Complete Drywall Installation Guide Part 7 How to Tape Drywall And First Coat Of Mud

[Music] take it safely shirts square it's not just going to rip go right to the ceiling with it this is the only joint the ceiling that I recommend overlapping your table I always recommend doing your inside corners first I don't like to see paper over top of paper on the wall so when the floor did this ball joint I want to do my inside corner I want to bring my paper up to this point I don't want to make this joint any thicker than it needs to be it's right now I'm just gently pressing that into the mud okay see you in a little bit of excess now most people stop there here is a secret when you're done get it wet and then take it off again and I'll tell you why that's so important to do if the surface of this paper is dry like it is right now while it's setting up and curing it's going to lift right off that wall if your paper is wet it will form an air bubble again I don't understand the science all I know is we're experienced but I don't have wet paper drawing on my wall it's going to form air bubbles and it's going to come out so I'm going to just keep on wiping it on and wiping it off make sure it's nice and clean this way when I come back tomorrow I know I'm not going to have any bubbles and I don't have to go backwards before I will go forwards again okay so we're going to tape our horizontal joint next after we've done our inside corners again the system here is really simple you don't want to have tape over tape so before we can do our butt joints we want to have the horizontal joint on again we've had this filled and it's dried overnight so process remember we talked about the taper joint so from about two inches up and two inches down it's all recess all right just take your knife and put on your mud this is a heck of a lot faster the many techniques you've ever seen in any year be ready before okay Wow come back and you're not removing it from the area that we're putting the tape you're just removing it from the excess over and above way we need remember that's higher and that's higher than this is so we're going to fill the gap and it's off the rest of the wall no sense taping halfway to the end of this wall and then stopping here we go now when you're doing this and we talked about the crease you want to have the crease inside the wall so nice straight edge place that right where we're starting you want to know where it is just put your knife there you'll sit in the crack you can market there we go now what we have to do is we want to get rid of the excess blood that's underneath this tape just to set it in the mud so I'm going to use my hock to hold it my second bare hand that's the last couple feet here okay folks all right does this we'll talk about now I have one depth of finish okay now you can come back now watch this same thing off the side of the knife hit that paper wet clean it up no it's okay if you fill the gap between the paper and the edge of that recess and there's in the drywall losing my step here so we're going to press it out clean the top clean the bottom take a little bit mud off the side and then we missed a spot very important make sure everything gets wet if you have a wrinkle just grab the edge of the tape and stretch it again just clean the mud make sure it's wet clean that up so the butt joint is one of the major reasons why we want to water a mud down the science is really simple because we have two surfaces that are the same thickness we're going to add mud and then add tape we're creating a bump so we want to do is the science is to stretch that bump of whatever 2 millimeters over a large area so that we are causing ourselves to focus on such a large piece of wall we can't identify the fact that it comes out and goes back in again because we don't see any shadows this is not about leveling this wall is never going to be level it'll never be flat you'll always have a bump you wanted to make the bump so gradual and so wise I think it's not recognizable one of the ways you do that is by staggering your joint don't ever put them on top of each other because now you're creating an opportunity if the Sun hits it just a certain way you're going to see that bump okay so it's the same thing you want to fill the gap side of the knife put it on nice and liberal [Music] now when you're doing the horizontal joint you want to work from the bottom up you do come the top down and I'll show you this demonstration here we go Oh goofy one's going to end up everywhere okay if you work from the bottom down bottom up you have them a lot more control the muds getting pushed to the side while you're going up and it will stick to the wall take our paper tape check your edge make sure it's nice and square find that spot where we want to start okay press the muttaqun behind set your depth just gently press it in not too firmly at this point okay now we have to hold the hawk and press up okay let up your fingers clean and also set it up so that you can just clean the meadow from the bottom a lot of times you'll see you guys on the tape and you have a huge mound of mud at the bottom because they don't take the time to be clean with your work take the time and do cleaning work makes installing your baseboards easier okay so the other element of the wall when a cover is the ceiling quarters and then the screws so silly corners are simple same thing load your mud on come off the side of the tape side of your knife okay so there's that hardener we talked about earlier it's all set in place now we only did that 30 minutes to go but we're ready to tape the corner [Music] [Music] just making sure I have not everywhere I don't want to how to drive spot good same thing inside corners measure tear rip pulse inside just place it up in that nice and gentle get your third hand and press that in okay really nice get it right the wrinkles out of it when you're done put your knife up against your corner create pressure turn it off I've done so how to fill the screw hole properly I know it sounds silly is the smallest issue but most the time when you're checking the wall for imperfections is going to be a screw hole problem alright so people come along and they'll wipe the mud in two different directions and that's great so you fill the hole problem is the mud shrinks when it dries most of these screws have been put in with a dimple and that thickness needs a second coat so don't just do it once and think you're done make sure every time you do your coat on your wall you hit your screws now if you go this way and then this way you'll get the job done so you'll see what happens a lot of work you can have little pieces left everywhere you have too much mud on your tool you're like oh no oh no scoop a lot of time to spend up a screw said put it on the same way you're applying off the side hello and down off the side and then straight down this way you're applying it on two inches going up you're cleaning it with a four inch tool coming down no extra mess you can do all the screw holes in this entire basement about ten minutes all right so the last element that you want to make sure that you take care of on your first coat of mud is your paper beat outside corners that have the metal on the inside of them okay there's two kind of corner beads there's this and there's metal actually this three there are plastic those are for fancy things if you're doing curves you're going to have to get that but we're going to cover this one not for first coat because I'd like to fill it get it in and then leave all this paper exposed just like the rest of my paper jar I find if I flip this on during the second coat and I try to fill it right away and it putting too much moisture there and always bubbles so I always put this on your first coat it won't cause you any problems this is really designed for bulkhead the way we do our bulkheads as we have to watch the video we set up a laser and now we have metal track that you hear so we don't have any wood in this corner to screw anything so I want to just take my rasp make sure my outside corner is nice and clean and I don't have any protrusion I just see that keep your hock underneath to catch all your drips never get mud on your shoes now you see all this masked mess down here you should have taken the time to put filler in here but if you didn't because the paper bead comes with corner that's full of metal you can get away with using regular mud here and yes just get it all on and we just want a nice big wet line here that's wider than our climbing [Music] right in the corner bead there's the metal corner this is the short side it's 3/8 this women is almost 5/8 the wide metal goes over the exposed drywall okay folks that's very important so when you're measuring always make sure you got a hole have your healthy right so that you're finished factory edge is going up another finish battery edge they just place it in use your knife now you want to have a gap so make sure you move it around and have a gap there's only feelings check this there's no gap so I can just pull down that corner make sure that I have a gap so I'm going to clean that out there down a little bit gap gap that's what we're doing making sure that everywhere we go you have a gap to fill so we don't have to bring the mud up and around a vintage all right now again like I said if you do it this way and you let that sit overnight it'd be nice and dry and then when you come back to be your corners you can fill it with 45 your quick-set mud with the hardener and then about an hour later you can come by and put your finish coat on and all your outside corners you then okay so that's basically all you need to know about how to do a first coat so we're just going to finish all of our joints and we'll see you again back here tomorrow 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 a suggestion of video you'd like to see let us know we'd 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Keywords: jeff thorman, drywall, drywall taping, drywall joints, drywall tips and tricks, drywall finishing, drywall taping and mudding, drywall taping tools, drywall taping and mudding ceiling, drywall taping and mudding outside corners, drywall taping and mudding fast, drywall taping inside corners, drywall joints without tape, how to install drywall tape, how to drywall tape and mud, drywall installation and finishing, sheetrock taping

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Length: 13min 36sec (816 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 29 2017