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Shoutout to the guy who taught me to shim corners before the tape goes on

I was working a basement remodel in Topeka back in November. Finished the whole ceiling and started taping the corners. About halfway through I notice the corner bead is pulling away from the drywall in a spot near the window. It looked like a wave in the wall. I tried to muscle it back with extra mud but it would not stick flat. After fighting it for an hour I finally pulled the bead off and shimmed the stud behind it with a piece of cardboard. That fixed it. The corners laid flat after that. Has anyone else had a corner bead fight you even when the wall looked flat to the eye?
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allen.william
allen.william13d agoMost Upvoted
A 2005 job in Wichita taught me the same lesson the hard way.
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alicea26
alicea2613d ago
Whoa, cardboard?! That's crazy... I've never heard of using that as a shim before, that's some real redneck engineering right there.
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