This video randomly popped in my feed about 2 weeks after I did an arch in my bathroom. 😂 I just cut one side of a regular paper faced bead with shears, worked perfectly.
We just had our living room remodeled and did the baseboards and caulking ourselves. Also we have to install a door under the stairs Your video on installing the doors in your attic room really helps. We bought a 24” wide door from Home Depot and we will cut it down to fit as you showed Thanks for your great videos. They are truly a help for DIY’s.
I loved watching the plasterboard falling on your head…. I had a similar experience under a turning staircase a few weeks ago ( very funny ) You did a nice neat job
Well I officially have my first drywall job under my belt (renovating my garage). It’s a bit shotty but it would have been much worse without all the advice from your videos. Thanks from ole Indiana, USA. Cheers
ALWAYS tape the corner beads. That's my motto. It something can move and crack it will. Leave the un-taped corner beads to "corner" cutting contractors paid by the hour.
Ditto. I know many of my former coworkers in the Navy (Seabees)m wouldn’t bother. Showed them the difference doing training one day. 4 of the 5 went to the mesh tape. Other still stuck in his ways. To each their own ¯\(ツ)/¯
seems like what would really make this easy is a J Roller that has Two sets of rollers. One for inside the frame, and one for outside of it. So that you can start it in one spot. and then roll it on more accurately, and with better pressure. Possibly saving time and stress.
If you use bag mud on vinyl, it won’t shrink so much the first time, and you’ll be able to fill it flat with the second coat, but we always add glue to the mix with vinyl.
Thanks for putting out the helpful content. I have a garage with living space above that I recently built. There are a few walls that are a little over 9 feet tall. Does it make more sense to trim 10’ and hang vertically to avoid butt joints?
I did my first...7 days ago!!! Thanks for the video, you answered soo many questions I had after doing it without your video. I notice you sprayed adhesive on sub floor. My arch was in new flooring, so I embedded it in wet mud, is that OK "professionally speaking"?
destroyed my ceiling in my florida garage and found 3 inch wide - metal mesh wire holding boards together - looking to buy more cuz it did hold better than the regular paper stuff that was used on the other side of the room - maybs use vinyl but don't know if plain mesh fiber tape will be strong enough
So idk if you read these comments but I've really been learning alot from your videos. So I have a question about turning my textured wall into a smooth wall which you have plenty of good videos on. The only problem I have is I have bullnose corners. Do you have a video on A: smoothing out textured bullnose corners or B: how to turn a bullnose corner into a square corner.
Love your videos. You have made drywall finishing cruelly enjoyable for me! Question about your trowels, do you like flexible, medium flex or stiff trowels? Do you switch trowels between 2nd/3rd coat and final skim coat?
@@vancouvercarpenter after getting hooked on your videos, i bought a hawk and cleaned up one of my trowels about a year and a half ago. I LOVE it! Unless I'm using hot mud, I've primarily switched to the hawk and trowel.
@@ltridge504 I just bought a hawk and trowel to try out as well lol! Trying out a 12x5 Marshalltown gold permashape and a 13” nela mediflex. We’ll see how it goes. Got a couple projects around the house to test them on and a whole Reno project
Hey and thanks for this informative video. I am helping fix a drywall arch that has lost some of the spackling on the edges. Is it ok to to cut some mesh tape and then mud it? Will this hold long term? Thanks in advance!
Great videos! I have a question. In my house I have a low ceiling and I want to add in arch way but I dont want to make the door way smaller - it is all full drywalled at this point. Should I pull the dryall off and reframe the overhead area of the doorway then add the arch plywood as you did? Hope my question makes sense. Thanks a lot love your videos!
After scraping popcorn off a concrete ceiling there are areas where the concrete has many small holes like pours in it. I'd like to avoid skim-coating the entire ceiling, so what could I use to just fill in those holes then prime and paint? Thanks
I'm a homeowner working on remodleing my kitchen and a complete noob with taping. Question - What is the purpose of tape if you can just fill with prefil and mud? Doesn't tape just add more surface to have to level out?
If you were using the 3/4" bullnose edge bead on an arch, how do you finish/sand so that those segmented slots are not noticble? One would think that given the vinyl is harder than the drywall compound that when you sand to smooth, the compound would be undercut and leave those slots shining through!
Hello. You are doing good work. It is very kind of you to share it with us. I also work in the field of carpentry and I love this field. Is there any help to work alongside you? My name is Najib from Morocco. Thank you.
Wow.....I was hoping the creepy archway had finally found it's place in ancient history. Not sure why anyone would want one but as long as the job pays in dollars, what the hey.
Can you use hot mud with glue? I did some tear away bead and used hot mud and it coated well with the first coat and did not show all the holes like with air dry
Can you apply mud over paint? I ask because I am repairing a poor install in my house and it looks like they primed and painted over the mesh tape they used or maybe they sanded too much mud off and exposed the tape before they primed and painted but either way you can see the tape very clearly.
You definitely can but you'll probably want to use something like Loctite Power Grab to make sure it'll bond properly and save you the headache from it cracking or pulling away down the road.
@@DrGero15 Prior to the mud. put it on the wall - roll it in with a foam roller. It'll set everything that's already there and it'll help the new plaster stick better.
@@DrGero15 Yes, entirely. You're using it more as a primer than you are an actual adhesive. You would probably want to get it overnight to cure before continuing. It's an old plaster's trick for homes without drywall on lathe walls. It works on just about anything plaster related though.
That's the wrong way to mud drywall trims! You're supposed to use mesh tape or paper joint tape over all drywall trims, this to prevent drywall trims from cracking. 😊
