Can any one offer suggestions and tips for corner beading?
I’m working with the stuff for the first time ever. It’s not bad. I just get frustrated because, in the end, it doesn’t look as professional as I’d like. But I have more to go, so I’ll just keep practicing.
Now, let’s say I have to go up 6 feet, then over 1 foot, then down 6 feet. Rather than cutting 45’s at the corners, can I just bend the metal to go around the corner? I It seems to me that it would be a lot easier, and a lot cleaner doing it that way. Thoughts on that?
I also learned that gluing the things to the corner is a whole lot cleaner than screwing them in. I’m having a hard time getting all my screws counter sunk, for various reasons, so I think I’ll just go with gorilla glue from now on. What is the down side to that, other than if anyone wants to go in after me they’ll have to rip the shit out of the corners?
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You seem to know what you are doing overall. FWIW….I am not a fan of gorilla glue as it can foam up a lot lot under humid conditions and that could create a mess you may not want to have. I would opt for a construction adhesive like liquid nails. I would still put a couple nails as they do help keep the bead in place when the corners get bumped into.
Best is to ask around and see if anyone you know has a corner bead crimper you can borrow. Those things rock and you can put up a 100’ of bead in minutes.
I will do that! And I know just the person to ask! Just the sound of “crimper” made my life a lot easier.
Thanks for the vote of confidence. I’m just making shit up as I go along. I’ll send you before and after pictures, if you want. But no close ups!
I bought me some brand new tin snips! They’re very fancy. It adjusts to 3 positions. I was proudly showing them off to my son, and he showed me how to make the corner. For an inside corner he showed me how to make the 45 and it was very pretty, although unnecessary because it just gets covered in mud. He also explained the difference between left hand and right hand.
He is so smart and competent and an excellent construction kind of guy. I am proud of the fact that I started him down that road when he was just little, because I had no man and no money so I fixed stuff my self. For Mother’s day once he bought me a circular saw from the pawn shop! :D. I was so tickled pink! He passed me in competence and skill a long time ago, though. Watching him mud seams is like watching an artist at work. He says, “See, you flex the outside of the (long) blade, like this (big hands, long fingers, strong enough to flex it in that way,) so it all just gradually spreads out, see.”
I made him hold up his big old hand next to mine, which is tiny in comparison, and said, “Right.”
But I am excited about my new tin snips. Now I have to figure out where to hide them, and all my other tools, so my husband can’t find them.
I also picked up some liquid nails. Now I just have to locate the chick-chick gun, and no telling where it is. May have to buy an all new one and hide it, too.
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