FAST Wall Patch! EASY Wall Repairs.

[Music] this Chris yaho pter and I'm jamond John and today we're going to be showing you how to do a California patch we got a hole in wall right here and John is going to be teaching math finish today how to do the patch itself I am young Matt is going to be taking over some of our drywall patches and repairs so we've been teaching him all sorts of different skills and this is an essential one if you do any sort of painting or repair work around a home cool so let's get going and we're going to repair this hole right now so there are two different kinds of patches that we're typically going to be running into when we're doing drywall repairs a conventional patch is going to be um any patch where you would just cut out a hole in the wall and you would actually put pieces of wood back there attach it with some screws and then put your new piece in then you got to tape it skim coat it and texture it depending on the texture of the wall a California patch is great for any holes that are we kind of use a rule of thumb of about the size of two fists together or smaller it's going to be really good if you're doing uh outlet covers repairing where an outlet was if there's an area like this one where a handle went into a door or holes that are around that size so we always carry a couple scrap pieces of drywall with this this is just 3/8 drywall one of the first things we're going to do Matt is we're going to look for where the edges of the hole is uh so this one you can see the handle kind of makes an imprint coming up this way and we've got the hole here we're also also going to kind of feel around for like where there might be a stud in this wall so it sounds like we've got a stud probably running right about in here and then this is all open so if we know we need to do that we take our scrap piece of drywall and we're going to you got your knife on you so you can hold that scrap piece up probably just a little bit underneath the hole right around there so you can make sure that you're getting past it and we're we're going to go to about there at least so you want to go probably about that big about an inch and a half past where the hole is from the corner and then from The Edge where we're going to stop we want to go about an inch and a half across there so you could take a straight edge or something along those lines you're going to put that inch and a half over the face here there you go and then we'll take our pen all the way down like that so ahead and cut that piece right there just across the face perfect we'll break that now cut it up on the other side your mom's going to get mad at me for letting you cut towards your fingers don't cut towards your finger Matt so now we're going to take the brown side the back side of the paper and we're going to create strips coming along the back side that are all even so we'll use this is just like a a Simpson strong tie we're going to hold that along the edge take our knife and score from end to end twist the board hold it here score from end to end and we're going to do that going all the way around yeah so you want to make sure you cut all of them up first so that you're not having to work into broken lines because you got to be able to to bust all of those pieces apart perfect all right now we can drop our little straight edge there go ahead and uh you'll bust those pieces up on the drywall very carefully yeah just like that and you want to try to just cut break them straight there you go and your last one perfect now you're going to peel the back of that off of the face paper very carefully all the way to the end so it's off and then continue all the way around the pat piece Now flip that over and you'll see we've got all of this white paper that's going to act as our tape and our backing and we've got our patch that we're going to be using these are called California patches butterfly patches I there's a new name for all of these things so we're going to take that we're going to hold it up over the hole and we're going to take our pen and we're going to trace the edges of that drywall piece all the way around so you move those flaps back as long as we're covering that main side perfect now we can see exactly how big of a hole that we need to cut so we're going to take uh this is called a jab saw we're going to take a Jabs saw you can either start inside the hole and work your way around or the benefit of a jabsaw is it also has a nice point on the end if you have to start in the middle you can just Hammer that into the wall and then start working your way around so follow your lines I'll hold the patch let's cut that piece out and create a nice smooth Square all right you're going to take the patch now that we've got the hole cut out we're going to set that carefully in and make sure it fits if it doesn't then we're going to grab that jabsaw and we're just going to smooth a few things out so you can kind of notice it's probably hitting up here we'll widen that hole out just a little bit so that it barely fits in so grab that jabsaw clean it up a little bit so we grab that guy try to fit it in that's fitting pretty darn good so that right there is what this patch is going to look like like after we start getting it installed so now what we're going to do is mix up some hot mud also called 5 minute mud and we're going to use a mud mix ball to do that so what we have here is some USG easy sand 5 which is a it's a catalyzed mud so it will dry they say about 5 minutes obviously that's going to depend on temperature and some different variables uh we're also going to be using a mud mix ball this thing is pretty darn cool because uh if you've ever mixed hot mud before Heck if you've ever mixed any mud before it can be a major pain to get the right consistency this makes it foolproof it's easy to clean out and you're going to get mud that has no chunks in it so Matt's done this part before so we'll let him start working through the process on this and so what we're going to do is you're going to take three scoops of this mud powder and put it into the mud ball well that is that is not a full scoop that that was a lazy scoop your pancakes are going to be very runny maybe I like him runny oh that's gross one of the when we were teaching how to mix up hot mud one of the things I would say to look for is uh look for a pancake batter light consistency now Pro tip that only works if you know how to make pancakes and you know what pancake batter looks like but this is going to get you into that realm of pancake batter a lot faster and a lot easier so there are two different scoop sizes one is for the powder the other is for water so you're going to do three scoops of powder to to one scoop of water we've got some clean water in a bucket right here and Matt is going to add that in a full scoop into that ball and then this kit comes with a spatula attached to a drill bit so now we're going to take that guy and we're going to mix it into uh mix this all together the nice part about this spatula process is that it does uh get all of the edges of the inside of this ball so you you don't end up with all of those random chunks of of dry mud floating around that you couldn't get when you would normally try to mix this into a pan one of the best parts about using this mud more mix ball is the fact that uh the problem with hot mud is you only get a couple of minutes to work with it using this you eliminate the guest work in a lot of the time that you would normally use mixing which means you've got more open time to work with your product so now inside this ball we've got a nice consistent even mud mixed up so we're going to go ahead and I'll hold the pan you dump this guy in you can squeeze all of that mud just into your pan this ball doesn't make a ton of mud but it's more than enough for most patches that you're going to be working on and pretty much all that you can work on with within about the 5 minute open time of the mud so Matt first what you're going to do is you're going to scoop some of that mud out and you can set that pan down if you need to on the the bucket here and and you're going to wipe the mud onto the back of this tape until it's all nice and full yeah a little bit more than that so you got cuz what we want to do is we want to be able to push this in and then when we spread that tape out we want to eliminate any of the air bubbles or Pockets or any it should just purely be mud behind that tape when it hits that wall and then we'll squeeze all the excess out when we place the patch now sometimes when I'm feeling really frisky or something what we'll do is we'll take a little bit of mud let's put a little bit on here just to make sure that we don't have any air pockets it's probably a little Overkill but again it's just to really make sure that we've we're going to have a successful seal on this patch and of course with a 5 minute mud time is of the essence so you ready yep we're going to take the patch we're going to set it in that hole now the what you want to be careful of is that you don't push that patch too far inside so scrape the mud off of your 4in knife nice clean and then you're going to work from the inside out and pull that paper down yep so see how the the uh patch is bumped out just a little bit so we want to push that in so that it's even perfect yeah just like that so he's going to pull out from the center on that patch wipe the mud back back into the pan you're going have to move a little faster than this so we're going to have dry mud there we go now we've got a strong patch we don't have to go through the taping process we didn't have to go through the process of applying any sort of backer and now what I will often do is because this is still going to need a skim coat we're going to take a 10-in knife real quick you're going to put that in the pan grab a little bit of mud and we're going to do a nice quick skim coat over the top of this you're going to need more than that yep mud you could do this all with just a 4-in knife if you want it or a 6in knife so see how there you go see how it's low you just want to float that mud over the top and then work the other way also so pull it this way and try not to pull you don't want to try to pull from one Edge over try to pull from the center off so that you're not pulling up the lip of your there you go perfect so put a little bit more right in here pull it down pull it up to the side we kind of work that around a little bit we can see it's kind of popping up just a little so we'll push that in and then we'll clean up our edges let go ahead and clean up the edges you'll press heavy on the one side like that so that we don't have anything high and we'll kind of work it out like that now 5 minute mud it's not going to take very long to dry it doesn't take just 5 minutes but that's about the working time you get we're going to give this about 20 minutes to dry we'll sand it and then we'll go over it with an orange peel texture that's it nice and easy yeah piece of cake there was a hole now there's not a hole look what you did you affected change in this world Matt I know all right you're not you're not working with me very much here it's okay doesn't have a lot to say good job okay John so that was Matt finish's first time ever doing a patch right very first time pretty Dar good that's pretty darn good for the first time so the patch is done but now there's going to be some other steps to maybe some sanding and texturing right there is yeah so depending on how kind of big the patch is your skill level things like that uh you may end up doing one more skim coat over the top of this thing you would kind of sand it you'd throw another skim coat so that last step that we went through with Matt right there you would let that dry you could sand it and then we would work this is an orange peel texture really fine Orange Peel texture so we would just work our way around with the can and kind of feather that texture in um in a way where it's not going to show up and that can take a little bit of practice and skill to have one that doesn't show up but it's not impossible you just have to be patient with it so we have a few more holes in this house to patch are you comfortable turning Matt over to that right now on his own you know the benefit is it is just drywall mud so you can always sand it down so we'll love will start having him practice on his own without a camera making him nervous getting the Jitters things like that he looked a little bit nervous but he did a great job did a really good job it's amazing so some of the tools like the mud mix ball you can find some of the tools down in the in the video description below cuz we do sell them on our store at uh theop painter.com or you can find them in the video description and that is one of those tools where I started using it and I was like this is a little silly like I there's a ball and you got a spatula on a mixing bit like I don't know about this it makes some of the best hot I've ever used consistently Time After Time After Time you just got to make sure you get those full three scoops in there what about your pancake mix I don't like pancakes I'm more of a waffle kind of guy oh there you go so maybe your waffle mix anyways hopefully you guys enjoyed this video if you have please give us a thumbs up please consider subscribing to our Channel and anything else you got to say John or is that it are we out of here we love you Matt loves you [Music] ow [Music]