How to Patch a Ceiling

Video Transcript

" Hi! This is John on behalf of Expert Village in this video clip I will be talking about patching the ceiling. Before I paint my ceiling I'm going to want to go through and patch up any holes that I see. This is going to give my final product a much better look. What I'm going to do is just take a little bit of mud and put it in that hole and since my ceiling is textured I'm going to run my hand over it and try to give it a little bit of texture that will match the texture that is already on the ceiling. Now even though you could still see this once it is painted it would be virtually impossible to see unless you are really looking for it. If you have any nails that are showing in your ceiling first thing you want to do is take the hammer and lightly hit those in. Just enough to where they sit down into the dry wall just a little bit. Then we are going to take our mud and mud our nail hole. I'm going to run my fingers over that again and see if I can give it some of the texture that the ceiling has just by blending that in. "