Fixing the WORST CORNER I have ever seen!!!

welcome back to vancouver carpenter so yeah how are we gonna fix this just atrocious um off-angle ceiling corner like it is so bad for sure it's the worst one i've ever seen i did some digging and i was trying to like figure out what they did and i can't find any corner beads um i know there's a lot of mud built up over top of this we've got like you know look right here we've got like a one inch gap that was just like taped over there's like you know a mill of mud behind the tape so you know you can do that you won't get away with it for very long oh there's about an eighth of mud there like this is so bad that um if you couldn't tell already by these blue lines here like there's nothing else i can do except i snapped a couple lines and i'm gonna cut all the drywall out and start fresh some of the other problems that i'm having here is like it's just crazy uneven the ceiling here there's huge dips and dives where all the trusses are so where the truss is it sucked the board way up and then it's dove way down and that might be from the insulation like they have plywood up in the um attic space here and so that could be from compressing the insulation with plywood it just made it all dive down and then the other problem is that for sure it's not 5 8 and it's probably not going to be ceiling board either so you can get half inch ceiling board which is it looks like regular drywall but it says ceiling board on the back of it and what it's for is for two foot on center trusses or joists that way instead of being you know when you get that extra eight inches it's not sagging down so much so anyways that's why we would use 5 8 or sealing board on a ceiling and it gets especially bad when you add insulation and it pushes down so yeah anyways i'm gonna start cutting this out and see what i can do about it so what i'm going to be using is the drywall cutter with a vacuum attachment to keep it a little tidier in here [Music] seriously guys this thing is awesome i love it i don't actually see any drywall dust any dust you see is sawdust okay let's see how this looks tools of choice glaze glazier's bar and a hammer why is this so bad okay we got our big giant tape joint we'll look at that in a bit but what is this like why is this failing so bad oh there's so much rat poo up there um you know it's awesome that drywall saw didn't cut the vapor barrier so i don't have to patch it and i don't have to get rained on with rat poo okay why was this failing so bad oh i knew that's what they did i knew that's what they did and that's why it failed so bad all right i'm going to bring you guys down here and show you what they did all right first off let's just get a load of this tape like are you serious look at that that's like their gap was over an inch in a lot of spots and then it's only got about an eighth of tape slop or an eighth of mud slopped in there like you can't do that that's why it was cracking so badly the old drywaller that i first used to watch always used to say i can't fill air no you can't because it cracks okay but now let's look at what they tried to do so they tried to cheat their off-angle corner by cutting the back of the board and leaving this attached at the front so this isn't tape here this is the actual face paper of the drywall so they tried to cheat their corner and then they slathered it with mud and it's all just been cracking the whole time right as you can see i mean it's looked like this the whole time just cracked so yeah that doesn't work don't try and cheat your corners by slicing the back of the board and then hanging the sheet with this part directly on the center of where the rafter and joists meet like it doesn't work don't do that all right got that all out and cleaned up and you know what let's say a quick thanks to the original homeowner that did this work for showing us what happens when you literally cut corners yeah didn't work [Music] hmm [Music] [Music] [Music] my [Music] okay as you can see it's all boarded up and it was quite a headache and yeah we got some gaps here it's actually not quite as bad as it looks in the b-roll as for what i had to do here so the reason i put backers along this entire thing instead of just let it be is not so much to make it really strong but it was actually to stop it from sagging so in between every one of these it sagged so much that i knew that if i put a corner tape like one of the no coats or something like that one of the composite tapes in here i knew that if it bowed so much at every rafter it was going to cause me major problems because it's like it's really hard to get a nice even straight line when the surface you're going to has huge waves in it so that's why i ended up doing that it was a ton of work as you can see the amount of screws that are in here it looks like i own stocks in a drywall screw company or something like it's crazy but i know that it's going to hold up really well so on that note it's time for me to start getting this taped getting the off angle on here and i'm just going to have to montage it a little i do have an actual tutorial of that i i don't know where it is just search off angle corner or taping 45 degree corners or something it's in my videos if you need one of those but anyways this video is more about just the process of solving this not the specifics of how to tape that corner better get to it speaking of taping that corner [Music] well you guys these corners are done and if i do say so myself they look pretty darn good the only thing i'm a little worried about is like i kind of wish i put even more mud underneath the tape because like while the edge was really well glued down there was like the teeniest bit under the center of the tape where i could hear it was kind of hollow so it may not last you know 10 20 years but i think this place is only gonna exist for like five years at the most so it's more than adequate um i think i would have need to straighten out the corners with actual framing like gone back to the actual framing and shimmed stuff out and that would have been even more work like instead of the six inches that i went back i would have had to go back like at least a foot to be able to shim all that stuff out so that would have been too much work and one of the other reasons why i wound up with a little bit of air behind it here and there is because i eyeballed the corner like i pushed it all into the mud and i could see it was still snaking so i kind of fudged it like i pushed it a little bit here and there and when you do that then your tape like the composite tape isn't in the dead center of your joint and that makes it not always adhere one million percent so again the edges like the first inch of that tape is nice and stuck but maybe that like last sort of half inch or so i can hear a little bit of air behind it um many tapes have been installed a lot worse so i'm not super worried about it but overall wow what an improvement i actually have corners i can stand to look at in here and then these ones in the skylights behind me those were a nightmare i wish i could have filmed videos on fixing those for you guys none of those are perfect anyways like you can see that uh where the corner isn't straight it's at least smooth it was just like that was a nightmare fix and i wasn't going to like try and do it perfectly i just needed it done and it looks way better now than it did before in fact this whole place looks way better now than it did before anyways that's how i chose to tackle the worst corner i've ever seen so i hope you enjoyed the video i hope you learned something and i just want to say thanks for watching vancouver carpenter until the next one you guys

Channel: Vancouver Carpenter

Views: 203,406

Keywords: drywall repair, drywall repair patch, drywall repair large hole, drywall repair clips, drywall repair kit, drywall repair water damage, drywall repair hacks, drywall repair around electrical outlet, drywall repair small hole, drywall repair ceiling water damage, drywall repair around bathtub, drywall repair this old house, drywall repair outlet box, drywall repair around shower

Id: 6bWLzeoSkUA

Length: 13min 49sec (829 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 04 2022