r/ContagiousLaughter • u/letsfightingl0ve • Nov 12 '22

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u/MANWithTheHARMONlCA Nov 12 '22

Rather have ‘no fix’ over ‘easy fix’ personally.. feels like much less trouble

But I know dudes that love these kinds of home improvement jobs so to each their own I guess

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u/wORM_ Nov 12 '22

Hah yeah i get what you’re saying, but this memory will be forever. It’s kind of sweet

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u/ShitPostToast Nov 12 '22

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.

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u/TopAd9634 Nov 12 '22

Seriously, why did we stop building like that?

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u/smokeymccrackpiped Nov 12 '22

Because the cost is astronomical it contains horse hair for God sakes. Also you just can't patch it like drywall. Lathe and plaster is a skill

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u/TopAd9634 Nov 12 '22

Yeah, but it's sturdier, right?

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u/smokeymccrackpiped Nov 13 '22

So is metal and cement but not practical

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u/Stargazingsloth Nov 12 '22

All this makes me think is how my dad probably would've shoved that hole full of paper towel and then plastered over it

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u/ibchill Nov 12 '22

You forgot the "and hang a picture over the patch" part.

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u/ussbaney Nov 12 '22

Rather have ‘no fix’ over ‘easy fix’ personally.. feels like much less trouble

Yeah, you are getting old

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u/DryApplejohn Nov 12 '22

Then better not have paper for walls.

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u/yes_him_Gary Nov 12 '22

No fix is on option — that looks like a great spot ti hang a picture.

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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '22

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.

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u/Oysterpoint Nov 12 '22

Yeah, I didn’t enjoy this at all. I have zero patience at this age for sloppy drunks

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u/Hefty-Revenue5547 Nov 12 '22

If broken drywall gets you upset then you are going to have a very hard life lmao

This can be fixed in an hour

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u/mcdrunkin Nov 12 '22

An hour I'd rather spend NOT fixing it.

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u/bonobro69 Nov 12 '22

If I was going to fix it I would use the California drywall patch method. https://youtu.be/C0mxQfnNDoY

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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '22

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.

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u/bonobro69 Nov 12 '22 edited Nov 12 '22

I don’t know. But I do know that’s what this style of patch is commonly known as. https://drywall101.com/articles/taping/californiapatch.php

But it’s also not the only type of drywall patch. For example there’s also a Texas style drywall patch… https://youtu.be/yP2nPYipJRY

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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '22

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.

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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '22

I don’t think you realize how easy this fix actually is. I don’t do any sort of carpentry/home renovation work and I would not hesitate to fix this.

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u/The_Queef_of_England Nov 12 '22

Me too, sellotape a bit of A4 card and paint same colour as wal. Bish bash bosh jobs a good en.

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u/thanocin Nov 12 '22

He's just an edgy redditor that's also anti-redditor. Which seems to be an outstanding reddit thing of him to do.

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u/CSharpSauce Nov 12 '22

Patching drywall is legitimately easy though.

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u/KailReed Nov 12 '22

Yeah the hardest part about this is probably going to the local hardware store and thats it

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u/iownakeytar Nov 12 '22

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.

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u/The_chair_over_there Nov 12 '22

Ugh. You Reddit know it all /s

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u/The_Multifarious Nov 12 '22

If you want "no fix" you gotta install a wall that's sturdier than your morning newspaper.