What a mess whenever you have to drill either small or large holes in the ceiling.A nifty trick is to take a fairly flexible and transparent food container, put you bit right through the bottom and into the drill.Hold the container low to sight your entry point, then slide it up tight to the ceil...
One viewer installed drywall, taped the joints, painted and then discovered that there were lumps and uneven areas in the joint plaster. What to do?It is certainly easier to perfect the sanding before there is paint on the wall, so the moral is to really verify your sanding job before saying it ...
Tony from Montreal has problems with cracks in his walls. All of the cracks followed drywall joints just above the corners of windows and doors. Tony thought it was his electrical radiant heating in the ceiling that was causing the problem. This could be partially true, but more likely it is rel...
When patching a large hole in drywall you can simply put some plaster on a board or a piece of drywall, slide it into the hole and then pull it back tight against the backside of the hole. After the plaster has set, you can then plaster the drywall patch into this bar across the hole.You can als...
Ornamental Gypsum is the right term for all that plaster molding you find in the classic old homes, and more and more in new modern homes.There are two basic types of molding. One has all the fancy carving, and it is literally done with a silicone mold taken off of a sculpture or an existing ...
When someone has bumped into the corner of a wall and caused damage to the finish, there are some preliminary things that must be done before patching it.First be sure that all loose drywall compound is removed. Then add screws to the metal corner bead if necessary to pull it back flush. Use...
Did you ever think of using old kitchen spatulas as wall protectors for pulling nails, or even as a nail puller itself. This segment developed a series of shop uses for common kitchen tools.And I show you the fantastic plaster washers, used to hold cracked or loose plaster in place. These wide ...
Patching a large hole in drywall is part having the right products to work with, part having the right tools and part technique.Rule one is that hard plasters, like Polyfiller and Durabond 90 and others, are good to use to fill large cracks, but should never be brought right up to the finishe...
Michelle in Port Coquitlam, BC had a worker repair the wall and ceiling above the shower tiles. He used ordinary drywall compound and she is worried that it is going to just go soft with time.The original wall and ceiling were made with the same material and it didn't have any problems until the...
When you put two pieces of drywall head to head, like on the ceiling, there is no tapered valley to hide the paper and drywall compound. The secrete to hiding this joint, which will be raised above the surface, is to spread it out as much as two to three feet wide.On this TV show we visited an o...
