Tiny House Drywall: Installing Flexible Corners

[Music] hey guys Brian Schultz here with the actually tiny house project where we are exploring smart simple sustainable tiny house design and giving you some building tips along the way now the topic of today's video is flexible corners for tiny house sheetrock because as you can see here we decided to use sheetrock for the inside of our tiny house which is a decision that comes with upsides and downsides but the general consensus among experience tiny house builders is that if you build your building right and you put up your sheetrock in a certain way it is going to be strong enough to survive the flexing of when you move your tiny house and that's a topic that is bigger than this video so you'll have to watch for a separate tiny house sheetrock video where we talk about how we install this this video is really specifically just to talk about the product that we used for the corners of the building here because it's always the corners of a building where the sheetrock is gonna crack so what we did to guard against this is use a product called magic corners from a company called trim tech and what this is is a little plastic corner like this that has a flexible gasket in the corner and you install it by spray gluing it into the corner here and then mudding up to it and then if there's any flex while you're moving your tiny house this gasket is gonna absorb that and you're not going to have the cracking that you would normally see now this stuff isn't actually that much more expensive than a normal corner and we found that it was awesome and easy to install but there are some things that you need to know about if you want to be successful and that's what I'm going to talk about here all right so let's start off here by talking about what comes in the box here and what other tools and materials you're going to need to gather to put this stuff up so first up here I've got this hundred-foot roll of magic corner this isn't something you're gonna find in stores you're gonna have to order this off the internet but it only costs about thirty five bucks for 100 foot rolls so it's really not that expensive this roll is just enough to do the inside of our 20 foot long tiny house but we have a fairly low ceiling so you want to make sure you measure your corners so you order the right amount now this stuff comes with its own spray adhesive here and this stuff is specific for this product so you want to make sure you use the spray adhesive that comes with it to put it on the walls it also has a little installation tool here which is pretty handy and you're gonna need a tape measure to measure it out a pencil to market and a scissors to cut it you're also going to need a stapler with some half-inch staples and you're gonna need respiratory protection to protect your lungs plastic gloves to protect your hand and safety glasses to make sure you don't get any spray glue in your eyes so another thing I like to do here is make myself a wooden baton that is as wide as this corner measurement here which is approximately one in three eighths of an inch and what this lets me do is hold the baton up to the wall and then I could just mark along the outside of it on my corners here and that's going to give me a perfect alignment mark to be able to stick this up onto the wall now the instructions recommend that you do this by snapping a chalk line but I know from personal experience that chalk lines are usually not very accurate when you're doing it that way so I think the baton is a much better alignment solution alright so last thing I've got here is a nice long work table at waist level right in the middle of my workspace and the reason this is important is because speed is everything when you're working with this product this spray glue here is meant to go wet on wet which means that you want to spray one surface you want to spray the other and you immediately want to put this into the corner because there's only about a 15-second window there where this stuff is still wet enough that you can slide the corner perfectly onto its alignment marks so by being really well-organized with a really good work table you're going to save yourself time which gives you more time to line it up on its marks now something is helpful here is to actually have a couple spring clamps handy so you can clamp down one end of this otherwise it's gonna want to roll up on you and make a sticky mess so next up I'm gonna go ahead and measure the length of the corner here and then I'm going to come over to my work table here I'm gonna line my magic corner up with the end of the work table and clamp it and I'm gonna take my tape measure hook it on the end and measure all the way out to my measurement now I like to mark and also cut this about a quarter-inch shy of my actual measurement because it is way better to be a little bit short than it is to be a little bit long with this stuff now at the top of a corner where you're going to have multiple corners coming together you also need to cut this at 45-degree Riis and you just take your scissors you can either do this by eye or you can do it with some type of a square cut that at 45 degrees and that way when this goes into the corner the corners that are coming up to it won't overlap all right so I'm just going to talk you through the process of sticking this stuff to the corner here and let me use video clips to fill in and show you what I'm doing because I can't talk when I have my respirator on so first thing you're gonna want to do is get your spray glue and take one smooth deliberate stroke all the way down your corner and then you're going to want to step directly over to the magic corner you want to make sure you spray the correct side of the magic corner and do one long deliberate stroke all the way down the magic corner set your spray glue aside pick up the magic corner and fold it making sure that you're folding it the correct way and you're just going to start at the top your corner and press that into the corner and if you do all this quickly enough it's going to be liquid enough that you can actually push it onto your alignment marks which is gonna work much better for you than waiting for it to get tacky and then having to stick that up perfectly so don't be frantic because being frantic is going to cost you just as much time as dilly dallying but you do want to be deliberate so you can get this onto the wall as quickly as possible so I just want you to notice here that this corner ended up just a little bit shy of my alignment mark right here and that was actually deliberate I made that one in 3/8 batten just a little bit wider than the actual corner because it's always easier to follow an alignment mark that you can see rather than one you've just covered up alright so once I've got this stuck into the corner here and it's parallel with its alignment marks the next thing I'm going to do is come in with this tool that comes in the kit and I'm just going to press this down nice and hard to really firmly stick this to the wall and I'm gonna do that on both sides at the corner and then I'm gonna wait for four minutes I'm gonna come back and I'm gonna do it one more time alright so last thing I'm going to do here is I'm going to come in with my stapler and I'm gonna staple this stuff to the wall about every six inches and I'm gonna do that on both sides of the corner all right so that's it for putting up the magic corners here a couple more things I want to mention before I go you want to make sure you're using all purpose joint compound not the lightweight stuff to mud this in place and you can also get a special additive from trim Tec that makes that mud even stronger for these corners which i think is pretty important for a tiny house you do want to follow all the instructions for this product because it's not like a normal corner you're actually going to go back with this tool and clean all of the mud out of that corner and the only thing that ends up on top of that corner is just one light coat of paint so if it flexes a little bit you're not going to see any visible cracking okay that's it for now if you liked this video make sure you hit that like and subscribe button also think about heading over to actually tiny comm where we've got a bunch more free tiny house resources you can also follow us on instagram at actually tiny where we upload a daily build blog of everything that we're doing here on the tiny house including time-lapse videos alright thanks for watching have fun building your tiny house

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Length: 8min 5sec (485 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 08 2019