Repairing and restoring damaged drywall
I'm going to share with
you my secret for prepping repairing and
so most people they have a damaged piece
of wall board whether it's a renovation
like we were doing here behind us where
we have a bit of a seam issue or they've
got a doorknob
dent in the wall or they're just gonna
repaint a room and they've got little
pinholes where they have pictures and
screws and plugs and so I'm going to
share with my secret today for how to
fill all those things and the reason
this is such a huge secret is because it
feels it super fast you don't have to
sand it and you don't have to prime it
and you don't even need to use two coats
of paint to finish it all right this is
my secret in the trades for whenever
I've got to do a touch-up and I'm ready
to head out of a project and I see
something I don't like I can take five
minutes and fix that before I walk out
and it doesn't need any work after I'm
done and here's the trick you got on a
knock on a four inch knife all right so
go to your store and make sure you buy
them so what you want to do is you want
to grab some sheetrock 45 all right now
this is a quick drying drywall compound
it comes in powder form and you've got
to mix this yourself all right
and you take your hawk and you step over
your sink and you just want to make a
little bit of a volcano here okay and
this is easier to do with a lot of it
harder to do with a little but you
really want to set up a little bit of a
volcano okay there we go now before I
get started the secret here is hot
running water make sure you get the
water running first and once it's hot
bring it in to your volcano well this is
gonna take a little bit of practice to
get used to how much water to put in
there now you want to hold it and you've
got a couple options you can leave it on
there for about a half an hour or so but
it'll harden faster then you can mix it
or you just take your knife off the edge
lift up some of the loose powder and
shake it in there like you're icing a
cake okay work your way around the
volcano
I assure cake and if a little bit starts
to come out don't worry about it there's
not enough water there to cause a
problem no once you've gone all the way
around the edges you should start to
become more of a paste okay and then you
can just break it up and you mix it in
right here on the top okay no mixing
tools no pails no muss no fuss right
here on your heart use your orange knife
and just work this in now
it's more of a paste now you just want
to flatten it out now make sure all your
bumps are out of there okay the smoother
this is when you put it on the wall the
easier it will be to finish you just
check right there like that yeah I'm
loving it so now I've got a drywall
compound that's got a hardening agent in
here that's chemically activated and
anybody knows any science knows when you
add heat to any kind of chemical
reaction it speeds up the reaction that
is why we are using hot water on this so
generally 45 minute mud with regular
cold water takes 45 minutes to an hour
to set up but if you add hot water you
can be sending this in 20 minutes if you
had a really hot water or if you live
out in the country a lots of minerals be
careful because this can set up in five
to ten minutes okay and so then what
we're gonna do is we'll show you will
apply some of this mud here and so this
is my finished coat all right nice and
tight and I'm really pressing this on
here and the goal is to fill every
little scratch every bump okay so that
this wall is nice and smooth this
particular wall had that be resurfaced
with a new corner because we changed the
tub and I just started working on this
this morning this is now the third coat
of mud I'm putting on here
okay there we go now that is gonna be
beautiful you know we try on this
channel on the show people all the tips
and tricks for doing the work themselves
I remember even the most complicated
project still needs to have simplified
finishing all right so here we go just
gonna double check to make sure
everything here is good they both penny
bubbles this one was done earlier had a
lot of people comment on the on the
channel you know can you do wet sanding
is there any way to keep dust down what
oh I'm just doing a small space and I
want to make a mess this is the system
for you so you just take your sponge you
get these at the building store in the
tile Department this is for actually
doing groped and I'll just demonstrate
here real quick this is mud that's just
been pressed on it's got the wrinkles it
needs to be feathered out okay and you
just give it away there you go let it
dry you're ready to paint I know it's
that simple
once again you don't just go around your
fixtures take the excess off you see any
ridges just wipe them out there you go
ready to paint and the best thing about
this 45 minute mud is even if you get it
wet because it has a hardener it'll dry
in just a couple minutes so if you want
to get a job done in the same day you
can take a whole room do all your
patching and then you don't have any
priming to do or if you've already
finished your project and you bump a
wall with your ladder on the way out you
can do your 45 minute mud put it on
there real quick give it a few minutes
you can take a hairdryer to help dry it
off damp sponge okay come back with some
paint get a little mini roller and you
can touch up your paint job and walk out
the door within the hour and that is
money in the bank alright so that's
everything you need to know that's my
tip of the day how to use 45 minute mode
to do
magic that means you don't have to do
any priming and you don't have to do any
regular sanding just use a quick wet
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