I'm a professional painter and a drywaller as well and I always watch the Vancouver carpenter all the time and he's pro without question, thank you so much.
Thanks so much for your tutorials!! I am a 54yr old woman working on some drywall. I watched my dad from a little girl do all kinds of drywall. He was a perfectionist and NEVER had to touch sandpaper to dried mud! His walls were perfectly smooth! He passed away a little over a year ago. I can’t ask him questions anymore. Your videos have informed me on such great tips! I will continue to learn from your videos. 😃👍👍
Lls I would say he had to sand it. Never heard of anyone being able to get the mud completely even and tapered without sanding lls. I'm sure he was good but prolly cuz your dad and hero maybe you remember it a Lil differently cuznin your head he was perfect.
I am chuckling as I'm watching this before trying corners...I thought I was "removing old caulk" before re-caulking corners in the house my parents left me. As I ran my knife along one corner, I thought, "Gee, that sounds kind of like paper...." and it sure didn't feel like pulling off a bead of caulk. Now I am learning to tape a corner. LOL. It's going much smoother than I thought it would since I can watch these videos. I'm still sort of amazed at how much material you have to put on your knife to get a good coating. Thanks for your virtual help.
My dad was a drywall taper for 50 years. You remind me of him. I wish he was still alive to help me with my renovation. 🙁. You are a great teacher. Today I used some roofing tar paper to shim up a joint were I removed a wall. You are a great teacher.
I'm a painter and I know a professional when I see one because they make the work look easy. Then when I go to do it I have mud all over my hands, the floor, my knife, my face, and the neighbors dog.
I'm working through a whole house renovation and fixing the drywall disasters so called "professionals" made during construction 20 years ago. I have an inside corner I'm tackling this morning and I've always struggled, so I committed to search for good guidance and expertise. The first vid I found was not good and then I found Vancouver Carpenter. I couldn't jam the "like" button hard enough. Thank you for this great information.
@@lorddeath6300 no no, don has a point. Just like everything, there is an art to it. Some people can feel the mud and drywall better. They can feel what level feels like without having to step back and look. A lot of its repetition. But every person has a talent. Maybe those people have a feel for things with their hands than others. For instance maybe you could feel your corners more, and feathered your mud correctly the first time. While I know some of my friends have to coat their mud 5/6x because they couldn’t feel that their corners weren’t square. Know what I mean homie? Hope this clarifies it for ya
I disagree. I am no artist, trust me, but I've learned to do drywall. By trial and error of course. The cool thing about drywall mud is, if you screw it up... just sand it down when it dries and try again. The pre-formed corners, at the big box stores, that have metal corners with paper edges, are a beautiful thing! 😎
There are definitely those more inclined too it but it is a skill any skill can be learned, that doesn't mean it will be easy. Drywall is deceptively harder than it looks. Not hard to learn but hard to become efficient
I'm not a "drywaller" but I do a fair amount of drywall and think that I'm decent (non-production type) drywaller, and I learned a ton from this video! Thank you
Man.. I have been watching drywall vids for hours and you are the first one to explain why every says to finish one side of a corner at a time.. Thank you so much I love you vids btw
I'm a handy man apprentice and I just redid a bathroom and had the worst time trying to make the corners nice. Its because I tried to do both sides at once. Keep making great videos man I really like learning from your videos and I love working in this trade
I'm about drywall a entire house alone I have a drywall gun flex 24 with feeder, drywall sander with led vacum,and drywall lift should be here soon n lease pray God uses his hands as my hands and his mind and words as it were his mind and words 🙏 in jesus name we pray amen 🙏
At 70-yrs old, I'm learning to tape and mud renovations on my home. When you know little to NOTHING, learning to do EVERYTHING via YTube can be daunting. I realize that what I did initially in corners really was the right way to do it! Unfortunately, I saw a DIY somewhere, and they recommended doing one side of a corner at a time WITHOUT demonstrating what that actually MEANT the way you did. Thankfully, I was able to get the corners smoothed out anyway. I'll go back to doing it the way you demonstrated. EASY-PEASY. Thanks for the clarity!
Awesome! What you just did in under 6 minutes, while showing things and explaining, took me about 20min and looked 10 times worse. I get to try again tomorrow with new knowledge. THANKS!!!
Exactly what I needed. Not that I am too cheap to hire a professional. It is just that professionals are not interested in small jobs. So, I have no choice but to do it myself. Appreciated having no music and no splash screens and no attempt to entertain. Just concise instruction explained with clarity, which is what we need.
I'm a first time DIYer renovating a half bath and your tutorials are the only things keeping us from hiring someone! Thank you for the great tips in all of your videos!
I've already wasted money. I never knew all of this content was on TH-cam. I had to learn the hard way. Now I'm fixing the work of a sorry company. I couldn't live with the "professional" work they did. Just slap hot mud over mildew and chipped paint, no prep, no sanding. The education was valuable though. It was an expensive lesson.
I watched a guy say he knew how to drywall and tape and clearly didn't. He left a part of the dry wall where he had no support in the ceiling just loose. He than stuck this self adhesive type tape in corners bc a guy at lowes recommended it, put my tape I grabbed him back. All the stuff you went over I tried to explain. So now I'll show this video 😉. Thanks for the awesome tutorial.
THANK YOU BEN!! I am brand new to drywall and your videos are incredibly helpful. Unfortunately, I started my first project without your videos. So this particular video has improved my work! Especially adding a little water to my premixed mud!! And the tip about doing one side at a time on corners!! I brutalized many corners trying to do them simultaneously. Your new fan from Ontario.
I know this video is old, I'm doing muddling for the first time dry wall for the first time. It's my garage and I want it nice for a place I can wood work and whatever. Your video is going to help me alot ,you must really be a expert and thanks for making and explaining stuff out. I'll keep you updated
Thanks for this very simple and informative explanation. I’m gonna forward this to my contractor who said I was being picky b/c I asked him to re-do the corners in my bathroom. His response, “It’s not gonna be perfect. There’s gonna be some lumps no matter what you do.” You just proved him wrong (and lazy) in 5 mins 😆
best video ever! I took out a wall in a bedroom, after removing a closet. I dulled my knife's edges, and finished one side of each inside corner at a time, with a day drying in between. The walls turned out perfect! Got ride of that stupid v shaped corner trowel, and haven't used one since learned this method. Thanks for this tip.
Thank you so much! I was struggling yesterday with inside corners on a room I added a wall to. I watched this along with a few other of your videos last night, cleaned off what I did yesterday and started over today. I used a smaller knife and hit the edges with a file. I thinned my premix down a bit and did one side at a time. I spent less than 2 min on it and it looks like a pro did it!
First time I saw his videos; I failed. I built a wall and started practicing. It takes only a few weeks not years. Now I totally see what he is talking about. Thanks VC
As a learning mudder, I love the pre-formed corners, at the big box store, that have a metal 90 degree with the paper edges. They've been amazing for me! 👍
great video. i have a friend that is also a professional drywaller and he says the same thing about only doing one side of the inside corner joint on any day. thank you for sharing your expertise.
Best advice, wait until the following day.... Done few corners myself and always wondered how the professionals get it nice and smooth. Thank you very much.
You also can’t forget all knives come with a very slight ark or cupped. If you eyeball your knife you will see an ark in the blade, this is important. After you get the tape in the mud, then look down your knife and make sure you have the ark in the right direction. The ark should be pointing towards the wall with the corners of the knife winged up off the wall as you pass down the tape pressing it into the mud. Now, when you are coating tape say on the center bands of your drywall joint when you’re putting the finish coat over the tape after you embedded it, you put the mud inside the ark so the knife is cupping the wall or tape center with the mud cupped in the knife, then, after you spread that mud, flip your knife with the corners of the knife winged out away from the wall and feather the mud top and bottom or right and left of the tape. Yes, knives come with arks in them, especially the bigger knives. If you run the knife with the corners cupped out while imbedded the tape, the corners won’t dig into the tape. Just thought I’d throw that out there for people who may not know. You can also over time keep bending your knife on the corners against the floor or workbench to increase the ark if you prefer. It’s tempered steel so it flexes back but will bend over time. The ark is very slight, almost hard to see but it’s there and can be a big help.
I'm a tile guy and we have a dude that works with us that always gets stuck with fixing drywall even though he has no clue how to do it. It's so hilarious because we ended up calling him our drywall guy. Which he is clearly the opposite. Thanks for the tips bro
I've watched several different videos that offer advice on how to do these drywall techniques. Most have been good.. but yours, are excellent. Thank you.
Best educational videos. On my home remodel, the "hired experts" mostly screwed things up. Now, I only have them install the drywall and I finish it up. The "experts" never take the time to do it well and I'm sick of going over their mistakes. Not "back-filling" the voids with quick-set is my biggest complaint (it drys and cracks). Thanks again ... I'm doing really well now with this damned drywall.
You guys make it look so Easy. I think there's nothing like experience, but also really appreciate your pointers, some of these paste drys super fast and for us starters is difficult, but thanks a lot for your videos
In addition to not having sharp corners on your knife, I've found it sometimes helpful to angle the handle of the knife slightly in toward the corner (versus pointing straight up or down) which relieves some of the pressure of the corner of the blade against the seam of the paper. I know... hard to describe.
I recently used a "corner knife" and my corners turned out remarkably well. Saved so much time to hit both sides at once. Adding a splash of water and mixing your mud also makes a big difference.
i’ve been drywalling a three bedroom kitchen living room whole house and the corners have been a nightmare yes and I started doing one side at a time thank you for the confirmation. BTW I watched your videos before doing this house so thank you for being with me on this project.
Fantastic, thank you! I'm doing a slightly different job to drywall mudding but the good principles here carry across. I ripped out an old built-in cabinet in an apartment and found raw fab concrete behind, so all the plastering on top finished at the built-in. Nice. So now I have 1,0m x 0,5m floor to ceiling to plaster out including an internal corner that I need to square up. I feel much more directed in my approach now. Cheers!
Sometimes if we Bed the corner on day 2 and its the painted side of a wall the corner wont have dried all the way on that side, beware of different dry times when mudding on paint, as opposed to drywall, the paper draws out the moisture way better.
I use 20 or 45 min hot mud for almost everything so my jobs are done usually the same day if not then the next.....I even use 45 mud in my spray hopper to do the texturing and also when doing hand trowel texturing
You are amazing! We recently purchased an old house that has a lot of... issues. Mostly from past home owners "repairing" it. Thanks to your videos I'm confident and started fixing the dry wall problems. We are happy with the results and finally getting the house of our dreams. Thank you so much!
When butting up drywall to a pre-existing painted surface, I just tape and mud the factory edge and then come back and hit the seam with caulk. Run your sponge down the bead and it's perfect every time.
We bought a 20 year old house about 3 months ago. I'm not exaggerating when I say the builders and prior owners half assed almost every square inch of this house. I did not see it in person before buying it(that's on my husband). We're redoing one of the guest rooms and an inside corner is poorly taped. Now i have to somehow fix it so I'm very thankful for videos like this.
I can't thank you enough for your wonderful mentorship! Thanks to you, my DIY projects involving drywall now look completely professional and the best part is, instead of feeling like I'm simply "patching things up", I have the confidence that my work is high quality and will stand the test of time.
I’m starting to get what I would consider decent at taping on repairs and small jobs, a lot from tips I’ve learned right here from this guy up top. Although I bought a corner trowel and don’t mess around trying to figure out doing it with a regular knife. I have the corners turned up on some of my knives, I find it helps things go smoothly and prevent lift offs with my inexperienced hands
I've got some drywall tape that's badly wrinkled that I need to repair. Have already removed it and planning to redo today. Have never done it before so this is really, really useful advice. Thanks a lot, from UK.
Nah, it's not beginner cheat, it is how, and the only way it should be done. 90 minute mud might help you finish faster if you don't want to wait a full day to get the other side. However pros will have automatic speed tapers that allow them to do both sides at once.
@@BobBob-we3wr Yeah, I know pros who snicker at that tool. As if it were not good enough for them. But I use that tool all the time. It puts a bit more mud in the corner, that sometime shows a crack when it shrinks. But if you go over that with one of those sanding sponges. The end result is better than any pro knifing one side, then another.
Thanks for this! Too late for me, but super helpful for others! Also I bet you could get views just by explaining in detail the angles and where you're applying pressure using knives in different situations to keep mud from smearing wrong, getting mud out from under tape, not tearing tape, etc.
Very good advice. I remember starting out with a new drywall knife when I first started doing drywall over 50 years ago. Nightmare! These knifes will never work properly until they are "worn in." Your advice to take off the sharp square wedges of a new knife is right on the money. Prepare the knife edges carefully. Treat them with care. And never, ever let anyone else use your drywall knives. They will come back with dented edges and you will have to start all over again either with a new knife or with regrinding and polishing the old blade. Big pain! The three tips you offer here are right on the money. Another good tip might be to use the right drywall compound for the job at hand. Great video. Thanks!
Been taping professionally for 15 years , the first year learning the trade was not fun , but now it’s as easy as waking up lol ,, but good job enjoy watching the videos for some reason 👍
Thanks as always. You make mudding a lot less intimidating for us Joe-Homeowners. I also know when I really need to have someone come in who does this for a living!
I removed a lot of drywall in my garage to add power, a lot of power, and I didn't want conduit running all over the walls. I knew the basics required to put the walls back together, but thought I would check TH-cam for any higher level guidance. Your videos have saved me a lot of time and trouble. I greatly appreciate the time you've taken to make these videos. Taping, inside corners, outside corner beads, etc. etc., I've put them all to use so far... I may be a noob to this, but I believe my work will look like I knew what I was doing... TY
Tip #3, so many times I'm trying to be the hero and get it done quicker. "I'll just sand out the imperfections until I start sanding tape. Which paint will cover. That'll be fine... that'll be fine... that'll be fine.."
Thank you! Doing both sides at the same time is my issue. Couldn’t figure out why my results were bad. Now I know. One side at a time. Love your videos.
I just had to learn number 3 the hard way this past week. I had it in my head that both sides could be done at once so I tried and tried to get them both at the same time. After having a bunch of grooves to go back and fill I decided one side at a time has to be easier.
Damn, I watched a ton of your skate vids, and I always read comments about you teaching people how to do drywall. Now that I'm doing some renovation at home, I searched stuff about plastering corners and here you are... Nice, professional on all level!
Yes! I had exactly that problem, where I tried to do both sides at the same time. Mine was even more difficult, because it was at an acute angle. I got the best results filling the corner in, without voids, by using my finger.
Thanks so much for this video. I have to repair a corner joint in the bathroom (and I can see they didn't fill in the gap first). This also answered my question of mudding on top of an already painted wall.
What about the mistake when you get metal corner bead and try to use it for an inside corner and then when it doesn’t lay flat you put in about 5000 nails and then try to mud the absolute crap out of it to hide it and then eventually realize you have to pull it out? Is that not a common newbie mistake? Asking for a friend.
@@SpeshulFX You should almost NEVER call a "professional" if you have the capability to do it yourself. Why? Because of the cost. LEARN to do it yourself and not only improve yourself, you also buy the tools and LEARN which is very important in life. A lot of "professionals" make money by taking shortcuts that you would never take on your own home. The main reason to call a "professional" is laziness. Stand up. Face that stupid wall and tell it who is boss. The guy with the money and the tools.
Just wanted to say that I have done drywall repairs so I knew a little but am renovating my home and love to do the work myself. Thanks for your time and tips on how to make life a little easier.
Great ending! I'm one of those poor saps that took on his first drywall project and used the corner trowel and tried to do both sides of the corner at the same time. Wish I would have seen your videos 8 years ago!
mistake #1: not my problem, but noted. mistake #2: I haven't bought a new knife in years, but again, noted. mistake #3: UGH fine...you got me...But I just want the job over with already!
You clearly have more patience than me. I typically use a large plastic mud knife to press my tape into corners without risk of cutting/digging into tape, then I use the metal knife for smoothing out, but I like your recommendation. Also the idea of not using the mud out of the bucket and adding more water is something I will try going forward. Love your videos....
I'm a professional painter and a drywaller as well and I always watch the Vancouver carpenter all the time and he's pro without question, thank you so much.
Thanks so much for your tutorials!! I am a 54yr old woman working on some drywall. I watched my dad from a little girl do all kinds of drywall. He was a perfectionist and NEVER had to touch sandpaper to dried mud! His walls were perfectly smooth! He passed away a little over a year ago. I can’t ask him questions anymore. Your videos have informed me on such great tips! I will continue to learn from your videos. 😃👍👍
Lls I would say he had to sand it. Never heard of anyone being able to get the mud completely even and tapered without sanding lls. I'm sure he was good but prolly cuz your dad and hero maybe you remember it a Lil differently cuznin your head he was perfect.
I am chuckling as I'm watching this before trying corners...I thought I was "removing old caulk" before re-caulking corners in the house my parents left me. As I ran my knife along one corner, I thought, "Gee, that sounds kind of like paper...." and it sure didn't feel like pulling off a bead of caulk. Now I am learning to tape a corner. LOL. It's going much smoother than I thought it would since I can watch these videos. I'm still sort of amazed at how much material you have to put on your knife to get a good coating. Thanks for your virtual help.
You are the man! I struggled with an inside corner tonight and came to your video for help. Thank you.
This guy is good! I'm a retired Painting Contractor. I've seen a load of sheet rock people. He knows how to communicate well too.
My dad was a drywall taper for 50 years. You remind me of him. I wish he was still alive to help me with my renovation. 🙁. You are a great teacher.
Today I used some roofing tar paper to shim up a joint were I removed a wall.
You are a great teacher.
I'm a painter and I know a professional when I see one because they make the work look easy. Then when I go to do it I have mud all over my hands, the floor, my knife, my face, and the neighbors dog.
Building a wall here... thank you for sharing the suffering, I now know we're not alone over here.
For real though
This guy is not a pro
@@johnallen2832 What makes you say that ?
If you recognize this guy as a professional then you have never seen a professional.
I'm working through a whole house renovation and fixing the drywall disasters so called "professionals" made during construction 20 years ago. I have an inside corner I'm tackling this morning and I've always struggled, so I committed to search for good guidance and expertise. The first vid I found was not good and then I found Vancouver Carpenter. I couldn't jam the "like" button hard enough. Thank you for this great information.
He makes it look so easy. There is an art to this, and some of us are just not artists.
No man it’s actually really easy as you keep doing trail and error there’s no point in learning anything if your not willing to make mistakes often
@@lorddeath6300 no no, don has a point. Just like everything, there is an art to it. Some people can feel the mud and drywall better. They can feel what level feels like without having to step back and look. A lot of its repetition. But every person has a talent. Maybe those people have a feel for things with their hands than others. For instance maybe you could feel your corners more, and feathered your mud correctly the first time. While I know some of my friends have to coat their mud 5/6x because they couldn’t feel that their corners weren’t square. Know what I mean homie? Hope this clarifies it for ya
I disagree. I am no artist, trust me, but I've learned to do drywall. By trial and error of course. The cool thing about drywall mud is, if you screw it up... just sand it down when it dries and try again.
The pre-formed corners, at the big box stores, that have metal corners with paper edges, are a beautiful thing! 😎
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There are definitely those more inclined too it but it is a skill any skill can be learned, that doesn't mean it will be easy. Drywall is deceptively harder than it looks. Not hard to learn but hard to become efficient
I love your videos. Straight and to the point without a bunch of unnecessary chatter. Thank you
I'm not a "drywaller" but I do a fair amount of drywall and think that I'm decent (non-production type) drywaller, and I learned a ton from this video! Thank you
Great ……. You taught me the right thing
Man.. I have been watching drywall vids for hours and you are the first one to explain why every says to finish one side of a corner at a time.. Thank you so much I love you vids btw
I'm a handy man apprentice and I just redid a bathroom and had the worst time trying to make the corners nice. Its because I tried to do both sides at once. Keep making great videos man I really like learning from your videos and I love working in this trade
You can do an apprenticeship in that? Cool stuff
I'm about drywall a entire house alone I have a drywall gun flex 24 with feeder, drywall sander with led vacum,and drywall lift should be here soon n lease pray God uses his hands as my hands and his mind and words as it were his mind and words 🙏 in jesus name we pray amen 🙏
At 70-yrs old, I'm learning to tape and mud renovations on my home. When you know little to NOTHING, learning to do EVERYTHING via YTube can be daunting. I realize that what I did initially in corners really was the right way to do it! Unfortunately, I saw a DIY somewhere, and they recommended doing one side of a corner at a time WITHOUT demonstrating what that actually MEANT the way you did. Thankfully, I was able to get the corners smoothed out anyway. I'll go back to doing it the way you demonstrated. EASY-PEASY. Thanks for the clarity!
Awesome! What you just did in under 6 minutes, while showing things and explaining, took me about 20min and looked 10 times worse. I get to try again tomorrow with new knowledge.
THANKS!!!
Exactly what I needed. Not that I am too cheap to hire a professional. It is just that professionals are not interested in small jobs. So, I have no choice but to do it myself. Appreciated having no music and no splash screens and no attempt to entertain. Just concise instruction explained with clarity, which is what we need.
Wish I had seen this before I spent so much time trying to mud both sides with thick premix mud, using my sharp knife.
😂 right??! 🎉
Dude I'm watching your videos more instead of doing the mud work in my appartment. Thanks for your amazing content!
I'm a first time DIYer renovating a half bath and your tutorials are the only things keeping us from hiring someone! Thank you for the great tips in all of your videos!
I've already wasted money. I never knew all of this content was on TH-cam. I had to learn the hard way. Now I'm fixing the work of a sorry company. I couldn't live with the "professional" work they did. Just slap hot mud over mildew and chipped paint, no prep, no sanding. The education was valuable though. It was an expensive lesson.
I watched a guy say he knew how to drywall and tape and clearly didn't. He left a part of the dry wall where he had no support in the ceiling just loose. He than stuck this self adhesive type tape in corners bc a guy at lowes recommended it, put my tape I grabbed him back. All the stuff you went over I tried to explain. So now I'll show this video 😉. Thanks for the awesome tutorial.
THANK YOU BEN!! I am brand new to drywall and your videos are incredibly helpful. Unfortunately, I started my first project without your videos. So this particular video has improved my work! Especially adding a little water to my premixed mud!! And the tip about doing one side at a time on corners!! I brutalized many corners trying to do them simultaneously. Your new fan from Ontario.
I know this video is old, I'm doing muddling for the first time dry wall for the first time. It's my garage and I want it nice for a place I can wood work and whatever. Your video is going to help me alot ,you must really be a expert and thanks for making and explaining stuff out. I'll keep you updated
Thanks for this very simple and informative explanation. I’m gonna forward this to my contractor who said I was being picky b/c I asked him to re-do the corners in my bathroom. His response, “It’s not gonna be perfect. There’s gonna be some lumps no matter what you do.”
You just proved him wrong (and lazy) in 5 mins 😆
you sir are an absolute Godsend! - I'm remodelling my house and your videos have helped me SO much you wouldnt believe. Thank you - a million times!
I’m a stay at home momma who dreams of being a carpenter so I DIY a lot at home. You are amazing!!! Ty!!!
@Mayra, have you seen the carpenter's daughter. 😊
best video ever! I took out a wall in a bedroom, after removing a closet. I dulled my knife's edges, and finished one side of each inside corner at a time, with a day drying in between. The walls turned out perfect! Got ride of that stupid v shaped corner trowel, and haven't used one since learned this method. Thanks for this tip.
I appreciate your videos. I am a rookie GC in Oregon and I try a lot of your techniques and they are helpful.
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Thank you so much! I was struggling yesterday with inside corners on a room I added a wall to. I watched this along with a few other of your videos last night, cleaned off what I did yesterday and started over today. I used a smaller knife and hit the edges with a file. I thinned my premix down a bit and did one side at a time. I spent less than 2 min on it and it looks like a pro did it!
First time I saw his videos; I failed. I built a wall and started practicing. It takes only a few weeks not years. Now I totally see what he is talking about. Thanks VC
As a learning mudder, I love the pre-formed corners, at the big box store, that have a metal 90 degree with the paper edges. They've been amazing for me! 👍
great video. i have a friend that is also a professional drywaller and he says the same thing about only doing one side of the inside corner joint on any day. thank you for sharing your expertise.
I really appreciate your videos! You are a naturally great teacher!
Best advice, wait until the following day.... Done few corners myself and always wondered how the professionals get it nice and smooth. Thank you very much.
Usually the professionals have a butterfly tool and just feather the edge
These videos are really helping... I'm down to 6 coats and 12 hours of sanding for the last room I did.
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Too funny!
LOL. I should watched this video first. I'm on the 3rd coat now and did both corners at the same time. Doh !
Thanks for the "do one side at a time" advice. You just made my life better! I'll use hot mud if I want to finish a small project in a single day.
You also can’t forget all knives come with a very slight ark or cupped. If you eyeball your knife you will see an ark in the blade, this is important. After you get the tape in the mud, then look down your knife and make sure you have the ark in the right direction. The ark should be pointing towards the wall with the corners of the knife winged up off the wall as you pass down the tape pressing it into the mud. Now, when you are coating tape say on the center bands of your drywall joint when you’re putting the finish coat over the tape after you embedded it, you put the mud inside the ark so the knife is cupping the wall or tape center with the mud cupped in the knife, then, after you spread that mud, flip your knife with the corners of the knife winged out away from the wall and feather the mud top and bottom or right and left of the tape. Yes, knives come with arks in them, especially the bigger knives. If you run the knife with the corners cupped out while imbedded the tape, the corners won’t dig into the tape. Just thought I’d throw that out there for people who may not know. You can also over time keep bending your knife on the corners against the floor or workbench to increase the ark if you prefer. It’s tempered steel so it flexes back but will bend over time. The ark is very slight, almost hard to see but it’s there and can be a big help.
Agreed. It took me a few months to learn that.
A great help. I’m a homeowner, been working on several corners that bubbled. Messed it up the first time. Now I can redo it right. 👍 thank you
I'm a tile guy and we have a dude that works with us that always gets stuck with fixing drywall even though he has no clue how to do it. It's so hilarious because we ended up calling him our drywall guy. Which he is clearly the opposite. Thanks for the tips bro
LOL
That's me. I've yet to develop a knack for it
I've watched several different videos that offer advice on how to do these drywall techniques. Most have been good.. but yours, are excellent. Thank you.
Best educational videos. On my home remodel, the "hired experts" mostly screwed things up. Now, I only have them install the drywall and I finish it up. The "experts" never take the time to do it well and I'm sick of going over their mistakes. Not "back-filling" the voids with quick-set is my biggest complaint (it drys and cracks). Thanks again ... I'm doing really well now with this damned drywall.
Out of all the help videos ive seen..this guy is the best by far..
You guys make it look so Easy. I think there's nothing like experience, but also really appreciate your pointers, some of these paste drys super fast and for us starters is difficult, but thanks a lot for your videos
Man I old man has been a drywall finisher for 30 year and said your the best one on here
In addition to not having sharp corners on your knife, I've found it sometimes helpful to angle the handle of the knife slightly in toward the corner (versus pointing straight up or down) which relieves some of the pressure of the corner of the blade against the seam of the paper. I know... hard to describe.
I understand completely. Nice comment
Yes that's what I do and it's so much better
Outstanding Sir!! Thank you from a 62 year old guy that thought I knew what i was doing. Thank you!!
I recently used a "corner knife" and my corners turned out remarkably well. Saved so much time to hit both sides at once. Adding a splash of water and mixing your mud also makes a big difference.
That bit about the sharp brand new knife is such a subtle and important distinction.
Thanks man, watching this has guided me through the drywall phase in my parents bathroom. Your videos help alot of us! 👍🏻
i’ve been drywalling a three bedroom kitchen living room whole house and the corners have been a nightmare yes and I started doing one side at a time thank you for the confirmation. BTW I watched your videos before doing this house so thank you for being with me on this project.
Great tips Ben!!🔥 I’m sharing this one for sure!💥👊🏻😎
Thanks Paul!!
2 big dogs chatting, I am subscribed to both haha. You guys are great, we need to get the drywall doctor, he is another one.
@@shinomex lol..how many drywall channels do you subscribe to
Nikki Mcdonald all three of the guys mentioned are good. Watch all three.
Fantastic, thank you! I'm doing a slightly different job to drywall mudding but the good principles here carry across. I ripped out an old built-in cabinet in an apartment and found raw fab concrete behind, so all the plastering on top finished at the built-in. Nice. So now I have 1,0m x 0,5m floor to ceiling to plaster out including an internal corner that I need to square up. I feel much more directed in my approach now. Cheers!
Going to finish that taping in my basement that I have been avoiding.
Thanks, I hate/fear inside corners.
I've never done anything with drywall watched your videos and did my new house by my self thanks so much
Haven't even watched yet, but thanks Mr piano hands for the great TH-cam content. You are appreciated. Have a like.
Thank you, thank you, thank you! I have struggled with corners for years! No more!
You just identified what ive been doing wrong all these years. Ive been trying to do both sides at the same time!
Oh, you are so kinky Stasha. Trying to do both sides at the same time. So naughty. Take your time. Pace yourself. 😀😀
Same here, both sides at the same time. Live and learn.
been doing drywall for a few years now but i still go to your vids for tips on certain things. def inproved on a few small areas esp sanding
Sometimes if we Bed the corner on day 2 and its the painted side of a wall the corner wont have dried all the way on that side, beware of different dry times when mudding on paint, as opposed to drywall, the paper draws out the moisture way better.
So glad I found this vid. I’ve always dreaded corners. Won’t be a single-coater but so much better than all of my other jobs.
I use 20 or 45 min hot mud for almost everything so my jobs are done usually the same day if not then the next.....I even use 45 mud in my spray hopper to do the texturing and also when doing hand trowel texturing
5 min mud buddy, works like a charm, mix it up and it's kickin
Yeah mix it up and it's a block in your pan before you get it on the wall🤨
@@knockoutcustoms7477 love the stuff!!
I’ve been mudding for 15 years and never used 5 min mud!
@@jamusmorrison3073 I hate 5 minute mud.....not enough working time unless it's a very small patch
That make so much sense , I always try to do both corner and struggle every single time. Thanks for tips
step 1: recognize your mistakes
step 2: correct your mistakes
step 3: Nothing is perfect, but we can try make it perfect.
You are amazing! We recently purchased an old house that has a lot of... issues. Mostly from past home owners "repairing" it. Thanks to your videos I'm confident and started fixing the dry wall problems. We are happy with the results and finally getting the house of our dreams. Thank you so much!
Every time I have done mud on drywall, I've made that mistake. Haste makes waste! Thanks for this invaluable tip.
I read hate not haste lol. Shows you how much I dislike mud and tap. And painting. Did I mention painting?
I don't think you know how much of a saviour you are.
Thanks.
When butting up drywall to a pre-existing painted surface, I just tape and mud the factory edge and then come back and hit the seam with caulk. Run your sponge down the bead and it's perfect every time.
Good advice
Oh boy.
We bought a 20 year old house about 3 months ago. I'm not exaggerating when I say the builders and prior owners half assed almost every square inch of this house. I did not see it in person before buying it(that's on my husband). We're redoing one of the guest rooms and an inside corner is poorly taped. Now i have to somehow fix it so I'm very thankful for videos like this.
I can't thank you enough for your wonderful mentorship! Thanks to you, my DIY projects involving drywall now look completely professional and the best part is, instead of feeling like I'm simply "patching things up", I have the confidence that my work is high quality and will stand the test of time.
you cannot be more right with your videos. been watching for a year while i work on my house
I’m starting to get what I would consider decent at taping on repairs and small jobs, a lot from tips I’ve learned right here from this guy up top. Although I bought a corner trowel and don’t mess around trying to figure out doing it with a regular knife. I have the corners turned up on some of my knives, I find it helps things go smoothly and prevent lift offs with my inexperienced hands
I've got some drywall tape that's badly wrinkled that I need to repair. Have already removed it and planning to redo today. Have never done it before so this is really, really useful advice. Thanks a lot, from UK.
I always thought doing one side at a time was a beginner cheat. Glad to hear I was doing it correctly (for a beginner at least). Thanks!
Nah, it's not beginner cheat, it is how, and the only way it should be done. 90 minute mud might help you finish faster if you don't want to wait a full day to get the other side. However pros will have automatic speed tapers that allow them to do both sides at once.
@@jkotarsky \ I also seen them use those corner blades made for this. Does both sides at once
@@BobBob-we3wr Yeah, I know pros who snicker at that tool. As if it were not good enough for them. But I use that tool all the time. It puts a bit more mud in the corner, that sometime shows a crack when it shrinks. But if you go over that with one of those sanding sponges. The end result is better than any pro knifing one side, then another.
Exactly what I was thinking. Plus I always want to do it all in one day so I nvr like the idea if soending TWO or MORE days taping.
I can’t tell you how happy I am that I found your channel. Learned a lot, much appreciated.
Thanks for this! Too late for me, but super helpful for others! Also I bet you could get views just by explaining in detail the angles and where you're applying pressure using knives in different situations to keep mud from smearing wrong, getting mud out from under tape, not tearing tape, etc.
Very good advice.
I remember starting out with a new drywall knife when I first started doing drywall over 50 years ago. Nightmare! These knifes will never work properly until they are "worn in." Your advice to take off the sharp square wedges of a new knife is right on the money. Prepare the knife edges carefully. Treat them with care. And never, ever let anyone else use your drywall knives. They will come back with dented edges and you will have to start all over again either with a new knife or with regrinding and polishing the old blade. Big pain!
The three tips you offer here are right on the money. Another good tip might be to use the right drywall compound for the job at hand.
Great video. Thanks!
Been taping professionally for 15 years , the first year learning the trade was not fun , but now it’s as easy as waking up lol ,, but good job enjoy watching the videos for some reason 👍
Thanks Steve!
Thanks as always. You make mudding a lot less intimidating for us Joe-Homeowners. I also know when I really need to have someone come in who does this for a living!
For some reason I've now started to actually say "feather my edge" when doing my mudwork ... :D Thanks for all the great content.
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Wow, you have helped me immensely!!
Said it today 😂
I do too! ❤️
I removed a lot of drywall in my garage to add power, a lot of power, and I didn't want conduit running all over the walls. I knew the basics required to put the walls back together, but thought I would check TH-cam for any higher level guidance. Your videos have saved me a lot of time and trouble. I greatly appreciate the time you've taken to make these videos. Taping, inside corners, outside corner beads, etc. etc., I've put them all to use so far... I may be a noob to this, but I believe my work will look like I knew what I was doing... TY
Tip #3, so many times I'm trying to be the hero and get it done quicker. "I'll just sand out the imperfections until I start sanding tape. Which paint will cover. That'll be fine... that'll be fine... that'll be fine.."
Been watching your skating for years, never knew you could help me get better at work too!
Sounds like the stuff I do wrong. Thanks for this.
Thank you! Doing both sides at the same time is my issue. Couldn’t figure out why my results were bad. Now I know. One side at a time. Love your videos.
Another good idea is to buy used knives/trowels at garage sales.
No need for sanding and I got a nice variety for about a $1 each.
Sanding a new knife is a PRO tip! Thanks for another great video.
I made every one of those mistakes.
Me too.
Me three.
My buddy told me about the doing one side thing over the phoneand the rest i figured out trial and error
Bryan Broussard same
So did I Bryan
Me too
I just had to learn number 3 the hard way this past week. I had it in my head that both sides could be done at once so I tried and tried to get them both at the same time. After having a bunch of grooves to go back and fill I decided one side at a time has to be easier.
Lmao i just see this video on my newsfeed AFTER i literally did the opposite of what this guy said to do? Lol dammit
Damn, I watched a ton of your skate vids, and I always read comments about you teaching people how to do drywall. Now that I'm doing some renovation at home, I searched stuff about plastering corners and here you are... Nice, professional on all level!
Thanks for the great advice! 4 fingers at 5:10 had me laughing.
"The three biggest struggles..."
*proceeds to drop pan and hold up 9 fingers*
Yes! I had exactly that problem, where I tried to do both sides at the same time. Mine was even more difficult, because it was at an acute angle. I got the best results filling the corner in, without voids, by using my finger.
I sure did try to do both sides today man I really struggled I bought the blue lid mud at home depot uffff
I always thin out the pre mixed stuff with a tiny bit of water. I never thought of thinning it out even more for the corners.
Thanks so much for this video. I have to repair a corner joint in the bathroom (and I can see they didn't fill in the gap first). This also answered my question of mudding on top of an already painted wall.
What about the mistake when you get metal corner bead and try to use it for an inside corner and then when it doesn’t lay flat you put in about 5000 nails and then try to mud the absolute crap out of it to hide it and then eventually realize you have to pull it out? Is that not a common newbie mistake? Asking for a friend.
You clearly should put your tools down and call a professional.
I was just considering doing that. Thanks for the heads up. 🤣🤣🤣
@@SpeshulFX You should almost NEVER call a "professional" if you have the capability to do it yourself. Why? Because of the cost. LEARN to do it yourself and not only improve yourself, you also buy the tools and LEARN which is very important in life. A lot of "professionals" make money by taking shortcuts that you would never take on your own home. The main reason to call a "professional" is laziness. Stand up. Face that stupid wall and tell it who is boss. The guy with the money and the tools.
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Your friend is a freakin idiot
Just wanted to say that I have done drywall repairs so I knew a little but am renovating my home and love to do the work myself. Thanks for your time and tips on how to make life a little easier.
Anyone else catch the ,"That is what I think the 3 biggest struggles are," as he holds up 4 fingers?!? haha. Great vid tho, thanks for the help!
There are three types of people in this world. Those who can count, and those who can't. Some of us fall in the latter group.
Great ending! I'm one of those poor saps that took on his first drywall project and used the corner trowel and tried to do both sides of the corner at the same time. Wish I would have seen your videos 8 years ago!
mistake #1: not my problem, but noted.
mistake #2: I haven't bought a new knife in years, but again, noted.
mistake #3: UGH fine...you got me...But I just want the job over with already!
Use Perfect 90 type product on all inside corners. Much better short and long term and you can do both sides at the same time without issue.
You clearly have more patience than me. I typically use a large plastic mud knife to press my tape into corners without risk of cutting/digging into tape, then I use the metal knife for smoothing out, but I like your recommendation. Also the idea of not using the mud out of the bucket and adding more water is something I will try going forward. Love your videos....
Inside corners will always be the bane of my existence, no matter how good I get at them 😂
YSM Proto I try not to. It'll either all work out, or it won't and you're no worse than before 💁♀️
YSM Proto no!!! you dam worry, could be my house your working on, 😂
Peter Kelly 😂😂😂