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Category: Home and Apartments : Do It Yourself and Repairs
The kids just threw a baseball in the house and not only did they break the lamp, the drywall has a hole in it.
The people who delivered your new couch ran into the wall and now you have a dent.
How do you repair your home? Don't kill the kids- make them help. Make sure the delivery people know that you are not happy with the dent- sometimes they will remove a small portion of your bill. You can use the money to repair the drywall.
The technique for repairing holes, dents, and marks embedded in your drywall is all the same.
The first thing to do is clean the area of any loose plaster. I highly recommend using a vacuum cleaner. The dust can be extremly unpleasant if it should get in a cut or scratch.
The next thing you need to do is make the hole larger (if you have a dent ignore this step).
You heard me, LARGER. You need to make it into a regular shape- a square, triangle, rectangle etc. The only way to do this is cut out more. This serves two purposes 1) it removes any damaged drywall from the edges, and 2) it gives you a much easier shape to measure.
Now measure your hole. Use a piece of scrap drywall or drywall replacement (available at most hardware stores) cut your replacement patch. It needs to be the same size or slightly (1/8 of an inch) smaller.
Check the fit against the hole and sand off any lumps that prevent a good fit.
(Those of you with dents pay attention now, here is your starting step.)
Take the wall patching compound (mud) and liberally spread it on the patching tape. Place patching tape on your patch, which is now in place. Smooth the surface using your trowel. Don't worry if you have a few uneven areas. Make sure you work out from the patch, trying to blend it in to the rest of the wall.
Now you leave it alone for 24 hours. (I hope the boss is not coming for dinner tonight, if he is hang a picture over the spot)
NEXT DAY
You are looking at your patch and it seems to be sunken into the wall. It is, the mud shrinks as it dries and you will need to add more. You will do this every day until the patch appears to be slightly raised. Now sand the patch to match the level of the rest of the wall.
The next step is to texture the wall to match. You can use a sponge, your fingers, an old paint brush what ever to match the texturing on the walls. That is a whole other procedure. Do the best you can, it won't look bad after you have painted.
Again sand the patched area lightly after the mud had dried for 24 hours.
Now paint. Hopefully you have some paint left over after the last time you painted the room.
You can now say that you did it yourself. I am proud of you. Now you can relax, your mother-in-law is coming to dinner and she won't be able to tell that your kids threw anything at all.
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