HOW TO TAPE DRYWALL (INSIDE CORNERS)

hello and welcome to Vancouver carpenter today I'm going to teach you how to tape an inside corner with paper tape what you'll need is two inch paper drywall tape I like to use a four inch knife for inside corners you can use a five or a six but I find a four keeps the corners tighter and makes less mess and you will also need some thinned down all-purpose or taping mud now you might be wondering can't I just use the stuff in the bucket the answer is no how hard do you want to work and the next thing you might be saying is I don't have a mixing drill in a paddle well that's not actually a big deal what you can do is pour some water into the bucket take one by one and just mash it around a bit just thin it down any way you can because you really don't want to try and take corners with mud that's too thick the other thing you can do is put a little bit of water in the pan and just mix it around like this until it starts getting closer and as you work with it as you start taping the corner and spreading it around it'll all start to spread into the same consistency it just might be the first couple angles that are a little bit inconsistent so anyways I've got my corner already prefilled there was a big gap up here so I pre filled it there it's not so bad you can watch my video on pre filling to see how and why you need to do that anyways let's get to taping this corner the first thing you should note is there is a crease in paper tape now that's important because you're gonna be folding it like that and that's how it bridges the gap in the corner the first thing you're going to want to do is give yourself a nice clean corner on your tape take your knife hold it at an angle and pull this way nice and hard now you've got a nice square corner for your tape next you want to cut it to length so I'm just gonna drop this in because I don't care and I'm gonna take this end where I like to get my tape to is a quarter inch from the corner bead I like to install my corner beads before my tape I'm gonna go all the way over here to a quarter inch away from where the corner bead ends and I'm gonna go like this and I'm gonna put my knife up to a quarter inch away from where this corner bead ends and then Terry now I've got my tape too Lane I'm gonna crease it and I'm just gonna set it aside while I get the mud on okay buttering time and in this case what I like to do is get it right on the pocket right in the corner right there so I just kind of dip it in there and I've got it right there so it's only about two inches wide I take some of the excess off okay the undersides always a little bit harder same thing and here's something i'm trick i'm doing i'm holding my knife like this because if I hold it like this I'm gonna pull all the mud off right here and I'm gonna get dry tape so I kind of angled my knife a little bit funny so that I'm not pulling the mud off of the bottom of the angle and I'm putting a good liberal eighth to a quarter-inch of mud on here you want to make sure it's getting in all the gaps okay now I'm flattening it all out consistently I do the same thing here one two flatten it all out consistently let's take a quick look at that before I put the tape on so you could see it's pretty consistent in thickness and I didn't take the mud out from the corners with my knife next comes the fun part I flip my tape in its creased and I just find the center there and I keep it a quarter inch away from each end and then I quickly take my knife and very gently press it in very gently press it in like and that just helps ensure that it's straight and and now out of habit I always start on the bottom so I'm just gonna gently press this tape into place and the reason I start on the bottom is 9 times out of 10 there will be a gap on the bottom and not the top if I was to go pressing on the top I would accidentally push the tape into the gap so I like to start on the bottom it helps where the tape nicely and I'm just gently wiping making sure to keep mud under the tape now I've done both sides you know I started in the middle and worked my way out started in the middle and work my way out and then I dropped my knife so now I'm going to do the same thing here start in the middle work my way out okay now take note you probably can't see but I have a line left from the knife I'm gonna bend my knife at an angle and I'm just gonna get rid of that line so now let's take a close-up look and see what that tape should look like so as you can see I've left no excess material just a nice clean line up here to a nice clean line really crisp corner so that's gonna coat really easily when the time comes to do that and now if you guys want a cheater secret if you're using all-purpose mud and you're planning on using that through the length of the job you can also cheat right now and put a quick coat on one side of it just to get ahead of the game we're gonna feather my edge go like this and with here one last pass no lift off that edge makes it better and when that dries you can then coat the next side so that's how to tape an inside corner how to cheat an inside corner and I hope with this video you're able to see how the pros do it and get an idea as to how to do a nice inside corner thanks for watching

Channel: Vancouver Carpenter

Views: 2,917,202

Keywords: drywall, tape, taping, DIY, inside, corner, mud, mudding, easy, best, fast, percect, gyproc, paper, mesh, spackle, plaster

Id: 9eZsKi48bgg

Length: 7min 9sec (429 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 26 2017