Are You Truly Hopeless at Taping Drywall?....this might help!

I am sure I would have given up on my manufactured home remodel if I hadn't found your channel. You are easy to follow, very informative, and not lots of useless chatter. Thank you SO much for being here!!

Drywall and related things always make me nervous. I have such a hard time letting myself start projects cause I hate cutting into drywall. Your channel and videos really help me see behind the wall and understand that it's all fixable. Thank you so much for your content. I hope your week is awesome!

I've watched so many of your videos that now every time i do drywall repairs on my house whenever im putting mud on the wall i always say out loud "feather those edges" haha you have taught me a lot about dry wall mudding man and i appreciate it a lot as someone who is a carpenter and never touched dry wall its nice to learn another trade

Thanks for all you do for us. I have learned a lot.

This video could not have come at a better time. I am finishing my 1200 sq ft basement and currently taping my first coat (my first time doing drywall) and I took this week off from work thinking I would be able to get all three coats done in 5 days. Its the end of day 4 and I am still on my first coat! But fortunately, I saw this video 2 days ago and got a corner roller which has been a lifesaver in speeding up my work. I can now hope to finish my first coat by the end of the week at least. ...and I am perfectly fine with taking the "art" out of drywall just to get this job done.

Thanks so much for the tips, and tricks for dry wall taping. This will really help me out.

Lone time watcher and have learnt how to plaster from watching your videos and a lot of practice! I think this video is perfect for exactly the type of people you are talking about! Thanks for all the good content love your channel bro!

My first compound tube, roller/ flusher set had the nycors and honestly they are great. I did 6 good size jobs with them before noticing they were wearing out and not coating as well. I invested in the roller glide metal flushers after that (much easier to coat, less resistance) but those nycors really impressed me. More than good enough for a guy who wants to finish his own basement or garage. Really for the savings of not hiring someone on a larger job you could justify getting the compound tube set, although the learning curve may not be worth it I guess.

Many thanks for all your tuturiols your explanations are brilliant. From the great southern land of Tasmania

Hi Ben- I'm a small commercial contractor in California that does mostly Tenant Improvements & remodels. On the smaller jobs, I do my own drywall ( hand taping). I've reached an age where I need to be more efficient and do less climbing up & down on a drywall bench or stepladder (bad knees). After watching this video, I decided to buy the nycor flushers & a corner roller for my current project. I'm midway thru the job and my observations are as follows. I also bought the Delko Taper Banjo & while it had a bit of a learning curve, I'm glad I bought. It's nice because it has an internal corner attachment that massively speeds up taping internal corners ( it's just a messy tool to use though). I would have liked to use the new corner roller I bought on Amazon, but unfortunately USPS lost it in transit & it didn't arrive until a week after I had taped the job (guess it will have to wait until the next job). Now, reviewing the Nycor flushers. I bought the attachments that let me mount them to a painters pole & glad I did. I had to use the 2.5" flusher (lime green one) to embed the tape (reason stated above). What you didn't mention is that the Can-Am vids recommend dipping the flusher slightly into your bucket of mud before using. I highly recommend that as it glides over the paper easier. The 2.5" did ok and my corners looked much straighter & cleaner ( just needed to do hand clean-up at each end of the corner) & the edge was surprisingly well feathered. Didn't even need to do a light sanding before 1st top coat. That coat didn't go as well. I've had one of those lambswool corner covers for awhile but barely use it as cleaning it out is kind of pain. I used it for this job though & it seemed like I was putting plenty of mud on, but when I used the 3" flusher ( blue one) it wouldn't feather mud all the way to the edge. I got a hard edge no matter how hard i pushed it into the corner. The corner is straight & clean though, but I'm going to have a lot of sanding before the 2nd coat with the 3.5" flusher (grey). I may have to follow it up with my metal internal corner knife to feather the edges. Thanks for all your great videos, I've learned a lot from you. & Funny thing is that I was talking to the drywall company I use on larger jobs & he said he watches you too.

love watching all your vids dude recently started a apprenticeship in the PNW and so far it's been great. learning a lot and it's always a plus when I can use some of the knowledge from one of your videos on the job... maybe not this video but you've helped me have a much better general understanding of drywall.

Hey there, I have seen a number of your vids and like how you show people the correct way of doing things without a lot of hype. I myself am a self-employed carpenter with 35 years of experience and see that we are very similar in our craft. The only thing so far that we do differently is taping with the type of tools used in this vid and that is only because I have never seen them before, lol. keep up the good work and teaching.

Your videos are SOOOO helpful! Thank you!

I'm not a drywaller, but can do nice drywall work. When we finished our basement 1700 sqft I seen you use the corner roller on one of your videos, so we bought and used it to do all the tape lines and it made everything so much faster with two of us.

Before the pros chime in, this is for beginners!

Very, very interesting and informative!

I picked up the Tape Buddy after your video. It worked out really well. The only challenge was tearing the correct length and handling the muddy tape to try to get it on the wall. Otherwise the Tape Buddy was almost foolproof.

Great video as always!

I hope your project's going well, and more importantly, I hope you're doing even better!

Ben, thank you. I’m a bone-stock rookie at this and have walls to fix now, but I promise to learn the artform properly! 😂