I agree with this video. Flex tape corner bead is superior to nail-on metal or clench-on corner bead. Another reason paper face corners are superior to metal corners is because metal corner beads are easily damaged on the jobsite. Once they are hit, they can easily become unusable. The video states that you elimnate the need for nails or screws with the use of paper corner bead. You don't totally eliminate this because you would still need nails and screws in the field of the sheetrock.
Posts: 13 | Location: N.C. | Registered: 02 January 2005
quote:Originally posted by ProAdmin: What do you think of this video?
This video? This video may be about a Best Practice, and I agree with the content and the clarification by icfbuilder above. Since I also live in a lathe-and-plaster home, I am sentimental about walls that resist stud finders, nails and sound like they do.
However, this video feature of yours is not a Best Practice. It is riddled with distracting, irritating problems. First, an amateur-level promo, skips in the sound in mid-sentence, no way to back up or fast forward for one piece of information, among others. I thought your audience was professionals. Your presentation is not.
the Oracle - Please look directly under the video window... you will notice a scrubber control that you can grab and move to rewind or fast forward.
As far as the presentation not being professional, I strongly disagree. But, this being a message board, you are free to your opinion.
Don't give up so quickly; this is a brand new site and bugs are sure to be found. Speak your mind on the boards and I am sure you will be heard and issues that you discover may very well be corrected.
The video had some great information! I am just finishing up hanging sheetrock and I will soon be ready to start mudding. Where do I buy the paper-face corners? We don't have a Home Depot around here.
As far as the video itself, I have DSL, but still had problems with the picture stopping and then the sound cutting out during the video. It was irritating to watch that way.
Posts: 1 | Location: Missouri | Registered: 25 January 2005
Hi...I am new to this board. My problem is this: Bought a circa late 1920's house. Well built, wood planks running horizontally frame every inside room. House is cut stone outside. House had been vacant a number or years before we bought it, so old cheescloth-backed wallpaper was falling down the walls and ceilings of several rooms. When we pulled the crumbling paper off walls and ceilings, to our surprise there was these nice one inch thick planks of beautiful pine (most are 16 feet long) boards. The cheesecloth was held up with little metal nails, which held some of the strings of cheesecloth still tacked to the walls and ceilings. Other than tediously pulling each individual nail off from wall to ceiling, which will take an eternity, what can we do about the nails and strings hanging everywhere? Thanks for any help you can provide!
As far as the actual video, I had no problems at all. I do have some issues with the paper faced cornerbead though. One problem it doesn't address is slightly crooked drywall. The flexability of the paper bead also means it will follow the contours of drywall that has bows or humps in it, usually caused by bad or crooked framing. Many times, a rigid metal or vinal cornerbead can be attached so as to span such imperfections. When looking at the finished product, most people only notice the straight edge of a corner, or the lack of. The paper bead also doesn't have the prounced "bead" on the edge that allows the taping knife a straight ridge to ride on, which also makes finishing more difficult. The so called advantage of not using nails that may pop is misleading. What is holding the drywall to the studs behind the tape, after all? We have switched to using vinal cornerbead whenever possible, which we attach using a standard staple gun. No nails to pop, and faster to install. One last issue, that concerns us professionals only, is the fact that it lessens the drywall hangers job, while creating additional work for the finishers. In companies that employ both trades, this requires a change of compensation. The Mudmonster
I know I'm coming to the conversation late...but, I am having a problem with a corner seam in my kitchen. I had the seam prepped, papered and painted. But in the winter the seam opened back up. I thought I heard about some type of flexible material that could be used in corners, etc. in place of the paper that could be painted over. The painter said the split seam comes from my house settling...I would have thought after 12 years it would be settled by now...Please help! I'm a real novice, so please speak in english not contractor lingo. Thanks, Stanleys of MD
