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How to Repair Drywall

What happens here

A straight edge is used to trace a square around the hole in the drywall, creating clean lines for the patch.

Goal: To create accurate boundaries for the patch.

Tools and materials

  • Pencil — Marking the square, Straight edge used for Marking a square around the hole

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So one of the first things we're going to do is clean up this area to make sure we can patch it up with a nice clean Cheat of drywall and I'll show how to patch it up from there So the meantime I'm gonna take some kind of straight edge and create a nice straight square around All right, so at this point we need to clean this area out there's a right tool for the right job Let me show you what it is. This is a drywall knife You could use a utility knife and start scraping away. It's just you can get it done

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