The 3 BEST ways to TAPE DRYWALL!!!

hey guys welcome back to vancouver carpenter today i'm going to teach you guys three different ways to tape drywall and they're my three preferred ways in my opinion the three best ways so we're not necessarily talking about the methods you use to apply mud to the tape or get the tape onto the wall we're just talking about what tape and mud to use and you know the most diy friendly way to do it okay so starting with mesh tape which i think is the most diy friendly tape to use if you can find the end of the roll but yeah good old mesh tape as long as you use the right kind of mud it is a really easy and user friendly way to tape drywall right you know you just apply the stuff tear it off it's pretty nice and easy it sticks to the wall by itself the downsides are if you have a tendency to use this stuff too often and in the wrong places under the wrong conditions with the wrong muds the wrong muds being air drying muds as opposed to setting muds you do run the risk of having it crack on you occasionally and you're only as good as your last job and if your last job has call backs because of cracks from using the wrong materials well your name's gonna be mud sorry i had to say it time for me to mix up some 20 minute so even though i literally just made a video showing that you can in fact use mesh tape with all-purpose on a small patch i'm still not gonna do it i'm still gonna at least show you guys the actual right way to do stuff so what we have right here is a bag of 20-minute you know i highly recommend having some kwikset on hand they do sell small bags of it so if you want to use mesh tape get a small bag of kwikset from somewhere and um and use it because it'll do the job better it's just better sorry guys i don't have the best explanation for it right this second but basically if you're going to do it do it right if you're going to use mesh tape quick sets right are we still talking about this i'm sorry let me get this mixed up so i can actually get it on the wall and move on to those next tapes okay that's going to be good enough you don't have to get every lump out of it you just don't want dry clumps the lumps the wet lumps will get worked out on the wall if you're using something like 20 minute or even shorter your priority is to get this on the wall so first and foremost the most important thing is to make sure that you actually have mud in the joint that's why i'm doing this kind of hokey like inexperienced looking way of wiping the mud what i'm actually trying to do is force the mud into the crack i'm not pushing super hard on the tape by the way if i was pushing super hard on the tape i would be cutting it or sliding it around or getting the fibers loose but once once you get once you know that it's full of mud then you can start to coat it so now i'm just going to give it a quick coat over the whole thing and some of you guys might be confused here why i'm doing this but over the whole thing but if you want it flat you got to go over the whole thing that's just the way it is i'm just trying to find a little extra mud not go over it and all sorts of weird criss-cross directions feather your edges and then finish passes now that one didn't work out i'm just gonna leave it because it needs more coats anyways no i'm not it's not wide enough first pass is roughly about six inches past the tape at most this is just to embed the tape and get mud in the joint so this one is now done in terms of like i've showed you how to tape it and we can get on to the next methods so the next tape we are going to be using is fiberfuse i think this is a really good product for diy it really splits the line between you know longevity and ease of use and i'll explain why as i do it but basically this is a lot kind of like a bounce dryer sheet that's what it looks like uh it feels a little bit stiffer but it's the same kind of idea this like woven strands of fiberglass going in every single direction so if you're wondering why this wall looks a little crazy it's because i took my fest tool to it there was already a patch here as you can see by this tape and i wanted to bring the surface down a little bit to the old drywall so that when i do this patch it's not just like a patch on top of a patch and the walls now built out a quarter inch when using fiberfuse you can use kwikset you can use regular mud so right now i'm using just taping mud you can also use all-purpose or all-purpose light again quick sets work so here's why this stuff is so user-friendly basically as long as you have your mud thin enough you want to thin it down because if it's too thick it's going to be hard to get it out let's get you guys a little closer so you can really see this what i love about this stuff is the way the mud comes through it so this stuff gets embedded the same way mesh tape actually gets embedded with mud you know paper tape sits on top of the mud and fuses with it because it's like paper and glue but this stuff becomes one so what you want to make sure of is that you use a shallow angle of your knife and that your knife isn't too new it should have some kind of slightly rounded over edges so that it's not tearing it but what i love is the way the mud just comes right through this stuff and it sits really flat on the wall it barely builds it out i don't think it's quite as strong as paper tape and it doesn't have a crease in the center so you can't fold it but i love the way this stuff just fully embeds with the mud what's so great about that is that it really helps eliminate blisters that's what i really like about it that's why i think that it's more user friendly than paper tape paper tape is way easier to get blisters so it kind of has properties of mesh tape and paper a little bit of both i think it's a great product one of the reasons i don't use it is because i have no problems with paper and the other reason is because it makes your fingers really itchy at least the old stuff used to i actually haven't even bought a roll of this stuff except for the really wide ones for like plaster repair i haven't even bought a roll this stuff for like 10 years and back then it wasn't time tested we didn't know if it actually held it up the test of time but people use this stuff all the time they have been for like at least a decade and i've heard some really good things on it so i'd say that it is now time tested and definitely a viable product but not having a crease in the center makes it harder to use for corners so it's a bit of a one-trick pony in my opinion is that it can only be used for taping flat stuff not corners but anyways i love the way it embeds it's so nice that way and the other thing that's really nice about this stuff is it's not paper tape so it's not subject to the same kind of lifting and moving and weird stuff so we can actually go right ahead and coat this right now and now that i've actually bought a roll of the stuff you might start seeing it in my videos a little bit more seriously the only reason i wasn't using it is because i just didn't have a roll because i just didn't feel like buying a rule because paper works for me i didn't need it but i do like the way you can use air drying muds and coat it the same day without having to worry about it it's really good for that there we go i think we can leave that let that well dry okay this one's done and now it is time to get to old faithful my personal favorite paper tape and taping mud or depending on where you live it might be all-purpose mud but tried and true love this one i have no reason to switch okay quick little prep here but we're looking pretty good all right good old paper tape so as long as you're making sure that you actually get again the joints full i feel like i've said that so many times because i'm filming like three videos at the same time as long as you get your joints full with this stuff paper tape is awesome that's not at all what i was going to say what i was going to say is as long as your joints are full and you're just taping by hand like this with mud that's not too thin down you don't have to pre-fill like how i do in most videos a little more there so i'll often do you know the two parallel pieces at the same time i don't know why i even coated those other ones yet when you're filming a video sometimes you do things that don't make sense because your brain is occupied trying to make the video instead of trying to do the task now let's explain this a bit more so the thing that's tricky about paper tape is for one you don't want to wipe all the mud out and that's a mistake that a lot of people make is they wipe all of the mud out so i'm actually leaving like half a mil of mud underneath here and the other thing that happens to a lot of people is they get voids under the tape because they haven't put the mud on evenly so there's two reason voids can happen one is you haven't put the mud on evenly and there's just pockets where there's no mud that's probably the most common one and you know more or less is common is just wiping all the mud out like i mentioned when you wipe all the mud out there's nothing there's no glue under the tape anymore but yeah i like this method the best because paper tape is versatile it's got the crease so you can actually do corners with it there's no switching out once you're proficient with paper tape i think it's the best product i also again personally think it's a little stronger than fiberfuse i have no research to back that up just personal opinion and experience and because well what's drywall made out of made out of paper i like using similar materials you know what's inside drywall well it's a gypsum-based filler this is a gypsum-based filler too so you know we're using paper and gypsum-based fillers i think when you're using similar materials you get the best results that's why i do it this way anyways there we go taping drywall with good old-fashioned paper tape and taping mud or all-purpose i saved the best for last that's it the only downside to this between mesh tape and fiberfuse and this is paper tape has to be coated a little bit thicker geez you guys can't even see me there i am paper tape has to be coated a little bit heavier to hide it can be a bit harder to hide for some people but that's about it and that concludes three different ways to tape drywall they're the three best ways in my opinion and hopefully you guys got something out of this so now you got more tools in your tool kit or if you're new to taping drywall now you know the general products we like to use how they're used and you have an idea of how you might want to choose to tackle that patch instead of just watching one video that's like this is the only way to patch drywall no there's a lot of ways to do it here's three of them anyways thanks for watching vancouver carpenter hopefully you guys got something out of this video i hope your project's going well and i'll see you in the next 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Channel: Vancouver Carpenter

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Id: 0EZKIUQFi0Q

Length: 12min 36sec (756 seconds)

Published: Fri May 06 2022