Cut Out Hole and Dry Fit Patch

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