How to Install Kitchen Nook Wall - Part 4 of 5 - Install New Sheetrock

By Gary Boutin

Fig.1 Dining room walls damages  
Left, middle and right wall repair

Supplies and Tools: 
500 watt Heat lamp
Drywall knife
Cordless screwdriver with many tips
Razor knife and extra blades
Scraper (2 in. 3 in. and 5 in. wall knife)
Screwdriver Phillip bit
Sponge large yellow
Tarps cotton 9 ft. x 12 ft.
Trash  bag or trash can
Tool bag
Vacuum Cleaner
Vice Grip
Wall tape (paper)
Wall saw - rubber handle

A client in Santa Clarita, California was selling their home and moving to Colorado. Their Realtor checked the kitchen nook and noticed that the dining room wallpaper was loose. She also noticed that the kitchen windows had bad rubber seals and leaked when the backyard sprinklers were sprayed on the glass windows. This needed to be repaired immediately. 

This post shows the eight steps showing the damages to this kitchen nook wall. 

Step 1: Fig.1 shows the kitchen nook wall that needs repair, left, middle and right walls.
Step 2: Fig.2 shows the drywall knife that will be used to cut the new wall. Fig.3 shows the the new drywall is in place.

Fig.2 Drywall knife

Fig.3 Replacing new sheet rock

Step 3: Fig.4 and fig.5 shows the progression of how to place drywall was placed around a duplex electrical plug.

Fig.4 No wall

Fig.5 Cut hole

Step 4: Fig.6 and fig.7 shows the joint compound being placed on the wall and over the paper tape.

Fig.6 Joint compound

Fig.7 Drywall knife

Step 5: Fig.8 and fig.9 shows the joint compound drying over the paper tape.

Fig.8 Paper tape

Fig.9 Corner

Step 6: Fig.10 and fig.11 shows the wall being sanded by the electrical plug and also the corner area.

Fig.10 Sand plug

Fig.11 Sand corner

Step 7: Fig.12 shows the drywall lime that will need to be vacuumed before painting.

Fig.12 Drywall lime

Step 8: Fig.13 and fig.14 shows the two 500-watt lamps drying the wall for priming and applying the wallpaper. Click the 500-Watt lamp to see how to change the Halogen bulb.

Fig.13 Drying the entire wall

Fig.14 Drying right side

How To Repair a Kitchen Nook Wall:

• Part 1 of 5 - Damages
• Part 2 of 5 - Removing Wallpaper
• Part 3 of 5 - Remove and Repair Wall
• Part 4 of 5 - Install New Sheetrock
• Part 5 of 5 - Applying Wallpaper

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