Q: It’x x x s time to hang and finish some drywall in a small room. This room has a pipe chase in it, which means I have to finish an outside corner. I know how to do inside corners with tape, but ...

I hope most of us know that the solid walls in our homes are not solid at all but rather many individual boards blended together by applying paper tape and a material called joint compound. This ...

Ever since Trim-Tex rolled out their latest corner bead, Fast Edge ®, late last year, it’s been called "the next generation of corner bead." Why? It advances drywall corner beads in a number of ways, ...

One of the most common drywall mistakes is not having the proper edge support. Framing at inside corners is often inadequate or lacking altogether, making it impossible to fasten the edge of the ...

Q-I am finishing a new room I built in my attic, using dry wall and taping all seams with paper tape and then using cement. I am having a problem with two outside corners. I folded the paper tape in ...

While there is no such thing as a perfect building material, drywall comes pretty close. For one thing, it's dirt cheap, costing about $7 for a 1/2-in.-thick 4 x 8 panel. It's also DIY friendly--about ...