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Apply First Coat of Joint Compound

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Taping inside corners

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What happens here

Load a suitable amount of all-purpose joint compound into a mud pan. Using a drywall knife, apply the joint compound to both sides of the inside corner. Two methods can be used: either 'side-swipe' the mud along the entire length of the corner in one continuous motion, or apply it in smaller, overlapping sections. The goal is to apply just enough mud to create a bed for embedding the paper tape.

Goal: Apply a sufficient bed of joint compound to the inside corner.

Tools and materials

  • Drywall Knife — Applying the joint compound to the corner
  • Mud Pan — Holding the joint compound for application
  • All-Purpose Joint Compound — Creating the bed for the tape

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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

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