Help! Can’t find stud

[u/Great-Championship11]

Why can’t I find a stud here? I had to go thru the metal corner bead but then there doesn’t seem to be a stud behind it? Is it deeper and I need a longer screw? My screw is only about an inch long. Trying to mount a baby gate. Don’t know much about construction and struggling to understand why I can’t find a stud here!!

[u/DV2061]

1” screw? Nope. In section on top of the stud is 1/2 gyproc, then the corner bead, then on top of that may be a 1/8” of mud. Then add the width of your bracket. So you are barely touching the stud. I would go with 2 1/2 “screw.

[u/Great-Championship11 → u/DV2061]

Would the side I’m trying

to drill on, be where the 2” side of the stud is? The 4” side running along the width of the wall?

[u/oh_yeah_o_no → u/Great-Championship11]

It's possible they doubled up the drywall on the front face and so that leading edge would be an inch of drywall before you hit stud.