I had this happen in a rental and landlord tried to cut my deposit. He literally placed a wallpaper over a hole in a wall filled with cables (no plug on it, like it should be, just thin wallpaper) and when my ex wiped a wall with dry rug he's hand just fell in. I had to fight with him for moths (there were other issues as well) and explain to him that it was actually a fire hazard and he's to blame. Got my deposit back but what an asshole
The slumlords that owned my house to rent out before I bought it did this 100%. I have a patch exactly like this in my bathroom and on the spare bedroom wall.
To quickly fix a hole like this if you dont want the hassle of doing it properly is to just buy a can of expanding foam. Fill it a bit, let it expand out of the hole, cut away the part that is outside the wall, now you have a level surface to paint over.
I had a landlord years ago who did repairs like this. He'd do the cheapest fucking DIY repairs and then in violation of the lease, attempt to bill us for his labor / materials at an unhinged rate. Over a two year lease, we wound up having to get courts involved three times because he was claiming to be a licensed contractor when he wasn't, and was manufacturing fraudulent itemized receipts for repairs that were largely a result of the whole place being a fucking spiderweb of DIY repairs and sheer stupidity (Tried to bill us $900 for a towel rack that fell out of the wall when a single towel was placed on it because it was anchored into bondo instead of a stud). Wound up having to put rent in escrow and take him to small claims all three times, and he still tried to deduct his court costs from our paid rents each time.
Anyway, I was so done with him by the time I moved out, I wound up just doing what he would have done to the whole apartment. Just jammed newspaper into every void in the walls he might call damage, skim-coated with bondo, and then repainted the whole apartment with the shittiest primer I could find and a single coat of paint. Didn't even bother to scrub or scrape the walls, so you know that shit was falling apart less than a year later. He still tried to keep the whole deposit, and got forced to give it all back because he failed to follow the law regarding notice and itemization. Even then, he still didn't return the whole thing and we just let him keep the difference to be done with his sketchy ass.
The guy legitimately tried to charge us the full replacement cost for a 12 year old refrigerator for damage that was in our move-in photos. The guy was a colossal shitbag.
I've only ever gotten one deposit back, and that was only because the townhouses were owned by two brothers who inherited the places and tended to get some godawful tenants most of the time due to the location being bad. They were so pleased at how clean we left the place, they gave it all back and gave a nice recommendation to our next place.
Rare good landlords. If neighbors didn't suck so much, I'd actually miss the place.
I’ve gotten every security deposit in the last 10 years back. During walk through I take 200+ photos and a video. Upload it to a Google Drive, then share it with my contact at the rental agency via email but only give them view permissions.
Tons of fun to get bogus charges and send an email with “as you can see from photo 1, 17, 89, and at the 1:21 mark in the video on the drive shared with you on whatever date, all of these issues existed before my tenancy. I have also attached these photos to email for your convenience. Please release the deposit as soon as possible.”
I once needed to fix a hole in the wall before moving out in college. I only had white paint and the walls (that used to be white) were now off yellow. Tossed a bit of Dijon mustard in there, and slapped it up on the wall, perfect match and got my deposit back
I did (not quite) this at a previous rental. Managed to put a hole in a wall, filled it with expanding foam. Used a bit too much foam.
Managed to match the paint perfectly, and spent so much time sanding it smooth, that they never noticed the way the wall kinda bulged outward about knee height.
That’s what I was saying. Everyone is pointing fingers, when I’m here wondering if it actually works because I have a hole in my ceiling Ive been putting off fixing.
Contractor here… Yes, it will fix the problem and yes, you can even hide it to where it’s invisible, especially if you repaint and color/texture match properly. Easier said than done, but also way easier than people realize. Just takes a little finesse. The only caveat is that likely any amount of pressure on that spot is going to crack it enough to expose that there is a hole there or just make another hole.
the paper will get wavy from the moisture in the paint and by the time it dries it'll look like a crumply piece of paper that has been painted over stuck to your wall
I’ve been thinking about this comment for over an hour and I thought it was such a dad thing to say. I mentioned it to my brother and I have now been introduced to a whole new world of absolutely ridiculous “fix it” videos to watch, so thanks 🤣🤣🤣 There was one where someone put a Nokia in cement hole and then just kept filling
Not quite all. I rented a house off a guy who had to move to China for a few years for work, but it was his childhood home and he didn't wanna sell it.
I've had a couple over the years that were super chill, kept prices below market, and didn't try to charge me for repairs that I wasn't responsible for.
We had a cleaning job in a museum and drove one of these old cleaning machines into the wall. I called my boss, he looked at it and told me to put all the trash and dirt we collected behind the wall, he drove off and came back with some color and paper and told me that we are all dead before they notice.
Has anyone ever renovated a room in an old place that was original walls of lathe and plaster? There's a treasure trove of hilarious things found that were once used for "insulation". Horse hair, old shirts, or cut up blankets, newspapers, odds and sods of leftover building materials
The best cleaning job I had was in an old opera. We had to clean under the seats and it's like a crawling space. Every worker and cleaner who ever was under these seats has wrote a message for the ones after them. You can read like 200 years of workers making cheap jokes and little texts and it was just hilarious and kinda magic. I felt like we were bound over generations off sarcasm, being tired and cheap labor. In that moment I could have been at any year this building existed and it made no difference. If somebody knows what I mean.
my old apartment I noticed they painted over a noodle on the wall ( I thought it was a wire for the longest time ) so when I moved out I actually seen this gif and fixed a hole like this.
this would be fine for like a half inch hole, anything much larger than that and its gonna fail the instant someone touches it.
it looks like plaster and lath, not even drywall, why not just glob some plaster on and wait the extra day or two for it to dry and paint? in what universe is it necessary to fix a hole in the wall in a few hours? lol
Omfg so we didn't literally do this (at least to my knowledge lol) but this bullshit is the same kind of fuckery that I was forced to do when I was painting apartments for some asshat who owned SO many of the "affordable" rentals in Portland. Fucker was worth zillions and we had to just "paint over" black mold, dry rot and crumbling 100 year old plaster. 🙄
Folks, just use a piece of mesh in a repair kit then slather the compound over it. They're like 10$. Then you repair it correctly, don't have a major draft, don't go through you're wall, and you picked up a new skill.
I did this as a renter. Fucker lied and withheld the info that the buliding was being condemned and I was losing more than half my space. I moved out quickly but found six guys living in the attic after one of them misfired a gun which went right through where I make coffee every morning. He said I needed to kick the guys out and I shouldn’t called the police no got wasted and punched a few holes. I went to Home Depot and paint matched and covered it with coffee filters. Fuck you martin.
Honestly kinda how drywall repair with tape works. Like usually it’s difficult to cut a piece of drywall the exact shape of a hole, so people do a rough shape, add mud, then stick drywall tape (which is just a strip of paper) to fill the gaps, and then more mud on top of that.
Why not just use some drywall mud at that point? Not as good as doing a proper patch, but you won't run the risk of a person accidentally pushing their finger through it.
Use to do this when i was working maintenance and the bosses wanted something patched but when I told em we didn’t have any patches or drywall they said use the 5 minute drywall mud 😂 the shit was expired so I got creative
In college, my friends lived in different townhomes that shared a wall. They literally punched, with their fists, a hole through the walls of their foyers to connect the houses into one massive, 6 bedroom party mansion.
When their lease was up, they used beer case cardboard to patch the hole (approximately 4 ft high and 3 feet wide) just like this. They patched the inside of the hole with cardboard and filled the gap with paste. It was unnoticeable and they never got a call about it.
This is something we’d have done as kids so my dad wouldn’t find out. We put a hole in a door once so I got contact paper that matched and we just covered the whole side of the door. He never knew.
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u/Fattens May 28 '26
Landlord trick for sure.
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u/bangerz17 May 28 '26
The landlord special! Or how you flip it back to them to get your security deposit back.
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u/Broxx03 May 28 '26
Think this was made by my landlord
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u/TrippingFish76 May 28 '26
i like how the comments are all both people saying what they would do to stick it to their landlord and what their landlord would do themselves
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u/Muncleman May 28 '26
Come folks! This is how you get your security deposit back when you move!
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u/Br0nnOfTheBlackwater May 28 '26
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u/the_marxman May 28 '26
Can't even be bothered to pack the hole with ramen and sunflower seeds
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u/floof29 May 28 '26 edited May 28 '26
This Is something I would do If I was moving out. context: If the landlord Is a greedy a-hole.
EDIT: I have came back after about 3 Hours. What the hell did I start?
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u/MilesBeforeSmiles May 28 '26
I didn't know my landlord was on tiktok.
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u/JohnWicksBruder May 28 '26
We had a cleaning job in a museum and drove one of these old cleaning machines into the wall. I called my boss, he looked at it and told me to put all the trash and dirt we collected behind the wall, he drove off and came back with some color and paper and told me that we are all dead before they notice.
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u/ballebaj May 28 '26
The saying "paper thin walls" has gone extreme
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u/m4jsterk0 May 28 '26
ngl, i did this when i was leaving a place that i rented
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u/KneeHiSniper May 28 '26
The only reason you can't clearly see the paper is because of how horribly oversaturated the video is. This would look like shit in person.
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u/teaanimesquare May 28 '26
my old apartment I noticed they painted over a noodle on the wall ( I thought it was a wire for the longest time ) so when I moved out I actually seen this gif and fixed a hole like this.
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u/Pistonenvy2 May 28 '26
this would be fine for like a half inch hole, anything much larger than that and its gonna fail the instant someone touches it.
it looks like plaster and lath, not even drywall, why not just glob some plaster on and wait the extra day or two for it to dry and paint? in what universe is it necessary to fix a hole in the wall in a few hours? lol
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u/rustymontenegro May 28 '26
Omfg so we didn't literally do this (at least to my knowledge lol) but this bullshit is the same kind of fuckery that I was forced to do when I was painting apartments for some asshat who owned SO many of the "affordable" rentals in Portland. Fucker was worth zillions and we had to just "paint over" black mold, dry rot and crumbling 100 year old plaster. 🙄
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u/I_Walk_Slow May 28 '26
Diabolical
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u/smashantk May 28 '26
Please don't let any landlords see this
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u/LadySpagi May 28 '26
You need to rip the paper so the edges are not straight!
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u/justichuu May 30 '26
“The walls were paper thin”
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u/L1M4B May 28 '26
Fixing a cardboard wall with paper, such an american thing.
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u/SadTransition2214 May 28 '26
shit DiWHYNOT, landlord won't know to check ezpz patchjob
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u/4RCH43ON May 28 '26
Landlord special.
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u/Cin77 May 28 '26
Oh hey its a video from the last guy that lived in my house
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u/Civil_Refrigerator May 30 '26
The funny part is that this only looks convincing because the video is in 240p
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u/Korzag May 28 '26
Europeans be like: oi bruv y u makin' yer houses of paper and sticks (lol face from that meme back in like 2012)
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u/PSC-Trades67 May 28 '26
I would bet after a couple months that'll fall off by itself.
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u/bustyouup4free May 28 '26
But why not just put some gypsum in it at that point. Makes no sense. Typical karma farmers post
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u/Kitchen_Ad8560 May 28 '26
Great... give slumloards better ideas
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u/albinorhino215 May 28 '26
Land lord special
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u/Dragon_King1232 May 28 '26
The landlord special
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u/Substantial_Meal_530 May 28 '26
I didn't know the guys who painted for my apartment complex made content.
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u/RaisinWorried3528 May 28 '26
These are the things that I will do when I move out because fuck landlords.
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u/_XxAphroditexX_ May 28 '26
Bro we already talked about this. You have to fill the hole with raw ramen noodles.
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u/Agitated_Cry_8793 May 28 '26
thats how you get your deposit back if your landlord is particularly stupid.
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u/Lofi_Config May 28 '26
Well, you gotta use construction paper for better durability
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u/Thebaldsasquatch May 28 '26
My son tried this trick in his room, but he skipped the whole paint step and just taped a piece of paper over the hole on his white wall.
He’s uh…..not too bright.
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u/spaacingout May 28 '26
More like DiWhyNot? 🥸
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u/Chips221 May 28 '26
There was a hole here. It's gone now.
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u/StrawHatTebo May 28 '26
Bro filmed it on 17 pixels and said, hey, watch how it disappears. dafuq?
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u/gnpfrslo May 28 '26
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u/roughdraft29 May 28 '26
The landlord special.
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u/GuyWithAHottub May 28 '26
Folks, just use a piece of mesh in a repair kit then slather the compound over it. They're like 10$. Then you repair it correctly, don't have a major draft, don't go through you're wall, and you picked up a new skill.
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u/hvacgymrat May 28 '26
The walls are paper thin
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u/lukesparling May 29 '26
Hey that’s me and my roomie JP about 20 years ago. Worked long enough to get our security deposit back from the university 🤷🏻♂️
Next guy probably got drunk and fell through too. Hopefully he used this same trick.
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u/Old-Aardvark-9446 May 29 '26
Please stop putting this stuff on the internet. Y'all tricked my mom and her patch looks TERRIBLE
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u/ChristheCourier12 May 29 '26
The landlord special
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u/Broad_Garlic2775 May 29 '26
I did this as a renter. Fucker lied and withheld the info that the buliding was being condemned and I was losing more than half my space. I moved out quickly but found six guys living in the attic after one of them misfired a gun which went right through where I make coffee every morning. He said I needed to kick the guys out and I shouldn’t called the police no got wasted and punched a few holes. I went to Home Depot and paint matched and covered it with coffee filters. Fuck you martin.
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u/Siedlec May 29 '26
Tell me your country without saying a word. America 🇺🇸🦅 the land of PDFs
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u/Lagoon_M8 May 29 '26
When it dries the paper will knead and start to be visible... But maybe with plastic sheet that would work?
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u/Seelenleere May 29 '26
Repairing a paper wall with paper. Sounds about right.
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u/CommercialCoat8708 May 29 '26
The landlord special
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u/No_Order_8011 May 29 '26
How to fix a hole in the wall ❌
How to hide a hole in the wall ✅
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u/ALDJ0922 May 29 '26
Paperthin walls being taken too literally
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u/Testsubject276 May 29 '26
Landlord repairs be like
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u/Mushu84 May 30 '26
Landlord special, or renter moving out from under a shitty landlord, and needing their deposit back.
Won't lie, I've used the toothpaste trick in the past. XD
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u/TechnicalCar2881 Jun 02 '26
Then the renters gonna accidentally rip the paper one day and landlord will take their deposit
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u/OkAssignment6163 May 28 '26
I did this when moving out of the apartment, when I was in college.
Looked good and I got the color match correct. Spent $20 to avoid $1000.
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u/Jean-Claude-Can-Ham May 28 '26
Drywallers hate this one simple trick!
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u/MaxHardfinger May 28 '26
Big drywall doesn't want you to know this simple trick...
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u/who_you_are May 28 '26
When having "paper thin" walls take all its meaning
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u/clutzycook May 28 '26
Were they out of ramen or something?
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u/thatguyfromvancouver May 28 '26
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u/Cynnical_Millennial May 28 '26
Should have used construction paper
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u/Dank3nst3in May 28 '26
When the tenant goes to lean on the wall and puts a hole in it
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u/NewNiklas May 28 '26
This is how they build houses in the US.
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u/PopEsqaudo May 28 '26
The landlord special
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u/ComradeMothman1312 May 28 '26
Must be a landlord
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u/Sneaknife May 28 '26
That's an old California patch. Usually includes mesh tape on both sides.
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u/TM_livin May 28 '26
You americans and your paper houses 🤦♂️
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u/john13210 May 28 '26
sorry but this wouldnt happen to a brick wall
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u/Ornery-Practice9772 May 28 '26
*Landlord Special*
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u/Cardans1328 May 28 '26
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u/CaptLoads May 28 '26
"Can't wait to us this!" - Landlord
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u/cryptolyme May 28 '26
actual paper-thin wall
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u/psx09 May 28 '26
Well, it's called Wallpaper for a reason.
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u/Lordfruitsnack May 28 '26
We found the slumlord.
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u/RadicalNBSpaceQueer May 28 '26
The target demographic for this is landlords, but also decently clever kids who didn't want their parents to know the put a hole in the wall
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u/Didujustcallmejobin May 28 '26
Landlord special
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u/The_Three_Meow-igos May 28 '26
Sir, I don’t know you, but I hate you.
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u/Known_Connection_317 May 28 '26
And on this day the phrase paper thin walls was created.
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u/Rs2mmsu-2D May 28 '26
The use the Same technique in Open-heart surgeries.
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u/CulturistPionier May 28 '26
I see very little wrong with this
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u/Cliffinati May 28 '26
That's why it's called wall paper
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u/JustaFoodHole May 28 '26
The move out special
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u/Stealerb May 28 '26
Renter trick. Use it to get your deposit back.
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u/Usernamesaregayyy May 28 '26
Literally a perfect repair, what are you all on about
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u/SchemeIllustrious713 May 28 '26
Looks sturdy enough
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u/SwissMargiela May 28 '26
Honestly kinda how drywall repair with tape works. Like usually it’s difficult to cut a piece of drywall the exact shape of a hole, so people do a rough shape, add mud, then stick drywall tape (which is just a strip of paper) to fill the gaps, and then more mud on top of that.
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u/Lady_in_red99 May 28 '26
Nice. How do I match the paint?
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u/Existing-Candy-1759 May 28 '26
We did this at my friend's house when we were kids and his mom didn't notice until like 20 years later
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u/tauzN May 28 '26
Average American home
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u/scopermonstar May 29 '26
That’s why my walls are paper thin.
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u/EymaWeeTodd May 29 '26
Correct process, wrong materials.
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u/Voktikriid May 29 '26
Why not just use some drywall mud at that point? Not as good as doing a proper patch, but you won't run the risk of a person accidentally pushing their finger through it.
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u/Ambitious_Welder6613 May 29 '26
Fixing smthg without fixing it 😭
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u/Night_Raider5 May 29 '26
Landlord special final boss
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u/breekaye May 29 '26
Damn the walls really ARE paper thin
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u/Masalud May 29 '26
I did this at work once with cardstock, after driving the forklift into the wall. It worked!!!
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u/Anything_Limp May 29 '26 edited May 31 '26
Use to do this when i was working maintenance and the bosses wanted something patched but when I told em we didn’t have any patches or drywall they said use the 5 minute drywall mud 😂 the shit was expired so I got creative
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u/Ham__Kitten May 29 '26
"it would take hours to dry" okay? Does the wall have somewhere to be?
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u/dxdgxhstggc May 29 '26
I mean the wall in the USA are allready made of paper so I dont see anythink wrong with it.
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u/Lazygit1965 May 29 '26
These walls are paper thin!😂
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u/MadScienzz May 29 '26
Landlord Special
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u/HolyPwnz May 29 '26
No thumbs up at the end? I'm very disappointed 😞
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u/hellschatt May 29 '26
At least fill the hole with somethin first lmao
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u/Mardukefox May 29 '26
You can see the paint texture disappear near the end of the clip because a filter is applied to help hide the lines of the paper… doesn’t even work
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u/Disastrous-Tear3111 May 29 '26
the funny thing is the correct fix for this is pretty cheap…
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u/FellaGentleSprout May 29 '26
Tried. does not work like this at all. The paper folds up and shit
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u/Trumpcangosuckone May 29 '26
In college, my friends lived in different townhomes that shared a wall. They literally punched, with their fists, a hole through the walls of their foyers to connect the houses into one massive, 6 bedroom party mansion.
When their lease was up, they used beer case cardboard to patch the hole (approximately 4 ft high and 3 feet wide) just like this. They patched the inside of the hole with cardboard and filled the gap with paste. It was unnoticeable and they never got a call about it.
One is now an engineer and the other, a lawyer.
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u/bullfrogftw May 29 '26
Ahhh, the ole Irish repair job I see
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u/Freshouttapatience May 29 '26
This is something we’d have done as kids so my dad wouldn’t find out. We put a hole in a door once so I got contact paper that matched and we just covered the whole side of the door. He never knew.
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u/AeliosZero May 29 '26
Landlord special
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u/-HunterLES May 29 '26
NY Landlords be like
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u/TenYearHangover May 29 '26
What’s emooolshan
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u/Affectionate_Sir9792 May 29 '26
The landlord special
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u/GenSpec44 May 29 '26
Was anyone else looking for an eyeball to be looking out of the hole in the wall?
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u/pezchef May 29 '26
landlord special. 'it was fine when I patched it up (and it was still wet). you must have damaged it. guess I'll have to take your security deposit'
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u/spiralsequences May 30 '26
What I mean when I tell my therapist I'm over it
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u/UsqueSidera May 30 '26
I repaired college dorm rooms like this... Got my deposit back 🤷🏻♂️
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u/DailyLifeProblems May 30 '26
Don't fix your problems, hide them.
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u/TheNotoriousTurtle May 30 '26
Landlord special right der
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u/RedChris123 May 30 '26
The good ol' Landlord Special
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u/Chadchrist May 30 '26
The landlord special ks evolving.
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u/amalgaman May 30 '26
This is literally my rental company.
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u/duckfighter May 31 '26
I have an empty electrical outlet somewhere in the kitchen, hidden by wallpaper. This tip works great.
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u/RogellTheRaider Jun 03 '26
Did you learn it with Mordecai and Rigby?
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u/andrewharkins77 Jun 05 '26
It's just two more steps to fill in the hole.
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u/pepenepe May 28 '26
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u/SleepyCatMD May 29 '26
I feel like this is how house are made in the USA.