The day I figured out why my corner bead kept popping

I must have been mudding for like 6 years before it clicked. Always used those vinyl no-coat corners and they'd pop loose after a few months, drove me crazy. Last summer I was working a basement in Hudson and the old timer GC walked by, took one look and said 'you aint putting enough mud behind the nose.' He was right, I was just skimming the edges. Soon as I started loading up the center of the bead with hot mud first everything locked in solid. Has anyone else had a total facepalm moment with something basic like that?

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rowangonzalez17d ago

You ever have a buddy who's been doing this for 20 years and still can't figure something out? My friend Dave was fighting with corner bead in a garage for like a week and the popcorns wouldn't stop. He'd used three different brands of tape and beads and nothing held. Finally his old man came over and watched him for five minutes, grabbed the gun and just threw a fat bead of mud behind the nose before any tape touched it. Dave said it was like magic how the whole thing just locked into place and never moved again. He still gets mad when he thinks about how much time he wasted before that little trick.

lucas_price8317d ago

Used to think corner bead was just about the tape and the bead itself, like the mud was just there to cover it. Saw an old timer do the same thing with a fat backing bead before the tape and it was night and day. Everything locked in solid, no more pops after a week of fighting. Makes you feel like an idiot for missing something so simple for so long.