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Fig.1 Dining room walls damages
Left, middle and right wall repair |
By Gary Boutin
Supplies and Tools:
500 watt Heat lamp
Caulking white
Cordless screwdriver with many tips
Razor knife and extra blades
Scraper (2 in. 3 in. and 5 in. wall knife)
Screwdriver Flat (regular and small)
Screwdriver Phillip
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| Fig.2 Drywall knife |
Sponge large yellow
Tarps cotton 9 ft. x 12 ft.
Trash bag or trash can
Tool bag
Vacuum Cleaner
Vice Grip
Wall tape (paper)
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 seven steps showing the damages to this kitchen nook wall.
Step 1: Fig.1 shows the kitchen nook wall that needs repair and
fig.2 shows a
drywall knife used to cut up the wall so it can be square for repairs.
Step 2: Fig.3 through
fig.5 shows the removal of the electrical plug that was in the center damaged wall. All the fiberglass was wet and needed to dry out before the new wall panels were replaced.
Fig.4 shows that a small
flat tipped screwdriver was used to remove the two outlet screws.
Fig.5 shows the outlet completely out of the electrical box.
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| Fig.3 Wet electrical |
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| Fig.4 Remove outlet screws |
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| Fig.5 Pullout duplex plug |
Step 3: Fig.6 shows the use of
razor knife to keep the edge straight to make it easier to install the new wallboard.
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| Fig.6 Cut edges square |
Step 4: Fig.7 shows that part of the wall was removed to half of the wood stud. This will give the new piece some support.
Fig.8 shows that the middle wall on the left side was completely removed and was not repairable.
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| Fig.7 Cut to stud |
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| Fig.8 Wallboard removed |
Step 5: Fig.9 shows that the more the wall was looked at more of the wall was removed. Almost half the wall was so wet that it was removed and not repairable. Even the fiberglass was damaged from the leak, notice that the right side is a different color than the left side. The water damage was worst on the left side than the right side.
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| Fig.9 Wallboard removed |
Step 6: Fig.10 and
fig.11 shows that a use of the
vacuum cleaner was used to remove all the loose debris (pieces) that was left inside and outside the wall. Bigger portion of the wall was placed into a trash can. The wallpaper was stripped from the wall and saved for later application.
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| Fig.10 Cleaning the studs |
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| Fig.11 Vacuuming inside the wall |
Step 7: Fig.12 shows the right part of the wall was repaired at the bottom and not entirely replaced. A
500 watt heat lamp was used to dry the insulation and the wall repair. Noticed all the wallpaper was moved upwards away from the repair. Now the wall is ready for its new skin.
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| Fig.12 Drying insulation |
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