How to Float a Drywall Patch

Video Transcript

"We’re doing just a floating around a door frame, and it would be the same thing that you would do if you were to patch a sheet rock hole. I am using a wet sponge sander- that way you don’t make a big mess, you don’t have dust flying everywhere. And just dip it in water and get it wet. And you take it and sand over, get everything nice and smooth. Flip it often, otherwise you’re going to get a lot of dust flying off of it. You just rinse it, and do the same thing again. You get it down to the paint and the paint will start to peel back just a little bit, and that’s how you can tell. And you just wet it, and that paint will stick back to itself. And then once it dries, we’re going to prime and paint it. And that’s how you would sand a sheet rock patch. "