what's up guys this is the trim tacks corner bead hopper and we're going to
show you a quick demonstration of how we use it to get our mud set beads on the wall
faster i'm here today to show you the trim tex corner bead hopper mud hopper corner bead hopper
this yellow thing basically this guy is going to make applying mud set corner beads a lot easier
and a lot faster so at refresh we're big fans of using mud set corner beads that are made of vinyl
trim text makes a couple that have paper on the face but they're more or less the same they're
designed to be adhered to the wall with mud now this is great for speed the only problem is
sometimes the application of the mud to the wall is messy and it's hard to get the mud from the
bucket onto the wall it's hard to do that over and over and over and that's where this guy comes in
so this guy is designed to be filled up with the mud and then rather than me putting him out on the
wall i'm going to slide the corner bead through the hopper the hopper will apply the mud and then
i put the bead straight on the wall so check this out we're going to show you how it works
so if you look right here you can see that there's a little black piece
and a white plastic piece now this black piece is called the wiper and it comes in different shapes
and the reason it comes in different shapes is because not all corner bead is the same sometimes
there's a 45 degree angle sometimes there's a bull nose you just want to make sure that
you're using the right wiper for the corner bead that you're installing the other thing you want to
make sure is that you set the depth of that wiper this determines how much mud is left on your bead
so if the bead requires more mud give a little more space if it wants less tighten it up a bit
we've never used this before so we'll find out
now we've got the mud in there you'll notice that there's grooves on the bottom of the
hopper and that's designed to fit directly on to your standard standard five gallon bucket
genius a good rule of thumb is to always take a small piece of whatever corner bead you're
using and run a test piece through first just to see how much mud you're left with
so as you can see we're left with not quite enough at the edge of the bead here
the sides are okay but i'm going to want to go for a little bit more
right at the end there so i'm going to lift the flapper up just a bit
that should allow more mud to sit right at the edge right at the tip of that corner bead
and give it a nice firm backing so you can see actually right there where i made the adjustment
i like that better we're going to try this so you can see here that we've got our corner
beads pre-cut everything is fit as we want it to be what we're going to do today is we're
going to show you how you can run a couple of different kinds of corner bead through the hopper
so here we've got one that you can see it's perforated and it's got a mud bump there so
this is going to stop the mud this is make it easier to travel easy to fill with the trowel
and then we've got some fast edge paper beat here we're going to run these both
through the hopper and show you how it works i've got my corner bead here
as you'll see it's going to come out covered in mud ready to stick on the wall
find out but before i do there's a couple of things that are going to make this process
a lot easier this is an outside corner b roller and what this does is it makes
sure that you apply even pressure to both sides of the corner bead at the same time
so you don't need this but this makes a huge difference in making sure that you get a perfect
square right angle corner then the other thing is just having trowel for the excess mud and maybe
a sponge to clean up any mess other than that you're ready to go so let's pop this sucker on
snug it up to the corner and then i'm just going to slide it up making sure i've got it
where i want it just press it gently so that it holds then i'm going to grab my corner
roller apply good amount of pressure
okay and now last but not least i'm going to come in
with my trowel i'm just going to wipe off any of that excess mud
i'm just going to wipe off the excess here
cool one good and done that was fast
so we've got these two vinyl beads in now we're going to show you a different type of bead
this one's got paper on the back and it doesn't have a mud bump so it's going to require less
mud to fill it in but it goes on basically the same way and we'll show you using the hopper
here we go
so you can see in this area there's probably a little bit too much mud
you should adjust the flapper down a little bit because this is a little bit too much
excess but again better to have too much the worst case scenario is that you don't
have enough mud so always err on the side of having too much you can always wipe it off
okay so there you go we've got the beads installed on the wall and the hopper took care of the hard
part getting the mud on the wall is always the slowest part of using the mud set beads
which are traditionally a faster way to install corner beads the hopper is not expensive either
it's 100 bucks so if you do a lot of drywalling whether you're professional or just beginning
it's worth the thought it's a good investment and honestly it makes installing these mudset
beads really easy and really fast and the more you use it the better you get there you go
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