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Just realized I've been cutting my corner bead wrong for years
I used to measure and cut each piece to length before nailing, but after a job in Phoenix last month, I saw a guy just run the full strip and slice the excess with a knife. Has anyone else switched to that method?
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the_seth3mo agoTop Commenter
That Phoenix heat makes people do crazy things. I tried that knife trick once and ended up with a wavy seam that took forever to fix.
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amy8583mo ago
Wait, wasn't that trick for cutting tape, not fabric? I think @the_seth might have used the wrong tool for the job. A hot knife is the only thing that really seals those seams clean.
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lisa_murray1mo ago
My buddy Mark called me last week from a job in Tucson, told me he tried that same thing with a utility knife on a full strip of corner bead. He said the bead bent weird and left a gap that took him two hours to mud over. Then @the_seth chimed in on his post saying the heat makes the metal too soft for that method, which I guess makes sense. Mark ended up ripping the whole thing out and starting over with precut pieces. He's back to measuring twice now.
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