Beginners Guide to Taping Walls & Ceilings with Automatic Taper
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- čas přidán 23. 07. 2024
- We've teamed up with LEVEL5 Tools to bring you an educational series on how to use Automatic Taping Tools.
In this beginners video we go over how to apply tape to your walls & ceilings.
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Great instructional video!! I’m almost getting ready to take a dive and jump back into drywall finishing. Learned first how to do it by hand back in the early 2000’s. Slowly piecing my auto set together little by little. Doing small additions and remodeling. Always have enjoyed your guys’ videos. Be well brothers! 💪
HH CJ jn BB
Excellent instructions. Auto taping is harder than it looks, but this tutorial covers all the tricks you need to do it well.
Yeah. "Auto Taping". Where is that switch?
I always love the comments... "That's way easier than doing it by hand!" Excuse me... you've got easier confused with faster!
Then I give them a full tube with a fresh 500" roll of tape on it and have them experience the easy part. Lift that above your head on that 10" ceiling.
By far the best run down on using the auto taper so far . you broke down steps I never seen before and I've watched every vid out there. Excellent work Brian . I used your vids to learn the banjo and I hope to try a taper soon bro tks again
Thanks for the kind words Gordon! Glad you were able to learn something my friend!
Starting the ceiling is my biggest challenge. Great tip rocking back and forth on ceiling. I got lots of mud on me yesterday 😄
The TAPE JAM EXPLAINED! I've been having this problem for two days now. Thanks
Thanks. Can't wait for you to do the boxes.
Great video thank you🙏
Great demo, never ran anything but perfa tape, paper I heard the fiber didn’t cut well just learned something I just retired started in 71 with my dad I’ve never seen anyone pivot the gun on the ceiling as you’ve demonstrated very interesting I guess nobody figured that one back in the day then again I thinking my dad didn’t much care if i got covered with mud
Great video!
thank you
Awesome video
Tks for the video
No problem 👍
Nice video dude
Another awesome video.. how do you finish the angles when it’s bevel to bevel. Thank so much
wonderful....
Gracias hombre
Yeah I wish I could have found this video on my last job having mud raining down on me. But I love the tools. The speed is ridiculous
Not a taper, but it's always good to learn, thank you for sharing!
that is fkn great man thanks the best ever
That's awesome. I wish this was a cheaper system so I could use it as a DIYer. It looks so easy though. I might buy a couple of the tools.
Running the Bazooka looks about 10x easier than it is 😂😂
I've never used the fibre tape, just paper with my auto taper. Seems like it feeds just fine. Do you find much difference between the two?
I was curious do you use the apla tech continuous machine the most ? Is it you go to more then any other machine
I got mine and having trouble with it on a 16 ft wall it is pulling the tape 10 to 12 inches on corners cant get started with out having an another person holding the tape seems to me i have alot of mud in the drive wheels and on the head any suggestions
I broke my leg by falling off the top of a 4 ft scaffold back in Jan. of this year. Havent worked a day since and have had 2 surgeries. I have an almost brand new tape tech bazooka and was just having fun and a blast using it before my accident. God I miss working and im so tired of sitting around doing nothing. Enjoyed the video!
Damn! Sorry to hear about your leg dude. Hang in there. And there's a lot of us that are tired of sitting around right now. Covid certainly didn't help anything.
Hey was wondering if a name brand bazooka is worth buying used for a first one or is it one of those tools you want to get new ??
Every part of these tools is replaceable. They have to be cleaned thoroughly and maintained in near perfect condition. Unless you plan on doing large commercial jobs or entire houses this may not be the tool for you. Not sure if they still rent these
Great video bro. These tips will help me a ton when I use my taper for the first time.
I'm right handed and about to get my 1st taper. What day do I hold the taper or is it a feel thing?
Personal preference
Just out of curiosity, how tall are you because that ceiling looks so low!
Do you use the fibafuse tape for inside corners also?
No, we do not. We used to but it was too temperamental to work with so we switched back to paper in corners.
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How much do you thin the mud ? One full 5 gallon bucket .... ?
We have a video specifically on this czcams.com/video/sFyP26QXHzU/video.html
What tape youre using?
Que fita é essa?
seems like all the construction jargon is meant to discourage people from doing what feels could be a much easier to describe process.
Holding the drywall tape stick and rolling it along until you get the end.
Yes, you nailed it, we film these videos to discourage people from learning. Spoken by someone who's clearly never used an automatic taper. It's not that easy to use at first.
What type of mud is preferred for this tool
Taping mud or all pourpose. It needs to have glue in it
show me when you do the corners.
Still hard
CZcams putting 49 minutes commercial before this video was interesting 🤔
Wiping with a 6" knife? I prefer a 8" for about 50 years now.
Also, I prefer the "old school" single sided cutting blades for the bazooka so you don't get the double cut.
Thankfully, I have a good stock of those units that should last me until I die. LoL! Surprisingly, I don't break many blades.
Good videos by the way. Pretty much right on.
I've been doing this so long. I don't even think about it. I'd have a hard time explaining this as well as you have.
A 6" knife is my go-to carry. I use it for just about everything. It's a good average size for spotting screws, wiping tapes, cleaning 3 ways etc etc. I usually run the taper and have my guys wiping behind me so I only carry a 6".
If one of my guys is running the taper and I'm wiping tapes all day then I'll grab an 8" like you. Holds more mud and fills the bevel better. And yeah, those old-school single sided cutting blades were awesome. Haven't seem those around in years though. And thanks for the kind words man. We try to give as much info as possible for the people watching and learning.
@@drywallnation Yep. I carry a 6 in my back pocket all the time... well not to bed. LoL!
I work exclusively by myself. I have turned into a legit drywall contractor... well Me , Myself and I Drywall. I have hangers that I use when there's more than I want to deal with. They don't like to finish. I don't mind hanging until it's ridiculous for me to deal with. I hang all my own metal. I know what it's supposed to look like.
Back "in the day", when all we had were Ames taping tools (until their patent ran out). We, and the company I worked for, would get parts for free from Ames for renting their tools. When my dad quit doing production work, and between him and what I collected, I have quite the supply left over. I've got some of the old blades still made in the U.S.A for 7", 10" and 12" skim box. Very high quality and they last forever too.
I should retire, but after 50+ years of doing this.... and people won't leave me alone. I'll continue to work at it. And I'm trying to build a car.
I've found there's nobody out there, at least in this area, which used to be an unusual hot bed for drywall work, knows the proper way to use the tools. Everybody that knew has died off. Now there area bunch of geemos who have never been taught how. Every time I think that I've slowed down, I watch these guys work and shake my head. When someone sees me work, they can't believe I'm the only one on the job. I tell them to get out of the way. LoL!
H. M
Using the fiber tape is gonna crack all joints lateral. Dummy.. use peper tape
It's Fibafuse, not mesh tape.
We've been using Fibafuse for over 9 years and it's better in every sense than paper tape. We only use paper tape in our corners. Educated yourself on a subject before leaving ignorant comments.
Go faster
No. It's an instructional video to help people. Not a speed race.
Sometimes when i charge it i dont get mud on end of tape. Whats the cause this?