Top 5 Trim-Tex Stories of 2025

Longtime Trim-Tex followers will know that, aside from making the most dependable finishing beads and accessories you’ll ever get your hands on, we also spend a lot of time on publishing stories — stories about our products, stories about the people use them, stories about taking the finishing trade up a notch. In 2025, we posted a little of everything, and we’re so thankful for all of you who read, watched and shared them throughout the year. Read on to discover the most popular five Trim-Tex stories of the year!

1. The Ultimate Guide to Drywall Window Returns

In recent years, for ultra-modern designers and drywallers, the word “trim” has almost become a dirty word — folks in this industry have been searching for inventive ways to ditch bulky encasements and deliver clean, trimless interior details. And if you can do that without spending a ton of time and money, even better!

That must be part of the reason why so many of our followers checked out this story, a how-to guide for creating trimless drywall window returns. With accessories like the ones highlighted in this story — like the Giant and Super L Beads — creating sleek drywall window returns doesn’t just look cleaner; it also results in saving time and money by allowing you to finish an entire window with just a few extra-wide beads. Check out the full story here.

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2. 3 Ways to Finish Drywall Openings

For this story, we invited our friends (and expert renovators) Dan and Steve Tuer of Refresh Home Improvements to take over the Trim-Tex testing lab and do whatever they wanted with it. And what they wanted to do was test three different methods of finishing an entryway: the classic way, the curved way and the quick way.

The results speak for themselves — one Tuer brother took the archway, using an arched bullnose bead on one side and an arched sharp-profile corner bead on the other. The other brother went for the more tried-and-true method, also with a bullnose and sharp profile. But, if you are just trying to get it done faster and easier, both brothers were put to shame by our own drywall pro Enrique Perez, who used Fast Caps to finish his entryway in a fraction of the time. Check out the full story here.

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3. Exterior Finishing Beads from Trim-Tex Are Here

We can tell you that, around the halls of Trim-Tex, there was one story that really dominated our year: the launch of Trim-Tex Exterior Solutions, which made us the world’s most comprehensive source for vinyl finishing beads on both sides of the wall.

In this story, we took a brief guided tour through the expanded lineup of exterior finishing solutions we’ve got to offer, from corner beads to casing beads to vents to laths to drain mats and many more. To explore our full arsenal of exterior-grade PVC beads and accessories, be sure to check out Exterior.Trim-Tex.com, but this story is a nice little primer for first-timers. Check out the full story here.

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4. Black Widow® Web Spinner: the World’s Lightest Radial Sander

This year, we released a few new products into the world, including the latest in our line of abrasives: the Black Widow® Web Spinner. In this story, we introduced the world to this new sander, which takes everything you love about our classic Black Widow and puts a new, circular spin on it.

Ever since it hit shelves, the Web Spinner and its sanding pads have gotten lots of praise from drywall finishers of all skill levels. They love its ultra-lightweight form, extra-large surface area no-flip design and quick-change grit system. We’re so proud of this new sanding solution — and can’t wait to show you what we’ve got in store for the Black Widow family of abrasives in 2026! Check out the full story here.

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5. How Fire Rated Super Seal-X ‘Drives Labor Productivity’ for Denver High-Rise

In addition to our lines of drywall finishing and exterior finishing beads, Trim-Tex also offers innovating Fire + Sound Solutions, which have been changing the game for code compliance in commercial construction. One of these fire rated products, Super Seal-X — a handy little bead designed for fire protection where drywall butts up against window mullions and curtain walls — recently made a huge difference at a high-rise project in Denver, Colo., and we were there to catch it in action.

“Super Seal-X is an interface between our interior partitions going into the exterior mullion of the unitized glazing system,” says Travis Vap, CEO of South Valley Drywall, the interior contractor behind this impressive project. “Traditionally in our marketplace, we've left the fire rating or that transition to the unitized glaze or the glazing trade. However, they don't really understand our trade as wall and ceiling contractors. That's where this product helps solve those issues, and interface our walls to the exterior in a cost-effective value way.” Check out the full story here.

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Thank you to everyone who read an article, watched a video, “liked” a post on Instagram and everything in between this year! Trim-Tex is dedicated to educating and elevating the entire drywall finishing industry — whether you use a Trim-Tex bead or not — and we appreciate all of you who followed us along the way.

And we’re not slowing down in 2026 — there’s much more to come. Make sure you’re there for every story by signing up for our free monthly newsletter, delivered straight to your inbox. Hit the button below to sign up!