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Posted on March 12, 2010.
Drywall SuppliesHow can we repair a cantaloupe sized hole in drywall in a discrete mode and not in limited quantities?

It doesn't need to be particularly robust, I just need to be able to paint over and make sure it looks like nothing ever really happened.

Materials and tools:
screw knives, 6 or 8 plasterboard or other flat head (countersunk) screws, screwdriver, 2 wooden paint stirrers or a standard wood, tape, simple white glue, some spackling or drywall compound a putty knife (or a spatula), sandpaper, 6 pack of beer, painting, a framed mirror, picture or print.

If the dry wall is still broken up or punched in the wall
cavity, remove. Carefully cut out the broken equipment - trying to keep him in a room or mounted on the base paper - and save. You'll use it again.

Get a couple of strips of wood or thin boards that are long enough to cross the hole. wooden paint stirrers (free) or yard stick of wood cut to size will work. would be a wooden ruler.

a place of sticks in the wall cavity so that it passes through the hole. Hold it against the back side of the existing wallboard and secure with a screw at each end. You're screwing through the wall and into the strip of wood behind the wall. Repeat with the other band you have 2 strips across the hole. It is the structure to which you attach the broken piece. If the hole is small enough or wide enough strip of wood - one may be required.

putting the pieces of wall on the ground face against the ground and collect in their orignial configuration like a puzzle. Use tape to hold them together if necessary. Flip over the Assembly, and glue the pieces to fill any holes, trying to achieve a relatively flat wall surface.

to the wall section climbed into the hole, secure it with the tape is a couple of screws, no glue, if the wall section is too divided to get a screw.

All screws should be tightened so far as to leave a little indentation. parsimony on the smooth spackling or drywall compound with a putty knife (or a spatula), simply fill the cracks and screw holes. Try to preserve as much of the texture of the original wall as possible - it is difficult to reproduce.

If you have not made Spakling or together using white glue. to fill recesses (such as those made by the screws, do not try to fill both. make a bed, drink a beer while Drys and repeat.don 't worry about the glue has dried flat. the Sand excess paste or glue joint to obtain a flat surface.

Paint and hang a picture on it. Drink all your beer and resolve not to make holes in the wall.

cut the amounts and replace them with drywall and then you mud it with joint compound, then sand and mud so it will re-paint it to match not easy if you have never call a handyman ps good luck

Okay, here we go:
shopping list for Lowes.
smallest bucket of joint compound. And ask them if they have damaged drywall, you can get cheap. You only need a section 1 ft x 1 ft. They will probably give it to you. You need to know if it is 5 / 8 or 1 / 2 inches, probably 1 / 2 inch.
smaller box of drywall screws 1.
12 drywall knife, the cheapest available.

Take two small pieces of wood that are larger than the opening. Put one to the left, behind the drywall horizontally. Hold in place while putting the screw through the wall to hold in place. repeat on the right side. Cut drywall scrap the approximate size of the opening. implement, and wood screws. All screws should be slightly recessed.
glob Put joint compound on drywall knife and go over the hole, resting on a knife much of gypsum to give over yet. The next day, when the dry sand and repeat for the smooth and fill the cracks that have formed. The next day, the sand.

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