Complete Drywall Installation Guide Part 6 Filling Gaps

[Music] so we've gone through all of our tools we've shown you how to mix your muds now before this dries let's go fill some gaps before we get started taping we want to fill our gaps now this is my 45 minute mud it's not silky smooth it's a little thick and I don't need a limbless little pans to hold on to it hocks are awesome you can have more mud and it's a lot easier to carry like this then it is like this you'll get nasty cramps so basically what we're doing is we're just gonna slap some mud up here inch by the ceiling gap okay this is just the more you can put up here the better this is not about being pretty this is about being quick you don't have a lot of time here so put our knife here we're gonna hold on a bit of an angle about 22 degrees okay we're gonna fill up that gap relatively speaking real quick and simple if it's not filled come from the top use the side of the knife to press it in and then do the same thing there all right so really what we're doing is just trying to fill the gap with this mud so that we can tape this mug should be stiff enough to hold itself in place and this is just a little something so that when we're taping we're not relying on our wet compound to hold all up in place look at that so if you don't succeed the first time try it sorry again just keep on going back filling the bottom filling the top until you get a nice and full like that that'll be good enough for us so usually you don't have a gap on the ceiling because you put the ceiling in first but if you remember earlier we had a spray foam on this wall and the client wanted it covered because they were concerned about the fumes from fire damage that'd be the perfect storm but you know we reluctantly agreed to cover the walls and now I'm faced with doing this mass but this is effective it does dry quick and if I don't do this I'm in for one heck of a mess when I'm doing my take joist we're still filling the gaps I gotta move quickly the trick with this stuff is work from the side of the knife don't put them on in this way come off the side of the knife it's easier way to put them out on the wall and leave it there then clean it this way put that in nice and [Music] okay there we go when we don't want any mud in this corner that shouldn't be there make sure you take time to clean it now that's ready to take this gap is about a half an inch it's pretty severe if you're finding you have trouble with that sort of thing happening take it over and grab some mesh tables now the fiberglass mesh tape is something that you should have on you when you're working it's a great little piece of tape to have in your tool box it gives you a lot of flexibility to solve problems like this so generally speaking I like to use paper tape only I will keep fiberglass tape on hand for just such an occasion as this like to pre-measure rip it off for the edge of your knife it's got an adhesive on one side so what I want to do is put it up here and bridge the gap and I want to slowly just work that into the corner without cutting it nice and easy now fiberglass tape the unique property you could use that to fill the gap and this will help hold much okay you cannot use the rig in the mud with fiberglass mesh tape it won't hold for whatever reason I'm not a chemist okay I only know is from experienced fiberglass mesh tape does not stick well to mud and it will peel off if you don't use my brother harder now that we have that up there it's back to the same process on the side of the knife remember speed is very important here because this is already starting to set up pretty quick [Music] take all the excess out and clean the bottom a little bit blood there you don't need with some pressure so if you have some time work the joint just a little bit get all the extra mutters get rid of the wrinkles and if anything is you don't like it just push it up in the ceiling so it's out of the way and will be covered by the next kind of stuff here we go ready the tape if you're enjoying these videos subscribe to the channel hit the like button but most importantly comment on the videos by all means or your suggestion of video you'd like to see let us know we'd love to be in touch

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Id: OJUuLmFdpuo

Length: 5min 32sec (332 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 15 2017