How To Patch Drywall Around An Electrical Box

hi I'm Shannon from host improvements comm and my video today I just want to show you a kind of a subject that came up actually on our forum recently and I just want to show you how to patch when you get some goof ups around switch boxes or electrical boxes that you need to fill in so we've got a couple different examples here one is pretty minor in most cases a lot of times your cover and everything that you put on here would likely cover this but it's borderline right yet it's not a real huge gap something simple like that generally all I would do is just take a little bit of your drywall mud when you're mudding just force it back into that gap kind of fill it in like so now when you do a thicker blob like that it's going to shrink a fair bit so on your next coats just remember to have a look at that and give it another little fill-in when you're in your mudding and then obviously just sound it smooth when you're sanding something like this that's just that's a little bit bigger than you can really just typically use some mud to fill so what you're going to want to do there is you're going to have to actually apply a bit of tape to fix that area and then later once you're all mudded and everything you're going to just have to go and recut out those areas where the electrical is so kind of the same same principle here we still want to get some mud back in there and it's a little messy here so you do want to force some mud back into that area and take up some of that void that's back there start out with then like any tape you just want to get enough on there to get your tape bedded tear off the bit of tape or mesh that you're going to use lay it across the area even if it hangs down into the box not a big deal you can always trim that out once you've got everything coated out and and dried squeeze out the the excess mud that you had there just like anything that you'd be taping and now you've you've at least created a backer there and you can as every other step when you're doing all the rest of the mudding in your in your project you just come back and add a bit of mud to that feathering it out so it's you know not a big huge issue so if that was dry and I was coming back to do my next coat again I just want to start a little bit wider just get some some mud build up on it a little bit okay so there'd be kind of my next coat my next one basically I'm going to just go maybe a little bit wider try to feather in these bottom corners and that's probably covered good enough to do what you want to do so just a like said just a real quick video showing you how you can patch up some of those things because it's it's not regular that you maybe cut around a box and it's not quite right or you're half an inch off or something like that so now if you got really huge like maybe somehow you went 2 inches or something while you're going to actually have to do a drywall plug or something there to fill that in but anything that's about 3/4 of an inch or less so one of these two methods will cover that for you so that's perfect thanks a lot for watching click the thumbs up subscribe to our channel maybe come and check us out on Facebook and follow us or Twitter and also we always got patreon that you can have a look at as well thanks for watching

Channel: HouseImprovements

Views: 125,138

Rating: 4.9313445 out of 5

Keywords: diy, how to, home, house, improvements, drywall, sheet rock, gypsum, board, repair, patch, fix, hole, accident, do it yourself, dry, wall, compound, mud, tape, mesh, paper

Id: 2nJUzEHnrWs

Length: 3min 47sec (227 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 09 2017