Took me 5 hours to fix a corner bead that should have been 20 minutes

I ran into a problem with a corner bead on a vaulted ceiling job last Thursday where the metal kept popping off because the mud wasn't grabbing right in the cold weather. Turns out I had to switch to hot mud and pre-drill tiny holes for the nails to hold, which wasted most of my afternoon. Has anyone else dealt with corner beads just refusing to stay put in cold conditions?

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ryan65317d ago

Started noticing this same thing with my garage door opener last month, the sensor kept misaligning every time it got below freezing. It's like cold weather just exposes how fragile all this stuff really is, you know? I bet that corner bead problem you had is the same thing happening with drywall mud as with caulk or paint or epoxy, they all just get weird when the temperature drops. Reminds me of how my phone battery drains twice as fast in winter too, cold just messes with how things are supposed to work. It's almost like we design this stuff for perfect 70 degree weather and then wonder why it fails the second real life happens.

andrew717d ago

Dude, you just described half my life in winter. I swear my phone goes from 100% to dead in like two hours if I'm outside shoveling snow. And it's not just gadgets, it's everything. My front door sticks so bad when it's cold I have to put my whole body into it to get it open. I think we build houses and stuff based on some imaginary perfect climate that basically exists for maybe two weeks a year. Then real weather shows up and it's like "oh, you thought that was gonna work? Cute.