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Prepare and Apply Paper Tape

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Taping inside corners

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What happens here

Unroll a length of paper tape. Paper tape has a pre-creased center line. Reinforce this crease by running your finger along it to ensure a sharp fold. Carefully position the tape into the mudded inside corner, aligning the crease with the corner apex. Ensure the tape extends slightly beyond the top and bottom of the corner, which can be trimmed later.

Goal: Accurately place the paper tape into the wet joint compound.

Tools and materials

  • Paper Tape — Reinforcing the inside corner joint

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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

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