How to repair a TOWEL BAR Ripped out of the Drywall

[Music] hey i see holes like this happen all the time from towel bars you know you got your towel bar hung up in the bathroom your kids come in they need a grab handle boom you got a hole it looks a lot like that well it's not really that hard to fix i'm going to show you a really simple way that pretty much anybody can do and it doesn't take long right after this [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Applause] okay when you get a hole like this this is often caused from like an anchor bolt in there and it gets yanked out of the wall and it kind of pulls out a plug and sometimes there's a little bit of a a hole back here i had some tape back here so you could see it better it's a little bit of a hole from where it pulled out and you might wonder do i need to cut that out um do i need to mesh tape it how do i fix that i'm gonna show you a real simple way i just did one the other day i've done probably a thousand like this because this is really common and this will actually put it back to be pretty dang strong so what we're going to do is we're going to start with make sure you clean up anything that's loose and dangling here you don't want any loose paper chunks of drywall it should be kind of swept out like this if you find any really loose stuff go ahead and pull it out then you got a nice clean surface now start by scraping make sure there's no like ridges or anything sticking out and then what i'm going to use is five-minute hot mud so we're gonna use this stuff right here because hot mud what it is is a fast setting joint compound now i'm gonna use five minute if you guys are novices i'd recommend stick with 20 minute five minute often can set up in your pan before you even get it on here i've done this enough that i can actually mix up a whole pan of this and spread it out before it sets up but that's because i've done this for 35 years so 20 minute or if you're not in a big rush go with 45 and hot mud is a good choice because anytime you put mud on thick you don't want to use regular joint compound it'll take forever to dry it's really weak and it'll shrink terribly and it just doesn't work well but hot mud you can put that in pretty much as thick as you want and it will harden once it hardens it will quit shrinking and it just dries so much better now here's some samples i made up what these are is i i put these in kind of my homemade casting block and i made it about it's close to a half inch thick and this is hot mud and you notice that this is just one coat i didn't smooth it out or anything it didn't shrink much it dries smooth it's tough you know for thicker stuff it's the only way to go because let's compare that to all purpose this is the raw all-purpose and you can see it's got a big crack here i actually had to glue it back together with some more mud because it falls apart so easy and if i were to tap on it it'd fall apart again i can pretty much guarantee it's just so much softer not good for deep stuff it's only good for thinner stuff okay i'll mix up some five minute hot mud it doesn't take much at all you can see i put just barely any water in for something that size and that should be too much but it makes it easier to mix up and you can just stir it like this now if you're going to do much more like a 45 minute pan full i have a video out that shows how you can use an egg beater and it works really well okay that came out perfect on the first um try for the amount of water sometime it'll take a few but that's the other thing about hot mud you got to mix it up fast so you don't want to be sitting here adding water adding powder and back and forth you could end up cutting yourself too short on time so all you really got to do is fill that sucker in and then just smooth it out and i got a little lip of paper trying to make a ridge so i'm just going to push it down try and get it to sit below the surface and re-scrape it so all we're trying to do right here is just get a little feel in it now you watch in a few minutes it's going to be ready to go almost no shrinkage and i'm going to show you how tough it is you're going to be amazed okay and a little tip is wash up your tools immediately as soon as you're done don't set them down don't think you know i'll do something and get to it in a minute i've been bitten that way many times i've honestly probably mixed up over i'd guess 5 000 bags of hot mud because i've done nothing but drywall repairs for 17 years and before that about 20 years of new construction anyway i can tell you that many times i've gotten bit by it one time i mixed up about this much in a bucket and the boss showed up got talking to me and before i knew it i had a whole bucket of it setting up and i threw the bucket away it's just easier so now let me show you this what this is is something i was playing with a while back i made two holes in this you can see these holes go through the sheetrock right here and this one is actually that size that brown paper right there that's not this sheetrock it's from me putting another piece of sheetrock behind it so that when i filled it it had something to hold the shape and then when i pulled it away it took the paper off of the drywall so that's actually just raw drywall mud all through there and all through there with nothing else just raw drywall mud same with that one but this one impresses me because it's so huge but i made sure it fit into everything really well and it becomes like i mean it hurts to try and i've yet to hurt this thing it all hurts to try and knock that out of there so it is solid i honestly believe that you can fix a hole like this and then just mud over it and it'll be fine i don't think it's going to crack right there now i still do it with mesh tape just to make sure but i was playing with this to see so for something like this that small this type of repair is going to work great and i'll put one more little coat of mud on it and i'll show you that and then this thing is done all right it's been maybe five minutes now what the time on the hot mud means is if you got five minute hot mud that's five minutes of working time 20 minute that's 20 minutes of working time so it's basically once you get it mixed up you've got 20 minutes that's it if you mix it up quickly if you take longer deduct a little bit i often will set a timer on my phone if i'm using 20 minute i'll set one for 15 then i know that i've got just a few more minutes until it may start setting up now this one it's not rock solid but it's it's firm enough that we can go over it i'm trying to do several videos here because we're just about to move out of our house if you've seen that video so i'm going to go ahead and coat it and i guarantee you it's not going to shrink up anymore that's the nature of hot mud as you saw with that sample and actually i noticed i got another one of these mocked up here i was going to put mesh tape over this it looks like i didn't but this is all purpose that was allowed to just dry and you can see it dries terrible the hot mud dries dries totally smooth and ready to go so now we want to coat this now the general rule of thumb when coating something is use a knife that's wider than the repair although if you get a hole that's say 12 inches wide you don't really have to have a 16 inch blade but you don't want to have a repair that's say eight inches and use one of these to coat it i'm going to explain that in a separate video so be watching for that so we can coat this little one with a six just put some mud on and then what we want to do is go around the outside edge and feather it by tilting our blades so we do like so so we get it like that and then lay your knife down pretty good you don't want to stand it up too much because the more you stand it up the more you take off so if i stand my knife up just a little too much i just take all that off if i put it hard to work the two of them together if i put it like that and i lay my knife down you can see it leaves most of it on there stand it up a little bit wipes it off so you want your knife tilted over pretty far so that you're just smoothing this out after you've feathered it you don't want to leave a hump there but you want to put just enough mud on where it covers everything and i see i actually pulled a little bit out so there and that that is just enough mud where it's covered the whole repair and it leaves a little bit for sanding because with this one this mud will shrink a little bit we might want to sand it one time before it's ready to go but after that all you need to do is take a sanding sponge go around the outside edge sand the outside feather you're feathering the outside edge with the sanding sponge that way your texture will blend in better hey if you want to show your support for our channel and gain exclusive benefits only for members be sure to join by clicking that join button down below once this is fairly dry it's ready for texture if you're going to do a smooth finish leave it smooth let it dry completely sand it with like 220 and it's ready to go hey i hope that helped you out if you like these kind of videos be sure and subscribe to our channel and click that bell icon that's what will get you notified each time we put out a video and if we're helping you save any money we have ways that you can support our channel down in the description down below just click that down arrow or the show more and you'll see different ways you can join our patreon page and our youtube membership and you can make one-time donations to say thanks hey i enjoyed helping you guys out with this so i will see you guys on the next video take care everybody [Music] you

Channel: That Kilted Guy DIY Home Improvement

Views: 33,257

Rating: 4.8722224 out of 5

Keywords: towel bar repair, towel bar damage, how to fix a towel bar, how to fix a damaged towel bar, do it yourself, diy, drywall repair

Id: 89885nbTesM

Length: 12min 6sec (726 seconds)

Published: Sun Oct 18 2020