How To Fix A Bent Corner On A Wall. DIY DRYWALL REPAIRS.

This is Chris the Idaho Painter. In this video, we're going to show you how we go about repairing a piece of corner metal. And this is a piece of square corner metal right here that the customer actually came in with a car and hit this um corner metal right here and actually bent it all up. I'll show you what the corner metal looks like. We're going to show you the process. Just cut this thing out with a hacksaw. We're going to put a new piece in and then we're going to use some hot mud to hot mud and retexture it. We're going to show you that process right now and what we've gone to do to repair this. So, here's a look. We actually took the corn metal. We just took a hacksaw right here. Just a standard hacksaw. Just cut right here and cut this piece of corn metal. We just ripped it right out. And this is what it actually looks like. It's all bent up from the car hitting it, smashed it, and there's no way to actually repair it except by taking out the metal and replacing it with a new piece. We didn't want to replace it all the way to the ceiling. We just wanted to cut it out with a hacksaw right there, pull that piece out, and put another piece in. So, here's the corner metal right here. So, you'll typically see in homes, you'll see square corners like this, or you'll see rounded corners. The process with a rounded corner is a little bit different. This is a square corner right here with this corner bead. And it comes in lengths typically around 8 ft or so. You just buy it. It's really cheap at your local do-it-yourself store. So, here I'm going to show you what it's like. We already got this piece on here. I'm going to show you what it's like to actually cut this metal. It's pretty simple. Well, if your dating is right down here, just going to want to cut it above it anywhere. You just take a half pass and [Music] just like that. That's how easy that stuff is to cut. Just like that. Now, I actually just cut take this piece off and I'll just put a longer piece on. Just wanted to show you what it was like to actually cut that metal. It's a very simple process cutting it out. This is where your two pieces of drywall me and that's how they make a square corner is actually using this metal. Now I'm just going to measure out piece of metal I need here and where I need to cut it. Just wanted to overlap my previous piece of metal by about a/4 of an inch. just cut it with my 10 step like that. I'm just going to place it right in place. And then we're just going to screw that thing right in with some drywall screws. Now I got my piece of corner metal firmly in place here. What I'm taking and make sure I have a nice smooth transition right here. I want to make sure my screws are in far enough that when I run my T over it, the screws aren't going to go or hit. This one right here is up a little bit high. So, I'm going to screw that one in just a little bit more. Now, we're ready to go to start the mudding and texturing process. We start this mixing up our hot mud. We want something that's going to dry really fast so we can sand it and then texture it really quick so we don't have to make this a multi-day job. And I'm going to be using a easy sand five 5m minute hot mud. So it's just a powdery product. I'm just going to dry powder. I'm going to put it in my mixing pan, taping pan, mud pan, whatever you want to call it. Sure there's some drywaller out there want to correct me say I don't know what I'm talking about. Now I'm just going to begin adding water to my pan till I get the consistency that I want. Just got my pan right here. It's pretty simple process. just mixing it. I'm just using use a 3 in or 4 in knife and applying it with a 3 or 4 in knife. And then I'll be smoothing it out with my taping knife right here. And this is a 6-in taping knife. So, you just want a nice smooth creamy consistency with your hot mud. If you get it too wet and it's too runny, you could just add little bit more hot mud back into it. dry powder to thicken it up. So, I'm just continuing to mix this to a nice consistency. I'll show you what it looks like. This is our actual right here. 5 minute hot mud that we're using. Hopefully, you can see that. I want to make sure I work out all the little um chunks out of here. You want it nice and smooth. You want it the consistency to be thick enough that it'll actually hang on here and not run off the wall. Okay, now I've got my hot mud all mixed up and I'm just going to begin applying it right here with my knife. Just want to begin working it in to this these holes in the metal. Now I'm just going to take my 6-in knife. Just going to flatten that out. So, right here, we just applied built up a little more hot mud where that transition to that metal is right there. And then we're letting it dry. It's going to set up and dry really fast. And then we're going to sand it and then we'll show you what we're going to how we're going to texture it. So, this 5minute hot mud is setting up pretty fast. I'm just going to be using a 3M medium sanding sponge right here to sand this flat. I'm going to be using some oilbased just a spray can of texture to actually spray texture this and blend it into this wall. Then I'm going to repaint this wall. I'm going to want to take and put some masking down, cover this because of the splatter, the overspray before I spray it. So, I'm going to get ready to do that. Just got myself a hand masker with 1 in tape, 9 in paper. [Music] So, I just been sanding this with my 3M sponge and getting it nice and smooth. Almost ready to spray with my spray texture now. Okay, now it's all nice and sanded, smoothed out. Got my spray texture. Just using an orange peel spray texture to match the orange peel spray texture there. What I just take and do a couple practice shots to make sure you got the right distance, the right texture you want. So, I'm going to be sitting back pretty far to match it. And I got my masking around here to uh make sure no overspray overspray of the texture goes on anything. This is a oilbased product and it'll dry in 5 minutes. So, we can paint over it fairly quickly. [Music] It's been about 15 minutes and that texture is all dry. You just want to knock it down just a little bit with a sanding sponge. [Music] So, now it's been about 15 minutes. I'm going to roll a nice good thick coat of paint on here. And then after that dries, I'll roll one more coat. This first coat will act as the primer and then we'll come back and roll another thick coat right over the top of that. And we'll have a nice brand new corner on this corner metal in the garage. Now we're going to let this paint dry right here. We're going to finish painting this wall and we got ourselves a brand new corner. This stuff it cuts pretty easily or not. Or not. campus.