I have a hole, the size of a fist, in my wall. How do I fix it so it looks normal.?

Question

The wall is just a regular home drywall material.

Answer 1

get a piece of paper and put it behind in the wall and glue it there and than paint your room the same color or differnt

Answer 2

move and buy a new house

Answer 3

dont stuff haha.. go to the hardware store.. you can buy a patch.. its like made out of wire and one side is sticky.. you just cut an appropriate sized piece.. stick it over the hole.. spackle.. then sand.. good luck!

Answer 4

poster?

Answer 5

first remove your fist from the wall,  cut a new piece of dry wall and put it in the hole and then spackle it together.

Answer 6

dont punhc walls anymore

go to home depot or some other store and buy a drywall patch kit. it will come with drywall fiberglass tape spatual and the putty mixture you will use

Answer 7

Cut the edge of the hole so it's clean.  A hand-held hole saw would be best.  It looks like a steak knife with teeth.  Probably best to make the hole into a rectangle.

Get a piece of scrap drywall, and cut it to fit the hole.

Fix it in place.  They make mesh-looking tape, and round pieces of tape about the size of a CD for this.  Or you can expand the hole until you get to studs on either side, and nail it in place.

Put spackle (aka sheetrock) into the cracks.  Smooth it out really, really good.

Let it dry.  Sand it.  Re-spackle if it's not smooth enough.  Let it dry.  Sand it.  Wipe the dust away with a rag, maybe ever so slightly damp.  Let it dry.  Paint.

Answer 8

Stuff, Spackle, and sand. Go to your local Hardware store for the specifics.

Answer 9

The easiest way is to purchase a patch, which is a perforated metal square with a sticky fiberglass mesh that will cover the hole.  Then take some joint compound and cover the patch in two or three layers, sand or wipe smooth with a lightly damp sponge, prime and paint.  It will be barely noticeable.  

Another option is to cut out a small rectangle of drywall that is larger than the hole, trace around it on the wall, cut out the square, and patch the hole that way.  A link to instructions is below.

Answer 10

Before filling the hole with Spackle, you need to glue a backer surface to span the hole from the inside to give the Spackle something to hold on to and not just fall through.  

Try this trick:  Start a s***w into a flat  wide piece of wood (a paint stir-stick will work for your sized hole).  The s***w will be a temporary handle so you can glue the wood against the inside of the wall across the hole while you pull outward till the glue sets.  Back the s***w out and fill the hole with non-shrinking Spackle.  Sand, then, if necessary, match the texture of the surrounding wall with a little drywall mud, then paint.

Answer 11

u can get a sheetrock patch from lowes or like and some mud .....peel off the tape and apply the metal screen patch.....use 6" putty knife and apply mud, not to thick and fan out the edges....wait 24 hrs....light sand......mud again and make mud thinner this time and wider......wait 24 ..sand and u might need one more......

lic. gen. contractor

Answer 12

You can buy a mesh repair kit at any large hardware store.  The mesh should work like tape.  Place the mesh over the hole, use a flexible putty knife and slather on some Spackle.  Let the Spackle dry, the container that holds the Spackle will have its directions how long it takes to dry.

When it dries, sand it down.  Then paint it.  You've just patched a hole in your wall.  Congratulations :-)