Easiest wall FIX EVER!

Welcome to the Paws Toolbox, today I'm going to cover a very simple and inexpensive way to fix a hole in the

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. I had hairs from here that I pulled out and patched this little part here. I'm not worried about floating. this part because when I build my cabinets on top of these, like I did on the other side of my kitchen, they will be above this line anyway and no one will see it, but I'm going to drill some holes and float it out just to show you how is done, so we'll make a decent little hole in there now, if I had a bigger hole we could fix that too, it's not much, so I'll have a bigger one. hole here is fine and here I will just make a small hole.

I have a stud here, so I know I'll miss it. Okay, simple fixes, let's get started. What you're going to need is a piece of dry

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that you can find. pieces of drywall almost anywhere, if you drive by and look at a new construction area you can pick up all kinds of pieces of drywall, if not you can go to your local hardware store and they sell two by two, two foot by two pieces . feet half an inch thick or three-eighths, it doesn't matter if you have a three-eighths piece, you can patch a half-inch hole in the wall with this type of patch, you won't be able to do it other ways.

It would have to match exactly, but with this type of patch it doesn't matter. I'm going to use a hole saw for this. This is a bi-metal hole saw. You don't necessarily need a really good one like this. You can get one very cheap at your local hardware store or you can get a complete kit at Harbor Freight for probably fifteen sixteen dollars and that will go from three quarters of an inch to four and a half or even five inches. This here is a four and a half inch hole saw. What I'm going to do is take my drywall and turn it over.

I'll bring it up a couple inches. That's all I need to do. He makes a hole right there. the central part, but you don't have to worry about that hole that fills up very easily. What I'm going to do is mark it completely the first time, it doesn't have to be perfect, then you can turn your piece over and Take this piece here and hit it and if you cut it from the back, all you're doing is cutting the paper and it's comes off. Now I have my circle here and I have a border that can go around

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ything I have.

What I'm going to do is take my razor blade and just put some marks on it, you're just going to cut the paper, you don't have to go deep from the ridge, from the cut out because this is a circle and it's not a square, you need to do this to break it. Now this can be broken very easily. I'm just going to push it out and take my first piece and peel it. Take these. I can break it up here and take them out a little bit. sections at a time, if some of the paper on the outside tears, no big deal, you have a lot of paper there to work with, so remove them now.

I have what you call a butterfly patch. I'll clean this part. just a little bit here because you want to make sure all the drywall in this part is removed so it's flush no big deal it's easy to clean this piece here cut it out okay this is going to go right to a hole and I'm going to show you how to make it perfect if you want to cut this round out, you can do it with scissors, just clean it up a little bit. Okay, if I go in and try to put this in a hole in my drywall.

I'm not going to have a pilot here, a pilot hole to get you started and you're going to want to jump. What I'll do is get a little piece of wood and you can keep it with your plugs. Make a bunch of different sized plugs if you want, it doesn't cost anything once you have this and what you're going to do is drill a hole in this. This is going to be my template, so I'm going to take my saw and just drill. a hole right here near the end now that I have my hole, I can go to my wall, put this where I wanted and put this here and get a nice clean hole without it jumping out, so I'm going to go ahead and make a bigger one because I will need two sizes.

I'll make two different holes. This is a pretty big hole saw to use with this little drill, but I love this little drill so I use it a lot. There you have it. now we have two templates here, we're going to do the same thing, we turn it over and I'm going to make a hole right on the edge here, like I said, I don't want to tear the paper on the other side. You want to cut this at least an inch and a half or two inches away to leave room for the paper in case something tears, you can trim it, so if you want to go two and a half inches that's fine, but usually I'm going to an inch and a half. from half to two inches.

I'm just looking at it here because that's all I need to do. I'll take this and cut it. Let's trim this down a bit. We need so much. Okay now that we have this. Same thing, the nice thing about this too is that when you take this bit and you make that cut into the other part of the wall, you're going to lose the thickness of this, so it gives it room to slide in there the thickness of the bleed will do. Make a slightly larger hole when doing it from the outside so it slides in easily.

You're going to use regular drywall mud for this now, when you mix the mud, which you have to do, n

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just scoop it out of the bucket and put it on the wall because you'll have little bubbles in there that will pop and you'll have air bubbles, little holes through. everywhere, so what do you want? What you want to do is beat it, if you don't have a cake mixer or something like that that you can use to do this, you can just take it and move it back and forth in your pan and that will soften it up and make it creamy. that's what you want, you want to get all that air out and make it creamy like this, I'm going to take my pattern right in the center of that hole and like I said, the pilot won't have anything to hold on to.

That's why you make this jig to start a little bit on the outside, that's it, you just run the drill and then you hit it. Now we can put our plug in there and you can see how it goes. Here is our plug. This hole is a little larger than the plug, so it fits perfectly like this. If you don't want to make a template like this, if you don't have a piece of wood, you can always take that extra piece of drywall. that you have and make a hole in that and make your template with that, so we're going to go ahead and drill this hole, we're going to change the bits real quick, we're going to put the drywall right in the center of that hole and this is a lot bigger hole saw. , so you're going to want to hold on, so you want to give it a little twist before you touch it there, so we're going to get it in the hole once it starts, it's easy.

Street, here we go. ready for this socket, this is what I love about butterfly patches, you can take 3/8 inch, 1/2 inch or even 3/4 inch drywall and fill a socket here on your wall, this it's 1/2 inch right here, but if I had 3/8, I could fill it with 1/2 inch of 3/4 and vice versa, the reason is that you're making a butterfly patch, it doesn't touch anything behind it, I don't have to put a piece of wood or anything behind This will hold it up and what makes it strong is the fact that you're putting mud in here and I'll show you that in a second we fill it with mud and then when we push this, it fills up. almost all that space and then when you go over it, it's loud, so let's go ahead and grab some mud and put it in there.

Okay, what I'm going to do is make sure I cover all of these edges. It may look sloppy. be a big dough, it doesn't matter, you don't have to be a pro at it now, once you get all the field you want to take and skip the edges, so let's go ahead and flip through everything and you can get it into shape. thick, I'm not worried about it thickening because I'm going to wet my stopper and this will cause it to foam. I take a damp rag and I wet it all over, once it's wet, it's going to Help me get the mud that's on the edges here so it can float, so I'm going to put it right in that hole and all of that will come together when it comes together. dry, we'll take this.

I hold one while our pen out. and you squeeze it very tight and by getting it wet you allow it to adhere firmly to the wall and suck there and expel the excess mud. If you don't wet it, you need to be a little more careful when expelling the mud. because it can build up underneath and you're going to have a big patch or a bigger lump right here that you're going to have to float out, so you see how easy it is when you wet it, you see how tight it is on the wall now when I go put my coat back on. skin there.

I have to put a minimum of blood there. It will be easy to patch. Take my mud. Make sure there is no trash inside. If you pick up trash from this wall, you won't. I want him to get into this mud because he will leave a mark. Now I can brush some paint over this and I'm going to put a light paint on it and we'll soften it up a little bit. You can use a six-inch knife. All this, but when I go over things I like to use a bigger knife because it will bring it out and make your job easier.

The wider the knife is for the area you have to work with, I can't get a knife that is too big because in some places you may not have room, but if you have a wider knife it definitely makes the loads more easy and I can let this lightly tap the edges and it will be ready to use when you sand it however you want. Sand it lightly, don't push it, and make grooves that you want to rub just barely here, this is 100 grit sandpaper. Now, if you need to take down something heavy, yes, you can rub it.

What is your final part? You really have to review. slightly, you don't want to, you don't want to use the end caps too much because you really do it right. I'm using a Valspar all-in-one paint and primer and I'm going to wipe it down with a little bit of a damp, damp towel, whatever you want, like that, you just want to make sure you don't get dust everywhere. I'm using the thick nap roller with this, I'll roll it up and see. I'll have some close-ups in a few minutes and you can't even tell where it was patched.

I'm going to go from here to passing the patch so you can get an idea of ​​how. Look, now you see how easy it is to make your own patches and it's much cheaper than buying them. Those little kits, don't waste your time, make your own patches. You can keep a bunch of them in your garage if you want. put them in a small container and when you need to use them, you'll have them before I leave. I just wanted to give a special thanks to all the people in the military who have served this country proudly, thank you all, happy 4th of July.

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