HOW TO REPAIR OVERCUT ELECTRICAL BOX (DRYWALL)

hello and welcome to Vancouver carpenter so today we're gonna patch this nasty blow out here and we're gonna use just tape and mud so under some circumstances you could actually cut out the damaged drywall here and replace a chunk and then just tape it like a little patch but I want to illustrate just how much you can actually do with just tape and quick-set and have it still be a nice strong sturdy patch the first thing you're gonna want to do is get a nice sharp blade and cut out all this kind of stuff you don't want all this stuff flapping around here so that's looking a lot better there's nothing there that's flapping around that's gonna cause a blister so I am back I've just mixed up some quick set with a little glue in it you can watch my video on that to get the idea as to why I put the glue in I've got some paper tape get a nice sharp edge on there okay so what we need is three chunks of paper tape that are gonna go just past here in here so we want it to go at least an inch past on each side so one two and one for the horizontal right here so next let's start taping this so here's what we're gonna do what you're doing is you're basically creating a little mini piece of drywall so I'll often just use the wall and what I'll do is I'll just put a big swath of mud on there so this tape now has about a quarter inch of mud covering it so when I now put that right here so I'm gonna line it right up with the box not so far down that it covers these holes and I'm gonna start embedding this tape I have a horrible angle to try and do this because the camera is where I want to be so next let's do this side again this one I'm gonna try and get a ton of mud on because I want easily a solid quarter inch or more of mud on the backside of this there we go lots of mud in this one I'm actually gonna go just a little bit past this edge I actually want this to touch right here and now just for insurance we're gonna do this side although to be honest I could probably just fill in this side and it wouldn't crack out just to be sure we'll put some tape on it actually I'm gonna fill that full mug before I do this so I'm leaving just a little bit of mud under the tape just enough to bond it there this it's like paper mache okay how's it sitting for flush not bad we get a little more out of there okay so that is good this is 20 minute mud I'm gonna come back when it's fully set up because if I try and code it right now what's gonna happen is this part right here that's sort of flapping in the air could move out a bit and I could wind up with like an 8-inch hump here that I have to cover so we're gonna leave this until the quick-set is totally set okay so that's looking pretty good the kwikset's all hardened up it's ready for another coat see if standing on this side of the camera works a little better so just a liberal coat over top right now I'm starting with about an eighth of an inch I'm right over top of everything and I sort of put it on gently to try and avoid slopping too much into here because you just have to clean it out later and the electrician's don't like it although they're used to it so now I'm just gonna smoke it now keep my inside corners clean feather my edge keep passing so this coat is fairly liberal again I started with about an eight I've now got maybe close to an eighth over this part of it and then fanned out to nothing about a foot past each way that's what it takes to actually make this disappear it's actually just a butt joint so now I'm gonna let this one set up also you could do this whole thing with all-purpose mud if you wanted but this heavy part behind the tape here would take forever to dry so I really like to do this with quick set because it sets up doesn't shrink and goes a lot faster so the quick set is now all set up I've got some regular all-purpose mud mixed up here now the first thing I need to do is scrape this all down and if you were using regular pre-mixed bucket mud for this whole thing this would be the point where you just send down or scrape your second coat clean those corners up and this line if you're wondering right here is just a shadow that's being cast by this little column but you especially want it nice and flat around here because if you haven't done a nice job patching all around this then when you go to put your faceplate on you can see big gaps it doesn't look nice so this parts got to be nice and flat and you don't want your quick-set crumbs getting into your regular mud they won't soften up and get into the mix nicely just a crumb okay that's looking good time to put some regular mud on it same process basically Oh giant crumbs hate those so I'm just going a couple inches past the quick-set and if possible you want to put a generous coat over the quick-set a good sixteenth of an inch by the time it's all taken off because the quick-set doesn't sand nicely compared to the regular mud and you don't want to be sanding through your regular mud into the quick set or the quick set won't sand your regular mud will and you're gonna get weird ridging and shadows mud everywhere get the crumbs out okay so this mine was just freshly mixed not getting any bubbles real nice okay and I'm gonna stop messing with it even though it could be a little more perfect I can sand that out let's take a close look so my finished coat wound up going pretty far down I am almost at about a three foot long patch here so for just this little box I coated it pretty big to make it disappear so now that it's dry let's see how strong it is so I'm not seeing any little cracks nothing showed up so I can knock on that pretty hard in fact my knuckles got a tiny bit sore so it's strong so now it's just time to give it a quick sand detail it with a sponge now you can just carve this stuff out with a knife make sure you have your power off so that you don't go into any live wires by accident they can get into the screws in both of them so we're all done so I hope that sheds a little light on how to patch that blown out or over cut electrical box it's a fast effective and durable patch when done properly so whether you had a sloppy tradesman in or you decided to hang your drywall yourself now you know what to do so thanks for watching Vancouver carpenter until the next video

Channel: Vancouver Carpenter

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Keywords: drywall, repair, electrical, box, damage, fix, hole, wall, mud, tape, taping, inside corner, tutorial, glue, corner bead, plaster, bead, hotmud, DIY, how to tape drywall, beed, corner, construction, mesh, carpentry, ceiling

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Length: 9min 6sec (546 seconds)

Published: Sun Nov 04 2018