How do you fix a hole in a wall?

Question

How do you fix a hole in a wall?

Answer 1

Need more info is it a plastered wall, brick, block etc.

If a plastered wall use some pollyfilla or similar product.

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Answer 2

What size?  What are the materials and finish?  In general, match the original construction and finish.  If it is large and in an exterior wall, add insulation if there was none in the past.

Answer 3

Here is some tips for fixing a hole in the wall...

Answer 4

Don't put it there in the first place.

Answer 5

Just for grins, lets assume the wall is drywall and the hole is bigger than one that might be made by a nail or s***w.

First, look at the material around the hole to see how thick the drywall is.  It's probably 5/8".  Then, buy, borrow or steal a piece of drywall the same thickness, but BIGGER than the hole.  Cut a piece of the new drywall to make a patch, and make sure your patch is also bigger than the hole and shaped so that if you lay it over the hole, the hole will be completely covered.

Then, do lay the patch against the wall so that it covers the hole, and trace around the patch with a pencil, making an outline of the patch actually on the wall.  The patch's outline should go completely around the hole.  The ultimate shape of the patch is entirely irrelevant, so long as it is bigger than the hole.

Now that you have an outline of the patch on the wall, cut along the outline with a jigsaw, drywall saw, or any other tool that will cut through the wall.  Now the hole is exactly the same size and shape as the patch!

Make a small hole in the patch and insert an unbroken rubber band into the hole.  On the side of the patch that will be inside the wall, put a stick or any piece of disposable wood which is long enough to extend past the edges of the hole through the loop of the rubber band.  Hold the rubber band from the other side of the patch, keeping it tight enough to keep the stick snug against the patch.

Using joint compound (drywall mud), "butter" the edges of the patch and, still holding onto the rubber band and keeping the stick against the patch, put the stick inside the hole with the ends extending past the hole, and put the patch into the hole where its shape exactly fits the hole.

Now, get a second stick about as long as the first one was.  Put it through the loop in the rubber band that you've been holding on the outside of the wall, and twist the stick so that the rubber band tightens enough to hold both sticks against the wall - one on the inside and one on the outside.  This will hold the patch in place until the joint compound dries, glueing the patch in place.

When the whole thing is dry,  cut the rubber band and dispose of the stick you can reach.  The other one should fall harmlessly and forever to the floor inside the wall.  Now, take your finger and put some joint compound in the little hole where the rubber band was.  

When everything is dry, sand it smooth and paint it to match the rest of the wall.

Answer 6

It depends on how big it is If it is small you can use spakel and if it is big you will have to sheetrock over it

Answer 7

There are kits at Home Depot and Lowe's or just about any hardware store. If it's small holes...simply Spackle it (Spackle is another product from above stores), sand it flat, and if necessary, touch-up the paint.

Answer 8

dont drink...

Answer 9

just use some thing to hold cement because cement will flow down.