Drywall Repair - Wall Repair Patch

go over a couple of tips and I repair drywall and here we pulled a mirror off that was glued to the wall and you can see create some gouges and also tore the face off the drywall and if we were to just try to skim coat this with joint compound it would bubble up and fuzz up and then if we try to just prime over this the same thing would happen the moisture would pull and bubble this vapor so what we need to do is use some type of joint compound tape and cover this but you can see how small a traditional tape is and so I picked up this roll patch and this is a wide patch from straight flex and we're going to use this to completely cover these patches so for this project we're trying to get out of here today and so if I were to use a regular joint compound it takes sometimes up to 24 hours for it to cure so what I'm going to do is I'm going to use a vinyl spackling that dries in 30 minutes or maybe a little longer depending on how humid or the temperature will do the first two coats with the vinyl spackle and then we'll put our top coat on with this joint compound and that joint compound is designed for topping it's going to give it a very smooth beautiful finish let's take an inexpensive putty knife and just mix up the compound or spackle first so that it's mixed nicely before we apply it this dries quickly I'm going to put about an eighth of an inch of the spackle onto the wall and I'm using a six inch knife and we're just going to draw it on here and what I love about this roll pad is all the holes on the patch itself is going to allow us to really bond very very well so I'm just going to embed this and pull it and you can see how it's pushing compound through and that's really going to make a very nice so for this first coat I'm going to pull off all the excess and I'm just going to feather this on the side like this again pulling off all the excess and this should dry pretty quickly and here you can see how we're coming at an angle I'll put a little bit more compound here pulling off all the excess so I pull this smooth and I have all the excess off and now what we'll do is we'll let this dry another tip is you can take these roll patches and you can cut them and soften the edges too so instead of having these hard corners you can roll this a little bit and it's going surely going to be a little easier to patch for a patch like this that had an indentation or a hole what I'm actually going to do is I'm going to I put a little bit of compound on the wall and now I'm just going to put about an eighth inch of the compound on the back of this and now I'm going to pull it up and we have that indentation here that when we put this on now that we've reversed this the patch itself is going to hold on to that compound it's going to make a very structural repair so it just does a nice job again with this we're just going to pull this tight and remove all the excess on this top patch because it's so large I'm going to you two pieces of this roll patch and just put them next to each other and it's going to do a great job the top piece that has the indentation what I'm going to do is I'll put the compound on the back and then press it into this and that's going to make a very nice structural edge so it's easy to but once we have the first piece up we're just going to lay in our second piece and just lay it right up to it and it's just going to make a wonderful invisible patch and we'll just pull this it's been about 20 minutes and now what we're going to do is we're just going to take a damp sponge so that we don't create any dust and we're just going to smooth out any imperfections any knife marks and it's amazing what a sponge will do and we'll just get this smooth and then we're going to put a first thin coat of spackle over the top of this the key to getting a professional look with a drywall patch is putting three thin coats of compound or spackle over the top of this generally he would start with a six inch knife on regular count on tape but because this is so large what I'm going to start with is a 12 inch knife we're going to feather it just past the patch and then on the second and third coat we're going to extend that and it will turn out beautiful and then I always like to clean my knives and in this case I'm using a pan in between each coat so that we don't get any particles on the next step now that that first coat is dry we can take a compound matter and knock off any of the little particles or five and then we're going to take a wet sponge and we're going to smooth out any knife marks and any imperfections we're going to put our second coat on and we're going to extend it just slightly past our first coat if you have any small knife marks or particles that are on here rather than constantly going back over this just leave any small imperfections like this and then we'll come back and smooth it out with a sponge now that this coats dry work is going to knock out any particles with a knife and smooth out any imperfections with a damp sponge now for my final coat I'm going to use an all-purpose joint compound so the first thing you want to do is mix this up thoroughly so you have a nice smooth mix for this third coat I'm going to go a couple inches past our second coat and then fill in any of these imperfections now will allow this third coat to dry for 24 hours and then we'll come after it with a damp sponge if you want to do a very fine job of fettering you can use a fine sanding sponge although that will create a little dust but with three thin coats of compound you can really make a damaged wall with fantastic

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Keywords: home improvement, diy, diy projects, do it yourself, home improvement projects, how-to, home repair, fix it home improvement channel, strait flex, straint flex roll tape, fixing drywall, wall repair patch, wall repair, repair drywall, drywall taping, repairing drywall, drywall patch, drywall repair

Id: V4z3IHBBuy4

Length: 7min 25sec (445 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 08 2015