How important is painting to the wall? Paint actually resembles the clothes we wear. Just like clothes are the backbone of our personality, similarly, paint represents our home. Paint is the input of the house for better output of the image of the house.
A fresh coat of paint can bring enormous changes in your home and can also help to increase its resale value. But it is important to perform few pivotal tasks prior to apply paint to a wall. What are these tasks?
Before initiating any process, it is necessary to prepare the surface properly. The foremost step when it comes to preparing the wall for painting is patching drywall. Although many believe that patching drywall just includes can of spackling and putty knife. But apart from this, the most important thing required is a skill to get best results.
The article provides you with the roadmap on how to patch the drywall effectively and efficiently.
- Self-Priming filler
Primer is like a beauty foundation which all the beautiful ladies around us use. Its main function is to absorb all the remaining moisture and provides a smooth surface for the next stage. If you wish to avoid some cumbersome task after your paint job, then spending some time at this step is highly important.
Patches need to be primed with a sealing-type primer before painting. Otherwise, the patched areas could show through the finished paint job as gloomy spots.
Now follow the following steps to repair the drywall…
- Take a blade knife and clean the hole. Cut at an angle and make sure that the exterior hole is bigger than the interior one.
- Next step is to fill the open hole with the painter’s putty. Make sure to level it with the wall surface, else it will look bad.
- Take rest till the putty dry. Once you make sure that it is dry, lightly sand the area until it becomes smooth.
- Now, just spackle over the putty. You may need to repeat this step for better results.
- For medium holes, use a drywall metal patch.
- Make sure to sand the surface smooth around the hole.
- Wipe off dust.
- Peel paper backing off the patch.
- Next step is to spread drywall compound over the patch. Smooth it out and give it some time to dry.
- Now again you will have to san surface until the surface becomes smooth. After repeating the steps for about 10 times, you will notice that patch is no longer detected.
- Cut a square of drywall slightly larger than the hole. Score one side with a blade knife and cut the back of the broken
- Using a pencil, draw an outline of the patch around the hole.
- Before planning the cut check for electrical wires or plumbing lines. Make sure that you do not cut those wires.
- Use a drywall saw to cut out the drawn area.
- To makes sure that your patch does not fall, screw in two wooden boards behind the drywall, one at the top and one at bottom of the hole.
- Spread drywall compound effectively and add mesh.
- Now again sand the affected area and keep repeating it until the patch is undetectable.
- Paint it over once it’s dry.
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