I finally saw a crew skip the back blocking on a long ceiling run last week.

They were doing a 24-foot span in a new build out in Tempe, just slapping up the sheets and calling it good. I know it adds a day, but that joint is going to crack by next winter, guaranteed. The framers never get it perfectly flat, and without that extra support, the tape just can't hold. Has anyone else had to go back and fix a job where the previous guys cut this corner?

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lilycraig5h ago

Man, that's rough. It reminds me of a time we had to redo a whole living room ceiling because the original guys didn't use corner bead on an outside corner. Just mud over the raw drywall edge. Looked fine for a few months until someone barely bumped it with a ladder and it crumbled like a cracker.

jamienguyen2h ago

Heard a contractor say skipping corner bead is the biggest rookie move in drywall. That thin edge of mud has zero strength, it's just waiting to get chipped. Makes you wonder how many other shortcuts are hiding behind a smooth paint job. Total false economy, costs way more to fix later.

morgan.mary23m ago

My buddy bought a flipped house where they skipped bead on a hallway corner. Looked perfect at the walk-through. Then his kid was running with a toy truck, tapped the wall, and took out a chunk the size of a golf ball. The repair guy showed us it was just paper and mud, no metal at all. They had to cut out a whole section.