your tape, instead of adding glue.
I can't count how many crimped corner beads I've repaired. I've never used a crimper but if I did, it would only be to hold the bead in place while I nail or screw it. But these days we have the paper faced corner bead, no fasteners needed. Thanks for the tip about using a paint scraper to scrape down the old mud. I never thought of that and now I'm wondering why, it seems so obvious.
Professor Ben says... "To avoid tape wrinkage and hide that crack, lay it flat!" And actually this makes perfect sense. Wrinkled (wiggled) rebar, would not provide tensile strength to concrete effectively, for precisely the same reason! Wrinkage... The effect on a drywall joint, of tape laid along a longitudinally wrinkled/non smoothed/pre-filled surface, to reduce the ability to prevent or hide cracking, with normal movement of the supporting structure.
I'm no master at taping, I hung for a few years and when short on guys I had to learn the basic/common stuff with the mud. I was wondering on your comparison of tape strengths (on detail and real bad joints onto existing stuff we used fibafuse) wouldn't it be more fair to consider how strong it is after it's been saturated with mud and hardened? I completely agree, flats and angles on new drywall, paper is the only way to go (to my knowledge, again I'm no master). I think in a previous video you spoke of the mud basically bonding to all the fibers. Or do you think it may cause problems similar to mesh but to a lesser degree? Like when the walls shift, even with the mud hardened fibafuse it could cause cause a crack you'd otherwise not see with paper? Regardless awesome video, you're content is always of the highest quality.
I always use fibafuse for repairs, never had one crack on me yet. When it's saturated it basically makes a layer of fiberglass. Without the resin. Super strong, and I love it because of how thin it is.
Yeah, I think Ben is both wrong and right at the same time about that stuff. The fibers are tensile strong, the mud is compressive strong. When bonded in theory you get both at once, Ala reinforced concrete. But, paper is the exact same thing, with even more fibers. I think it comes down to a contiguous mud layer *through* fiber products, vs bonded *to* the paper. Would be interesting to see some extensive testing.
From what I've seen, paper (when done properly) and FibaFuse are strong enough to the point where if you're worrying about the strength of the material, you've already got a problem and will see cracks in the paint and mud. This is even more true for repairs where the tape will be sitting on top of paint/mud rather than direct contact to the drywall paper and will be more about the adhesion of the mud.
Another great video Ben. If I could give a word of advice, don't be so hyper aware of the critics while filming videos. I follow many home repair channels and I see that the most popular ones get attacked the most. I'm not fully certain, but my gut feeling is that there's a certain subset of seasoned professionals who absolutely do not like seeing these skills being taught to DIYers. These types do not like regular homeowners knowing these skills and want them to be dependent upon the pros. Especially the shadier ones. So my take is they are overly critical on purpose just to discourage helpful youtube content. Keep doing what you're doing and worry less about the critics in the comment section. Know that you're efforts are appreciated by 99% of the silent viewers.
I don't think Ben worries too much about what the critics say. I think he addresses it in the videos so that other viewers don't get too drawn into the debate. By acknowledging that there different approaches or philosophies it gives him a chance to state why he does things the way he does.
@@tay13666 It wasn't just today's video, but I've noticed it for several videos in a row. I could be wrong, but my guess is that he's over thinking the critics and it sometimes affects the quality of his work where he's focused on critical comments rather than explaining it to the audience and then some mistakes are made that he then goes backs and corrects. Not saying I'm right, but it's a hunch.
@@robertgiresi9515
You have a good point.
Though, as seasoned finishers, sometimes our mind wanders because it's a rather repetitious task. Add to that, making a tutorial video Ben may have so many thoughts going through his mind. Whether he's concerned with negative feedback or not his mistakes give him the perfect opportunity to show how to remedy them. All the best to you.
@@shongo2k15 Thanks. Nice to get good perspective from a seasoned finisher. BTW, I'm not a seasoned finisher or anywhere close. I'm a home DIYer looking to learn how to hang drywall, finish work and repair work. Not someone looking to do this for a living, just someone looking for self reliance skills to do work on my own home.
I feel like there's also older pros who are just real adamant and stubborn about their ways being the "ONLY" way to do things. You run into them a lot on the real world, especially when it comes to newer technology and methods, etc. Probably plenty of both in the comments war zones.
always love your videos. but seeing you like this really shows how well you know your craft and that you are a really good teacher
Thank you!
100% - this was actually a really good format for you. Enjoyed the change of pace.
Yeah, absolutely agree with this. Always like watching your vidz and this was good to see from a slightly different take by teaching those guys in Whistler. Envious of that drive up there on the sea to sky highway, it's one of the world's most stunning drives.
With over 37 years in the trade, I give your channel my seal of approval, probably the only legit drywall channel I've seen on youtube.
Doing a job that needed to be drylined. So looked at utube and your channel seemed by far the best chanel. Did the first coat and tape today on ceiling and walls. To my knowledge no blisters but will see tomorrow. I'm 63 now still looking to learn. Many thanks for you videos.
This is the first time, ever, that I have commented on a UA-cam video. Your videos are super helpful and beneficial to me. My wife will ask me what I am doing, then she will hear your voice from the video and say, "Its okay, as long as you're watching the Vancouver Carpenter!" She knows I am learning good stuff! Thank you!
Just don't tell her about the hot female anime videos. Shhh.
Love watching your videos! I’ve been in commercial work in SF Bay Area for 33 years and taping for 37 years! Always learning new things from different taping backgrounds. Keep up the great videos.
What company do you work for?
😂 Love the tongue-tied! Great video!
Wow. I think you're on to something here. Watching you teach others was educational & entertaining. Although, I already knew most of what you taught cuz well I've taken many of your courses. Professor VC. Love it!
Thanks Cindy!!!!
I second this! I loved the format and how well it was presented.
You are the best teacher! I have been following you for years great work! You've helped me broaden my scope of work for people in an industry where there isn't very many people anymore around here.
Wow, thank you!
I agree M V. He's a really good teacher. I recently shared with him that although I am not a drywall professional and have absolutely never done jobs for others. I simply started remodeling my home a year ago. And now, I can do drywall pretty good. My partners company saw my work and they were so impressed that they threw out some notions about hiring me. And I owe it all to Ben. He is a great teacher but even more, awesome at his craft. However, I must add, that one's gotta have the touch for mudding too. (LOL).
@@Cindy25Cox that's awesome! Yes Ben is awesome. I was able to learn how to use a trowel from him as well and got myself a nice 13x5 Marshalltown flat trowel. The way he teaches is really detailed and articulate and I'm able to apply his methods with great success. Even skim coating for clients and have ran into the bubbles etc. Love this channel!
@@MV-wb2cz Man do I hear you. My exact thoughts. I truly enjoy his channel. And the bonus we get with his humor. Can't go wrong.
@@MV-wb2cz Oh and I forgot to congratulate you on the trowel. Bravo!!
Love that paint scraper idea, I'd always wondered about a good way to embed the tape deeper so that the repair could extend out less and create less work!
I can’t believe I can be riveted to someone drywalling for 25 minutes, but I always learn so much from your videos. Great job as always, Ben.
I liked the last few videos because they were about garage quality repairs. I like this one because it’s a in home quality repair. Get out all the bad and ugly then do the repair. It can be tough sometimes to remove bad like you did with the corner bead because “it looked okay”.
I started watching you three years ago to try to work up the knowledge and courage to fix my cracked corners. Still working up to it. Thanks.
Me too❤
Great video! I just did a crack, I used a glazing bar to scrape back mud. The back end of the bar with the 90 deg part is designed to be used as a scraper. Not sure what the difference is between fast set, and confill but I taped it with fibafuse, and confill. I also put a bunch of screws, and scraped just wide enough to make sure tape is below the surface.
Never seen that bead crimp, good to know.
Thanks for doing good quality work.
I am working a 48” x 70” ceiling panel with all of those issues on the joints, seasonal temperature changes, water damage, and in too many spots, ring-shank nails that bent and just bashed in, cratering the drywall around the nails. 20 linear feet around the replaced panel and another 10 feet of crumbled joints.
I sistered furring strips on the ceiling joists to get a better screwing surface. I wish I had known about adding PVA glue to the Easy Sand 45 before I prefilled the joints. I did brush and vacuum all of the joints before I pre-filled, so I am hoping it will hold.
Thanks for post all of this content. I am a lot more confident this repair will work.
Man your videos are priceless! Been redoing my attached garage that was a rental before we bought this place, so it’s old and in rough shape, your tips and tricks have really helped me start my process, a process of something I’ve never done before, and you’ve helped substantially, right up to me figuring out from your video today that all my corner beads have failed because they to were all ‘clenched’ on. So I’ve been scraping, rescrewing and re mudding! Thanks again! Keep it up!
Very helpful Ben. Nice of you to take time as a consultant to help other teams. Shared knowledge is power. Essentially you helped put food on other guys' family tables.
You are a great instructor. You explain why you do what you do. You are my go to repair guy. Do it right the first time.
I'll be taping and finishing my garage soon and this was the most helpful video I've seen yet on the mixing and application of mud and what tape to use. Thanks for being such a great instructor.
This style of teaching is fine. I learned just as much on this as your other videos. As to my motivation for watching this I have two large horizontal corner edges that have failed similar to one you showed here. You just saved me the time I would have spent papering over the flange on drywall area I imagined I’d need to do. Thanks!
I am a bit of a DIYer. I got quoted to mud my basement for 50 bucks an hour. I said nah. I don't even make that much. I came across your mudding videos and it all turned out great. Really appreciate your time and patience in the videos.
Thx, I'm doing a repair between plaster and drywall in a new addition. Thanks for the tips. I did it like this last time but not with glue or quick set. I'll see if this one lasts longer! I think you missed one popped/ bulging screw towards the right.
I've finished my house with your guidance almost 18 months ago...
And I am still watching
Yes. This morning I installed a drywall patch in a bathroom ceiling around the ventilation fan replacement. This was very helpful as I have larger cracks around some of the perimeter. Just sent you some pics from this morning. Looking forward to revisiting previous videos for how to use quickset with glue. I now also check my blades for curvature. New skills for me. Thanks.
just what I was looking for brother! I'm working through some foundation damages at one of our properties and there's been a fair amount of cracking in the drywalls.
I've been watching your content & learning for years my man, I can't thank you enough! 🙏
I was just looking at a job today that is exactly like this. One length of corner bead actually fell off the ceiling and a bunch more was cracked the same way as in your demo. There was no sign of mechanical fastener in the corner bead and I was thinking what kind of drywaller does not fasten the corner bead. I'll have to look at it when I return, but I'm pretty sure the corner bead must have been clinched on. And I bet it all would have survived the earthquake had it been screwed or stapled on. Cool seeing you teach on video while teaching a group in person. Double teaching!! Two for the money.
Just did a very similar thing (Houston B.C.) but it happened after I had the water running in an upstairs sink and the overflow didn't work due to a clogged drain😩. The drywall swelled some what on old nail on steel cornerbead. I'm the guy who fixes these issues not causes them. After "exploratory surgery" like you said there was very little to know mud on a lot of joints and the house settled. A main tape ran right off the joint even. There were cracks in a nice looking ceiling. I just expedited the fixing being an idiot, flooding the ceiling. Used a Richards 2" scraper and a random orbital sander hooked to a large shop vac. LoL I had the same epiphany about the hollow sounding bead. Told the home owners that the guy may have not set the bead with mud. Was nail on and pinched.
good stuff. I have two stress cracks in my den, one above and one below a window, and I have stress cracks in the corner bead of my dining room, but on the ceiling portion. I haven't seen you do one of those, but it can't be all that different. These types of videos sure do come in handy. thx!
Excellent video! I'm a DIYer the way I dealt with cracks in my drywall was to just replace the sheetrock in whatever area I found cracks. I was replacing all the trim and adding crown anyways so I felt this was my best solution. However, now that I'm mostly done with my walls should I ever experience a Crack in my walls from this point forward I will be using what I've learned in this video! So I want to thank you so much!
Have you ever thought about becoming a college instructor? For a 'drywallery carpenter' guy you sure are good at what you do. It's great that you share your knowledge and experience here.
I'm glad you included what the veteran critics would say because it shows the purpose, longer term benefit of the longer route and application. I could watch these videos all day. So much fun.
I came on here to look for repairing stress cracks in drywall (VERY common in California due to E.Q's). I searched for it hoping to find a video by you, Ben (KNOWING you would have one out there in cyber space)! There it was! The perfect video.
Thank you, again. You have been such a help to me in the drywall end of construction.
Hadn't thought about stress cracks where earthquakes are more common. That must be frustrating.
Ben is by far my favorite - just a humble and relatable guy who is extremely knowledgeable. Keep it up Ben!!! You've got a real fan in the U.S. Pacific Northwest....
Just saying thanks again for sharing your knowledge. What I consider the hardest trade to master, drywall finishing. I can do an acceptable home install or repair after 50 years thanks to your you tube channel.
I’ve followed you for quite awhile now & you still amaze me with you talent. If you ever find yourself wanting to head on down to Scottsdale, Az you have a place to stay while you fix a crack in my wall.😁
Maybe one day!
So for two hours? 😂
I'm so glad I found your channel. You are really helping me understand how to do home repairs and giving me the confidence to try some of these repairs that my 1970 house is needing!!
Excellent video! I have watched it multiple times and taken notes beside. Fixing 3 cracks is part of a 3 room project so the temptation is to get the cracks patched and move on. However your detail makes it plain that doing it right will make it last longer. Thanks a bunch.
Great video as usual, thank you. I’ve been hanging drywall for 17 years and now learning how to tape and do small repairs. I always enjoy your videos and how useful they are. My daughter change my profile picture by the way 😅
GREAT video stumbled on it, love the format with the before and after.
I too have had failures from wrinkage in the shrinkle, I get to go back to customers places for other jobs and I often check my previous work. I have found places where the tape was not flat , ( no prefill ) and you can see tiny wrinkles.
I do the painting as well, so that finished product is very important to me.
Thanks for posting !!
Root cause, settling! I always relieve the friction between adjoining surfaces. Well done Nate!
I was skeptical about reapplying mud to my cracked corners that I installed tape on, and I did the entire room before really watching any drywall videos. The corners were so bad and the tape applied with so little mud that while notching out my Vs, most of the tape just fell off without much effort. I had to just laugh about it. I've watched so many drywalling videos since then, that I am pretty confident that I could repair or install drywall in an entire house. I doubt I could do it at the same speed as professionals, but I would make it look professional! Vancouver Carpenter videos has been my training guide for all of the skills I have now. This was another great video, that I took a lot of good information from. Keep up the good work!
Did an entire house with just the advice from Vancouver Carpenter vids. It's not perfect and took a loong time but my corners are better than any local drywal installer. These vids provide enough to become a professional drywaller.
Agreeded. The paper tape and paper bead have always proven to be stronger with far less fails related to the Sheetrock itself. Structural issues will always defeat sheetrock.
Thanks for the video 👍
I so appreciate watching and learning from a true pro who is way more intelligent than the average pro. Thank you for your great content.
I felt like I should have to pay you now. I definitely felt like I was in a class. Doesn't matter what it is, you always have informative videos, and you always teach in an easily digestible way. Not many people can do that. 👊
The greatest drywall mud man in the world . His work is speechless and extraordinary.
Thank you for your content. I wish everybody would follow your model of getting to the meat and taters while still being very detailed about important info. I wish every time I searched UA-cam, I found videos like these.
Thanks!!
Thank you Ben for sharing. Great video mate. You explain and demonstrate the procedures very well. Cheers from a land down under 🇦🇺.
Informative as always Ben
Shout out to the business that hired you for training, that shows they care enough to want to learn proper technique and pass that workmanship onto their customer. 👍
Anyone who criticizes your expertise is just jealous of your excellent work. Your the only guy I watch when it comes to drywall. Ty very much
As per usual, great video. I never get tired of learning from excellent work. I know you have been saying it for awhile now, but I enjoy hearing your signoff; very nicely personal, even though you don’t know me or most of your audience personally. Thank you!
Ormond Beach Florida here! Thank you for being a teaching professional. Now, I know what to look for as I am watching my local dry wall contractors who claim to have a professional skill set.
Thank you for this video. Me and my wife are redoing our home and your video has been by far the most useful one on how to fix settlement cracks. Thank you.
Glad it helped
Your videos are always welcoming and informative. Thanks for all your struggles setting up equipment to teach and refresh us DIYers.
I really loved this format. Felt like I was there with you teaching me.
This guy is truly born to teach and guide. Clean, balanced, perfectly detailed presentation. Also, just right amount of joking.
Man, you're the drywall master of the whole UA-cam. I love you Man, you're the best.😘
lots of paper vs mesh vs fibrefuse debate but given that paper tape is still the preferred product in drywall finishing as well as more likely the higher sales of all the product indicates to me what the best choice is. Be interesting to contact CGC/USG (and other vendors) to obtain that yearly sales information? And if you are proficient with paper tape installation, the other products are a breeze to use.
I really enjoyed this video. I felt like I was the student standing there getting the training and it seems like you just flowing better
love to see professionals teach great lessons.. you will always get comments, tons of trolls looking to sharpshoot folks from their chairs. You are definitely a tradecraft specialist and amazing skills. thanks.
Loved the format of this one!
"Rinkage" is probably the most Canadian thing you've ever said on this channel. Love it
I always use a clincher. It pushes the corner bead tight to the rock. It will not hold on light weight rock but does the job on regular rock. I can say I have never had a failure. I tried nailing screwing the corner bead but if you hit the bead it will dent or screwing it will bend the bead. I always use speed set on the first coat and never had a failure of the bead getting loose. On long runs when I need to butt two pieces together the clincher does a perfect job joining the pieces together. It turns out flawless.
REEAALLY wish I seen this before I fixed the "stress" cracks in my home that have all returned worse than before. I spent time cleaning everything out but didn't pre fill. I did flex tape with all purpose on top. They literally look like dog s**t now. House was built in 1946 so pretty much everything cracked. It looked great for all of 6 months. I will rip it all back out and start over using your pre fill, glue, and 20 minute method.
that paper thing, it worked for many years, i have it done on a wall, by a repair guy many years ago. Great vids.
Nice work! I have a couple settlement cracks I need to fix, including inside corner tape that has torn.
Try a hand held cake mixer to mix your quick set you'll never do it by hand again. Fits perfectly into your pan. Varitible speed no mess
I have three vertical cracks similar to this above my windows and patio door. This video was very helpful.
Extremely interesting and informative, as always, thank you! I especially enjoy the bonus content, like the VC vocab words of the day (flange, clinching), and who doesn't love a fun game of joint tape peek-a-boo!
I actually liked this format...it seemed more informative.
Very helpful Ben! So glad your knowledge, as the "drywalliest carpenter" is being passed on!!
Thanks for the video! Love the channel. After about 3 months of watching, I became a better finisher than the pros that were working on my project. Had to go back and fix all their mistakes. Question on prefilling you did here.....why not embed the tape at the end of the prefill so it gets sucked in slightly and fuses into that really strong joint? My thought was that it would be even stronger with the paper laminated on that deep prefill layer and with a little shrinkage into the joint, you would have more room for finish mud on top of the paper. thanks for the feedback!
Glad I found your channel I have been recently having to do more mud work and your video has really helped me step it up and take on more. Thank you
You are amazing! You definitely deserve your own show on the HGTV channel
Nicely done…again!
Thanks!
I like how you look to understand the process/product and why it would/wouldn’t work. That’s how I work … I appreciate your videos and time.
When I used the old metal beads, we clinched it and nailed it every foot or so. I definitely like the tape on bead better now for sure
Thx you explained this really well and I think I can do this as a woman that knows NOTHING about mud & drywall! Thanks for thoroughly explaining!!!!!
I’ve only done drywall around my home and my daughters but I’ve Learned a lot of his videos and if I haven’t done it for a few months I forget things since I have not done drywall for years back and rewatch the video
I def learn a lot on that one because fixing those every two years especially when the whole house except for my family room payment last year and the bathroom inside of the family room that I’m about to repaint i start looking on the Pinterest web site it’s great who needs an interior decorator when you have all that great work people have done to their homes 😱😳 my wife always says you just painted that room my family room when I painted it last year I change the color on the walls three times and now I’m about to change it again lol keep up all the great work I hope my message does not sound crazy I don’t have my glasses and I just hit the speaker and just start talking
Lol I’m read my message and talk and text as a mind of its own if a word sounds like another word or if you talk too fast or if there’s any noise in the background it will write words you some say i’m done i’m gonna finish read iMessage to take a picture of it and blow it up broke my glasses and come into the 16th and I’m blind as hell lol i have Bedroom to paint the walls to fix and paint
I watched a video of that DAP patch because my wife bought two of them so I was watching your art work i I still am I go to Home Depot those things are going back to the store lol looks like a flower on the wall
thanks videos are golden for those who want to try themselves and cannot get a contractor in my area
I like this format just as well as you talking to the camera.
Awesome as always. What kind of glue did you add to the 20 minute mud?
Metal corner bead seems to have problems with cracking, that's why we always tape it too
Best practice! I was taught that back in the early 70s by an old plaster guy. He had me doing lots of repairs. On really old buildings.
Great video and tips. Followed them and just completed a patch/repair.
Your opinion please?
If you don't feel like writing you can address it in your next video if you'd like.
Since you already had a crack in the corner bead, why not tape the corner bead and just float it out wider?
I find myself taping corner bead more often lately especially if it's repair work or a small jobs less than 400 linear feet of corner bead or bullnose whatever.
If it's a whole house I'm not going to tape all that bead.
Once again great video! 👍
Best explanation for paper tape and shear that ive heard
If it is available in your area, I highly recommend priming the repair area with a product called, Gardz. I even use it on raw adobe walls, which we have an abundance of in New Mexico. You will transform a dry, dusty or chalky surface into a clean, dry and relatively hard surface that is ideal for mud to adhere to. Plus, if you flood the surface well enough, it really glues everything together to make a tight prepped surface to work with. A weenie roller or hvlp works well depending on surface.
For an example, an electrician carved out a bunch of channels to run conduit in the kitchen of an Adobe house. Roughly 4" x 6" deep into the wall. I flooded the crap out of it with Gardz to the point of it just flowing down the wall. Once thoroughly saturated, it pools or runs as you would expect. No worries, just wipe off. Once dry, I filled the channels with 20 minute mud and it was literally stronger than new. Then skim, prime again and paint!
Was wondering about primer before hand.. definitely doesn't seem like it would hurt at all
@@seemssafe2995 Primer before applying Gardz?
no sorry, using gardz before mud seems like a good ideal is what i meant@@lukehelpmetakethisdangmaskoff
I used a clincher when I built my house in 91, and I never had a corner bead fail, but I can see how it might.
I've had good luck recently with crack tape (pretty expensive for what it is) on some 60 year old nuisance cracks from settling as well as poor carpentry design. So far so good 2 years in. I also add extra glue, seems to be a good practice with any patch. Excellent detailed video . Thanks
Can you elaborate on the glue? What kind of glue is mixed with mud? I've never seen that before.
@@KristiEllKay I use a latex additive it can be used on plaster grout .it works great for packing sheetrock. The crack tape is thick but super strong length wise. I've got a couple houses with pretty long hallways and some heavy beam framing that settled after about 10 years. It looks like the crack tape worked its been a couple years and no cracks. I bought it on Amazon but some home depots sell it .it's ridiculous ly expensive but I thought I'd try it .I think it was 30 bucks for 50 ft.
@@KristiEllKay patching
Amazing work your videos are so entertaining also being so fun to watch and also very helpful for when I have an issue with my drywall.
Keep up the amazing work Ben.
Perfect timing, had my foundation raised and have a ceiling to wall crack, this helped!
Well done Ben! Always learn something when watching.
Use durabond on your 1st coat. The crack should have a backer board so cut out a wider strip where the crack is. It'll help reinforce things. Being that this is a residential home this is a prime example of why you don't use steel only beads. I believe the certainteed setting powder can be used to bed your tape, instead of adding glue.
Thanks for the all info. Quick question though, what type of glue do you use for this?
As I can say is those are 3 quite lucky gentlemen to get to watch the master at work!!
You are a really great teacher. I've learned so much (completely inexperienced with anything to do with fixing anything lol)
Really well done!!... I think the presentation was spot on.... thank you
"Wrinkage", love new words, and thanks for the lessons.
Enjoyed your video! What type of glue did you mix in with the quickset?
I can't count how many crimped corner beads I've repaired. I've never used a crimper but if I did, it would only be to hold the bead in place while I nail or screw it. But these days we have the paper faced corner bead, no fasteners needed. Thanks for the tip about using a paint scraper to scrape down the old mud. I never thought of that and now I'm wondering why, it seems so obvious.
Professor Ben says... "To avoid tape wrinkage and hide that crack, lay it flat!"
And actually this makes perfect sense. Wrinkled (wiggled) rebar, would not provide tensile strength to concrete effectively, for precisely the same reason!
Wrinkage... The effect on a drywall joint, of tape laid along a longitudinally wrinkled/non smoothed/pre-filled surface, to reduce the ability to prevent or hide cracking, with normal movement of the supporting structure.
The drywall’s king of the whole of internet as well as capentry’s….Yes sir💜🙏🏽
I'm no master at taping, I hung for a few years and when short on guys I had to learn the basic/common stuff with the mud. I was wondering on your comparison of tape strengths (on detail and real bad joints onto existing stuff we used fibafuse) wouldn't it be more fair to consider how strong it is after it's been saturated with mud and hardened? I completely agree, flats and angles on new drywall, paper is the only way to go (to my knowledge, again I'm no master). I think in a previous video you spoke of the mud basically bonding to all the fibers. Or do you think it may cause problems similar to mesh but to a lesser degree? Like when the walls shift, even with the mud hardened fibafuse it could cause cause a crack you'd otherwise not see with paper? Regardless awesome video, you're content is always of the highest quality.
I always use fibafuse for repairs, never had one crack on me yet. When it's saturated it basically makes a layer of fiberglass. Without the resin. Super strong, and I love it because of how thin it is.
Yeah, I think Ben is both wrong and right at the same time about that stuff. The fibers are tensile strong, the mud is compressive strong. When bonded in theory you get both at once, Ala reinforced concrete. But, paper is the exact same thing, with even more fibers. I think it comes down to a contiguous mud layer *through* fiber products, vs bonded *to* the paper. Would be interesting to see some extensive testing.
From what I've seen, paper (when done properly) and FibaFuse are strong enough to the point where if you're worrying about the strength of the material, you've already got a problem and will see cracks in the paint and mud. This is even more true for repairs where the tape will be sitting on top of paint/mud rather than direct contact to the drywall paper and will be more about the adhesion of the mud.