How to use drywall flat boxes

Want to speedup your drywall finishing but don't know how? Using drywall flat boxes is one way to speed up the process. Make sure you are setting them correctly and checking them as you use them. Most people use them incorrectly and wind up with overfilled joints.
Here are some of my suggest sets to get started with. Remember you will need a pump with a box filler attachment or you can use a compound tube with a box filler attachment. Links are to my Amazon store and I earn a small commission from purchases.
Level5 Pump, 10" and 12" box, and handle - amzn.to/4070ne8
Level5 14" box - amzn.to/3mysFR6
Columbia Tools 10" box - amzn.to/3zU3xr8
Columbia Tools 5.5" box. - amzn.to/3KxpOQt
CanAm Tools Compound tube. -amzn.to/3A3KoTr

[@ericlotze7724]

So it's like how the lever presses the cheese into those fancy restaurant cheese grinder things, but for drywall mud, wild!

[@user-kb4zq3jy2h]

Thank you Lydia for another great video

[@TheAxecutioner]

that may be you're best video ever. Excellent info & demonstration, thanks !!

[@DrywallShorty]

Thank you!!

[@racktown1157]

​@@DrywallShorty Lydia I love your videos! I noticed you posted a link for a 5.5 flat box, where do you use it? And what do you use for your inside corners? Thanks so much!

[@DrywallShorty]

@@racktown1157Sure! A 5.5 is great for corner bead , I have seen people use them on screws but I would NOT recommend that. The boxes all have bevels and you'll wind up applying way to much mud and causing humps on every screw. For angles we use a Northstar 7" angle box with a bent handle and a 3.5" Northstar angle head.

[@racktown1157]

@@DrywallShorty Thank You!

[@innovacionendrywall]

Excelente

[@andresjr7137]

7 and 10 inch box all the way! No springs at all, they just hold you back and make you work harder. Single size handles because they bent a little and it’ll send you flying like an arrow, extendable handle is hard, stiff, and heavy

[@byknutz]

20 years non union 11 years union. I've worked with as many as 40 tapers. Boxing day after day, year after year, pallets and pallets and pallets, also big huge 50 gallon blue drums of Hamiltons. And tons of different tapers on zillions of different jobs. And the one thing I can't stand, is when dudes take the springs off!!! I go in the job boxes and take all the springs and put them in my tool box so I always have them. However I do stretch the springs. I like the box to spring back, so it's back when I fill it. Also, without springs it leaves weird lap marks, and mud starts slipping behind the hinge, na, not for me. No one in our union would ever race me. I seriously will blow your doors off. I can also run flats with one hand faster than most dudes use two. 😉

[@SalPane1224]

Yeah 👍

[@TapelessDrywallFinishing]

👍👍

[@qd3mt]

great!, Does it use for Mud or Finish?

[@byknutz]

Ive never went back over my boxwork EVER. In 30 yrs never had a problem. 20 yrs non union, 11 yrs union.

[@rogeri5743]

what's difference between spray and flatbox. which one is effient?

[@dandunbar3379]

What do you think about running the 12 box followed by the 10 box? That way both of your edges are on top of the mud and make them easier to sand.

[@user-kb4zq3jy2h]

Yes it was a good one. When my business gets a little bigger I'm going to invest on a bazooka and a couple of boxes. I need to learn a little more about the business aspect. I am good at quoting prices of jobs. I call myself Drywall Solutions and More. I need to learn how to give customers a price, and be fair about it. Steve

[@byknutz]

Nope. Been there done that. The 12 runs out funny on the first coat. Stupid, don't do it. Your better off using the 10 twice. If it's too hard for you. They make a 7 inch box. Use that then a 10 for the finish.

[@Tom-os4hy]

fuck that

[@loreec90]

Did you know that you can fine tune the settings on the box? Also when you’re checking your flats use a new knife, no an old dished out one

[@elguerooo1]

Ive been debating if I should go with the level 5 full kit that's like $3500 or the tapetech that's like $6500 ive been taping going on 4 yrs with my dad and my dad's been taping going on 26 yrs and he's saying to go with tapetech that's it's the best brand there is because it's more expensive and better quality what would u recommend lol I kinda wanna go with level 5 since it's almost half the price ??

[@DrywallShorty]

Either one is good! Level5 won’t have some of the nicer things the tapetech tools have but you can upgrade individual parts. Level5 has a lifetime warranty I believe and they do stand buy it. I don’t love the level5 angle heads so I would get a different brand for those.

[@drywallperfectionist1314]

I have a level 5 set goin I. A year and a half had some issues with the bazooka taper but the flay and corner boxes are excellent

[@karljam8220]

Level 5 is junk just look at it you can see how cheaply made it is and the adjustment for mud looks even worse listen to your dad northstar is good to.

[@Salabunda]

Northstar multi one

[@GAMERpro-ws7ur]

Do you need that pump or can you fill it with a regular mud knife

[@DrywallShorty]

You could open the back and pack it with mud but you would be doing that constantly and it would be a mess. Their are box filler attachments you can get for compound tubes if you don’t own a pump.

[@ramonburchell6366]

Great video,, does anyone know how to reduce pin hole air bubbles in the finish using a box?

[@Salabunda]

Go over the joints twice in both directions.

[@user-yh5qk7lf4q]

Красавйса...

[@kevin649liveca]

always trail your 10 less pre sand before 12

[@kevinbaxter1571]

u shouldnt b scared of skimming blades. u can make a 12" box a 14" for cheap. they have a place in the took kit

[@boumedienbobo2912]

Do you need someone who works in painting

[@chriscolameco6850]

How do you clean it

[@Salabunda]

Push out all the mud .Then open up the clips and spray out

[@whirlwind8825]

run with no springs ... , 10 wide open... 12 box on 3

[@ROMOROMO-ub7tm]

You can easily read the mud ,and you can read the drywall. You don't have to read it with the knife. Bs its a belly hump right where everyone can see . Let the hangers go . Making tooo much work for the finishers

[@bonnivilleblackcherry9745]

the knife was a visual aid for the video there hero.

[@felipeedrywall9182]

👍👍👍👍👍🫡🫡🫡🫡

[@Gog3453]

To much maintenance. I’ll pass🥺

[@YagwitOG]

All of my walls are 10:25

[@DrywallShorty]

:(

[@karljam8220]

Ha ha throw that 10 in the garbage buy a better quality one like your 12" northstar like I said the adjustment on level 5 is crap.