HOW TO FIX SCREW POPS IN DRYWALL

hello and welcome to Vancouver carpenter today I'm going to teach you how to fix screw pops so you probably can't see them from that far away but I have two of them one here and one here the first thing you need to understand is how screw pops happen so there's two things that cause them the first and most common is shrinkage of lumber so as a 2x4 shrinks it causes the screw head to be sticking out about 1/32 of an inch farther than it used to be and so what that does is it creates a small gap of air between the drywall and the stud and because of that it's able to move a little bit independently and what that does is it pushes that little chunk of mud that's in the screw tip out because it's moving back and forth the other thing that causes this is also a poorly placed screw so when somebody puts a screw into the drywall and it goes in too far and tears the paper of the drywall what that does is it means it can't hold and it can again move independently from the studs so I'm going to move this in up close and we're going to take a look at these and how to fix them okay so here it is so the first thing you need to do is pull this through out this and yep the paper is particularly damaged here we need to cut all this loose paper out first I have a nice sharp knife and it's cutting it real nicely so that helps to ensure that a blister doesn't come because all that loose paper there if you just go put mud on top of that loose paper it's gonna cause another blister next you need to put another screw about mention a half or two away and you need to be really careful to make sure that it doesn't go in too far so if you don't have a lot of skills with a drill you can even stop at that point and twist it the rest of the way in until is just below the surface then you want to make sure it's not clicking if you can hear it it's not in far enough so another thing that's very important is that you use drywall screws only so drywall screws have a type of head that is called a bugle head and it's shaped you know like a little trumpet or a bugle this common Robertson's screw on the other hand has a sort of triangular shaped head instead of rounded and the reason you need to use a drywall screw is because these are specially designed to not tear the paper whereas these even if you sink it just right there's still a good risk of it tearing the paper and causing that blister so let's do this one two again carve that out and if you're lucky you've got a drywall drill those do the job for you perfectly or if you don't have any tools you can always do it a good old-fashioned way there this takes a little time though possible just takes a little time good so it is a little time-consuming carving out these little divots where the old screws were but I can guarantee you that blisters not going to come back and that's better than having to redo it so when coating the screws you want to make sure that you use a mud with really good adhesion for your first coat a lot of quick sets or a finish mud is not going to stick to the screw and it's really important that you use something again with very good adhesion so I'm using just some 20-minute quick set I don't need much and I'm adding a tiny bit of glue to it to ensure that the first coat sticks I've got a video on mixing glue in with your mud you guys can check that out if you're curious about it so when coating a screw for the first coat you want to put it on in one direction and take it off in another direction and what that does is it makes sure you don't get a little hole from the X in the screw so now I'm gonna let that set up for the 20 minutes or so that it takes and I'm gonna do a second coat of quick-set without the glue so I've given this enough time to set up now it's actually shrunken into those voids a little bit because I mixed it a tiny bit too thin and when your quick sets a little bit too thin that just means there's extra water in it and the drywall being so dry pulls all that water out when your quick sets gonna shrink so this time for my second coat I've mixed it much thicker and now it's time to give these a quick scrape and fill them again and it's just the same thing put it on take it off so these are still gonna need one more coat of either all-purpose or finished mud because quick-set doesn't take paint very nicely so I'm gonna let this set up and do that now that the quick-set has set up it's actually not a bad idea to give it a real quick sand just around the edges before I go and put my all-purpose mud off so the reason I do that is because the tiny little built up edge that was left can sometimes show through when you sand off the all-purpose and then all of a sudden you have this part or mud underneath you go and paint it and all of a sudden you can see this ring where you've patched so now they've been sanded I'm gonna coat them with some finish mud and if you can't tell I'm just basically putting them out on and taking it off it's pretty simple with screws you want to keep it as flat as possible now I'm gonna let these dry for a couple days sand them and they're ready for paint so you could do this entire thing with all-purpose mud keep in mind you don't have to use Kwikset but if you're using all-purpose mud you need to let each coat dry overnight so that is my almost dummy proof method of fixing screw pops so hopefully with this technique you can get some nice smooth walls and even better have them not show up down the road a year or two later because as we know with screw pops that's the problem everything looks good until you see them in a couple of years so thanks for watching Vancouver carpenter I hope you found this useful if you want to stay tuned with all the videos I'm putting out feel free to subscribe if you found this useful thumbs up helps thanks for watching until the next time

Channel: Vancouver Carpenter

Views: 1,299,290

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Keywords: drywall, screw, pop, fix, hole, repair, nail, screw pop, nail pop, DIY, tape, corner, angle, mud, joint, compound, taping and mudding, paint, sanding, home repair

Id: fLmrm5Y7u5k

Length: 7min 38sec (458 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 22 2018