Repair drywall tape
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10-03-17, 02:12 AM
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Repair drywall tape
on one corner of one of my walls, the part that sticks out. it looks like there was some drywall tape placed there and there is a little area that has come loose. should i just paint over it or put some spakle over it first
Last edited by Christomtom; 10-03-17 at 03:00 AM.
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10-03-17, 02:16 AM
Hard to say without seeing it. If it will lay back down you'd apply joint compound under the tape to 'glue' it back down and then apply more j/c over it once it has dried. It might also require texture. If the tape won't lay back down you'd cut out the offending portion and add new tape.
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10-03-17, 07:05 AM
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Looks like corner bead and not tape to me.
FWIW, the material you would want to use is joint compound, not spackle.
FWIW, the material you would want to use is joint compound, not spackle.
The ceiling collapsed and made a mess below, and rain came in through the hole and flooded below, while we were away on higher grounds.
After the branch were removed, it's amazing it was such a small hole about the size of a fist. Now if that was not T&G but full plywood sheets, I think a bigger part of the roof deck would have been damaged.
Anyway, the joists are spaced 16" apart. I widened the hole to a full 48", and going from wall to wall (about 10').
Two questions here.
(1) Since the original ceiling layer is slightly over an inch thick, and I don't really want to put in two layers of sheetrock due to too much weight. I am thinking of installing strips of 48" long 1X3 furrings across the bottom of the joists to make up the needed thickness. That would also allow me to easily put up three lengths of insulation into the ceiling bay while I have them open. I might have to shave a 1/8" off the 1X3 if it's too thick but that's not an issue. My question is whether this approach is better or I should go back to the two ply thick ceiling?
(2) One mistake I made...was when I widened the hole in the ceiling for repairs, I was planning on a full width of 48"...and I wasn't thinking clearly, so I measured, snapped and scored the line from CENTER of joist to CENTER of joist. I felt so dumb after removing the whole mess, that the original ceiling was nailed into the bottom of the joist, and these nails most of them was on the line I scored with a diamond blade grinder. So the ceiling on either sides of the hole is not being properly fastened anymore, since many of the original nails are either rusted from previous moisture penetration, or damaged by me during this demo. I cannot drill new screws in to support them because they would be too close to the edge and would just crack the ceiling. So I am thinking, would those large round perforated washers they use for plaster crack repair be applicable here? Can I install the new sheetrock next to the original sheetrock, then drive these big plaster washers down the seam to hold both sides up? I am talking about these things.
So this is what I am thinking. The width is 48" with four joists exposed. Joists 1, 2, 3, 4. Joists 2 & 3 are fully exposed, joists 1 & 4 are half exposed and covered by the existing ceiling. I will sister 2X4s or 2X3s onto joists 1 and 4. Then I will put up strips of 1/2" across, may be every 18" or so. After that I will slide in some insulation. Then the new 1/2" sheetrock will be put up using conventional drywall screws into joists 2 and 3, as well as the sistered support for joists 2 and 4. After that I will drive in a bunch of these plaster washers into the seams on joists 1 and 4, mostly to support the old ceiling. Or is there any easier way?