How to Install Steel Corner Beads

hello and welcome to Vancouver carpenter today I'm gonna teach you how to install steel corner bead I know a few of the seasoned tapers are groaning already but I am aware that in a lot of locations you actually can't find paper face bead moving on let's get to installing these steel beads so first you're gonna want to check your framing to see how it is so right here I have a straight 2x4 and what I'm doing is I'm just putting it against the wall and seeing how straight the wall is so it's not bad and thankfully I'm not gonna have to do really any tweaking of the bead to get it to be nice and straight it's good that way too so fortunately I must have had a straight stud for this corner so this bead here has already been cut to fit however let's assume you need to cut it me so I'm gonna take a measurement here 85 and a quarter the next thing you should do is take a look down your beads and see if there's any part that maybe you should cut off so looking at this one this end is bent so it's better to cut it off of this end also when you're purchasing steel beads it's a good idea to look down the beads before you buy them because it's really common for them to be kind of bowed you can wind up with your bead being twisted after the install without understanding why that's because it already had a natural twist and it just followed it without being corrected as it was installed cutting these is pretty straightforward I'm just gonna hook on one end of the bead and now I'm gonna look for my 85 and a quarter and it is right here now you want to be careful not to snip your tape measure if you're nervous that you're gonna do that you can just grab a sharpie and mark it 85 and a quarter once I've got that then I'm gonna go right down to the end trying to eyeball these square and just snip the other side twisting it off like so the next thing I always look for is after it's cut it usually bends it and so I then will bend it back in a little bit depending on which way it needs to be bent however because we're nailing these on that's actually less important you can usually fix it with a nail whereas with paper beads I always Bend that because otherwise that part will stick out making you need to build it out more it's a good idea when installing beads to make sure that it's not pressed against the floor you don't want it tight against the floor you want to leave about 3/4 of an inch of room at the bottom for the house to settle so let's take a look at this bead this thing seems to have holes about every 4 inches so 1 2 3 4 and yeah I'd say it's about every 4 inches so I go every 2nd hole so the first thing you're going to want to do is press the bead in get it into position and it's at that point that I start to kind of look at it and make sure that I have it kind of evenly spaced I usually like to nail my right hand side first I'm right-handed and what you want to look for is that you have an even space so right there I've got you know about an eighth of an inch right here I've got about an eighth of an inch and you can push them on tighter if you want but what I've noticed about steel beads is the more you wrestle with them the harder the install goes so I'm just pressing firmly trying to make sure it's square right there holding it with my hand got my nail right there next I'm going to do this one right here on the other side so I want you guys to take note what I did was I started my nails at a comfortable working height for me to get the first nails in and it's fairly close to the middle of the bead I always start in the middle and work my way one end to the other the reason for this is if you start at the top or the bottom what happens is that the bead doesn't lay flat and you start getting big lumps of the flange and then you're putting nails every two inches to try and flatten it out so there's an order a sequence to nailing these on so the next one I'm gonna do is pretty close to the top so I've got from here and I'm now go to here and I'm doing the same thing I'm gonna make sure it's about Nate they're about Nate there I'm gonna start on this side again I find this important too to start on the same side each time because that way I'm sort of uniformly tweaking it over the same way every time so now that I've in the middle and I've got one right here I'm safe to do the top and it doesn't need much pushing because it's in place pretty well from that last one often at the top or the bottom of the bead you get a spot where there is actually no hole to put the nail so what you have to do is you actually just have to punch it through this metal is super thin and you can nail through it pretty easy although if you're a beginner with a hammer you may hit your fingers a little on that part so I've got the talk where I want it and now I'm going to start nailing down so I've got this one that was in the middle and I'm gonna go down a couple feet and I'm just gonna push on that bead the same way I was before do the other side I'm gonna go down another couple of feet now I'm gonna do the bottom it's not finished but it's now in place and I can check it that looks good and straight and that looks pretty good but you know what I kind of wanted to go in a bit it's a bit that feels a bit heavy right here so it's got just a tiny bow in here and I don't have too many nails in here so I could quite easily push this over so what I'm going to do is I'm just gonna tap that over a little and I saw it move so that's good and push on it and I'm just going to punch right through the flange right here check it out that's much better it was just that one spot and this is one of the reasons that I don't use steel beads one because I think they're not quite as strong but - they're the fussier to get nice I find when I do paper beads and I use the ones with the wide flange that they go on nice and straight without you having to do a lot of work but anyways this is now set and I can now finish nailing it off so I'm gonna be going for about every eight inches so that's looking pretty good now and what we're looking for is that they're snugged on as you can see but I didn't smash the paper like those ones and what else you're looking for is that the flange is sitting flat that there's no gap that flange needs to be tight you can see when I tap on it it can't move this side is also looking good as well I've you steal beads a good handful of times in my career and there's two things I've learned number one the sequence is critical start in the middle and then go about midway from there and then the top then go Midway to the bottom and then do the bottom and then at that point you can cinch it all up and number two is don't fight the bead so if you're having a hard time pushing it square it might be the framing and it's better to have the bead not be on super tight than to fight it and watch it start buckling and when you start trying to finish nailing it off because when you have your bead on out of square or you're pushing on so hard what tends to happen is this flange starts to buckle as you cinch it up and it won't sit flat and then what you're gonna wind up with is nails and nails and nails and nails trying to hold it on so that's the slow way of installing a steel bead the quick way is to use the stapler so what these are is inch and a quarter quarter crown staples so that means they have a quarter inch width and they're inch and a quarter wide and this is my pneumatic stapler so let's see how much quicker this can go as you can see it's night and day difference in terms of speed not that I'm the fastest guy at nailing on steel beads but I'm also not super experienced with it I've just done it enough to know how to not struggle when I install them anymore and that's the end of the video thanks for watching Vancouver carpenter you want to support the channel do all those like subscribe things now it's time for me to make you guys another video so until the next one

Channel: Vancouver Carpenter

Views: 468,683

Keywords: drywall, corner, bead, steel, install, repair, patch, hole, wall, ceiling, damage, wallboard, sheetrock, gyproc, tape, mud, taping, mudding, good, best, fast, easy, smooth, texture, fix, paint, painting, trim, inside, outside, corner bead, DIY, home repair, carpententry, tutorial, plaster

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Length: 10min 9sec (609 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 24 2019