Beginners Guide to Taping Inside Corners with Automatic Taper

what's going on everyone in this video we're gonna show you how to tape your inside corners using an automatic taper now if you're not already familiar with the basic parts and functions make sure to check out our video entitled beginner's guide to using an automatic taper alright so we're gonna go ahead and get started the first thing we're going to do is raise our control sleeves to advance our tape we're going to manually turn our drive mechanism so you can see we have mud on the tape very important when you're doing angles to give yourself a few inches of lead tape because angles do tend to drag more than your flat seams would so we're going to go ahead and get started here you can see I'm holding the automatic taper just above the control sleeve that way when I'm ready to do my cut I just shift my hand down to the control sleeve and pull down to make that cut your other hand you're going to kind of palm the back end of the tube that way you have your fingers nice and close to the control to the creaser trigger here so we're gonna go ahead and get started to show you guys what that looks like so we're gonna start down low and as soon as we're able to get enough clearance we're gonna use our back hand to push that creaser wheel so we can tuck that into the corner of the angle as we start to roll up and now about about three inches away from the ceiling and that's probably where you want to be to make that cut so I'll pull down to make that cut and as I pull my taper go away and continue rolling with that creaser wheel you can see just how close we are to that top angle so if you happen to cut your tape a little short you can see here we're short about a half inch from the ceiling which to me is acceptable by the time you do your two other angles those other tapes will hide that gap but what you can always do is just pull up on your tape a little bit and raise it up closer to the ceiling that way if there's any gap at the bottom it'll be hidden by the baseboard so we just cut that tape now I'm going to do all my drive wheels on the wall to charge the head that way when I raise my tape you can see there's already blood on it so you want to advance yourself a few inches of tape I've got about two or three inches there I'm gonna start that in the corner as soon as you're able to get that free Soviet in there you want to push your crease wheel make sure it's nice and tight now another thing when you're taping angles if you look here at the top you want to make sure that both your wheels are touching that inside corner you don't want to be taping down here like this your table go all sideways on you you want to keep it perfectly level like that so you can see I have the taper kind of at an angle to my body these are fairly low ceilings if the ceilings were higher you'd probably have to tilt your tape or even higher up the wall so continue rolling with a crease or wheel tucking our tape into the corner and when you're about two to three inches of weight pull there you go so I'm gonna go ahead and just go up my regular my regular piece for taping the rest of the corners in this room and you guys can kind of just follow along so again leaving myself a few inches of lead tape I started the bottom soon as I have enough clearance to get my creature wheel in there do that cut when you're to display inches short you charge it ahead advance our tape start in the corner as soon as we have enough clearance again we're getting that creaser wheel into the corner about two or three inches short we're going to cut we charge the head again you can see we're a little high I'm just going to pull it down a little bit there we go charge ahead advance my team and we just ran out of mud so that's that safety pin we spoke about this in our beginners guide video so when you run out of mud there's a little pin that pops up which which engages this little lever which disengages your drive mechanism so that way you're not winding the cable and accidentally snapping that so you could tell eyes are going along when you run out of mud because your tape will suddenly be dry so I just ran out of mud on that corner so now I'm going to disengage my drive mechanism now flip the tapir upside down onto our gooseneck and I'm going to pump it and ago I can feel the plunger reach the top so I know it's full going to re-engage our drive mechanism manually advanced a little bit a little bit of mud on that tape now we're going to finish off the rest of this angle there we go now we're ready to start rolling and flushing so now that we have our room taped out we're going to grab our corner roller kind of put that in the corner we're going to just lightly roll it just to kind of set it in place first once it's in place now go over it and really push hard when you're rolling a tape you want to kind of start in the middle of your scene you don't want to start along the edges because then your tape might roll up on itself so you kind of want to lightly go over it set that tape in place first and then you can really push and get that excess mud out of the corner now this does occasionally happen your tape will roll up onto the ceiling if you didn't roll it evenly or if your crease or wheel didn't tuck it quite in the corner I'm just going to pull that down readjust that finish angle now if you're using your angle head for the first time you might notice for your first pass that it might be a little hard to get that mud out of there to give a proper fill so it's not a bad idea to take a little bit of mud and just kind of manually with your finger add a little bit to the back of the angle head that way it's nice and full so now the mud that's already on the wall is gonna be used to fill the edges of the tape and that's not filling your angle head beforehand so now we already have a little bit of mud on there we kind of loaded our angle head and now we're ready to flush put that in the corner push firmly you can see angle heads are spring-loaded so you can kind of see the flex that's there now we're ready to start wiping so what you're looking for is a full even pass you want your teeth to be as full as possible so we like using a two and a half inch angle head when we're taping you can see it leaves a really nice even fill this is what you're looking for you want to try to avoid areas like this or like this you can see the mud didn't quite fill the edge of the bevel or up here so that's what you want to try to avoid if you're using a three inch or a three and a half inch angle head there might not be enough excess mud to properly fill the edges of those teeth now we're going to just go over this and you're going to see that this is going to get filled because we have a little bit of excess mud now you can see that tape is nice and full except for maybe right here a little bit try to get that in between rooms or when you're not using your roller and flusher it's a great idea to just put them in a bucket of water that way they don't dry out too much it doesn't have to be a full bucket of water or even if there's only an inch or two just to keep them damped you don't want that drying up so that when you start your next run you're gonna get a bunch of dried mud in your angles you also want to make sure to clean the bottom of your tapes that way you're looking out for the finishing carpenter you don't want to leave big blobs or chunks of mud like that it's and obviously it's not gonna be great for the baseboard so clean the bottom of your tapes when you're all done alright so we just finished taping rolling and flushing this room you can see if you look closely we've got a nice even fill of mud on both sides of that tape that's what you're looking for if you get kind of uneven spots odds are your mud is way too thick where you're using an angle head that's too big so it's not picking up enough of that excess mud that spilled over from behind the tape after you rolled it so if you're not getting a nice even fill either thin your mud down or use a smaller angle head for your tape coat you can always use a bigger angle head when you come to do your finish coat so I hope that quick video on taping your inside corners was helpful for more tips and tricks make sure to check out our other educational videos with level-5 tools

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Length: 9min 16sec (556 seconds)

Published: Sat May 23 2020