Lee, A good sharpe tile knife does wonders. What I use to do is cut a biece of plasterboard a few inches larger than the whole. Take a few plasterboard or all purpose screws and screw the board over the whole and use the tile knife, or utility knife and cut the plaster around the board. I would than remove the plasterboard and clean the area good and screw the plasterboard in the hole. Wet down the plaster, with a spray bottle, around the board and use a compound that was a wood fiber to fill in around the plasterboard. The next day, if necessary, I would use the fiber tape and a pre mixed wall board compound and feather out the patch. RJ ----- Original Message ----- From: Lee A. Stone To: Blind Handyman Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2007 11:37 AM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Should there be an accident what tools to use
Imagine if you would, a major accident has left a gaping hole in your kitchen wall . what tools would you need or choose to use to close same said hole. Lee -- I. Any body suspended in space will remain in space until made aware of its situation. Daffy Duck steps off a cliff, expecting further pastureland. He loiters in midair, soliloquizing flippantly, until he chances to look down. At this point, the familiar principle of 32 feet per second per second takes over. II. Any body in motion will tend to remain in motion until solid matter intervenes suddenly. Whether shot from a cannon or in hot pursuit on foot, cartoon characters are so absolute in their momentum that only a telephone pole or an outsize boulder retards their forward motion absolutely. Sir Isaac Newton called this sudden termination of motion the stooge's surcease. III. Any body passing through solid matter will leave a perforation conforming to its perimeter. Also called the silhouette of passage, this phenomenon is the speciality of victims of directed-pressure explosions and of reckless cowards who are so eager to escape that they exit directly through the wall of a house, leaving a cookie-cutout-perfect hole. The threat of skunks or matrimony often catalyzes this reaction. -- Esquire, "O'Donnell's Laws of Cartoon Motion", June 1980 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
