How To Coat Your Drywall Corners

Now at this point you should have your drywall flats and corner bead covered with your first coat of drywall compound, as much as you would like to keep going with your second and then your final coat, you need to stop here for a bit so you can apply a coat on all your inside corners. This will take a little bit of time but if you do it right you only need to do it once and you will be done your corners except for some light sanding at the end of your drywall job and then you can return to your second and final coats.

So let's get started applying your coat over the inside corners,take your drywall hand sander and carefully take of any bumps or ridges off your corners being careful not to sand into the paper.First as always make sure your drywall box, three inch knife and your plastic drywall corner trowel is clean an ready to go. I know you may wonder about that plastic corner trowel that cost a huge couple of dollars, but when you start using it and see what it does for your corners it will be your best friend. make sure as always your mud is clean and well mixed then scoop about half the box full of mud as this coat that you are applying won't use a lot of compound.

Pick a starting point to start as you will be working your way around your job systematically so you do not miss any corners. Take your 3 inch drywall knife and scoop some mud out and using the edge of the knife apply mud up one side of your corner about a 1/4 inch thick and no more then one to two inches wide, then repeat the same procedure on the other side of your corner. Now if you are having trouble apply your mud using the edge of your drywall knife as this does take a little practice, just use the flat of your knife if this makes it easier for you but scape of any excess mud that is over 2 inches wide.

Here is the part where you take your plastic corner trowel and from the top of corner start working the mud in scraping of any excess back into your box. keep repeating this until all the mud on your corner is nice and thin and smooth do not leave excess mud on your corners, if you do this right you should have a fine ridge of mud on either side of the tape. With your three inch knife very carefully and lightly scape off the excess ridge of mud with your knife making sure not to touch the inside of your corners. This all may be a bit tricky at first but be patient and you will get the knack of it, keep working until all your corners are neatly coated making sure to miss none. Let your corners dry well over night and you will be ready to second coat everything again except the corners of course as they should be done.I will go though this with you in my next post on drywall taping.