Every Beginner Taping Mistake I Can Think Of!
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- How to avoid beginner mistakes when first taping drywall!
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Hey Ben! I had a big drywall job about 2 months ago. My coworker and I had a little friendly argument on how to apply the paper tape. I add a ton of mud behind the tape like you taught us and wipe it away after applying the tape.
My coworker claimed that if you add TOO much mud, it will blister/bubble. So we split up into two rooms. He did his method, I did mine. Let’s just say he had quite a bit of blisters to cut away and refill the next day 😂.
Thanks Ben for the lessons! 👍🏻
Soak the tape in water first.
@@GT-43 Ben actually has a debunk video on this. The water creates a barrier that hinders the mud from adhering properly. Check it out.
You’re like a Drywall Bob Ross… good stuff. Doin a garage conversion and those corner taping methods are coming in clutch.
Started with a new company as there head painter, they didn’t have anyone to tape and mud, I told them I can do it because Ben taught me, they said ok who is Ben, I said don’t worry about, I now run that side for them to now, Thank you Ben, for teaching many of us on how to improve our skills.
Excellent video, thanks for going slow for us newbies. The lighting and the video guy did a great job as well!
Just finished prepping my bedroom for painting. After watching refresher vids from my favorite Canadian contractors, I have fixed fine cracks from settling, prefilled and taped some corners that my Mom tried to cover with crappy silicone caulking, and filled all the tiny holes from pictures. The walls already have lost all the spots from old spackling and the room looks great! Can't wait to cover the old painted-on stencils from the 90's with KILZ and make this place my own! Thanks for all the help with learning new tricks. I am saving a TON on remodeling my folks' old place!
I've been watching for a few years knowing I would be drywalling some DIY renovations eventually. I finally started last week and all of your knowledge has been golden. Thank you for this and your prior videos.
I am DIY guy as well that has jacked up drywall repair. This is one of my main channels to watch along with another Canadian (I am in the US). In watching them it seems my biggest issue was my fear, drywall is pretty easy to fix. Finishing it, I still got some to learn.
Thanks for instructions, I am a beginner and thanks to you I can avoid all these mistakes. Please keep making these great videos
Oh my gosh! I’ve been putting off a drywall project because of lack of confidence! After watching your video I’m ready to go! Thank you!
You are a consummate professional, showcasing educational integrity.
I think there is a lot to be said about mudding and taping by hand for your first try at it, or even your second try. This is where you learn the subtleties and the preciseness of the job. Personally, I find it very satisfying. Even watching you do it while you're not talking was almost therapeutic! Thanks for the tips! Great video style, off the cuff like on a real job! Genius idea!
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Excellent presentation, solid gold. Huge lol at “don’t be like ih ih ih… sideswipe!” (Paraphrased)
Thanks
Great haircut. Good looking and low maintenance! Your workflow is inspirational. It would take me 10x the time to complete that. Thanks for making these vids!
I ❤ when you make the mistakes for us.! With the help of your drywall tutorials I've taken a garage from studs to finished and repaired closet walls w/ several ft of torn gypsum using wood glue first. The process and results were seamless thanks to your help.
II did make the mistake of using an orbit sander on the closet walls making this small enclosed area look like an '80s crime scene. :)
Thanks so much for your videos. As a homeowner who does his own repairs, your advice is invaluable. Thanks for the “hot mud “ tip as I am mating tapered boards to cut edge. Great stuff.
Super helpful info. I've been sporadically DIY drywalling for many years and you've already explained what I was doing wrong and why the results came out the way they did. Thanks for posting these very informative vids.
He is my SENSEI thank to him i learn how to mud so good than even people when the see my work offer me jobs a contractor was doing my neighbors house so my neighbor brought him to my house so i can show him the work i was doing on my bathroom and the contactor was so impress the he offer me a job.thank you SENSEI BEN
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Really? Well that there just warms my heart! You reminded me of something: 'Wipe on...Wipe off'! That was from the very first Karate Kid movie...back in the 80's I think. You said "Sensei"... and he was mudding and taping 'wipe on, wipe off', just like the Sensei showed the Karate Kid. Ok well you might have had to have seen it to get that one.
But, I'm so glad that you learned enough to earn yourself a job offer! I hope it's going well!
Coming back after my hand at trying mudding for the first time, man you make it look so easy!! My first tape job was ROUGH
Just did my first drywalling, this was a big help. Thanks!
Your also saving us money :) They wanted here in NJ $1,000 to do 3 walls and ceiling in a 9x9x9 bathroom and to do it in one to two days. I was like forget that and I started watching your videos and it was not so bad to do. So thank you so much I appreciate it for all the time you put in these videos and sharing your knowledge which is worth way more then money at the end of the day.
Thanks for these videos, my brother-in-law was all set to try and prefill with all purpose, and then tape right over it immediately with the same all purpose, and not feathering anything out.
Thank you Ben for sharing your knowledges & expertises. Much appreciated & big hello from Toronto Canada!!
Good job man. Im starting a new profession, which is an Apartment Maintenance Tech. And your videos are really helping me. Thank you!
Hey Ben, just a big thanks for providing these videos. I’ll be putting up a dividing stud wall in the basement over the holidays and this is exactly what I needed. Cheers from Victoria,BC 🍻
I started prefilling with plaster of paris a while back after realizing that wide cracks completely screwed up my end result
So 100% agree with this
Ive probably made every single mistake in this video and had to adjust my technique to get better results because im a perfectionist and any imperfection drives me nuts lol
Great work as usual.
You make me feel like taping something.😊
Carry less tools, clean less tools. Another great tip.
I'm doing my first ever drywall effort on my garden room now and your videos have been instructional, amazing and motivating to watch. Thank you. Also like the skateboarding, but that is another thing!
Thank You so much. I have learned a lot watching and listening to your video. You do not talk to much and you certainly explain very well what to do and not to do. This is very much helping me out a lot before I develop bad habits. You have earned a new scriber.
thank you so grateful for sharing your knowledge with us, ive learnt so much and can now see where i was going wrong
I have some round horse hair brushes I purchased in the early 2000s just before they stoped making them that I brush mud in my corners with, it was made so that it fit nicely in pan and left room so you could work. I had a friend in the 90s that used an old straw small hand broom that they make with a metal nub for a handle, he would cut it at an angle so the brush flowed the way he brushed the mud in the corner, and it seemed to fit in his pan pretty decent, while leaving room for a 4" knife. Another tip is application with your knife, if you use the corner of the pan to put the right amount of mud on your knife, you can run all that mud on a lot faster running your knife the same direction the corner runs. I can tape about 4800 sq ft of drywall in about 8 hours and have plenty of time for smoke breaks, but my usual system back in the day was to tape the flats on day 1, and then coat the bead and butts right away. On day 2 I taped the corners, first coated the flats, and then second coated the butts, and finished spotting any nails I missed.
I giggled when you started talking about how much you like a good hand "tape" job. But I just did one of my first seams and I've overfilled it so now I'm in sanding hell. Decided I needed to watch some more videos and try again.
I saw someone using a Milwaukee orbit sander. And i was thinking it would be to harsh. But on a low setting with a really light grit i think it would be helpful and less time consuming than doing it by hand. Let me know what you think.
Thanks Ben, for making and sharing this very helpful video, it’s much appreciated 😊👍🏴
Thanks Ben! Just about to tape some long internal corners of my garage ceiling - was wondering if I could tape it in two pieces! I will be working at a leisurely pace 😁 great advice!
Wow, I am doing some repairs and this is the best advice. Thank you!
Thank you your video has help me want to fixing crack on wall, thank for teaching appreciated
I love your videos! they are informative and give me the confidence and motivation I need to get my projects done!
Always learn something watching your vids! Thank you
Nice video. I just had this on in the background and lol'd at 47:03
Grew up in a family of builders. And they were good…masons, carpenters, electricians, plumbers and some of them were pretty good with drywall. This guy is hands down the best I have ever seen. There is an art to this craft that not everyone is capable of doing. I can do just about anything crafty, building, creating but drywalling? Nope. My sander is my best friend. I have hired out the job and have been constantly disappointed in the quality of the work.
Also, practice first re: large scale projects. I did a home and learned on my way. I just wish I would have done some smaller projects. I used this channel for guidance and my project turned out really good. It just would have been so much less frustrating and overwhelming if I had a little experience.
School of hard knocks is the best teacher. Sounds like you had a long class but did well in the end:)
@@vancouvercarpenter It was the excellent tutorials that gave me the confidence in the first place. Thank you very much.
Thank you, Ben
Thanks for all the great info, I’ll be putting it to good use this week.
I fix all sheet’s horizontal where possible and cut out around openings. Leaves just one tapered joint in middle.
It would be great if you could write a step by step guide with the type of mud to use for each of the step.
Great video! You make it look so easy!
Awesome job great techniques. Thank you for the video.
Shh.... Ben is speaking. Let me learn!
So what you refer to as a recessed joint, in the states I believe it's called a beveled joint.
If you could do a mobile home remodel, taping and mudding the VOC walls I would be forever grateful 😊
I’m doing this work for my landscape office that I was requested by the boss and my other coworker does the framing I’ve noticed the lumber in your project here as far superior to the junk we get in America they use a cheap pine
Soooo very well done!!!!!!!
Hell yeah. I like how you wet it with the roller I'm gonna try that
Thank you
Appreciate you sharing zee knowledge! Taking on my own sweat equity. I think I’m better than the last guy who lived at my place. Have done a ton of re-do work and it’s come out better.
Many thanks to the UA-cam community!
How do you feel about using expanding insulation foam behind big gaps first? We drywalled around natural pine beams. The house is 100 years old. Nothing is square to start with and there are some one inch gaps around circles. I can think of no other solution other than buckets of mud or the foam. Thanks for the tips and tricks very helpful!
I'm a general contractor. For the most part I'm self-taught at mudding. so, it was pretty surprising to see that a lot of the stuff I figured out on my own is exactly how you do it. cool, glad to see my way is not so strange. I should give my old man some credit, he taught me the basics. btw the only reason I came across your channel is because of the "ridging" problem you get when you apply new mud over already dried mud. I was curious to see if people had any solutions that where knew to me or if they had a more scientific explanation as to why it happens. saw your vid on it and you deal with it the same way I do so that's cool. as to your reasoning for why it happens, that was interesting. I never figured it had to do with the pressure being applied., ill try to play with that next time. always figured it had to do with using a different batch of mud or it being a different state of hardening. either way very comprehensive vid's. my professional seal of approval, for whatever its worth.
Oh my effing god “angry little bench” 🤣
Thank you so much for all the details! Is a big help as a starting DIY'er :D
In the states we call that a GET TALL TOOL sometimes a plastic milk crate gets used.
I didn’t know I needed this but do you have a video where you are just doing like an hours worth of mudding without talking so I can nap to it?
Good content!
Can you do a video on how to fix a stress crack in a ceiling?
My old boss use to say just load on the mud we can do it in 1 coat just sand it flat.. the next day i went back to sand and he got mad it took me all day to sand it as flat as i could lol and covered the room in dust. That was the last time i worked with him. I didn’t want my name on that shotty work. I felt guilty i even did it like that knowing it was wrong. That is also when i made the decision if you’re telling me to do it wrong to save money or time you can find somebody else.
MOST EXCELLENT TIMING! sorry for yelling but I just had to show my happiness with this video! I just hung and "prepped" my drywall. I went overboard and used 90 min durabond over all my joints to act as a filler/binder. (after overdoing the V-cuts almost everywhere except tapered to tapered joints, they just got pre filled) Taping is next. Going to use the TapeBuddy. I did have one question for you concerning inside corners. A while back you did a video using a corner roller to apply the bud to those inside corners and after smoothing out you embedded the mud. Do you recommend that method for beginners or should I stick with the tape buddy for all my taping needs?
Just use the tape buddy. You already have something that puts the mud on the tape. Just stick with it.
@@vancouvercarpenter HAHA.. lol no pun intended right? Thanks for the tip!
Ben, any tips on centering the tape over the joint after the mud has been applied? Keeping it centered can be challenging being that the mud is hiding the joint. Thanks!
Give it a tiny poke with ur knife, top n bottom
If you're having real trouble, you can set up a line laser on the joint and it will show up on top of the mud, the tape, the paint, whatever.
@@WGMedia Cheers for this idea - since I've been coming to realise my other half was probably right when she first expressed her skepticism that we really needed the laser level I'd taken the liberty of buying, I need every possible use for it I can find!
I'm renovating an old kitchen that has an oil based painted ceiling. The walls are drywall. Do I need to prepare the ceiling in any specific way to make sure the mud will stick when doing the corner joints between the ceiling and wall?
Ben, if those are steel studs and the electrical boxes are on steel studs or the sparky put 1104 wrap around boxes, it's because of the screws that are fastening the bracket. The Boardman shouldn't have put the joint over them.
I clicked on this video for a few seconds, just to write this comment when I saw that it was going to be almost a full hour. You said in the first video that I watched that it would be your longest video. But then, I saw this one is way longer. haha maybe I'll take the time to watch this someday. like this Sunday. when I have to hang some drywall myself for the first time. is drywall better hung vertically or horizontally? appreciate you.😜
Horizontally is stronger.
Thanks for the videos. They are incredibly helpful. Gotta question - What is comparable to Concrete Fill that we can get in the states?
Great info! Thanks.
I want to repair some drywall taping that was done by a previous owner in my house. The part where you showed if you put tape on incorrectly makes me think they did it wrong.. it's awful looking... bumpy. you can see every single seam of board. Can I simply sand it down then paint over? Or should I sand it down and expect to reapply mud?
Great video, Ben! I just found your channel last evening and watched several of your videos already and have learned a lot! Question...I have a covered porch with a drywall ceiling. The corners are fine, but the tape has failed out on the main areas of the ceiling. I can see that mesh tape was used. When I remove the tape, I will (obviously) have the build-up of drywall compound on either side of where the tape was. Should I pre-fill those gaps with mud, let dry, and then apply the tape? Should I use paper tape? Also, would I use the quick-set mud? I live in the states, so I will need to investigate product options. Any recommendations would be HUGELY appreciated! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and expertise!
Had no idea this is what you did when you were skating
I admire your skill. Even with your tips I still can’t do it very well. I framed the walls and hung the drywall paying attention to being level and square and am sick knowing I’m going to do a shit job taping and mudding. I would pay someone but am determined to do as much of the work as I can myself. I’m hoping enough coats and sanding will end with a decent result.
you hold your index finger on your knife. Does it hurt your finger after a while? It does me and I have to switch grip
Thanks!
Great Video
You should shoot all your moves 1st-Person. Please? If you haven't already. Was watching this cat in a short, swapping a medium ac vent, possibly a return (weird?), with a sweet modern arty one. It was sick and helpful, as well, with a vantage point more behind him and sorta over his shoulder.
Q: I pulled all of the paneling off the walls in my den. Luckily, when they installed it in the '70s, they didn't put glue on the back of the paneling, & the drywall underneath, although old, is not torn nor has glue on it. Do I still put tape bt the drywall and the painted ceiling? Thank you!
I have a question. I have a wall in the hall where im sure there used to be a door that was moved. This creates kind of a concave door sized indent in the wall that i can clearly see when the light hits it right. How do I patch up that large of a section? Like a regular patch? Build it up?
I painted directly over first coat of tape. The tape pulled out of the joints over time. Would you recommend just pulling off the existing tape and retaping? also any comment on using fiberglass mesh tape?
Do you have any videos on how you write your quotes?
The most self conscious UA-camr I’ve ever seen😂 I would be the exact same tbh but that’s why I don’t make videos haha
NOW A QUESTION, YOU SAID YOU DONT LIKE MESH TAPE, IN MY EXPIERENCE USING MESH WITH PREMIXED MUD, IT CRACKS, USING MESH JUST ON FLATS, (recessed seams), with quick set mud, 45 or 90, ive never had a issue, again just on recessed seams, saves a lot of time. What are your thoughts
2:27 well FINE! since you said it....
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Why not a corner tool when taping the corners?
Hi Ben, I’m sadly seeing your video after I taped my job. I took a door frame out to open it up. I added 4” of drywall where my door wall used to be. I had 1/8” higher on my drywall insert fix. I’m learning now from your video I should have levelled everything first but I taped and will be levelling after. What does that do to my job?? I don’t want cracking.
I learned wow
Hi master why 1mm gap between gypsum boards best than 0mm gap?❤❤❤
Everybody ive worked with who sucked at drywall all used that grid tape and every time youd see that tape past the mud..
Why do you chose paper tape instead of mesh tape?
I find when you do use any power tools for mixing it seems to kick off faster, does anyone happen to notice this?
It can. Mixing too long will also make it kick faster.
Hi buddy
I’m wondering with old horse hair plasters house is it better to completely remove it all and re dry wall with new product or can it be made flat and look new and fresh
Obviously the old horse hair is far from flat and looks horrible under lights
Advice please
I'd do almost anything to avoid the work and mess of tearing it out, unless you really need to get into the walls for some reason. If you search for "plaster and lath repair" there are videos on all kinds of techniques, from skim coating to glue injection. Once you can keep the plaster from falling off, skim coating it will be a fair amount of work, but it will eventually work. If you want to make it look good in a hurry, you could just use a good quality flat wall covering with that cement they sell in tubs (the prepasting on most wallpaper won't stick to anything too rough). It will look good for maybe 10 years, and then you could use mesh tape and mud over the seams, and paint it. If you do a good job, it will look just like painted drywall.
@@pcno2832 thank you
I have prepared my self for the full removal of it all with all the mess so to hear that I can possibly do it without doing that is music to my ears
Thanks a lot
Love all your vids they are very helpful and informative keep them going 👌🏼
Why dont you coat over wet tape?
Ben-chipiro nice lol
Next question. Since I prefilled all my joints and V joints with Durabond 90 I'm assuming I can set the tape buddy to thin instead of thick correct?
Yes. Although I personally preferred the thicker setting. I like having a little more mud to play with.
Good video as always Ben!
Haven’t had a chance to use my new super taper yet it wonder if no coat/strait flex would work thru it???? Upcoming test maybe???
Only if it’s 2” wide. Then it probably will.
I keep getting orange plastic nap / boggers in my skim coat. Is this something USG puts in their mud?
Hello, when replacing only the lower half of drywall due to a flood, do you 1st fill the tapered edge and allow to dry and then tape like a butt joint? I think this is called a bastard joint? Thanks