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August 12, 2017 18:05

How to quickly and securely seal the hole in the drywall

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Drywall is one of the most popular building materials.However, for all its advantages it also has a significant drawback - it is not as durable as brick or wood.So often when trying to attach to the wall of plasterboard shelf or something else turns hole.Change entire list - this is a big problem.However, when skilful approach this hole can be "eliminated", and today we will learn how easy it is to close up the hole in the drywall.

There are several common methods to eliminate this defect in the wall.Consider the easiest and quickest to implement.It is used with a relatively small amount of damage that occurs quite often - for example, the wall broken door handle.It consists in closing the damaged area of ​​the same piece of material.

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should take a piece of drywall the same thickness as the wall sheet.Because it is cut rectangle or square (depending on the shape of a hole in a wall) of a size that it covers the damaged area with a small margin (1.5 - 2 cm).All patches obtained sidewalls gently beveled at an angle of approximately 45 °.

Now the figure must be applied to the wall so that the hole was "in the middle" patches.Then draw out the wall contour of the figure.Then turn over and draw out a patch on the contrary another loop (because we grind off the sides at an angle, then there is another figure inside).According to receive the inner loop hole in the wall Scrollsaw.This is done with a knife, nail file from a handsaw, and so on. D. Pre do not forget to break the wallpaper around the place to be "repaired".

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This is followed by sharpening edges of the cut in the wall shapes.The benchmark will be conducted by an external circuit.The problem - the size of the patch, and drank in the wall, as well as sharpening angles must be fulfilled so that the patch is firmly laid down "in place" and it does not fail.Therefore, you need to carefully fit the patch.The edges of the pieces in the wall and the patch should be covered with plaster, adhesive composition or the like material.After that there is only apply the patch on the wall and press.To be safe, you need to fluff the contour of the resulting interface and remove excess adhesive.

It should be understood that the described method can be used for repairing damaged only a comparatively small size.If the hole size is comparable to the dimensions of the sheet of drywall, you will have to change the entire list, there's nothing you can do about it.

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