DRY WALL TAPING

Mile Stone Drywall provides residential and commercial Drywall taping services in Calgary, Alberta. If your property needs drywall taping and plastering work, whether if it is a basement, a kitchen, a bathroom, a full house, an office, or industrial premises that need to be taped, we guarantee top quality delivery on time and on budget.

We tape our drywall due to the added strength the taping process gives, taping drywall allows for the drywall sheets to resist movement, or shifting after being hung on the metal framing. The taping resists the tendency for the drywall to move, which allows confidence in that your wall will not chip or crack over time.

Taping also allows for the walls to fall together seamlessly, where seams and cracks between each drywall sheet go invisible producing a seamless one wall.

The drywall has now been measured, cut, and hung in place, it looks good but it’s not quite done yet. The last part of the drywalling process is to apply mud (joint compound) and tape to the butts of the drywall to have them join together. When doing this, you create a nice smooth finish throughout the entire wall making it all looks seamless and flawless.

Can you imagine an entire wall with visible signs of gaps and holes in them? How about visible screw holes? We can’t either, so we take our time when it comes to taping and mudding the joints together. There is nothing that bothers us more than a bad taping/mudding job. We hate when you can see screw heads popping up through the wall and we don’t like it when things aren’t done properly.

The mudding process begins by applying fiberglass tape over all the joints and then applying a coat of mud (joint compound) over it. The first layer is applied using a thin mudding knife and is spread out evenly without any visible excess mud. Once it’s dry, we’ll sand down the mud to make it smooth with the sheetrock surface. We’ll also go ahead and cover any screws as well. Screws don’t require a lot of mud as a screw should never tear the top layer of sheetrock paper, it should only penetrate it. The goal of applying mud to screw heads is to just make the surface as even as pos