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Three hours on one corner bead. THREE HOURS.
Thought I could breeze through a corner bead job on a closet return. Cheap metal bead, old house, walls not square at all. Spent 45 minutes just trying to get the damn thing to sit flush. Then the nails kept bending. Then the mud wouldn't stick right. Ended up pulling it off, cutting a new piece, shimming the whole corner with paper tape. Sun was going down and I was still mudding the thing. Finally called it at 8pm. Next time I'm just using vinyl bead and saving myself the headache. Anyone else have a bead job that snowballed into a whole day project?
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the_wesley1d ago
Yeah I had a bead on a dormer once that turned into basically the same thing. Old house, walls were out by like half an inch on one side. I ended up cutting strips of drywall shim and gluing them on the wall behind the bead to bring it flush. Worked better than paper tape as a shim, held the bead straight and the mud went on fine after that. Still took forever but the next one I did that way only took maybe 40 minutes. Paper tape shims just crush down too much if you really need to build something out.
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