Drywall corner beads on 3 sided corners
Can someone PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE tell me the secret to corner beading 3 sided outside corners? I tried to use No Coat, but due to the thickness of it and trying to overlap it to get a crisp “point” on the corner the corner wound up getting built up to where the up and down part of the corner is slanted and the side parts of the corner have a disctinctive bow, way too much of a “pocket” for mud.
I next ripped it all off and then tried using metal/paper faced beading. Still I wound up with the same problem, not as pronounced but enough the HO called and said he doesn’t like it. So I need to redo it yet again. So….how do the other guys get it so that all the corners are truly straight, and not slanted and yet get a nice “point” on the corner so that it’s a good square corner????
$50 million to who can tell me the secret (assuming I win the lottery someday).
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Try metal corner bead and miter the legs where needed rather than overlapping - may need to drive a nail in along the miter to keep things inset
The only trick I know is to back cut the bead and put those two corners together. Taping brings a slight discrepancy into plane. Sweep the knife up and over, never leaving the bead. Repeat opposite. Then deal with whatever is left to make a clean plane. The inside corner should be no problemo.
I'm assuming you mean a regular corner that goes up to a "soffit" type transition where the soffit is flush with one of those walls.
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