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Am I the only one who spent 4 hours on a stupid corner bead?
Had a job in a 1920s house in Chicago where the old plaster walls were so out of square, my metal corner bead just would not sit flush. I tried shimming, bending, everything, and it still looked wavy. What's your go-to fix for a corner that's just plain wrong?
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thomas_gonzalez1mo ago
Tell me you at least ripped that metal bead off before you went crazy. On old plaster like that, have you tried using a paper-faced corner bead instead? You can slit the paper and overlap it to cheat the angle a bit. Sometimes you just have to float one side of the corner with mud to create a new plane before the bead even goes on. How out of square are we talking, like an inch over an eight foot span or something even worse?
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michael_craig9d ago
Oh man, "floating one side with mud to create a new plane" is exactly what I had to do on my last plaster job. That paper-faced bead trick is genius though, wish I'd thought of that before I spent an afternoon fighting with crooked corners.
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