Repairing Sheetrock

By

zeeeena

Tape over it.

By

Deeli

You can spatula on a thin layer of drywall mud and then once completely dry lightly sand with fine sand paper wrapped around a wood block to even out. There will be mud dust doing this but all you have to do is cover up furniture, etc. and be sure to have the doors closed to other rooms. I've done this a couple of times in doing such minor drywall repairs and it works well. If you use drywall tape you're going to have to mud anyway (and actually have to use more mud) so why not save a step? ;-) Also, it's quite alot more expensive and time consuming to replace the drywall, tape all the seams, mud and then sand twice because you have to use more mud (sometimes dry, sand, apply a second coat, dry again and sand again) on taped seams.

P.S. Always wear a doctor's type mask when sanding so the dust doesn't get in your lungs.

By

cakelady99

Here's an answer from my carpenter of 20 years husband: "If you are going to paint it, you could tape over it, but if it's no big deal, I'd replace it, because you'll get a smoother finish."

I recently removed some very old and very adhered wallpaper in my kitchen. Despite my best efforts, there are large and small areas where the top layer of the sheetrock came off with the paper.

I live in a double wide mobile home. The walls are sheetrock that was made with vinyl wallpaper already on it. The dog tore up a small portion, the vinyl come off and left just the drywall paper.