What Do I Use To Repair A Hole In Bathroom Ceiling

Pace one

Score the Perimeter

Place a drib cloth below the work area, put on safety glasses, then use a utility knife to make a shallow cut around the damaged expanse. This cut helps to keep y'all from inadvertently stripping the paper confront off the undamaged drywall during the next step.

Shown: TOH senior technical editor Mark Powers uses a utility knife to cutting effectually the water harm on a drywall ceiling

Step 2

Scrape

Utilise a 6-inch taping pocketknife to peel off the loose layers of pigment and paper, and the crumbly bits in the drywall'southward gypsum plaster core. Accept care to keep the knife blade from going beyond the score line y'all cut in Pace 1. Grit the scraped area clean using a soft-bristle paintbrush.

Step iii

Record the Cracks

If the blistering occurred at a seam betwixt drywall panels, or if there are cracks in the plaster cadre, embrace them with joint tape to keep the repair from cracking. Mix upwards a pocket-size batch of 20-infinitesimal setting-type joint compound to a peanut-butter consistency, mist the ceiling with h2o from a spray canteen—that ensures the compound volition prepare properly—and employ a thin layer of compound to the ceiling with the taping pocketknife. Then employ information technology to press the record into the moisture compound, as shown.

Step 4

Spread the Compound

After the record layer hardens, mix a bigger batch of joint chemical compound and transfer it from the bucket to the ceiling with the 6-inch taping knife. Now switch to a 12-inch taping knife and use it to smooth the compound and feather its edges. Look several minutes for the compound to firm upwardly, then mist and smoothen it some more. With patience, you can eliminate most imperfections with the knife earlier the compound becomes too hard to work.

Step 5

Sand

When the compound is hard, use a medium-dust sanding sponge to erase any blemishes. Pay particular attention to the edges.

Step six

Prime and Paint

Wipe off the grit with a clammy sponge. When the patch is dry, brush or roll on a water-based primer. And when the primer dries, follow upwards with a glaze of ceiling pigment. And so stand up back and admire your handiwork.

Stride vii

Tale of the Record

Most tape that bridges drywall joints is fabricated of paper (above, top). Information technology's potent and cheap, but absorbs moisture and doesn't bond well with joint compound.

Fiberglass mesh record (middle) isn't affected past moisture and becomes fully embedded in the compound. But its relative thickness means that feathering edges and covering inside corners takes time and skill.

The latest leap forward, FibaFuse, combines paper's thinness and ease of use with mesh's wet resistance and ability to become one with the compound. Information technology'south the tape we used for this project.