No-coat and Strait-flex on a roll

Apple24

does straight flex have a true sharp corner tried no coat beads and was not impressed almost seemed like rounded corners and have a huge piece of plastic behind and went on loose to much mud to fill. Iguess im old school metal seems to hold up best typing terrible had a few.

tapingfool

check out this vid:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ld-X...eature=related

MUDZLINGER

We have been useing no-coat 325 for more than 5 years on all inside off angles,wonderfull product. will straighten out most off angles no matter how inconsistant the frameing and help to make it plumb and straight.
Wouldn't recommend it for out side off angles thou unless they are extreme angles where bending a metal bead or tape on bead is troublesome.
Used straight flex one time. That roll end up in the land fill some where .
X- crack. I just looked at a roll of it and wondered what the cost is.I am thinking it is exspensive.We currently use a shiney 90 for all interior wall anti truss lift applications , but for vaulted ceiling i bend the 90 to match the angle of the ceiling peak and use the board and angle plus no coat 325 to straighten out the angle.Have had no call backs useing this process.
My question is : is x-crack a new an innovative product that everyone should use, or is it an up sell on another product that does the same thing at perhaps half the cost?

drywallnflorida

do you get it from a local supplyier or do you get from strait flex? we've used the big stick before and like it but always have a hard time to get it. nobody local has it and we have always had to order right from straight flex.

Darren@Partners

X-crack is a great product for high vaults framed with green lumber. It last cost me $7 per 12' stick, but now no one carries it anymore. Installed correctly, you can count on that joint never ever cracking out. Be sure to use the tabs to attach to the joist and screw the rock into thd metal only.

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kgphoto

X-Crack has gone to roll packaging. It is great stuff. I am unaware of any other product like it.

Strait-Flex products have the original product style in Original, Medium , Big and Huge. This is a PVC product that is very stiff and a little hard to control the angle. Their new product is the Ammo Flex 200, the Mid Flex 300 and the Wide Flex 400 which are similar in construction to the NO-Coat, Zoomo flex, 325 and 450 respectively. Their new Flex 90 may be similar to Level-Line, but I haven't seen it personally yet.

Mudstar

Never seen X-Crack before.Anyone have a link to that? No **** links please..........

kgphoto

Here it is:

http://www.straitflex.com/downloads/...ochure_WEB.pdf

And here's a You-Tube video that demo's it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fK0Map2h0YA

Rantaper13

Yes, no coat beads is all my company used, its far stronger then metal bead and alot quicker installation.. actually no coat just came out with a new bead that involves no mud just a spray water bottle and the bead comes already a bit taccy and you spray the water on the bead stick it on, roll the bead, do your adjustments and in 2 minutes its dried ready to go for first coat... by far the best product out there

wnybassman

I have always been a firm believer in the Straight-Flex for inside off angles. It was the best thing since sliced bread.

Tried the No-Coat Flex 325 today on the inside off angles. Would you like to buy my leftover boxes of Straight-Flex? I don't think I'll be needing them anymore. No-Coat is that good.

Cmoe

STRAITFLEX IS THE NAME OF THE COMPANY, NOT A PRODUCT. THEY HAVE MANY PRODUCTS. ALL DIFFERENT. DO SOME RESEARCH.

Cmoe

X-Crack is the only product that solves the issue where the issue originates, the trusses. Call Strait-Flex and and have them send you the literature on this product. It will blow you away.

Cmoe

You should try the new Big Stick 300. Just a touch smaller.