How to use the Corner Box

[@TheGreybush92]

Dude thank you so much for making these videos. I’m just starting out and my dad passed away so I got all his level five tools and I have no idea how to work on this and other videos you’ve made have been a lifesaver and I feel energized to go out there and earn some money.

[@anthonyfrade5203]

Sorry to hear about your dad is you questions on you taping journey let me know

[@TheGreybush92]

@@anthonyfrade5203 thanks bro

[@robrushing2345]

great vids bro. 40 years in the painting business, i still love to watch the tools do thier thing

[@drywallnation]

Thanks for watching! Glad you enjoy them.

[@danielbalboa4537]

Your a great teacher sir great video

[@drywallnation]

Thanks for watching! More to come on how to actually run the tool

[@Hey_me]

Now i really know that i need a mud runner with an angle head. Great tutorial 👍👍❤️

[@DCtaping]

Great video Brian the only other thing I have to add is to try to leave your lot marks with the angle box on a joint flat giant but joint whatever because you are sending that joint regardless

[@drywallnation]

That's a great suggestion. Thanks for the comment!

[@bounyangthammakanh6831]

Hi this is a well explain tutorial. Great job thanks so much for sharing your knowledge.

[@frankfedel2039]

Very good videos! Thanks!

[@endoalley680]

You can adjust the taping angle head to pull the mud tight. And then ever so slightly crown in the center of blade of the 3.5" finishing head to leave enough mud to better cover the tape. We do that all the time.

[@markmanning4784]

Thanks for the helpful videos. Where in your drywall finishing sequence do you run your corner box? Before the 12” on the flats? Thanks!

[@rigovargas3066]

When do you remove the tension springs on the corner finisher? or do you always have them applying pressure?

[@kidjetrecon7153]

Beginning after you figure out how much labor this is, your going to spend extra and buy the mud runner . Your still a good teacher. My least favorite tool in drywall. 😂

[@danielyanez9443]

Good job 🎉

[@VersingélatriX]

hello, have you tried with an applicator flusher? it also works? thank you for this video.

[@boat_life]

how many coat you need to do with the corner finisher?

[@drywallnation]

One

[@SareyaSarkar-h4q]

I have been working in derywell putty and painting since 4 years in singapore, is there any chance for me to work in Europe?

[@Matt-gk4jy]

I recently bought a used corner box and the gasket is "chattering" like you said. I put some lubricant on there to loosen it up but it's still very sticky. It's way too snug. Any ideas ? Thanks

[@drywallnation]

What brand corner box? There's some adjustments that can be made depending on the brand. Feel free to send me an email with more info at [e-mail]

[@anthonyfrade5203]

The gasket, it's changes with age and use. Maybe order a new gasket?

[@genesiscortezano1328]

Hi, do you guys know what's their previous channel before DrywallNation? thanks.

[@JohnDoe-jq3qf]

How do you address corners that are not perfectly square?

[@peterrobbins2862]

Thank you

[@Brad-dk7or]

do you do 1 or 2 coats with the 3.5" head?

[@drywallnation]

We run the corner box and angle head once after the tape is applied and flushed.

[@Brad-dk7or]

@@drywallnation thanks!! keep up the great work

[@drywallnation]

You as well!

[@geworthomd]

Q1. Do u thin mud first using water? Q2. How did you get your mud out of the store bought bucket into the 5 gallon bucket so easily? Q3. Does the Amazon $1200 basic bazooka come with the pump or must pay another $600 for it? Q4. How to clean the machine? Q5. On the beginners video you used the standard bazooka for inside corners. In a later video you used an inside box. When would I need to switch? Q6. Do I need to go back over in the corners with my trowel if I cannot get the clean look or stretch my tape like you do? Q7. I noticed you hung your drywall with a horizontal seam. I’m not used to doing that. I usually hang vertically. Thank you so much. Do you usually start with the upper sheet first then add the lower sheet? Q 8. Do I need to go back over with layers of trowel if I do a butt joint? This unit looks super complicated to use but your video is fantastic. I could hear you well and these videos were informative. I could not have used this gun without watching.

[@anthonyfrade5203]

It's been a year but I'll try Q1- yes add water mix it run your finger into the mud and see what kind of groove it leaves and how long it takes to collapse. Add some generic hand soap like 3 or 4 shot glasses to a buckets worth makes the mud apply with less pits much smoother. 2. Buy mud in boxes lol. Dump from box into bucket. 3. Probably doesn't come with a pump unless it's some kind of set, seems cheap for a set. I don't recommend the bazooka for taping such a pain in the ass. Apply by hand and use a flusher. Light light sanding then apply the anglehead. 4. Scrub brush, sponge and water. Leave tools in water until cleaning after use. Don't let it dry. 5. I don't use bazooka annoying and slow. 6. The anglehead leaves a perfect corner. Do not mess with that corner if you don't have to. You go int with a trowel right to corner when but joint meet the corner. Cover Christmas trees at the bottom with a 5" knife. Cover 3 ways with a 5" knife best if it's an old sharp one not a new one. 7. yes top one first. There's a metal foot tool to shim the bottom board up so the seam is tight. You save more drywall doing it in this direction. Also time taping doing those long horizontal box runs instead manu vertical ones. On the vertical butt joint run the box on the left and right of the tape not over the tape. Then buy a big 20+" trowel and cover that area. 8. Kinds answer in pervious question yes. The box won't properly cover the tape on but joint. You need to go with a trowel and cover a wide area. Running the mud box to the left and right makes this job easy and you fill the middle over the tape with a long trowel and taper the edges. You need to run a trowel in on factory edge joints where the tape is showing through the mud, the factory edge occasionally is defective. Also when covering the butt joint than connects to a factory joint go over the box mud of the factory joint so do the but joint after you've covered the factory joint. Q2

[@joseluisjaramillo6882]

How to use the flashers in the corners?

[@ingvarz7468]

bro do a video about how to adjust the angle head... I've checked through all the shops in Ontario and i can tell you that no1 knows how to do that. there was one guy at CSR back in a day who knew how to do it... but he quit.

[@darenrigby7009]

Its online

[@mattacosta4802]

Good videos. A tip for your vids: mix a color chaulk into your mud. So when the camera zooms in we can see what your referring to for over fill etc. Easier to see a color instead of white on white.

[@Mattofmichigan]

I’m learning this tool and the whole crew hates it. It’s now my job. The box is referred to as satans box on our jobs. It’s very tough to get the correct pressure to evenly coat. Almost takes 4 passes. It is a total workout And it is torture after a few rooms. Seems like it needs oiled and maintained better. All we do is soak it in water, which I feel is not proper maintenance. Any suggestions?

[@drywallnation]

Hi Matt. Sorry for the late reply. The corner box definitely takes some getting used to. It's all about mud consistency and applying the proper pressure. Make sure to check out the rest of the videos in this series to understand how to properly clean and lubricate the corner box, that will make a big difference. Hope that helps, if you have any other questions feel free to send me an email at [e-mail]. kzbin.info/www/bejne/q4inmGWBgL9-ZpY

[@jimgill7524]

I didn't think you could tape with a flusher then finish coat with an angle head. I thought the inside of the angle would be too rounded from the flusher for how sharp the angle head makes it. Learned something new.

[@davidhagood1970]

The mud runner is even better. Way more efficient. Not knocking this way at all. It gets the job done as well.

[@kidjetrecon7153]

It would be your exactly right.

[@gordongoodkey4118]

As long as you're flusher is new

[@bounyangthammakanh6831]

Sometime the angle head tears the tape off.

[@kirkdunn1379]

the mud runner looks easier and holds more mud, seems only a few guys really use them though....am sure it feels weird after using these forever to switch but the guys that use them swear by them and can go a longer ways b4 having to fill up

[@michaelharrison4703]

Lube is wd40?

[@culichyr.valdez8103]

👌👌👌👌

[@franciscoborra3003]

Eselente gracias

[@TapelessDrywallFinishing]

👍👍👍

[@loreec90]

If you’re a finisher you should know the difference between a corner and angle….that’s a n Angle box

[@drywallnation]

Lol! Semantics. Do you think I just make up these terms on a whim? You're right, Angle Box is a common term used by finishers. However, almost every tool manufacturer in the industry calls it a "corner box" or "corner applicator". Inside corner, inside angle. Same thing.

[@loreec90]

@@drywallnation when Ames put automatic tools on the market in the 50s it was and still is an Angle box. All your so called manufacturers are a direct copy of the original patent . And couldn’t figure out how to improve on the original design and aren’t smart enough to know the difference between an angle and a corner

[@drywallnation]

Well, I'm not trying to argue with you. But you're wrong again. Literally on the Ames website, it's called a "universal corner applicator." Even "angleheads" are called "corner finishers."

[@grampafpv8013]

Well you guys down below must not be tapers for a living because the corner box way of doing angles is much faster and if your mud is not to loose finishing three ways is easy as far as the tube goes it works good but if you use a direct flusher with it you have to make your mud like soup and clean up is much more that way what i do is use the corner box way if doing piece work cus it faster and less clean up and i use the tube and flusher way for hourly work so you get your full 8 hours in and your foreman see's you working all the time it just tricks of the trade.

[@joseluisjaramillo6882]

Flusher

[@martiipeacock4698]

Repeating yourself over and over so annoying, great info but try stopping the repetition

[@stevesyfie7495]

This video could have been much shorter if you didn’t repeat yourself 3 times

[@drywallnation]

Its not meant to be a short video. Its an in-depth tutorial to help people learn and understand. Repetition is key.

[@earthfornow9412]

This was painfully slow

[@drywallnation]

It's a how-to video to educate people on how to use the tool. We're not trying to set any world records here

[@ProbeGT2]

You're a great teacher. But man, finishing corners with a corner box is like taping them with the good old painter's roller and your god heavy 5 gallons in your hands. But i understand you're probably sponsored by level5 to do those videos.

[@Rob-mv7oj]

Umm what are you smoking? Corner boxes are the shit, you must not know what you're doing

[@ProbeGT2]

@@Rob-mv7oj Get a mud tube, put the angle head on it, give it a shot. You will soon realise 1: you can do 4 times more angles without refilling 2: you won't have that junction in the middle for vetical angles 3: you work wayyyy less 4: you can finish your ceiling corner to corner, so you have minimal 3-way to finish by hand 5: it's wayyy faster. 6: if you find it too hard to do your ceilings from the floor, you can get on your stilts. And on and on and on.

[@Rob-mv7oj]

@@ProbeGT2 true it holds more mud but then you're stuck trying to maneuver some giant heavy tube full of mud around a room and there's no way to fit inside closets. Id personally prefer to make more trips to the pump then burning out my back and shoulders carrying all that extra wieght around. My cornerbox handle is also extendable so I don't have an issue with reaching high ceilings, and as far as 3 ways go, I can get my box right into the corner pretty tight with little touch ups. I'm just a bigger fan of the box over the compound tube but to each their own I guess.

[@bounyangthammakanh6831]

Brians doing a terriffic tutorial. Some commentting negatively. Understand not everyone is an expert and Brian did mention is your personal prefference how you apply your technic. What he is demostrating and explaining I think is excellent.