Drywall and Plaster Repair Questions

Drywall and Plaster Repair Questions

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• PEELING NEWLY PAINTED WALL - PAINTED A SOFFIT IN KITCHEN AND IT BUBBLED AND PEELING ONLY OVER THE NEWLY PATCHED AREA. I USED A PAINT WITH PRIMER IN IT. I SUPPOSE I NEED TO SCRAPE OFF THE PAINT AND USE A PRIMER. BUT HOW DO I BLEND IT IN SO YOU DON'T SEE EDGES?
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• What paint is best to use for sealing a previous mold affected area of drywall? - I had a leaky valve problem behind my faucet which caused water damage to the drywall in the inner wall cavity. I opened the drywall from the other side of the wall and saw there was black mold. I removed the mold and treated the wall with disinfe...
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• Sandpaper grit for drywall. - What grit of sandpaper is used for sanding drywall compound?
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• Garage Ceiling - I had just dry wall up in the garage, and on the ceiling the tape was letting loose, and some of it was beginning to get a slight bow to it. The man put on what looks like popcorn texture. Will this work in a unheated garage?
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• Paint and drywall paper coming away from bathroom wall. - My house was built in 1983. I put one coat of acrylic primer on the bathroom walls. The next day, the primer as well as the old paint peeled away from the walls in sheets, down to the bare drywall. Huge sections of drywall paper came away from ...
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• Moisture trapped in walls. - Hot water pipe under apt burst and all my walls in several rooms bubbled.
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• How do I fix drywall edge around foor finish trim? - The finish trim on our exterior entry doesn't cover the interior sheet rock edge which is crumbling. Because of the way the house was built I'm not able to use a wider finish trim without going into a major rework. Can I use corner bead, mud it, t...
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• Water leak defects in my bathroom. - They just repaired a leak from a gasket on upper apartments pipe which caused ripples and bubbling, then painted it. Will compound smooth it out look better?
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• Textured Wall into Smooth Wall; is it possible?? - I have textured walls, and want to know how I can smooth them down. I was told 3 different options and would like to figure out the best one before I start. I was told to; 1) Soak the walls with water and get a scraper. 2) Get a power sander...
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• Drywall tape bubbling. - I have two edges where the drywall tape has bubbled and caused the paint to crack. How do I fix it? Do I cut out the section of the drywall tape that has bubbled or lifted, then texture, sand and paint?
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• How to prepare oil based primer for fresh drywall. - We have oil based painted kitchen area and want to put new drywall skip onto it. Some say sand off until shinny is gone, some say tsp only - it etches enough, and some say sand lightly and prime then texture and prime again. Please help me. I ...
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• How can I fix the outside corners of my walls? - The corners of my walls have metal on them & the paint chips off. I know you can buy guards to cover the corners but I don't want to do that on all of them. Is there some way to cover this metal so the paint will adhere? Spackling doesn't seem to ...
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• Ideal Temp for Drywall Mud - Is there an ideal interior temp before we tape and mud the drywall? Thanks
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• painting over peeled sheetrock paper. - Our house had wallpaper in the entryway that had been painted over. When we tried to take it off it peeled the top layer of paper off of the sheetrock so that now there is only a thin brown paper layer over the sheetrock core. Question: Can I ...
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• Priming the Ceiling Before Texture - What do you mean when you say prime a ceiling before texturing? Do you mean paint the ceiling with a primer before using mud for stomping?
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• Wall board paper tear. - While removing my wallpaper some of the paper from the wall board tore off. There is one place where the paper is completely gone but most places still have paper but the exterior smooth part of the paper is gone. What should I do to prep these ...
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• What's next after removing popcorn ceiling? - When removing popcorn ceiling what is next before painting?
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• Drywall Tape Over Mud - What is the purpose of putting tape over the mud?
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• Oil based primer or Latex primer? - Renovated the entire 2nd floor of my home and need to know what primer to use on freshly skim coated sheetrock. Oil or latex?
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• Joint compound for texturing. - I was told I could use joint compound for a texture over a sanded down texture which I did and it looks okay. I put it over a sanded surface washed with TSP and sanded. There was no other prep. Have I gotten myself into a mess by taking this ad...
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• Painting/wall material issue - I am in need of some help! I live in an older home that was poorly renovated...I would like to paint my walls. To do so I started to prep them (clean/sand/scrape flaking paint/spackle small cracks). While scraping some of the flaking areas I not...
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• Moisture Damage - Peeling Texture - I had severe water and moisture damage a few years ago (it happend in January upstate NY). The textured ceiling began to crack and peel recently. Do you think it was because the ceiling was not properly repaired from all the moisture? (the water w...
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• Hiding a mud line... - I took down some wanes coating and there was a visible line from prior painting. I was told to spread some drywall mud over the line, let it dry and sand it down. I sprayed texture over the mud line to try and match our existing wall. I painted tw...
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• Orange Peel Paint - I want to apply orange peel texture to my hallway ceiling. How do I apply it manually?
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• Remove Damaged Drywall - Please advise the best way to remove a 8 x 10 piece of damaged drywall. I want to somehow remove this piece and replace it.
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