Simply DIY Drywall Repair for Homeowners

so in this video I'm going to share with you my secret for prepping repairing and restoring damaged drywall stay tuned [Music] so most people they have a damaged piece of wall board whether it's a renovation like we were doing here behind us where we have a bit of a seam issue or they've got a doorknob dent in the wall or they're just gonna repaint a room and they've got little pinholes where they have pictures and screws and plugs and so I'm going to share with my secret today for how to fill all those things and the reason this is such a huge secret is because it feels it super fast you don't have to sand it and you don't have to prime it and you don't even need to use two coats of paint to finish it all right this is my secret in the trades for whenever I've got to do a touch-up and I'm ready to head out of a project and I see something I don't like I can take five minutes and fix that before I walk out the door and it doesn't need any work after I'm done and here's the trick you got on a knock on a four inch knife all right so go to your store and make sure you buy them so what you want to do is you want to grab some sheetrock 45 all right now this is a quick drying drywall compound it comes in powder form and you've got to mix this yourself all right and you take your hawk and you step over your sink and you just want to make a little bit of a volcano here okay and this is easier to do with a lot of it harder to do with a little but you really want to set up a little bit of a volcano okay there we go now before I get started the secret here is hot running water make sure you get the water running first and once it's hot bring it in to your volcano well this is gonna take a little bit of practice to get used to how much water to put in there now you want to hold it and you've got a couple options you can leave it on there for about a half an hour or so but it'll harden faster then you can mix it or you just take your knife off the edge lift up some of the loose powder and shake it in there like you're icing a cake okay work your way around the volcano I assure cake and if a little bit starts to come out don't worry about it there's not enough water there to cause a problem no once you've gone all the way around the edges you should start to become more of a paste okay and then you can just break it up and you mix it in right here on the top okay no mixing tools no pails no muss no fuss right here on your heart use your orange knife and just work this in now it's more of a paste now you just want to flatten it out now make sure all your bumps are out of there okay the smoother this is when you put it on the wall the easier it will be to finish you just check right there like that yeah I'm loving it so now I've got a drywall compound that's got a hardening agent in here that's chemically activated and anybody knows any science knows when you add heat to any kind of chemical reaction it speeds up the reaction that is why we are using hot water on this so generally 45 minute mud with regular cold water takes 45 minutes to an hour to set up but if you add hot water you can be sending this in 20 minutes if you had a really hot water or if you live out in the country a lots of minerals be careful because this can set up in five to ten minutes okay and so then what we're gonna do is we'll show you will apply some of this mud here and so this is my finished coat all right nice and tight and I'm really pressing this on here and the goal is to fill every little scratch every bump okay so that this wall is nice and smooth this particular wall had that be resurfaced with a new corner because we changed the tub and I just started working on this this morning this is now the third coat of mud I'm putting on here okay there we go now that is gonna be beautiful you know we try on this channel on the show people all the tips and tricks for doing the work themselves I remember even the most complicated project still needs to have simplified finishing all right so here we go just gonna double check to make sure everything here is good they both penny bubbles this one was done earlier had a lot of people comment on the on the channel you know can you do wet sanding is there any way to keep dust down what oh I'm just doing a small space and I want to make a mess this is the system for you so you just take your sponge you get these at the building store in the tile Department this is for actually doing groped and I'll just demonstrate here real quick this is mud that's just been pressed on it's got the wrinkles it needs to be feathered out okay and you just give it away there you go let it dry you're ready to paint I know it's that simple once again you don't just go around your fixtures take the excess off you see any ridges just wipe them out there you go ready to paint and the best thing about this 45 minute mud is even if you get it wet because it has a hardener it'll dry in just a couple minutes so if you want to get a job done in the same day you can take a whole room do all your patching and then you don't have any priming to do or if you've already finished your project and you bump a wall with your ladder on the way out you can do your 45 minute mud put it on there real quick give it a few minutes you can take a hairdryer to help dry it off damp sponge okay come back with some paint get a little mini roller and you can touch up your paint job and walk out the door within the hour and that is money in the bank alright so that's everything you need to know that's my tip of the day how to use 45 minute mode to do magic that means you don't have to do any priming and you don't have to do any regular sanding just use a quick wet sponge if you liked this kind of video give it a thumbs up comments in the section below I got to get back to work because I got to make a living too you [Music]

Channel: Home RenoVision DIY

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Length: 7min 0sec (420 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 29 2018