Hey guys, today i've got two holes side by
side i'm not sure how they got here lol, but they definitely need to get repaired. this was
a kid's room, posters were covering all this stuff for years and now they want to sell a house,
they took the posters down, they discovered all these holes. so i'm going to help them get this
fixed. i'm going to show you two different styles, this side is going to be the california
style and over here will be the texas style. i'll do the texas style last so hang in
there with me let's start out with this one. i've already pre-cut a couple
of pieces of half-inch drywall and basically i want to pre-cut a hole
here first so that's what i'm going to do. so i've got a 12 by 12. i'm just going to place
this over this make sure there's no stud here okay and then i'm going to score this line so doesn't have to be pretty it just has to
break the paper so next i take a drive take a drywall saw and cut to the corner and then this piece will just pop
like that, cut the back paper off. now you want to save this so you can match
the paint up to this wall, just hang on to it this hole over here there's a stud right here, so i'm going to cut to the stud, and now i'm going to take my 12 inch patch board and take it
all the way over to this stud. actually i want to highlight the stud a little bit okay so we know there's a stud over here
so rather than dig out this entire area, i'm just cutting up to the stud
then i'll take my drywall here, put it up to the stud, make sure
that it's covering my hole mark it and then cut it out okay what you gotta do is cut through the paper okay cut to the corner i know this piece is bigger than this hole
but essentially what we're going to do is cut the back out of the board.
this is the finished side. we want to save the finish
side and cut the back out, so essentially we just want to cut inside
this line right here all the way down that side inside this line okay bring it up to the side here and again, cut inside the line you can be off by as much as a half an inch. okay pop the drywall and i don't
know if you can see this you just take the sheetrock side of
it off and you've got the front as your drywall tape so why use this method
i would say if i showed up without
without power and did not have a way to use a screw screwdriver or
a screw gun i always use it that way if i did not bring wood strips i would
say okay i'll just go with that anyway so this is just regular USD drywall mud,
i'm going to add just a tad bit of water, mix it up a little bit, and
i'll speed up the video. i've often wondered why they call this
the california style drywall repair and i don't know if you have any history of
this, let me know, i'd be interested. but anyway, you want to liberally apply some
drywall mud to all these inside edges we want the patch to bond with the wall so
if i was off by a quarter to a half an inch this will allow some connection okay next you want to make sure that this
backing doesn't have any drywall mud stuck to it or old dry gypsum rather and you
want to liberally apply some mud here on all the edges okay wet this area right here so when you think that you have liberally
applied enough drywall mud think again, and just liberally apply even more, maybe that's why
it's called california patch. I don't know. okay just pop this thing in smooth it out okay when you get this thing set, if anything you want to have it a little
deeper than the wall as opposed to extending out on the wall so you can do a
little check here make sure it's inside there okay oh that's looking good
make sure the tape's good and that's essentially the first step we're going to let that dry .okay
now i'm going to show you the texas method and with the texas method we need power. got
plenty of energy going in texas most of the time so this is the method that i use in texas. i've got some pre-cut pieces of wood
here. i just slide the wood in as a backer sink a few screws into it you want to sink these just below the surface but you don't want to cut all
the way through the paper okay now place your patch over like so a little bulge right there okay okay i've used paper tape for
since well, since forever. i have seen the results of using other tape and i keep going back to paper tape. it's
just what i like, that's what i'm used to. okay so i pre-cut a few pieces here get
going. i've seen some other youtubers say that that they spray water on their
paper and i don't do that. i just i mean as a paper hanger when you have wet
paper, it's to me, it's more difficult to handle. so anyway just apply your mud get it around best
you can. it does not have to be pretty at this point but it does have to be wet and i just slide
your your blade across it until it's all wet, kind of have an angle like this, come
around like that, like that pretty easy. okay now we want to throw the tape on it and i usually hold it in
place, drag the blade across it and then come back in the other direction okay that's pretty solid so okay and then we want to put a couple more pieces in here don't have to be perfect couldn't have to overlap you can use this as a cutting tool there
you go just like that okay so hold it bring your blade down hold
it again bring the blade up okay we're going to wait for that to dry. this
is the california style versus the texas style we've taped it and 24 hours later we've come back
and everything is dry i was really afraid that the california patch would not be dry along the
seams here but it did pretty well overnight, so all we want to do is take a flat knife and knock
down some of the little ridges that were created you don't have to spend a lot of time on this okay then we'll put some mud on it, this next
coat of drywall mud we just want to build a layer on top of the tape so what this does it will protect the tape and then we'll come back
with a longer knife and use this ridge as the peak and the wall as the feathering point and we'll
fill in the gap, we'll fill in this gap as well. if i omit this process and just skim the whole
thing out, i might not build it high enough and i may end up sanding the tape away same thing with the california patch we
just want to build it up a little bit and that's it, we're going to let that set up.
so today we're going to make a third pass on this patch and i've got the light set up kind of
at an angle and you can see these little ridges from the previous coat we're
just going to knock those down now this is the california style this is the texas
style over here. we're going to go ahead and add some compound to both of these at the same time and actually blend them in together because
they're so close but we want to fill the centers and then we want to work the outside okay next i got my favorite
tool. it's not a drywall tool. i've made it a drywall tool it's
actually a concrete finishing tool. you know if you work with mud for a long period
of time, you need to find something that's very comfortable and this feels very comfortable
so what you want to do is basically drag it okay okay you know what i'm going to leave it just
like that we'll come back again another day knock the ridges down put one more coat
on it and then sand it and prime it we're going to sand this down using a pole sander
and some 100 grit paper and just a tip for you this will kick up a lot of dust and in
order to keep the dust from spreading you want to turn off your ac unit if
your heat is on, turn off your heat, if you have any windows open, close them, close
any doors and if there's no air traveling through the house, that means the dust will fall straight
down as opposed to spreading throughout the house or even blocking your hvac
unit. so let's get it sanded down okay let's get it primed and take a
look and see how everything turned out the paint has dried and if you remember, i saved
a little scrap of drywall that had the paint on there, i took it to lowe's and they matched it up
perfectly. you can see this paint, it's fresher than the old paint but it matches up excellent.
i don't see any defects in this. this is regular drywall painted with flat paint. now i do have
a test for you if you want to go with eggshell, semi gloss, or gloss paint on your wall
, and that is once you complete your your drywall patch and once you've
primed it. what you want to do is turn off any lights use your cell phone,
hold it at an angle and now you can see the defects that would show up with glossy
paint. i see a little low area right here that can be worked out and this could be feathered
out a little bit better over on this side. other than that for what this is
flat paint it looks pretty good
