Anyone Have Tricks To Stop Tape From Lifting Up

Big Shoe

I still don't get the mesh causes cracks thing? I've been to busy to try that sawhorse test,to try to pull two pieces of rock apart with mesh and one with paper.
As soon as I run out of work I'm going to try it.

Time to get turkey cooking.

Snobnd

I like to add a little water to my mud, and let the tape sit on the mud and spread the next seam then wipe the the previous tape. I always push the tape into the mud with my 6"knife. This is the way the frenchies taught me.
I have been taping for 28 years and still have a few blisters here and there - Sh*t happens - I just cut the tape at the blister, add mud, and smooth over.

Capt-Sheetrock

I thought I recoginized you guys!!!!! I was the guy running back and forth to the bathroom (I drink light beer,,, I don't really like beer, I just like to pee alot)

But seriously,, blisters are just a thing,, not the end of the world,,, heck when I was learning they used to call me "Bennie the Blister" We all get a blister from time to time, if its in a butt, just cut through the tape above the blister, flop it back add mud then flop it up again,,, If its in a flat (and the HO is not around, just staple it down and cover over it)

I find that the toughest area to git er right is in the angles and corners,,, when your learning, you will find yourself pulling mud off the first side as you apply mud to the second side

Tom M

Heard wood glue works too. But you still need to hide the incision so still need to skim over.

MeatBallDryWall

I worked for a guy 17 years ago & his answer to a blister was... "Cut it open & let the air out" Needless to say he isn't in business anymore & at that time he had like 20+ years hanging & finishing. So that just goes to show that some people are idiots no matter how much experience they have.

Baron

I've been taping since high school and that was so long ago I forget where that was.....Never put on more taping mud that you can immediately cover as it skins over if put on too thin or for too long of a time especially in very hot dry days. Always fill large voids with durabond before mudding as the newer muds are terrible for staying wet under thick spots and then re-wetting when a new layer is put over them.

I have had as many lifted seems from expansion movement in houses with Fibertapes so I stick with the paper finding the fiber isn't really much of an improvement to me.

I generally use in small rooms, durabond to fill holes and voids, easy sand for the fist two coats in same day and finish with pre mixed USG. Outside corners with durabond always as I can build them fast and they dry harder. Level of durabond with trowel when it is damp and still not completely hard makes next coat very easy and no sanding.

Bubbles I generally find come from too little a base coat, too much squeezed out or too much put on and it skinned over enough to cause a poor bond.

Still occasionally I air head it, put on more mud than I can get covered quickly and I get a bubble at painting. Sucks at that time but I usually can remember why it happened when I see where it is.

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oldrivers

there are a few reasons tape can blister so it really cant be answered unless you actually see each one to determine why .... example, taping over a wall that had wallpaper and the clay/ glue was not removed adequitely.. can most certainly cause it . there is no 1 reason for it..