Thread: drywall(ing)

so i had a fall in the hallway of my house. my arm went thru the wall/ and now theres a big ole hole in the wall that i need to patch.

and being as i know nothing of home improvement or construction. i'm wonderin am i gonna have to cut out the entire sheet of drywall section of the wall? or is there an eaiser way to patch where it broke? i dont really see anything to nail the drywall to. and i dont know how i would get it flush with the rest of the wall. also this wall is way over 50 years old so dunno what will happen when i try to cut into it.

any sugjestions ?


on a side note how can you tell if a toe is broken or just jammed and is there anything to be done to a broken toe?

Originally Posted by moving-target

so i had a fall in the hallway of my house. my arm went thru the wall/ and now theres a big ole hole in the wall that i need to patch.

and being as i know nothing of home improvement or construction. i'm wonderin am i gonna have to cut out the entire sheet of drywall section of the wall? or is there an eaiser way to patch where it broke? i dont really see anything to nail the drywall to. and i dont know how i would get it flush with the rest of the wall. also this wall is way over 50 years old so dunno what will happen when i try to cut into it.

any sugjestions ?


on a side note how can you tell if a toe is broken or just jammed and is there anything to be done to a broken toe?

I can't help you with the wall but as far as the toe goes, you should have it x-rayed. It's really the only way to tell if it's broken.

You need whats called dead wood a couple of pieces of quarter inch plywood will work about 3 inch's wide and the width of the opening one at the top one at the bottom. Cut the broken area so it'square then measure and cut a new piece of drywall about a quarter inch smaller than the hole take drywall screws and attach it to the dead wood tape and float, texture and paint. Or if it's not too big there's ready made screen patches that adhere to the wall then float,texture and paint.

welp i may have goten outa it went to my brother whos in construction borrow some tools said he had the materials at work and would patch it tomorrow so lets see hes not the most reliable person but if he comes thru it will hopefully just cost me a 6-12 pack of bud light or i'll be putting the wall togther before my computer :/

Bud Light?

At least buy him some half-way decent beer.


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how big is the hole? Home Depot sells 2'x2' pieces of sheetrock. Just make sure you get the same thickness as the existing wall.
They sell kits for holes that are small, say 6"x6" when squared off.

If its a big hole...
I would square the hole off from centerline of stud on each side and then above and below as far as necessary. You can take 2x4s and go across the top and bottom so that they are half on the old and half showing. Then secure them to the studs. Install sheetrock and screw old and new into the existing studs and your 2x4s. Then fill the cracks with compound aka float and tape, sand and paint. If its textured you may or may not be able to duplicate it.

If the hole cracked the sheet and is more than 2' probably would be a good idea to replace the whole sheet. Unfortunately its an old house so there is no telling what you might run into even with a simple job.

Hopefully your brother can take care of it, not an easy task if you have no tools or idea where to start.

Coming from my fractured ring toe two summers ago:

can you bend it? Does it hurt like hell (when you do)? Depending on your pain tolerence, it should be excruciating (low tol for pain), or hurts like hell (high tol for pain). Normally with toe stubs, you just jabbed the toe in a direction its not used to moving, so pain may last for a few weeks, steadily dying down.

Ive got fairly high pain tollerence (beared through a root cenal with no novacain, with little problems), when i fractured my toe, it hurt quite a bit to bend/curl it completly down to where it was touching the bottom of my foot (like you toes do when you make a fist/clench with your toes).


If it hurts, but is bearable to put weight on and your able to bend it without serious pan, you jammed it. If you cannot bend it, probably broken, if you can bend it with serious pan, fracture.

thanks lots of good advice if i have to land up doing it


as for the toe it hurts i guess medium i guess when i bend it down thats only when i probably just sprained jamed it i was told nothing doctors do for a broken toe anyways

Originally Posted by Guyver

Bud Light?

At least buy him some half-way decent beer.


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he likes bud light he used to drink that mexican horse piss (corona) but now he drinks american horse piss never been a beer drinker myself just the hard stuff for me less i'm drunk then i'll drink anything