Drywall Tips & Tricks-How to patch a hole/door knob patch The pro's way!! drywall taping, mudding

hey guys this is James with the spray king.com today I want to make you guys a little video about how to do small patches around the house anything from about one or two inches three inches of doorknob holes things like that today I'm going to show you how the basic doorknob hole happens behind the door all the time you get a hole about this size and it needs to be fixed and they they're pretty easy so we'll run through it today I just made one of my hammer just there also you always want to have a clean blade with you when you cut sheetrock either with around levels and t-squares and whatnot by hand sometimes I tend to score be off your blades not to clean so make sure it's always changed and fresh blade when you're before you start cutting any patches just a little rule of thumb to stick with and next we're going to talk about how the met double methods I use to cut out a patch this first method I'm probably using here you can use a level just by doing a couple of lines maybe one on the top and one horizontal line if there's really a 500 different ways you can make your original scribe somehow you cut the patch out but here I showed two different ways I show one with the level just showing a couple of lines there how to do the level another one I do you can use like a t-square or a speed square here I use a speed square and you just pull it it basically just you're making a square any sort of way to make a square would work so you just cut it out manually it really doesn't matter but the main thing is I use these methods to keep it nice and square and so when I cut my piece that's even numbers one moment all my measurements here's another little tip I use I use my drywall knife to first originally score the lines I made because if you just stick your drywall saw in there and start cutting it's a little harder to cut because you're not breaking through the face paper too much especially you got a dull drywall saw so just just nice to start with a couple fresh lines done with the exacto knife and once you do that you got it's really easy you'll see right here when use my saw it's really easy to cut and it kind of gives you a guide on where you're cutting so and it just most through it like butter so that's another thing again there's probably 50 different ways to cut the drywall patch out you can use a fine tool people use sawzalls I'm just showing you one way you know this is my way for a small patch and and there's just probably 500 different ways anyways we go on right here by cutting out the back score the side right there make sure you don't drop the patch into the hole get any sort of debris out of the way get your blade sort of clean up your area and then get it ready to install some backing right here that stud in the back is on the back wall it's not the front so I need to install some backing I kind of look around and make sure I have enough room on both sides to install some backing and any backing you want to use you can use someone buy some trim you have lying around the house just pretty much any sort of wood I've used shims I've used paint sticks it really doesn't matter as long as it holds a sheetrock well enough to support the patch while you're mudding it now here I'm going to show you how if you're installing backing you can use a couple of starter screws stick one on each side of the patch get your piece of one by slip it on in and make sure you're holding it as you're screwing it now you're holding it as you're screwing it because there's no possible way it'll stay there if you don't so make sure your patches big enough you got room for your fingers all that to hold the piece of wood now you're screwed in where I'm going to put one on the bottom just to be safe it probably would support with just one but I'll put two just to be extra safe and again we can use any sort of wood we can use one buy you can use 2x4 if you feel you have enough room to slip it in there like I just did that's why I don't use 2x4 because it's usually enough not enough room in the back to slip the piece in there so it's nice to use one buy or smaller sort of piece of wood and when you're screwing these in make sure you don't over screw it and break the face paper when you do when you're screwing it in right there like I made sure that those screws are not protruding out and they're not poking in too far and breaking the face paper you break the face paper and then you're defeating the purpose of the patch you're going to have problems with that screw because you broke the face paper when you're mudding it so try to keep it nice and secure and my peat my piece fits perfectly and make sure that when your piece is in there that's not sticking out too far or two inch makes you're nice and clean and here I'm just marking where my little studs are there my little backer marks and I'm going to put one screw on the top one screw on the bottom and like I was talking about the patch just make sure when your patches there are none of the papers lifting off the sides or just make sure you have a nice even plane so when your tape and even right there's a little bit of paper lifting right there and I will actually take care of that before I mud it see now the patch is nice and cleaned up ready to go and the first method we can be doing this would be using paper tape but today we're going to use mess tape and again there's 500 different methods but we're going to use methods with hot mud and mess tape hot mud dries in a specific time 20 40 and 90 minute and here I made sure my mud was nice and nice and creamy I'm using it I think a 20 minute or 5 minute mud here and just make sure before you start mud in the patch that it's nice and creamy no lumps no bumps in there like I said there's 50 different ways to do a patch you can use paper tape regular mud it's not a problem I it all the time but just for this video I'm using hot mud Oh yep and yet for all the youtubers out there yes I'm using a rusty knife there my work truck is not here all the time at home so when I made this video is just some knives laying around the garage a lot of people like to mention how the knives rusty in my videos but if you use them a lot you believe them out in the rain and use them a lot in there down to the metal they're going to rest so it happens but my knives are straight and my patches look good so that's how it goes so make sure your Lud is not that lumpy and let's see I got a nice creamy mix and what I'm doing here is just evening out the mud before I do my final coats and when I wipe my edges clean I use my 6 inch knife just so I don't dig into the middle to patch that much if I dig in too much it's going to take most of the mud out from the sides where I wanted it floated so try to cut your edges with your six inch or smaller knife so you don't dig in too much and right there my knife is real flat really flat when I coat that stuff only a couple swipes and I'm leaving mud on all the outside edges and now we're gonna let sit for about 20 minutes or whatever requires and then I've come and I just give it before I coat it again I get my sponge and I clean it up a little bit I get the ridges off I clean the edges a little bit up I use my six I grab my six inch knife and grab a little bit of fat a little bit of the mud off the patch and you'll see if you do this every time before patches they really clean up before the second coat I mean you touch-up little things with the fat that's coming off the six like I just did right there and they really clean up so clean them up with the sponge a little bit between coats when you're using fast set setting type compounds like Hamid and then it's totally ready for another coat so now I have some more mud I'm going to coat it again make sure it's extra creamy before I put it on and this is second coat this is skimming mud I want it a little thinner now what I had before a little thicker for the top coat second coat you wanted a little thinner but not much where it's dripping off the knife just just like hair thinner and again I'm using my 14-inch knife I want plenty of coverage nice and wide again I'll be talking about knives what sizes these later in other videos if I'm vague on it now it's just because I'm trying to do a basic patching video I get a lot of comments about basic patching so I'm trying to show a patch that's purely basic again 14 is rusty but really straight really nice that these patches would turn out nice especially when they're small like this for doorknobs they're going to turn out really well when you use a large knife not a small knife use a 6-inch knife it's not going to be that big you make your patch a little bigger like I'm showing right there it floats it better even if it's a small hole and now you're pretty much ready for texture over smooth wall or whatever you're going to do this the edges are feathered everything is ready to go sanded no ridges no bumps that's ready for a texture so check 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Channel: james white

Views: 301,835

Keywords: Drywall, Tips, drywall patch, patching, taping, taping tools, small holes, hole repair, sheetrock hole, door knob patch, door knob, landlord, security deposit, mudding, mud patch, texture, skip trowel, Tutorial, drywall repair, wall repair

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Length: 10min 0sec (600 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 19 2013