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Rudy Escalante:
If you don’t use this tape, you’ll have cracks.
Hi, I’m Rudy with Rudy’s Quality Painting, and I’m going to show you how we could remove an outlet and patch it, tape it, float it. What we did is we put a board that’s larger than the hole, so we screw the board into the Sheetrock behind the hole to support our Sheetrock patch. And then he cut out the Sheetrock, placed it on there. Then my guy came in with some mud, quick set, and tape. If you don’t use this tape, you’ll have cracks. You’ll fill it in with mud, but later on, it’ll crack. It’ll expand, it’ll shrink, and you’ll have cracks everywhere.
When you do this, sometimes they over-mud it, and sometimes you put too much mud, and you don’t sand it enough where it’s smooth enough before you apply the texture. So, when you want to do the mud, you want to give a little bit, a skim coat to it. Don’t overload it with mud. After this first coat of mud, we’re going to come back here, maybe a little sanding and give a second coat of mud that’s a skimming so it could look straight. It could be nice and smooth. Then we can come in and sand around that one, a light sanding, and then apply our texture to it. So, this could take a half a day, four to six hours for it to dry in between, and then we could paint it.
When this is done right, this would look like the rest of the wall. You won’t be able to tell there’s a patch there.
