Q: It’x x x s time to hang and finish some drywall in a small room. This room has a pipe chase in it, which means I have to finish an outside corner. I know how to do inside corners with tape, but ...
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Essential tips for finishing basement drywall

Ready to tackle your basement drywall? Episode 5 covers everything you need to know, from prepping the space to getting that ...
One of the nicest things about finishing drywall is anybody can do it. With a little practice, and a little patience, even a drywall rookie can end up with seamlessly smooth walls that just beg for a ...
If you’ve ever watched a pro finish drywall, you probably thought to yourself, “I can do that.” And probably the first time you tried it — and the tape didn’t stick, and the joint compound had lumps ...
When you discovered that a standard sheet of five-eighths-inch dry wall weighs 73.6 pounds, you wisely decided not to try to muscle the 32-square-foot sheets to the ceiling of your new room addition.
In a perfect world, all tapered seams on the long edges of the drywall will meet with no gaps. This is very important on ceilings. When you have flat seams that meet that aren’t tapered, you want ...
Patches made with traditional patching materials must be primed with a sealing-type primer before painting. Otherwise, the patched areas could show foggy spots throughout the finished paint job. But ...