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Posted by David Nebenzahl on November 1, 2006, 1:43 am
jeffc spake thus:
>
>>That'll work, but to me it's doing things the hard way.
>>
>>What a guy would want to do in this case is to make a "dutchman": cut a
>>piece of drywall about 4" bigger in both dimensions than the hole. Draw
>>lines on the back of the piece which are a little smaller (about 1/8")
>>than the hole is (that is, about 2" in from the edges). Score--but don't
>>cut--along these lines. Peel the back paper and gypsum off from the
>>section around the piece the size of the hole, leaving only the paper on
>>the front.
>>
>>Now you have a patch which you can just stick into the hole (that's why
>>the lines should be drawn a little smaller than the hole). All you need to
>>do now is "mud it in", using joing compound. Smear some on the back of the
>>paper and the wall around the hole, push the dutchman in, smooth it down,
>>mud over it, let dry, then sand.
>
> This gives the opposite problem - it's the easy way, but it doesn't work
> very well. It's not very strong, at least. If it never gets touched,
> that's fine. You certainly wouldn't want to attach anything to the wall
> there.
True, but it's plenty strong otherwise, and it works extremely well;
I've always found it to be an excellent solution. You can touch it with
no prolems. I thought the OP just wanted to fill a hole in a wall, not
attach anything.
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