2007-01-05 16:08:28 · 14 answers · asked by ticoboy 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Decorating & Remodeling
Drywall is nothing but plaster between two sheets of thick paper. There's nothing there for a screw of any size to get a good grip on. So if you turn it in and try to tighten it, the hole tears and then it won't go either way. If you're sure it's not going into a stud, and likewise sure it's not anchored behind the drywall, then just pull it with a pliers while turning it backwards. As a last resort, if nothing works, put a screwdriver on it and give the driver a really sharp blow with a hammer. That'll drive it in and leave a hole, not much bigger than the screw or screwdriver. Then you can patch the hole with plaster or drywall compound and continue as if it'd never been there in the first place.
2007-01-05 17:28:30 · answer #1 · answered by BuddyL 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You probably missed a stud when you drove the screw in so it just spins around in the wall without grabbing anything. But when you try to reverse it out it won't come out, & the threads are to coarse to let you just yank it out without splaying a big hole in the drywall. Right?
I have had this happen to me many time when I missed the stud, & what I usually do is take a small set of diagonal cutters. (The kind the electricians use to cut wire), & work the cutting edges under the head of the screw, & pry up enough to put some back pressure on the screw threads. This will cause the threads to grab the wall so when you reverse the screw it won't just spin around inside of the wall. If you don't have any diagonal cutters then try a flathead screwdriver, & pry it against the screw head, & the wall surface while reversing the screw until the threads start to take hold.
Hope that does the trick for you.
2007-01-06 00:45:56 · answer #2 · answered by No More 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If it will not turn out, and it just spins, put a safe edge under it while turning it counterclockwise, like a putty or butter knife and gently turn it while lifting up on the head of the screw. If it is stuck in a stud, try to turn it with a pair of vice grips lightly crimped to the head of the screw. (In or out)
2007-01-06 00:13:30 · answer #3 · answered by jeff h 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
With one hand operating the screw gun, use the other hand to get under the head of the screw, applying slight pressure on the screw and slowly back it out with the screw gun...
2007-01-06 00:15:24 · answer #4 · answered by Wabbit 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
you put a hand screw driver on the screw and tap it with a hammer as you turn the screw driver, it will go... make sure you haven't hit any water pipes or electrical conduit...
2007-01-06 00:39:45 · answer #5 · answered by prop4u 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Bolt cutters...hammer in the rest and cover it over with compound.
2007-01-06 00:10:39 · answer #6 · answered by Chrys 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Hammer it or grip plier it out then spackle the damage.
2007-01-06 00:09:43 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Jeff H has the right of it. I could not have said it better.
2007-01-06 00:18:44 · answer #8 · answered by mentalben 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
use a claw on a clawhamer yank it ...... and it would have helped to know what kind of screw it may be anchored.
2007-01-06 00:10:34 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Breath. take a walk around the house. It will come out.
2007-01-06 00:09:22 · answer #10 · answered by surfer_grl_ca 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋