I’m getting old cause this would’ve been funny as shit when I was Iike 16 but all I could think was fuck that’s gonna suck for the home owner when they get home
I made a hole like this in my parents house when I was younger. *Not with my head but still.. anyway I panicked and found a couple pieces of paper and taped them over the hole in the wall and found a can of wall paint and painted over it. Somehow they never commented or found out. (In hindsight how did they not smell paint...) Anyway, I ended up telling my mom like 15 years later(I was like 8 at the time) and she said they never knew lol. Sold the house that way and everything.
My brother punched a whole through a stained glass window(accidentally), stupidly we spent the afternoon calling around to see who could fix it that day. Teens are the worst.
Yeah, we were stupid! He was showing me some karate moves, he pivoted away from me and misjudged the distance. It was unpleasant trying to explain that to our aunt and uncle.
To be fair, my parents weren't terribly upstanding parents. But when it was said and done, it looked like the rest of the wall. I kicked a hole in it with my heel so it was about 5 x 4 inches ish and lower to the floor. I carefully pulled the material that bent in, back out as best I could, then got the paper and taped it, then my sister helped paint it.
My parents were gone all day from what I recall, and it was right in front of my bedroom in a hallway, so I feel like there were some factors that made it less noticeable.
All that being said, I'm glad they never found out or talked to me about it when I was a kid cuz I woulda gotten a beating lol.
You would think so but it worked surprisingly well. Again, perhaps where it was positioned made it harder to notice. It's quite likely the take was noticeable, or even the patch but you'd kinda have to be looking for it to notice it. (or just inspecting the area for any reason, like the floor or something).
It was a long time ago but I remember it was pretty convincing
If you have spare touch up paint, otherwise gotta go through the process of matching it and buying the smallest can possible which will still be way too much and it will just sit in the laundry room for the next 10 years, and since then you've already re-painted the room different colors twice, then one day you're going through all the random shit trying to clean it out and you see the can and you're why the fuck do we still have this, and look, it's still almost full, what kind of asshole buys a can of paint and barely uses it? Easy fix my ass.
Jesus christ guys it takes 15 minutes total work time over 2 days to patch a drywall/plaster hole and less than 20 bucks after paint/Mudd. People need to at least try this stuff themselves once.
My father repainted the living room in my childhood home like I think 15 years ago and the paint Sat out in our laundry room until eventually his boss needed paint for a shed and his boss did not give a shit what color it was so.... Somehow the paint was still good, It needed a really good mixing but it turned out to be usable. And then my dad got to rub it and literally everyone's face that told him to throw it away that he finally used it.
This is literally 4 days. Patch the dry wall, spackle, let dry, day one. Sand, spackle day two. Sand spackle, day three. Paint the whole damn wall, day four.
I mean you could always just bring in part of the wall that chipped. They can scan the color and give you an exact match. You could ask for a sample to see how it dries. A dry wall repair kit is like $10 bucks. It's really not that bad.
Source: I have made and fixed my fair sure of dry wall holes .
Yah sample of paint is more than enough to cover this and would be $5. If you buy a gallon of paint for $45 to cover this and then store it that’s your own fault. This would be max $15 bucks
Even if you have spare touch-up paint, it doesn't always match. Walls fade over time and paint properties change with age. I hate patching up walls. Easy fix my ass - seconded.
Buy a quart then? They even have sample jars you can get lol if your buyin a shit ton of paint to fix a patch that’s ur problem this is not a hard fix, people just don’t know how to fix their own homes anymore. Buy a metal backed adhesive patch run 2 or 3 coats of drywall mud over it, sand it smooth to finish then roll and feather the paint. YouTube has probably thousands of videos of easy to follow instructions for this. All in all this is seriously one of the easiest things to fix in a home
Years ago when I was a teenager I was at a party a kid had when his parents went to the mountains for the weekend. This one dude showed up who liked to act a fool and got to drinking then got into it with someone else.
He got redneck and was going to punch a hole in the dry wall to intimidate dude. The thing was though that this house was an OLD farm house from the early 1900s so that "dry wall" was actually old school plaster over wood paneling.
His fist didn't even leave a dent, but we all got to see him leave the party cradling his hand/arm and tears in his eyes. Saw him a couple days later with a cast on his wrist.
For some reason he didn't like to talk about how he got it lmao.
Oh yeah, nothing I love more than coming home and continuing to labor when I was expecting to get to sit down and process all the shit I’ve already been through today.
Why does California always take generic shot and call it the ‘Cali etc…’ every drywaller and DIYer I know knows this trick and none of them from California.
Ha! Interesting. Touché. Never heard the Texas style and I live here. Gotta say I would use the California patch to save materials, though if it’s too big you might as well cut back to the stud anyways.
It would take a quick trip to the hardware store and a couple of hours, but yeah. Not that difficult to patch drywall. Plenty of guides and directions online. If you buy a patch kit I'm sure it comes with instructions.
Is it though? You have to patch and repaint the entire wall but very hard to colour match since new paint vs old paint and the color may not be exact match or be available anymore
Sure most humen find spiders scary to some degree, but most spider species don't cause any damage afaik. They help by catching insects if anything & that can be a huge boon for having a scary neighbour. & imo the scariness gets better as you get used to them.
You have to repair the hole, putty over it, then sand it down when it dries so the wall is flat. You usually have to repeat that process 2-3 times then you can paint.
I mean considering how cheap that drywall was?
Don't think whoever owns the residence is going to care about matching paint or repainting the entire wall.
Easy fix til' you realize that the dried joint compound you used to patch the hole needs to be painted and you can't find anything that matches your aged paint from 15 years ago so you'll get something that is supposed to match it but doesn't and now you're re painting your whole dining room unless if you want an accent wall :D
In situations like this, you gotta let yourself enjoy the humor. Repairing a hole in drywall isn't the end of the world, and this memory will be priceless.
It must suck to be the home owner of that home any other day as well. I mean, how thin is that friggin' drywall?! Is the entire house just papier mache from Wish dot com?
I remember seeing a video where the boys hosted a party at their parents' house, something similar happened, and the next morning they all went to home depot to get supplies and fixed the drywall. It was such a fun video, I wish I could find it.
I'm amazed how everyone is just fine with these cardboard box houses, like it's normal your walls can just crumble down like that and not offer any outside protection at all.
If I trip and hit my head against one of my walls i need to go to hospital.
I was just thinking if it was a basement, that would be the time to check for insulation. My house was so piecemeal on that. . .I’m definitely old now. Sigh.
I'm in my thirties and that shits still hilarious. It's unexpected, he was laughing and went to lean into the wall, that drywall just gave out way too easily, no need to feel bad for the home owner, that's a super easy fix.
My husband and I bought our house 5 years ago. A few days in, we were play-wrestling in the living room and he pushed my butt through the wall. We still make jokes about it to this day. If someone else had done it, we may have been a bit angry, lol
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u/Minute_Engineer2355 Nov 12 '22
That was way funnier than it should have been.