How to repair a DENTED STEEL CORNER BEAD!!!

welcome to vancouver carpenter so this is kind of an exciting day for me because i'm finally taking some time to fix my own place i'm going to put a month and a half couple months in film a bunch of videos and fix a bunch of these things that i should have fixed a long time ago the shoemaker's kids are no longer going shoeless so anyways what do we have right here we have a smashed j trim so we got a door on the other side over here that's been opening forever and it's had a really dumb doorstop on it that didn't work and just fell off and um yeah a big hollowed-out blown-out chunk right there so obviously first things first fix the problem that caused it in the first place so we're going to put one of these solid door stops in so that it hits it and doesn't keep smashing that and see if it solves that will that stop it it does let's see yeah well it's good for now okay so obviously the smartest thing to do would be to pull this off and replace it but you know it's underneath the baseboard and i just don't want to do that much work so what i'm going to do is the first thing i'm going to do is i'm going to see if i can bang this dent back in enough that we can actually coat it so let's see what happens i got a little ball peen hammer here and i'm just going to hit this and see if i can get that metal underneath the profile of the bead [Music] okay so that way we're actually looking pretty good so i'm going like this to see if it's actually under yep i can work with that so now the only other spot is right here it's still really proud so let's it's going to be a little bit of back and forth now fortunately this isn't the kind of corner that's going to get smashed all the time so right now i've got this in in both directions so this trowel is not rocking at all anymore like that so i'm happy with that now the next thing i need to do is refasten this bead along the hairline crack so these can be pretty annoying because usually the wood on a j trim is like way back behind so you have to majorly angle them in and like put the screw or the nail right on the very edge so that's what i'm gonna have to try and do here all right let's see if we can get one of these to bite yeah that did something okay almost good there kind of pulling out the mud along this crack until it stops [Music] all right let's put another one in right here yeah that'll do that'll do let's put one more right here yeah that's good and maybe one more right about here oh there was no hole there so it didn't go in as easily twice maybe it's okay maybe we don't need one or we could pull a bit of mud out and find the existing hole and refasten it so it's actually right there man what's going on okay i'm happy with that and i'm gonna try for one more here there we go and maybe even one more right where the bulk of this damage is just to really hold it down okay so yeah that's nice and solid now yeah dig up that repair a little i want it all to be nice fresh mud let's double check our profile again it's good there and it's good there so now i'm just going to mix up some quick set and coat this thing okay so this part starts getting pretty simple i got some 20-minute quick set mixed up just a little bit and basically just fill it in got it mixed real thick just to make it you know not shrink as much and also be stronger so you also want to make sure of course that you coat the side that you were hammering too and you know i often leave it just a little bit thick because we're gonna shave it down in a bit when it kicks off so if you leave it a little bit thick then you got some material to work with so that's good enough i'm not gonna mess with it anymore because basically yeah it's gonna get shaven down it might do another coat of quick set it might just be ready for all purpose after this we'll just have to wait and see but yeah the more you mess with it the worse it gets yeah that's it that's how it wants to look for now okay so it's no work of art yet but the quick set is set up and basically i've waited till it's pretty firm and now i'm just going to scrape down the high spots so that's looking pretty good there now i'm going to do the edge in line with the existing one and in order to make sure that we aren't proud right here i'm just going to use my trowel like this and kind of shave it down so you can see where the high spot is right there that's where that's building up so as long as you go from you know point a to point b you're going to take down that high spot okay so that's almost there definitely a little bit thick in a few spots or you can just you know blow it all off like that well let's mix up another batch okay so that was obviously pretty annoying because i just blew off that corner that i was working hard to establish so what we're actually gonna do um because obviously it's too risky to do that exact same thing again what i'm going to do is i'm going to wait for this quick set to dry tomorrow then we're going to sand it because if we sand it we can definitely bring those edges down ooh look at those chunks i didn't clean my tools okay but i'm sure i can still work out a pretty good corner here i just got to take my time so i'm just working hard to shape it alright that last pass right there i'm gonna do one little pass up here and now it's all left a little bit full and i'm gonna let my sanding block do the work tomorrow okay let's try take two here so we've got all this stuff that's sort of exploding over the edge i got some sandpaper here and a block so you'll see me do this a lot because sometimes you just need something really hard and firm don't go there to um sand with you know sometimes those sanding sponges and sanding poles they're just like they're going to be too soft so you need something that's like really um yeah not soft you gotta think of this kind of like woodworking we're planing down the edge to make a nice new edge so that's really good now and the nice thing is this is good hard quick set so it's not gonna chip and dent as easily as like soft finish mud right here i'm even now just gonna round the edge the tiniest bit to match the existing one okay there we go let's get an up close look at that okay so now as we can see the repair is buried under that hard quick set there you really can't see it and the edge is you know slightly rounded so that's going to be a really nice straight solid repair so it does still need one quick skin i got some mud here straight out of the box super hard the only reason it's this hard is just because i'm not planning on thinning it down i like to use mud straight out of the box for paint repair so like instead of buying you know like dry decks spackle i use this stuff because um i find that if you don't mix any water into it it's like the perfect consistency for a good spackle but it sands way easier so that's why i'm doing this what looks like kind of a silly method and that's a rusty old trowel don't put that mud back in the bucket okay pass here smooth it out [Music] i'm not even worrying about this edge in here it looked good enough okay that's looking pretty good okay so it just has one light skim of all-purpose light on here so it's gonna need one more quick sanding and then it'll be ready for paint but most of this place isn't ready for paint yet as you can see up there this place pretty much needs to be skimmed out but um you know i'm gonna do my best to repair it and when i got it all painted up i'll let you guys see the finished result [Music] boogers well got the repair done let's take an up-close look at it all right so i'm even shining a critical light across it and as you guys can see i mean it looks good so yeah you just smash that metal over mud it up it'll look great just make sure that beads fastened well so that's that just want to say thanks for watching vancouver carpenter it was actually kind of cool getting to do repair in my own place because i got to take my time and show you guys like from start to finish so you could actually see what it looks like finished painted because most of the time you know i've been doing little jobs for people and i leave when it's sanded and you guys don't actually get to see the finished product so that was pretty cool anyways i want to say thanks for watching vancouver carpenter i'm going to be doing lots more little videos in my place so hopefully we can see a whole lot more start to finish projects and you guys can see how it looks in the end and how it looks in the beginning and don't worry there will be lots because this place needs a lot of work and most of it's going to be just kind of like you know sort of budget everyday work it's not going to be like super fancy stuff because this is just like a cheap rental place that we've been living in for a long time and that's it so that's how to repair a super smashed up corner bead thanks for watching vancouver carpenter until the next video

Channel: Vancouver Carpenter

Views: 46,763

Rating: 4.9501247 out of 5

Keywords: drywall, crack, corner, bead, fix, steel, repair, mud, plaster, DIY, how to repair drywall, gyproc, tape, taping, spackle, joint, cracked, paint, install, inside, outside, corner bead, hole, wall, fast, best, easy, patch, mudding, compound, joint compound, mesh tape, setting, quickset, finish, topping, paper tape, gypsum, wallboard, trowel, knife, drywall finishing, plastering, taper, mudder, skim, coat

Id: 61VVedvMKxY

Length: 13min 49sec (829 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 12 2021