Taping with Jiggi part 2: Corner Beads
Jiggi and crew have the tapes (flat tapes on joints, inside corner tapes on ceiling joint) on both homes (as of yesterday), so they are now starting the second stage that is placing the beads on the outside corners.
The process starts by applying compound to the inside of the corner bead. this will essentially glue it to the corner. The corner bead is applied by hand to the wall.
Here Jiggi has just placed the bead on the wall. Because it has quite a bit of mud in it, it sticks to the wall
This tool is used to compress the bead to the corner. This is a really important step to getting sharp, perfect corners.
Here we can see Jiggi running the corner roller. This will squeeze out the excess compound and it will be troweled away so the corner can dry
Jiggi applies a lot of pressure and this compresses the corner bead very nicely to the wall. The corner bead has a metal edge and is slightly raised, this creates a pocket to apply compound later to fill it up. The corner needs a lot of compound to spread the joint and provide a greater illusion of squareness.
With the beads all done and both houses drying quickly, they can start the step called filling the walls. This is the first coat that will cover every tape and bead joint in the project. They have had a large number of boxes of compound delivered to site, no doubt they will be mixing the compound and coating the walls very soon.