How to Repair Holes in Walls

Video Transcript

"Hi this is Jon on behalf of Expert Village in this video clip I will be taking about patching holes. Before starting to mud I went ahead and laid down a painter tarp and some spared towels just in case I spill some of the mud or falls off the wall it's not going to get in the carpet. For filling holes are closet is going to be the worst area just because we pulled out that shelving unit and there was a lot of different bracket that held that in. On another portion of our wall we had another shelf which was held in by a big screw so we're going to have to fill this as well. The first thing I'm going to do with these holes is take a utility knife and cut a divit around them because when we pulled those nails out it did raised up the drywall a little bit, we just going to break that back down. Next I'm going to take a little bit of sandpaper and make sure that's smooth. Next we're going to take a little bit of mud and fill in that hole, now you want to leave a little bit of mud about the surface, so that we can sand it down later. When you mud your holes you might need to do this over about 2 or 3 days span just cause when the mud dries it will get smaller and it will show that hole a little bit."