First Time Installing Bullnose

buck63

what is the best way to install it. and do i need to cut the rock back .

Brockster

Did you forget to tell the hangers you're installing bullnose?

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firemike

I'm guessing - - - - - - Yes!

For bullnose, at least the 3/4" size, the rock either needs to be cut even with the end of the framing on both sides, leaving a 1/2" by 1/2" revealed corner or you will have to cut off the corner of the drywall at a 45 or so the radius of the bullnose will fit. Here is a link for Trim_tex installation:

TrimTex Bullnose Installation

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-Mike-

Brockster

Is this you?

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Tim0282

You're mean Brockster!! I like your style!!
He didn't tell the hangers and boy will that be a pain... We just came out of a building where the general had his guys hang the rock. I told them to cut the rock back. They were kind enough to hang the rock over the other side. Morons!! We spent nine hours fixing to hang bullnose bead!! That stinks!! All five eighths rock and 102 beads! Gotta love those carpenters!!

LukeOR

Yeah, it's a bitch when the hangers haven't held the rock back, even when they do, I still have to trim some areas (my favorite is trimming back those last few inches on the bottom where your knife slips off and rakes your knuckles on the floor! ). On off angles above 90 degrees you really need to trim em' back. To this day I don't think I've come across an offset that didn't need cut back more (probly just our hangers though...lol). For really bad cases where the house was clearly hung for square, I've found that a sawzall is probably the fastest way to carve them off. tears up the paper a little, but is covered once metal is secured. Just make sure it lays flat.
I remember coming on to this one job a few years back, where this idiot was in there cutting all his corners back with one of those old school, big meat eater rotozips, (the one with like a 1/2 inch thick bit), I think It took about 2 hours before the dust cleared down enough to go in. I could of hand cut it back faster then he was goin. The guy was a walking dust cloud the rest of the day.............some people....

Kiwiman

I find the sabre saw the fastest way to cut them back. as for installing...mud the wall and slap em on.

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