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Taping inside corners

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Video by Living Lost

Living Lost

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This project provides a step-by-step guide on how to properly tape and mud an inside corner of a drywall wall. It covers initial surface preparation, applying the first coat of joint compound, installing the paper tape, and then embedding and smoothing the tape for a seamless finish.

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Do you struggle taping and mudding inside corners? Well, I got you. Let's get after it. Go ahead, take your knife and knock off any large clumps that you have from your pre-fill. Load your all-purpose mud in a tray, take a scoop of it like this. You can either side swipe it and just run it all the way up like that. Or if that's a little bit harder, just go ahead and just do little sections at a time like this. All right, now that you got your inside corner mudded, you want just enough mud to embed your tape. You're going to go ahead and take your paper tape. And in the center of your paper tape it's creased. So, I like to just take the crease and I [snorts] like to just run my finger down it. And just put this up in your corner. Take your knife and just push it right in your crease. That crease is already there. Just kind of lightly run it. You don't want to rip your paper. All right, now that you got your tape on the wall it's no different than your flats. Put your knife here and just run it down. Apply pressure. You want to apply pressure to the inside. So, apply pressure and just run it down. Again, do this side. Apply pressure. Be careful [clears throat] not to rip your tape. And just run it down. Feather all these edges as I go. And there you have it. Pretty simple to do an inside corner. You do it on here, do it on your ceiling, all the same way. Anyways, I got to watch mud dry. Catch you guys later. Peace.

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