Spent 6 hours trying to fix a crooked corner bead yesterday

Turns out the stud was bowed by 3/8 of an inch and I kept trying to shim the bead instead of just fixing the framing. Felt like a total rookie - has anyone else fought a wall for way too long before realizing the real problem?

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2 Comments

wendy_jackson20d ago

Bite the bullet and pull that bead off, then take a straight edge to the studs before you do anything else. I've burned whole afternoons trying to make mud and tape hide a bowed stud, but it never looks right and you just end up cussing at it later. Grab a long level or a string line, find the high spots, and either plane them down or sister a straight stud next to it. Your drywall will thank you, and six hours turns into forty five minutes.

kim96320d ago

Yeah, I gotta push back on that a little, @wendy_jackson. If you start planing studs or sistering new ones every time you find a bow, you'll be there forever in an old house. Sometimes a little extra mud work is way faster than turning a drywall job into a framing project.