I'm a neophyte drywaller about to tape my family room. My Stanley how-to book recommends that beginners use the self-adhesive fiberglass mesh tape, saying that the paper tape is trickier. If undercoat isn't consistently the right thickness, if you drag a little too heavily in overcoating it, etc. you can get starved areas that bubble or move the paper.
It would seem to me that learning how to use the paper would be worthwhile, as it seems likely to be thinner and thus not require so wide an area of feathering back. Marginally cheaper as well.
Questions:
1) Is the paper any better, once mastered?
2) Is paper tape much more difficult to master?
It would seem to me that learning how to use the paper would be worthwhile, as it seems likely to be thinner and thus not require so wide an area of feathering back. Marginally cheaper as well.
Questions:
1) Is the paper any better, once mastered?
2) Is paper tape much more difficult to master?
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