How to Patch Holes in Drywall, Big and Small

we have a little setup here we want to demonstrate how to patch and fill certain kinds of holes that you might get in your sheetrock at your house I've got all my stuff here to do a few different demonstrations and so let's go through each one of those and we'll start with the smallest fault here so this is just a common screw hole just take a small putty knife and kind of go over it different directions and then we have some patch and primer here just grab a little bit on the corner of your knife and put it right on the hole but as you apply it you want to apply it from a few different directions as you can see when I pull one way if you get really close you have a little bubble there on the side and so going multiple directions will solve that issue and then you'll just let that dry Pat the paint it to match something like this that has just kind of dented the sheetrock but hasn't poked all the way through you're gonna do that very similarly so you take your knife just kind of kind of it cut that we're just trying to get it so that it can sit flat when we add our patch so this will need just a little bit more but to fill the hole multiple directions for these bigger ones you may need to let it dry and then give it a quick little sand and then go over it again for a hole like this where it's pretty small but it has punched all the way through if we use just some mesh tape we need razor blade knife and we'll just cut off a little piece here the thing with mesh tape if I just set that on there and I start putting spackle on it's just gonna push through all of the holes and then you'll have to let it dry and cover it multiple times before it'll actually keep so what I like to do is I put my first piece up here and then I just take my razor blade knife and cut around the hole now that is my first layer so this part just discard and then I take another piece and I'm going to actually adhere this to that add a cross angle so you see I've got doubled up grid there when you just put that right over the hole try and match it up to where I cut okay and that will make it so I don't have to do it quite so many times I'll probably still have to do it a couple times no way of getting around that but now we have some of this spackle you can use whatever you want I like this stuff because it turns white when it's dry we're usually working on tight timetables and so this helps me know when I can move to my next step just go right over the mash [Music] and again multiple directions to get the spackle and pulled in tightly now this I'm not gonna go super smooth you want the tape all covered but I'm gonna let this dry and then sand it again and then do this again and you'll do this a couple times until the mesh pattern of the tape is not visible after you do a light sand and once that is the case then you're set you can texture it paint in whatever the next is this hole right here which is a pretty large hole that's punched all the way through it's too big for the tape for the tape to make sense but we do have these mesh patches that have a so they have the mesh tape and then a metal mesh grid adhered on the back so you just take that and cover up the entire hole and then fill that in with your spatula these holes because they are bigger you're gonna need to do a few coat a few layers of this probably at least two well definitely two probably three sometimes even four depending but just take your time you'll be able to get it right and you want to make sure with this mesh tape that you're pulling out towards the on the edges instead of coming in because then you'll wrinkle it up and we get the spackle punching through here a little bit we've let it dry though and then we'll give us a nice another issue that people run into especially as they're doing things in cabinetry and things like that is trying to run a caulk line in a gap that's a little bit too wide and so all of the columns just kind of sinks back into it and it doesn't look very good so I'm gonna demonstrate with these two pieces and a sheetrock this is just for demonstration purposes for lines in between sheetrock you of course want to tape it and run it the proper way so this is what's called it's foam backing material that's you can use it for insulating in between windows and doors and like any any gaps that you have there but we you can also be used as a caulk backing material and so we're first going to put this we'll take a piece here just to demonstrate we have our knife and you just push this into whatever gap you have [Music] once you have the foam pushed into the gap you can just take your call and run it right along there on the top I know that doesn't look pretty we'll take care of that then we'll take our putty knife and run that right down the line and the last thing is for a large hole that's too big for one of these patches if you for example had a vent or something in the wall and you removed it and moved it somewhere else and you wanted to patch it you could do it this way or if there was just a really big hole what you would do is you take either like a like a sheetrock saw or something and you'll cut the hole out so that it's square and then you cut a piece to match it and we want to prep the edges just like we're doing with all the others kind of scrape them down a little bit so they'll sit flat now in order to get this to stick in there we use just a couple of scrap pieces of wood and some sheetrock screws into the sheetrock and watch your fingers think the heads just slightly too screws into each of those boards or more depending on how big your patch is now that patch is nice and solid we're gonna take this one more time clean up the edges will use our mesh tape on these seams now for these bigger patches using a bigger knife like a taping knife or a spackle knife make sure that we get everything nice and then we'll start just by covering the tape and you want to lay it on a little thicker at first once we have the outside edges done we do want to put some in the middle of that patch so that we can drag our knife along it and make sure that the whole surface is even of course I need to be spackle for this you can use just regular joint compound which is not quite as hard as this is but it's less expensive and there's a long way once we've got that all covered the patch we're gonna let that dry come back and sand and then we'll do the same thing another coat very light across the top and make sure that we have all of our edges and everything flat let that try and then Sam again that's how you patch a few of the most common holes that you'll have in your walls hopefully you find this helpful we will link to the tools we use as well as the products and the captions of this video and you know be sure to save it for a future reference

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Length: 10min 0sec (600 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 23 2018