HOW TO REPAIR OVERCUT ELECTRICAL BOX (DRYWALL)

Hello and welcome to Vancouver Carpenter. Today we're going to

repair

this nasty ding here and we're going to use just tape and mud so in some circumstances you can cut out the damaged

drywall

here and replace a piece and then just tape it off. like a small patch, but I want to illustrate how much you can do with just tape and quick drying and still have it be a nice, strong, sturdy patch. The first thing you're going to want to do is get a nice sharp blade and cut through all this kind of stuff, you don't want all this stuff flapping around here so it looks a lot better, there's nothing in there that's flapping around that could cause a blister so that I'm back.

I just mixed some quick set with some glue, you can watch my video on that to get an idea of ​​why I put the glue in. I've got some paper tape, get a nice sharp edge, so what we need is three pieces of paper tape that are We're going to go through right here, so we want at least an inch to go through on each side, so one, two and one for the horizontal right here, so next let's start recording this, so this is what we'll do. you're basically creating a little mini piece of

drywall

so I often just use the wall and what I'll do is I'll just put a big strip of mud on there so this tape now has about a quarter inch of mud covering it so when I put it here, I'm going to line it up with the box, not so far down that it covers these holes, and I'm going to start embedding this tape.

I have a horrible angle to try to do. this because the camera is where I want to be, so next let's do this side again. I'm going to try to put a lot of mud in because I easily want a solid quarter inch or more of mud on the back of this. There's a lot of mud in this one. In fact, I'm going to go a little bit beyond this edge. In fact, I want this to play here and now, just to make sure, we'll do this side, although to be honest, I could probably just fill it out. on this side and it wouldn't break just to make sure we're going to put some tape on it.

I'm actually going to fill that cup before I do this, so I'll leave just a little bit of mud under the tape, just enough. to attach it there, this is like paper mache, okay, how do you get it to sit flush? Not bad, we got a little more out of it, okay, that's good, this is 20 minute mud. I'll come back when it's completely set up because if I try and code it right now what's going to happen is this part here that's kind of flapping in the air might move a little bit and I might end up with an 8 inch hump here that I have to cover, so let's leave this. until the quick dry is fully set, ok, looks pretty good, kwikset is completely hardened, ready for another coat.

See if standing on this side of the camera works a little better, so just a generous layer on top right now I'm starting. with about an eighth of an inch I'm right on top of it all and I put it down gently to try to keep it from spilling too much here because you just have to clean it up later and electricians don't like it even though they're used to it so now I'm going to smoke it, now I keep my inside corners clean, soften my edge, keep going so this layer is pretty liberal again. I started with about an eight and now I have maybe about an eighth more. this part and then fanned out to nothing about a foot further each way that's what it takes to make this go away it's actually just a butt joint so now I'm just going to let this one set up and also You could do all this with all-purpose mud if you wanted, but this heavy part behind the tape would take forever to dry, so I really like to do this with quick dry because it doesn't shrink and goes much faster, so the quick drying now that's it. setup I have some regular all purpose mud mixed in here now the first thing I have to do is scrape this all up and if you were using regular premixed bucket mud for all of this this would be the point where I just send it down or scrape your second layer, clean up those corners and this line, if you're wondering, here it's just a shadow cast by this little column, but you especially want it nice and flat over here because if you haven't done a good job of patching all of this up and then, when you go to put the face plate on you can see big gaps it doesn't look good so these parts need to be nice and flat and you don't want quick setting crumbs getting into your normal mud they won't soften and go into the mix, just a crumb, okay, seems like a good time to put some regular mud on it, basically the same process.

Oh, giant crumbs hate them, so I'm just going to go a couple centimeters further than quickly. and, if possible, you want to apply a generous coat over the quick-setting mud a good sixteenths of an inch before it's all been removed because quick-setting mud doesn't sand well compared to regular mud and you don't want to be sanding. through your regular mud in the quick set or quick set will not sand your regular mud and you will get weird ridges and shadow mud everywhere, take out the crumbs so this mine was freshly mixed and you got nothing. The bubbles are very pretty, okay, and I'll stop playing with it, although it could be a little more perfect.

I can sand it down, let's take a closer look, so my finished coat ended up coming down quite a bit. I'm almost a meter high. long patch here so just for this little box I covered it pretty big to make it go away so now that it's dry let's see how strong it is so I don't see any little cracks nothing showed up so I can hit that pretty hard force. It actually hurt my knuckles a little bit, so it's strong, so now it's time to give it a quick sanding detail with a sponge. Now you can carve this with a knife.

Make sure you have the power off so you don't do this. If they don't get into either live wire by accident, they can get into the screws on both, so we're done, so I hope it sheds a little light on how to patch that broken or

overcut

electrical

box. It is a quick, effective and long-lasting solution. patch when it's done correctly so whether you had a sloppy tradesman or you decided to hang the drywall yourself you now know what to do thanks for watching Vancouver carpenter until the next video.