HOW TO FIX CEILING CRACKS. Drywall repair hacks & sheetrock repair tips

the Idaho painter. In this video, I'm going to show you how to repair a crack in a ceiling. We got a ceiling right here in this home. This home is up for sale and the homeowners moved out and they never saw the crack in the ceiling before, but there's a settling crack right up here in the ceiling. I'm going to show you what it looks like with video camera, but there's a couple ways that we can fix that. The homeowners just want it fixed inexpensively so you can't see it and so the crack will be repaired. So, I'm hoping that you can see this crack in the ceiling right here. It's just a settling or expansion crack. They're just we call them settling cracks. So, my crack is right above me. Got my uh supplies. I got two spackle knives. Just going to deter determine, you know, which one um is going to work best when I get up there. I'll put probably use the wider knife. It's just a 3-in knife. Here's my cocking right here. This is a Sherwins 950A caulking. And this cocking bonds really well and uh stretches really well and it doesn't shrink very much either. So, I like it a lot. And then I'm going to be using Crawford's vinyl spackling to go over that. So, I'm going to that crack. And then I'm going to wipe it out and just make a little bit concave. And then we're going to put some spackling right over the top of that. And it's going to hide it pretty well. And then we'll come back another day and uh or later on today, and then we'll paint right over it with our touch-up paint. So now I'm up here and I can see this crack and if there's any if the crack if there's any um spots that have you know popped out or protruded out, you just want to just knock those down with your knife and just scrape them down. This is a pretty flat crack so I don't have to do anything. And so I'm just going to start cocking it. And I'm just going to cut myself, you know, really small hole in my cocking gun. I don't want to get a whole lot of cocking up there. I just want enough cocking just to, you know, fill that uh crack up there. So, got myself just a little angled cut on my cocking gun. And now I'm just going to start filling this thing in. Just put a nice light bead over it. I'm just going to fill it in. It's a good idea to if you're not really good with the coughing just to take a wet sponge and you can just wipe your hand on a wet sponge and it makes your cocking a little bit uh more workable. So, it only took me about no more than 10 minutes to that crack. It's been, you know, about an hour. Been doing some other touch-ups inside this house. I'm going to get up there and start the spackling process. Now, I know this isn't the best camera shot in the world, but it's way up here on the ceiling. So, just do the best I can. So, now I got my uh spackling vinyl spackling paste. Now, I'm just going to start going over this crack. And I can just start, you know, blending it in. I can see what the texture is on my ceiling. I'm just going to try to just, you know, flatten this out and just uh just try to hide that crack the best I can. And then when this spackling uh dries, then we'll just lightly sand it. And then then we'll take and um paint our ceiling. Just going to do it in some certain places just to attempt to hide it. Here you can see some cracks that are some of the spots that are kind of a little bit deep. And so I'm going to just try to fill those in. This is a hand textured ceiling and so I'm just trying to find the flat spots and in the flat spots in the texture. So now my patch is up there. It's giving it a couple hours to dry. It's plenty of time. Got my sanding sponge. Just going to hit it with the sanding sponge lightly. This is just a medium sanding sponge. Just got a little brush, touch-up brush. It's a really small area, so I don't really need a big brush. And the customer didn't have any of the paint, so I actually had to cut a little piece of the drywall out in one of the closets to do a color match. And I got it color matched into a small paint right here. And now I'm going to just do my touchup. So, I'm just going to barely run my sanding sponge over this just lightly just to knock down Now, I'm just going to take my touch-up paint and just lightly dab it over that crack to do my touchup. Just a small brush. Don't want to put a whole lot of paint on. Just lightly do it up here. Just touching it up and kind of just feather it in around the edges. I'm kind of just working it, dobbing it up here around this craft. And just uh put it up here. And then I'm actually not brushing that kind of paint on. Then I'm just kind of what I call dry feathering it out the edges and just dobbing it so it gets a nice blend. I don't want to have any brush strokes or uh have it um just brushed out real heavy along the edges. If you dry feathered it, it kind of just blends it into the rest of the ceiling. You know, this color matches in just like 100% dead on.