Long story short... I basically knocked a hole the size of a softball into my wall. I want to repair it... Anyone know how to repair it? Is it easy? Would anyone wanna earn some money?

8/25/2009 9:55:02 AM

sheetrock tape over the hole

sheetrock mud (you can get it in a relatively small container) over that tape. try to make it as smooth as possible so you don't have to sand too much.

wait for it to dry (the whole area will be a light grey once it's dry)

then sand it down smooth and paint.

really pretty simple actually

8/25/2009 9:58:47 AM

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8/25/2009 10:04:28 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk76m1mMgbY

8/25/2009 10:07:43 AM

softball size is a tad tricky, bit too big for what LunaK suggested but almost too small for a small patch...

when i made a similar sized hole at my parents house i had to glue a backer on the backside of the hole (a flat unwarped paint stirrer) then mudded in a small piece of drywall, then used some tape and drywall mud to smooth it all out, worked well, you can't see where it is.

8/25/2009 11:19:13 AM

^ this is the way it should be done. Just using the tape is not a good option for a hole that size.

8/25/2009 11:21:29 AM

Um. . .the video I posted above shows the glued backer. To be sure, though, you can simply screw in a backing strip of wood on both sides of the hole and then place the sheetrock over it.

8/25/2009 11:25:26 AM

This reminds me of when we moved out of our house on Thea Ln. We wanted to get our deposit back and we had put a hole precisely the size of my roommate's head in one of the walls (don't ask). We used a piece of cardboard and tape to patch the hole, then went over it with sheet rock mud and sanded it.

It looked perfect, but god help anyone that ever tried to hang anything there. LOL

8/25/2009 11:27:42 AM

we've done repairs larger than softball with just tape. holds up just fine.

but to each their own

8/25/2009 11:43:53 AM

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8/25/2009 12:15:42 PM

i got lasagna on my sheet rock, had to get a whole new wall.

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8/25/2009 12:20:30 PM

well you can use just tape, but i would imagine it would tend to bulge out a little more than a proper patch for something that size. (ie harder to do well enough to make it disappear)

8/25/2009 12:21:10 PM

Hey thanks guys :-) I really appreciate it... Sorry I havent been so attentive to this thread... I was working But it seems I could pretty much do it myself :-) I knew it was as simple as that... Hopefully

8/25/2009 12:27:02 PM

goodluck fixing it. i got a feeling its still going to be noticeable. get someone else to fix it and pay a little more $.

8/25/2009 12:31:46 PM

no. it really is that easy and easy to do correctly. with a little sanding it becomes completely not noticeable. do not pay someone to do this.

8/25/2009 12:43:12 PM

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"we've done repairs larger than softball with just tape. holds up just fine."

Well it depends on what you are going for. If you just want it to LOOK right, then yeah the tape is fine cosmetically. But if you want it to actually be structurally right, then you should patch it with another piece of sheet rock.

8/25/2009 12:44:27 PM

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"we've done repairs larger than softball with just tape. holds up just fine."

This is why females should not be allowed to repair anything.

8/25/2009 12:55:14 PM

Well I was thinking of repairing the hole with a sheetrock slab and doing the mud thing... But I didn't know what would be more structurally sound. I'd hate later down the road and I would accidentally touch it or lean up against it and fall right through. That patch thing seems like it would be good too

8/25/2009 12:58:52 PM

^^ yeah, that's not called repairing. It's called jerry rigging

This is how you actually FIX the problem:

http://factsfacts.com/MyHomeRepair/Hole.htm

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8/25/2009 12:59:41 PM

anyone remember the thread where i told a girl to use toothpaste and she did and then got really mad?

8/25/2009 6:12:15 PM

^^ Hey that actually reads well for someone that has no clue how to do any construction work :-D

8/25/2009 9:37:48 PM

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"jerry rigging"

Woah buddy

Don't wanna offend any Germans reading TWW ok

8/25/2009 9:50:17 PM