Video: Tools for Repairing Sheetrock

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Learn about tools for repairing sheetrock in this free home repair video from a construction expert and home renovation professional.

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My name is Shannon Kniep on behalf of Expert Village. Want to show you some tools that you are going to use for doing work on sheetrock and repairing holes. Number one is a square with a straight edge. This is important because whenever you cut lines, you want to keep them straight. If there's gagging, it's really hard to match up the piece that you are putting in. So, you want to use a straight edge with a pencil to get a really sharp line and then the sheet rock is gonna be cut gently with a utility knife like this. If you can press really hard on it is not gonna break. Much safer than a full length knife that is design for maybe cutting potatoes or something. That's not, I wouldn't recommend all, use a knife like this, you can get these at any hardware store. Beyond that you are going to use something, it's called a rasp and basically it roughs the edges of your sheet-rock and you rub it along, it keeps a flat smooth edge but it's important because when you're joining two edges of a new piece to an old piece they need to fit pretty tightly not perfectly but . And also, if it's a little tool large, this is a great way to shave off some of that length on that sheet-rock. Then you are going to use what's called a sheetrock saw and this is different from the standard saw cutting wood. This doesn't really cut wood, I mean it could, but basically it's got larger teeth. So, it's gonna be real rap in cutting right through the middle a sheet-rock. It's good for cutting out holes if you need to put in a plug or a switch plate. And what we're gonna use in this demonstration is, is a piece of 1/2 inch sheet-rock because the hole we're gonna patch is 1/2 inch. So, this is standard, it normally comes in 4X4 or 4x8 sheets. Sometimes you can get for different sizes but that's the general sizes that you'll buy at.

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Tools for Repairing Sheetrock

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