How do you patch hopes on walls?

Question

I have a hole on my wall I need to fix before painting the wall. it's about the size of a little kid's fist. please tell me know what I need to buy and how to fix it. how long will the whole process take?

Answer 1

Touche' kjcdfb is right. I repair walls in my sleep and find most of the answers a bit intimidating.
Go to Home depot and in the section with all the drywall accessories you will find a perforated metal patch with a mesh tape stuck on it by Wal-bord. Buy this patch a little larger than the hole you want to repair. Buy a small plastic bucket of Easy sand multipurpose drywall mud and a plastic 6"-8" drywall or PUTTY knife. Go home and peel the paper backing carefully from the back of the metal patch and center over the hole in the wall. Stick it to the wall and apply a thin layer of the drywall mud over the patch to completely cover the patch and an additional 2" beyond the patch. Let it dry overnight and apply a 2nd and possibly and third coat over the patch extending the drywall mud 2" further than the earlier coatings. Sand if necessary to smooth the perimeter of the patched area and you're finished.

Answer 2

I assume you're speaking of Sheetrock.

Cut a piece of Sheetrock, or a thin wood, like 1/4" plywood.

Cut a strip, the width less than the diameter of the hole, the length at least a couple inches longer than the diameter.. Put a screw into the center of the strip. This is to hold it. Slip the strip inside the hole, holding on to the screw. Stretch the strip across the hole on the inside of wall. Holding on to the screw, put a screw through the Sheetrock into the strip on each side of the hole. Now, you've anchored the strip to the Sheetrock from inside the wall. Take the center screw out. Be sure to counter sink the screws a little into the Sheetrock. Trim away rough edges.

Now you have a backing to support repair. You can take a piece of scrap Sheetrock if available, and place it in the hole, cut to size, or fill it with Spackle..

Now you're ready to Spackle the patch to anchor it in the wall. Let that dry several hours, it may shrink, then Spackle it again, smoothing all the excess. After completely dry, sand it very slightly. Now you will have to stipple it to match the stippling on the rest of the wall. Thin some Spackle to a gravy texture, and use a brush or some textured object to dip into the thinned Spackle, not much, and daub the patch. Try to match the stippling. When that dries, you can paint.

Answer 3

If the paper part of the sheetrock is broken you will probably need some sheetrock tape to cover the hole. They sell a patch kit for fixing holes like this. It's a self adhesive screen looking piece. Cut it to just a little larger than the hole and stick it on. Then start covering it with sheetrock mud. Smooth it out, let it dry overnight, repeat with at least 2 more coats covering a larger area each time until you can no longer see the tape. Lightly sand the final coat and repaint the wall. Takes 3-4 days to do it right.

Answer 4

Since your hole is larger than a common nail hole you will need to fill it with more than putty as recomended above. The easy answer is to ball up newspaper and fill the hole completelyjust to the surface of the wall, Cut a small piece of drywall or wood and place in the hole using liquid nails, or some other calk to secure it. Putty over the entire area using wall spackel and a putty knife, sand any rough spots after 24 hours and then repaint. Shouldn't take longer than 30minutes in actual repair and paint time and 24 hours dry time.

Answer 5

For a second I was like "I have no idea how to patch hopes on walls" but than I opened the question. Thought it was some heavy philosophical thing...

Get a tiny tube of spackle and a puddy knife. Spread evenly, let 'er dry and depending on the spackle, prime it and paint it.

Answer 6

You seem as once you're beneficial on your capacity to patch the hollow. solid. Now as quickly as its patched- and its completely large in case you enable the patchwork protrude from the wall slightly, get a sanding block and use an exceedingly large ending-sort drywall sandpaper and gently sand it until eventually it is flush with the wall. based on the colour of the paint, how clean that's, and how plenty sunlight it is uncovered to, you ought to get it matched at a paint/abode progression keep and/or basically feather the paint out, with the intention to combination it with the present paint. it relatively is what I do with autos while i'd desire to color a repaired section yet do no longer choose to color the full panel, and vehicle paint makes imperfections plenty greater major than indoors paint. solid success!

Answer 7

Buy some spackle and a putty knife from your hardware or home improvement store. Apply the spackle with the putty knife, smooth it out using the flat blade, and then let it dry completely before painting it.

Answer 8

Check the first link below for step-by-step instructions from eHow.com, with pictures. The second link has some tips from other users on eHow as well. Good luck!

Answer 9

all you need is a container of spackle, and a puddy knife and you just spread it evenly over your hole, you can ask for more help from the people at home depot or lowes

Answer 10

way too much stuff to do. home depot has a mesh patch. stick it on and spackle. sand and paint. done