It's easier than you might think to repair drywall in your home. Here's How Jeff was able to use a California patch as a simple solution! You can watch all of Jeff's home renovation tutorials at / homerenovisiondiy
Suggestion: instead of cutting a square hole and then making a square patch to fit, make the square patch first and then hold it up to wall and trace around it with a pencil, then cut the square hole along the drawn line
Recommend clipping the corners of your face paper. It will cover easier and not catch your knife as you demonstrated. My taping guy calls it a hat patch because of the profile of a section. Screwing a piece of 1x3 across the back of the hole will guarantee a screwed patch stays put while it sets especially if it’s larger. What’s the story on the Canadian patch name?
I have been doing this without keeping the paper on the front and using that tape… it’s impossible to do well. This seems so obvious now that you’ve shown me… it’s super helpful. I’m going to finally patch that bloody thermostats hole with this method, thanks!
I think this was overtooled for your average Home Hardware DIY customer. But it makes sense because this video was about 80%. products. If someone was to go to Home Hardware to get all the necessary items listed in the video they would be walking out with a $150 bill for a single patch.
@@HomeHardwareStores oh yeah for sure. Typically i stud and re board the piece slightly smaller, then foam it and just fill it flush, but for the fun of it I’ll give the ol cali patch a gon
For small to medium size patches, this method does the trick! If the hole is much larger, the patch could be further reinforced using furring strips (thin pieces of wood that the patch would be screwed into).
It just seems wrong to put a hole in a wall just to fix it. But better yours than mine. 😊👍 Also this patch just seems fun to do. I secretly want holes to happen to practice on. 💪😁🤙
