Patching and Plastering - Plaster/Wallboard
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05-07-06, 10:05 PM
I have a hole in an interior wall and the sheet rock appears to have a 1/8 inch layer of plaster on the outside. The plaster layer is textured and very uniform. The hole is roughly 7 x 5 inches. I have experience patching holes in painted drywall, but this is seems like it will be more difficult. Can I use drywall mud to try to recreate the texture pattern? What is the best way to recreate that pattern? This is going to be time consuming and difficult isn't it? TIA
coops28
05-08-06, 04:35 PM
Please describe the texture. thanks
brian828
05-11-06, 03:06 PM
Repair the hole as if it were a flat wall,then on a piece of sheetrock try to duplicate your texture.Best guess would be with a damp sea sponge stipple on mud, let set up for 20 minutes then with a lite trowel knock down texture,let dry and paint good luck.B
DaVeBoy
05-11-06, 05:44 PM
Tip:
If anyone has a sheetrock hole and either you feel lazy or if the hole is is around some pipe or other thing that will cause double the work....
...consider running some 3 inch shetrock screws into the opposing wall inside the cavity to act as posts. Then fill the void with spray foam sealant. After it cures, carve out about 1/2inch of it if you need to, and then mix/trowel in the hard setting Durobond mud.
I am currently doing this around a shower arm that was never secured in the wall, and others have been piling in the "mud" with a mound around it, and then THAT broke out and pulled forward with the shower arm. So I cut out that raised (mound, I called it) area around the shower head's arm and cut out a 2 inch x 6 inch long horizontal piece of wallboard to it's right, and then I was able to run in a drill and then screw a 1/2 inch copper u-clamp around the elbow to the stud. Then I did the screws + foam trick. Tomorrow I will cut out excess foam (that expanded out) and mud fill.
I also did the same thing where a door knob went right through the wall, just the other day. I carved it flat the next day. Then I will buy one of those stick on door bumpers you can buy. I'll glue it on with silicone caulk.
If anyone has a sheetrock hole and either you feel lazy or if the hole is is around some pipe or other thing that will cause double the work....
...consider running some 3 inch shetrock screws into the opposing wall inside the cavity to act as posts. Then fill the void with spray foam sealant. After it cures, carve out about 1/2inch of it if you need to, and then mix/trowel in the hard setting Durobond mud.
I am currently doing this around a shower arm that was never secured in the wall, and others have been piling in the "mud" with a mound around it, and then THAT broke out and pulled forward with the shower arm. So I cut out that raised (mound, I called it) area around the shower head's arm and cut out a 2 inch x 6 inch long horizontal piece of wallboard to it's right, and then I was able to run in a drill and then screw a 1/2 inch copper u-clamp around the elbow to the stud. Then I did the screws + foam trick. Tomorrow I will cut out excess foam (that expanded out) and mud fill.
I also did the same thing where a door knob went right through the wall, just the other day. I carved it flat the next day. Then I will buy one of those stick on door bumpers you can buy. I'll glue it on with silicone caulk.