Another great video Ben. If I could give a word of advice, don't be so hyper aware of the critics while filming videos. I follow many home repair channels and I see that the most popular ones get attacked the most. I'm not fully certain, but my gut feeling is that there's a certain subset of seasoned professionals who absolutely do not like seeing these skills being taught to DIYers. These types do not like regular homeowners knowing these skills and want them to be dependent upon the pros. Especially the shadier ones. So my take is they are overly critical on purpose just to discourage helpful youtube content. Keep doing what you're doing and worry less about the critics in the comment section. Know that you're efforts are appreciated by 99% of the silent viewers.

With over 37 years in the trade, I give your channel my seal of approval, probably the only legit drywall channel I've seen on youtube.

always love your videos. but seeing you like this really shows how well you know your craft and that you are a really good teacher

I can’t believe I can be riveted to someone drywalling for 25 minutes, but I always learn so much from your videos. Great job as always, Ben.

This is the first time, ever, that I have commented on a KZfaq video. Your videos are super helpful and beneficial to me. My wife will ask me what I am doing, then she will hear your voice from the video and say, "Its okay, as long as you're watching the Vancouver Carpenter!" She knows I am learning good stuff! Thank you!

Wow. I think you're on to something here. Watching you teach others was educational & entertaining. Although, I already knew most of what you taught cuz well I've taken many of your courses. Professor VC. Love it!

Doing a job that needed to be drylined. So looked at utube and your channel seemed by far the best chanel. Did the first coat and tape today on ceiling and walls. To my knowledge no blisters but will see tomorrow. I'm 63 now still looking to learn. Many thanks for you videos.

I liked the last few videos because they were about garage quality repairs. I like this one because it’s a in home quality repair. Get out all the bad and ugly then do the repair. It can be tough sometimes to remove bad like you did with the corner bead because “it looked okay”.

I've finished my house with your guidance almost 18 months ago... And I am still watching

Your videos are always welcoming and informative. Thanks for all your struggles setting up equipment to teach and refresh us DIYers.

I'm so glad I found your channel. You are really helping me understand how to do home repairs and giving me the confidence to try some of these repairs that my 1970 house is needing!!

Very helpful Ben. Nice of you to take time as a consultant to help other teams. Shared knowledge is power. Essentially you helped put food on other guys' family tables.

just what I was looking for brother! I'm working through some foundation damages at one of our properties and there's been a fair amount of cracking in the drywalls. I've been watching your content & learning for years my man, I can't thank you enough! 🙏

Man your videos are priceless! Been redoing my attached garage that was a rental before we bought this place, so it’s old and in rough shape, your tips and tricks have really helped me start my process, a process of something I’ve never done before, and you’ve helped substantially, right up to me figuring out from your video today that all my corner beads have failed because they to were all ‘clenched’ on. So I’ve been scraping, rescrewing and re mudding! Thanks again! Keep it up!

This style of teaching is fine. I learned just as much on this as your other videos. As to my motivation for watching this I have two large horizontal corner edges that have failed similar to one you showed here. You just saved me the time I would have spent papering over the flange on drywall area I imagined I’d need to do. Thanks!

I'm glad you included what the veteran critics would say because it shows the purpose, longer term benefit of the longer route and application. I could watch these videos all day. So much fun.

Ben is by far my favorite - just a humble and relatable guy who is extremely knowledgeable. Keep it up Ben!!! You've got a real fan in the U.S. Pacific Northwest....

I'll be taping and finishing my garage soon and this was the most helpful video I've seen yet on the mixing and application of mud and what tape to use. Thanks for being such a great instructor.

Love watching your videos! I’ve been in commercial work in SF Bay Area for 33 years and taping for 37 years! Always learning new things from different taping backgrounds. Keep up the great videos.

Just did a very similar thing (Houston B.C.) but it happened after I had the water running in an upstairs sink and the overflow didn't work due to a clogged drain😩. The drywall swelled some what on old nail on steel cornerbead. I'm the guy who fixes these issues not causes them. After "exploratory surgery" like you said there was very little to know mud on a lot of joints and the house settled. A main tape ran right off the joint even. There were cracks in a nice looking ceiling. I just expedited the fixing being an idiot, flooding the ceiling. Used a Richards 2" scraper and a random orbital sander hooked to a large shop vac. LoL I had the same epiphany about the hollow sounding bead. Told the home owners that the guy may have not set the bead with mud. Was nail on and pinched.

You are a great instructor. You explain why you do what you do. You are my go to repair guy. Do it right the first time.

As per usual, great video. I never get tired of learning from excellent work. I know you have been saying it for awhile now, but I enjoy hearing your signoff; very nicely personal, even though you don’t know me or most of your audience personally. Thank you!

Very helpful Ben! So glad your knowledge, as the "drywalliest carpenter" is being passed on!!

Yes. This morning I installed a drywall patch in a bathroom ceiling around the ventilation fan replacement. This was very helpful as I have larger cracks around some of the perimeter. Just sent you some pics from this morning. Looking forward to revisiting previous videos for how to use quickset with glue. I now also check my blades for curvature. New skills for me. Thanks.

I so appreciate watching and learning from a true pro who is way more intelligent than the average pro. Thank you for your great content.

GREAT video stumbled on it, love the format with the before and after. I too have had failures from wrinkage in the shrinkle, I get to go back to customers places for other jobs and I often check my previous work. I have found places where the tape was not flat , ( no prefill ) and you can see tiny wrinkles. I do the painting as well, so that finished product is very important to me. Thanks for posting !!

You are the best teacher! I have been following you for years great work! You've helped me broaden my scope of work for people in an industry where there isn't very many people anymore around here.

Thank you Ben for sharing. Great video mate. You explain and demonstrate the procedures very well. Cheers from a land down under 🇦🇺.

Great video as usual, thank you. I’ve been hanging drywall for 17 years and now learning how to tape and do small repairs. I always enjoy your videos and how useful they are. My daughter change my profile picture by the way 😅

Amazing work your videos are so entertaining also being so fun to watch and also very helpful for when I have an issue with my drywall. Keep up the amazing work Ben.

Informative as always Ben Shout out to the business that hired you for training, that shows they care enough to want to learn proper technique and pass that workmanship onto their customer. 👍

Glad I found your channel I have been recently having to do more mud work and your video has really helped me step it up and take on more. Thank you

The greatest drywall mud man in the world . His work is speechless and extraordinary.

Excellent video! I have watched it multiple times and taken notes beside. Fixing 3 cracks is part of a 3 room project so the temptation is to get the cracks patched and move on. However your detail makes it plain that doing it right will make it last longer. Thanks a bunch.

Extremely interesting and informative, as always, thank you! I especially enjoy the bonus content, like the VC vocab words of the day (flange, clinching), and who doesn't love a fun game of joint tape peek-a-boo!

I started watching you three years ago to try to work up the knowledge and courage to fix my cracked corners. Still working up to it. Thanks.

Anyone who criticizes your expertise is just jealous of your excellent work. Your the only guy I watch when it comes to drywall. Ty very much

Ormond Beach Florida here! Thank you for being a teaching professional. Now, I know what to look for as I am watching my local dry wall contractors who claim to have a professional skill set.

Nicely done…again! Thanks! I like how you look to understand the process/product and why it would/wouldn’t work. That’s how I work … I appreciate your videos and time.

Root cause, settling! I always relieve the friction between adjoining surfaces. Well done Nate!

Love that paint scraper idea, I'd always wondered about a good way to embed the tape deeper so that the repair could extend out less and create less work!

Excellent video! I'm a DIYer the way I dealt with cracks in my drywall was to just replace the sheetrock in whatever area I found cracks. I was replacing all the trim and adding crown anyways so I felt this was my best solution. However, now that I'm mostly done with my walls should I ever experience a Crack in my walls from this point forward I will be using what I've learned in this video! So I want to thank you so much!

I felt like I should have to pay you now. I definitely felt like I was in a class. Doesn't matter what it is, you always have informative videos, and you always teach in an easily digestible way. Not many people can do that. 👊

I am a bit of a DIYer. I got quoted to mud my basement for 50 bucks an hour. I said nah. I don't even make that much. I came across your mudding videos and it all turned out great. Really appreciate your time and patience in the videos.

Awesome craftsmanship ! I enjoy and appreciate your educational content !

good stuff. I have two stress cracks in my den, one above and one below a window, and I have stress cracks in the corner bead of my dining room, but on the ceiling portion. I haven't seen you do one of those, but it can't be all that different. These types of videos sure do come in handy. thx!

Well done Ben! Always learn something when watching.

Loved the format of this one!

This guy is truly born to teach and guide. Clean, balanced, perfectly detailed presentation. Also, just right amount of joking.

I am working a 48” x 70” ceiling panel with all of those issues on the joints, seasonal temperature changes, water damage, and in too many spots, ring-shank nails that bent and just bashed in, cratering the drywall around the nails. 20 linear feet around the replaced panel and another 10 feet of crumbled joints. I sistered furring strips on the ceiling joists to get a better screwing surface. I wish I had known about adding PVA glue to the Easy Sand 45 before I prefilled the joints. I did brush and vacuum all of the joints before I pre-filled, so I am hoping it will hold. Thanks for post all of this content. I am a lot more confident this repair will work.

I actually liked this format...it seemed more informative.

I really loved this format. Felt like I was there with you teaching me.

Man, you're the drywall master of the whole KZfaq. I love you Man, you're the best.😘

love to see professionals teach great lessons.. you will always get comments, tons of trolls looking to sharpshoot folks from their chairs. You are definitely a tradecraft specialist and amazing skills. thanks.

I came on here to look for repairing stress cracks in drywall (VERY common in California due to E.Q's). I searched for it hoping to find a video by you, Ben (KNOWING you would have one out there in cyber space)! There it was! The perfect video. Thank you, again. You have been such a help to me in the drywall end of construction.

Have you ever thought about becoming a college instructor? For a 'drywallery carpenter' guy you sure are good at what you do. It's great that you share your knowledge and experience here.

"Rinkage" is probably the most Canadian thing you've ever said on this channel. Love it

I like this format just as well as you talking to the camera.

Agreeded. The paper tape and paper bead have always proven to be stronger with far less fails related to the Sheetrock itself. Structural issues will always defeat sheetrock. Thanks for the video 👍

Thx, I'm doing a repair between plaster and drywall in a new addition. Thanks for the tips. I did it like this last time but not with glue or quick set. I'll see if this one lasts longer! I think you missed one popped/ bulging screw towards the right.

Thank you for this video. Me and my wife are redoing our home and your video has been by far the most useful one on how to fix settlement cracks. Thank you.

This is one of your most valuable videos! Thanks!

You are amazing! You definitely deserve your own show on the HGTV channel

Great video and tips. Followed them and just completed a patch/repair.

I really enjoyed this video. I felt like I was the student standing there getting the training and it seems like you just flowing better

When I used the old metal beads, we clinched it and nailed it every foot or so. I definitely like the tape on bead better now for sure

If it is available in your area, I highly recommend priming the repair area with a product called, Gardz. I even use it on raw adobe walls, which we have an abundance of in New Mexico. You will transform a dry, dusty or chalky surface into a clean, dry and relatively hard surface that is ideal for mud to adhere to. Plus, if you flood the surface well enough, it really glues everything together to make a tight prepped surface to work with. A weenie roller or hvlp works well depending on surface. For an example, an electrician carved out a bunch of channels to run conduit in the kitchen of an Adobe house. Roughly 4" x 6" deep into the wall. I flooded the crap out of it with Gardz to the point of it just flowing down the wall. Once thoroughly saturated, it pools or runs as you would expect. No worries, just wipe off. Once dry, I filled the channels with 20 minute mud and it was literally stronger than new. Then skim, prime again and paint!

I like this format and I feel like there was so much info jamedy into this which I liked 👍

I love your videos. Im learning a ton, thanks !

I was just looking at a job today that is exactly like this. One length of corner bead actually fell off the ceiling and a bunch more was cracked the same way as in your demo. There was no sign of mechanical fastener in the corner bead and I was thinking what kind of drywaller does not fasten the corner bead. I'll have to look at it when I return, but I'm pretty sure the corner bead must have been clinched on. And I bet it all would have survived the earthquake had it been screwed or stapled on. Cool seeing you teach on video while teaching a group in person. Double teaching!! Two for the money.

You are a really great teacher. I've learned so much (completely inexperienced with anything to do with fixing anything lol)

Just saying thanks again for sharing your knowledge. What I consider the hardest trade to master, drywall finishing. I can do an acceptable home install or repair after 50 years thanks to your you tube channel.

Great video! I just did a crack, I used a glazing bar to scrape back mud. The back end of the bar with the 90 deg part is designed to be used as a scraper. Not sure what the difference is between fast set, and confill but I taped it with fibafuse, and confill. I also put a bunch of screws, and scraped just wide enough to make sure tape is below the surface. Never seen that bead crimp, good to know. Thanks for doing good quality work.

Really well done!!... I think the presentation was spot on.... thank you

Thx you explained this really well and I think I can do this as a woman that knows NOTHING about mud & drywall! Thanks for thoroughly explaining!!!!!

I’ve followed you for quite awhile now & you still amaze me with you talent. If you ever find yourself wanting to head on down to Scottsdale, Az you have a place to stay while you fix a crack in my wall.😁

Your outro is always appreciated 👍🏽💪🏽

I have three vertical cracks similar to this above my windows and patio door. This video was very helpful.

I was skeptical about reapplying mud to my cracked corners that I installed tape on, and I did the entire room before really watching any drywall videos. The corners were so bad and the tape applied with so little mud that while notching out my Vs, most of the tape just fell off without much effort. I had to just laugh about it. I've watched so many drywalling videos since then, that I am pretty confident that I could repair or install drywall in an entire house. I doubt I could do it at the same speed as professionals, but I would make it look professional! Vancouver Carpenter videos has been my training guide for all of the skills I have now. This was another great video, that I took a lot of good information from. Keep up the good work!

Nice work! I have a couple settlement cracks I need to fix, including inside corner tape that has torn.

that paper thing, it worked for many years, i have it done on a wall, by a repair guy many years ago. Great vids.

Thx Ben, great vid, & definitely learned a new trick; that will be using for a repair of my own. Appreciate as always, & thx for making us better. Cheers✌🏻

REEAALLY wish I seen this before I fixed the "stress" cracks in my home that have all returned worse than before. I spent time cleaning everything out but didn't pre fill. I did flex tape with all purpose on top. They literally look like dog s**t now. House was built in 1946 so pretty much everything cracked. It looked great for all of 6 months. I will rip it all back out and start over using your pre fill, glue, and 20 minute method.

Just subscribed. Your channel is very educational. Thanks you for the videos.

Thank you sir. Well done. Free. Goot stuff. I was always told to avoid using Quick set for drywall. I've watched two guys on KZfaq use Plaster of Paris mixed into a thinner mud (also quick set), and now set with glue. Crazy stuff in my world. But I have tons of work ahead of me in my house so if I screw up, and I will screw up, I can fix it. Make a better world.

Excellent video Ben!

Thank you! I just bought a house, I appreciate the way you explain the science and reasons for the way this works. I have these things on my walls...They look like someone stood inside the wall and pushed their hand into the room against a rubber membrane, it is nearly 3/8" above the surface. some are rippled, & they are not all on seams. I would be more confident cutting into them to repair if I knew what caused them. Thanks for any insights!! ps. I'm in Michigan if you want to come fix it 😉

Best explanation for paper tape and shear that ive heard

thanks videos are golden for those who want to try themselves and cannot get a contractor in my area

Perfect timing, had my foundation raised and have a ceiling to wall crack, this helped!

Thank you! That was extremely well articulated and detailed! Much appreciated!

I loved this video!! Keep them coming :D Cool format

This video is a high level dive. Thank you!

Always love your videos

Great information, bro. This is super helpful

Absolutely, fantastic video.

Amazing how that corner bead delamination ended at the exact reach of your stool

Awesome as always. What kind of glue did you add to the 20 minute mud?

BEN, ANOTHER GREAT VIDEO!!!!!! THANKS...

Thanks for the video! Love the channel. After about 3 months of watching, I became a better finisher than the pros that were working on my project. Had to go back and fix all their mistakes. Question on prefilling you did here.....why not embed the tape at the end of the prefill so it gets sucked in slightly and fuses into that really strong joint? My thought was that it would be even stronger with the paper laminated on that deep prefill layer and with a little shrinkage into the joint, you would have more room for finish mud on top of the paper. thanks for the feedback!