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Title: Drywall help.
Post by: Virginia Gent on July 05, 2010, 02:36:20 PM
So this morning I was making my way to the door after having just got up when I tripped over a towel I had carelessly left in the middle of my floor. I started to fumble and almost caught myself, only to lose my balance in the end and fall backwards into the wall behind me. There is a nice-sized dent in the wall where my butt and lower back hit and I was hoping y'all could give me some pointers on how to fix it.

Thanks everyone!!
Title: Re: Drywall help.
Post by: rocking23nf on July 05, 2010, 02:51:37 PM
Cut out a square until you reach the middle of the studs on both sides of the crack.
Cut a piece to fit.
Tape/plaster.
paint.
Title: Re: Drywall help.
Post by: Virginia Gent on July 05, 2010, 04:04:49 PM
Thanks! I figured it would be more to it than that. Most appreciated.  [cool]
Title: Re: Drywall help.
Post by: rocking23nf on July 05, 2010, 04:38:14 PM
I forgot to say "screw the drywall to the studs"
Title: Re: Drywall help.
Post by: firefox on July 05, 2010, 07:28:25 PM
Probably not necessary, but if it were me, I would put a piece
of 2x4 across where the horizontal seem was so I could screw it
down. But then I always over engineer things.
Bruce
Title: Re: Drywall help.
Post by: MountainDon on July 07, 2010, 01:19:27 PM
A piece of 1x is all that is needed to be able to screw the drywall edges down.