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Repairing A Drywall Nail Pop. Tips repairing drywall, wallboard, or plaster. Sheetrock Repairs.

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Video by The Idaho Painter

The Idaho Painter

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This project demonstrates how to repair a common drywall issue known as a 'nail pop' on a ceiling. The process involves identifying and exposing the loose nail, removing it, securing the drywall with a screw, applying spackle to smooth the area, and finally preparing it for retexturing and painting.

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This is Chris the Animal Painter. In this video, we're going to show you how we take and resolve an issue that we call a nail pop. And we've got a ceiling right here. And it's got a little bubble in it. And typically when you see a little bubble like that, what it is is typically it's a nail working itself down through the actual um drywall tape and texture. And it's a nail that's either missed the stud or it's a nail that's come loose and it's working its way out. What we want to do is we're going to take and resolve that issue by removing the nail, driving in the screw if there's a stud there, spackling it, and retexturing it. And so I just start off this task just [Applause] [Music] scrape this area out where this nail pop is. I'm going try to locate that nail. And I found that loose nail. And now I'm going to try to remove that nail. Going to take a pair. Use a pair of needle nose. And there's our loose drywall nail that's causing a gazill screw, you know, approximately 2 in long. [Music] Going to take some spackle. I'm using a patch plus primer spackle from 3M. Just like that. I'm going let that spackle dry. If the hole is big enough and you got a big enough splat spot, you want to take and spray it with some spray texture prior to painting it.

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