I'm renovating a room and have quite a few outer corners due to boxes around beams and protruding walls, so there ended up being quite a few drywall corners.
I always use metal drywall corners and usually screw them in at intervals of about 40-50 cm. If there's nothing to screw into behind, I usually "glue" them with plaster.
I skim coat my corners once to bring them up to the same level as the "corner" and cover all holes. After that, I glue on a tape with wet room primer (which I was advised to do a long time ago by a painter, and it works great) over all the drywall corners. The next step is to fill in the bevel in the drywall sheet with filler and continue as usual...
So to the question then... A painter who came to look at another job asked what on earth I was doing when I was gluing the tape on the corners. He said it was completely unnecessary and that he just usually plasters them on. In the ceiling, he said he pulls in a couple of screws to make sure they stay in place, and then just plaster...
I've had corners that have cracked before, and after that, I always started using tape on all corners. How do you do it?
I always use metal drywall corners and usually screw them in at intervals of about 40-50 cm. If there's nothing to screw into behind, I usually "glue" them with plaster.
I skim coat my corners once to bring them up to the same level as the "corner" and cover all holes. After that, I glue on a tape with wet room primer (which I was advised to do a long time ago by a painter, and it works great) over all the drywall corners. The next step is to fill in the bevel in the drywall sheet with filler and continue as usual...
So to the question then... A painter who came to look at another job asked what on earth I was doing when I was gluing the tape on the corners. He said it was completely unnecessary and that he just usually plasters them on. In the ceiling, he said he pulls in a couple of screws to make sure they stay in place, and then just plaster...
I've had corners that have cracked before, and after that, I always started using tape on all corners. How do you do it?
Used metal corners where I considered the risk of impact to be high on the upper floor. Now I'm in the basement, and there I'm putting plaster on paper strips from byggmax. They have a visible marking in the middle, so they are easy to fold into some plaster and then plaster over. If the corner breaks, I will attach an external strip on that day.