you guys remember when we installed these F beads [Music]
very cool detail we're older now we're wiser now I want to show you careful we're older now
and we're wiser and we want to show you how we did it with a little bit better footage
you've got better camera let me show you how we install these F beads as baseboards
thank you
but since I got an effing shop and now I'm going to be putting an F bead in this shop I feel like
Steve's probably better off explaining it so why don't I do all the work and just listen
to Steve's soothing boys tell you how we did it okay hey Steve tell them about the impediments
before I cut out the drywall okay can I talk now okay uh impediments what does he mean by
impediment I guess the stuff on the ground yeah I'm done with the impediment Steve you can go
ahead and tell them what I'm gonna do next okay so the next logical step the next it's on hammer
drill the tone what hammer drill does Steve tell them about hammer drill uh okay well a
hammer drill is essentially when your drill is hammering what do you think of that drill bit
all right Assuming he's done interrupting me at this point making sure the screws are up yeah I'm
trying to do I even need to do this okay thank you Steve so I went ahead and I got a piece of
the floor you're going to want to take your flooring that you're going to use and you're
going to want to use this F bead but I don't know why I'm explaining it Steve you could just
just explain this part we want to make a mark on the wall can you tell them what I'm doing
okay I'll do it I'll explain but as long as you promise that you'll actually let me explain and
you won't just chime in with more random stuff guys like my new teeth I gotta clean yesterday
I had coffee this morning though very yellow okay so he's measured the reveal and he he's essential
all he's doing is he's removing a section of drywall that's the width of the reveal so
that when he slides the bead against the wall the reveal section is able to slide against
the stud and have it be flush with the outer drywall when it's mudded so all he's doing here
all he's really doing here aside from posing for the camera is removing about three quarters of
an inch worth of drywall so that the bead will fit underneath giving the reveal and the illusion of a
shadow when it's installed tell them how hard that was right now I guess it was it was pretty hard I
always all he's doing now is just putting a piece of flooring underneath to make sure that the bead
okay that should work I'll just keep doing that and uh yeah take it away Steve okay uh okay let's
just quickly recap before I get interrupted you're gonna Mark the width of the reveal bead along
absolutely it's a freeze okay all right so the drywall's been removed trimtex F bead get enough
this class oh okay I think he's done at this stage you're going to run your flooring and you're going
to run it a little bit closer to the framing than you normally would because the F bead will give
you some coverage but you don't want any gaps when it's finally installed now at this stage
you're going to run to protect your floors with some floor protection for the next stage and get
ready okay thank you Steve hey so I've done a boatload of work I'm now here I'm wearing my
hair today not a hat still the same guy though it's still just me here's where we're at we've
cut the drywall back we've installed our finished floor and now all we got to do is we got to take
these F beads and we got to cut them into miter so we've already gone ahead and we've mitered the
corner we've cut it on a 45 degree angle when we put it into the corner there's going to be
no seam no Gap it's going to fit together like a puzzle piece so watch this now all we're going to
have to do Slide the pieces in which we know is the right height we're going to glue that staple
it but watch what happens when I push this other piece in it too this piece comes sliding across
that they dock together perfectly now what we have to do a little bit of glue a little bit of
Staples a little bit of mud but I'm done talking let's let Steve explain this okay well I I guess
it's really more reiterating what you just said um he just told you what he's doing but at this stage
at this
all you're trying to do at this stage is apply the trimtex 847 adhesive which is a really
really strong and yet somewhat flexible adhesive that allows you to both stick things to the wall
but also gives you a little bit of time to play and move them have them situated where you want
them before you go ahead and fasten them with some Staples so we usually end up putting some
Staples in every six to 12 inches you just want to make sure that that bead is good and attached to
the wall so there was many Staples in as you need and make sure that it's sitting exactly
where you want it before you throw a staple in because once you staple it it's locked in place
a quick tip for getting perfect miters is if you find that you can't get them to line up
throw a bead of tape on the back and line up your miters before you install it that way of
explaining what I was doing because it's very hard okay uh okay next week show them how it's
done I mean I'm trying you're gonna show them I'll explain the step um so again this is a
pretty pretty straightforward step but you want to embed that bead in a layer of mud so take a
six inch trowel get some mud and you're going to want to run your first coat from the mud
bump all the way up the wall and then take this moment to just clean out any mud that's
gotten underneath into your reveal so that's coat one done done now it's time for coat two
take a bigger trowel and I grab a little bit more mud and you're going to run the same process again
once that's dry it's time to sand so get yourself the trimtex Black Widow and sand that puppy smooth
also use this time to clean out any mud that has dried on the inside of the reveal bead as
that will show after give it a quick vacuum and a quick wipe down and you're ready to go
okay so now we're at the stage where this thing has been mudded it's been sanded and it's ready
for Prime uh prime time it's ready for primer we're not going to do that in this case because
we have something a little bit more fancy going on here but we just wanted to stop and show you
kind of what it looks like at this stage if you wanted to just prime your walls paint your walls
a certain color we like to make these F beads darker colors make it look more like a shadow but
you don't have to you can make it the same color as the wall but stay tuned we want to show you
what this looks like after we do a wall treatment on all our walls and then we remove the floor
protection you're going to want to see it so there you have it process pretty much done from start to
finish now these beads typically come in white as they're made of vinyl but as Dan said we painted
ours a little bit darker so that it looks more like a shadow so when we do this textured wall
finish which we're giving you a quick preview of here you can find in our video links here
um when it's all said and done the reveal bead provides a striking contrast to a traditional
baseboard and it ends up making the room look far more interesting than it would
with a typical baseboard installation so as you can see when the paper is removed this room pops
she really jumps out at you and that's partially because of this F reveal bead wow I actually got
out everything I was trying to say I didn't get interrupted once okay so we're all finished the
bottom FB is installed it's painted and we even did this fancy plaster effect on the entire wall
so F Beats from trimtex this is what we did just imagine what you could do that's true actually
I'm trying to imagine all the stuff that we could do with a bead like that like what if what if for
example you ran it rather than just running it along the baseboards you ran it up the wall or
maybe you did like you have it come up and then do a 90 degree into the wall you could put LEDs