How To Repair Sheetrock On Ceiling

it's your balled handyman back at you again for another tutorial this time I'm doing a sheetrock repair I wish I could do one on a wall walls are a little easier this one's a ceiling and so in this particular case as you see this ceiling has has had a lot of water go through it this is right above a bathroom and when the bathroom shower started leaking this just just permeated all of the sheetrock and mold and mildew started and it's ugly and so I'm going to get this out of here at the same time I'm going to get this out of here this popcorn up here I'm going to scrape all this off this is a pantry in a kitchen and once I take the light down then I can scrape all this popcorn off and then I can do the repair so basically what you're going to need or what I'm going to need is a drill of some sort I prefer electric drill you can use every operator drill whatever you're going to need some inch-and-a-quarter sheetrock screws I use the course because I like them better you're going to need some type of level and not because we're doing anything with the bubble but it's a straight edge so when you actually cut around here you want a straight edge so when you replace it with another piece of sheetrock you'll have a straight cut right so we're going to use a pencil in this straight edge and it doesn't have to be a level it could be anything and we're going to draw a line right across here and right across there I'm going to go to the furthest point out where it's rotted out probably about here and take it over there and then just cut this this whole section out from the the back where the the perimeter is where the wall meets the ceiling cut all that out and you're going to need some sheetrock mud I call a mud a spackle Lane got a lot of different names this is a Home Depot brand that they sell I usually get the gallon but I know I'm not going to use the gallon up here so in this case I got this little tiny one but this will be plenty enough to do what I need to do I'm also going to use a keyhole saw and the keyhole saw is very very important have um a razor knife will get you the cut around here but it takes a little while so this is a lot easier you just stick it into the sheetrock and you start sawing away just saw in a way and if you hit a stud not a stud but if you hit one of these floor joists up here then just bump it off to the side and start cutting again chances are these floor joists run this way anyway so I'm going to probably start around this area and then go back this way and once I get that cut out this probably won't be too useful for me on the perimeter there so that's where I'll use my razor knife and I'll cut that out once this is all taken out I can get an exact measurement go outside cut another piece of sheetrock to match it make sure that I had some proper studying in here for the screws remember the inch and a quarter screws they got attached to something so if there's not proper studying in there I gotta get some little pieces of scrap 2x4 and stick them in there you'll see that process a little bit later and then you screw your sheetrock back up into those two by fours and all those little pieces that you put in there then we're going to do the taping in the money and the paper tape is going to go along here you're going to need a two inch blade to wipe off the excess which I'll show you you're going to need I've got a twelve inch drop that I bet twelve inch blade is that twelve or fourteen I think that's a fourteen inch blade so you're going to need something like this when you start skimming off the excess sheetrock mud but you're also going to need a two inch blade so you can embed your tape into the sheetrock and then I use usually five inch blade to kind of you know finish it off so I'm going to get to that to that portion not going to do a whole bunch of talking because I always explain in my videos what I propose to do and how I'm going to do it and then I just let you watch me go at it in this case a lot of drop cloths because all this popcorns going to come off and blah blah blah and it's going to make a big mess so anyway I'm gonna get to work on this and I don't like doing sheetrock on ceilings honestly I don't at one point I'm going to show you how to do it on a wall on a wall where you patch you know where a doorknob people have always had this weird knob hits on the sheetrock I'm going to show you how to do a repair like that or you know if somebody you know your teenagers have punched a wall or something I'm going to show you how to square that out tape it mud it and all that stuff to make it really really easy on you in this case it's relatively easy I just don't like reaching up so much and anyway I'm going to get started enough of my babbling and if you have any questions post them below I'll be happy to answer inside the lines you can clean it was a blast Oh Oh Oh Oh

Channel: The Bald Handyman

Views: 208,879

Keywords: sheetrock, sheetrock repair, drywall, drywall repair, how to fix drywall, how to fix sheetrock, how to repair hole in ceiling, hole in ceiling, spakling, sheetrock tape, feathering out spakling, joint compound, how to apply joint compound, fixing hole in wall, DIY sheetrock, DIY drywall, starr tile, starrtile, atlanta, georgia, handyman, home repairs, repair leak in ceiling, home depot, lowes, my handyman, DIY home repairs

Id: kcpos8-lc18

Length: 9min 52sec (592 seconds)

Published: Thu May 12 2016