Don't know the cost, seems to me that a 30 pound pail of pre-mixed plaster is
about 35 bucks but I don't remember and it would be a lot more than you would
need. You can buy small pales and even boxes of powder to be mixed with water
quite cheaply.
----- Original Message -----
From: Blake Hardin
To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 5:40 PM
Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] knowing what your walls are made of? And filling
up wholes in your wall?
Hi, how much would this stuff cost? I would say tat the plaster mud
would be the most expensive.
On 8/25/10, Dale Leavens <dleav...@puc.net> wrote:
> Drywall and jiprock or sheet rock are the same thing.
>
> Filling holes depends a little on the nature of the holes. If they don't go
> right through then you just spread and force the mud right over the hole.
> You may need to spread a thin layer of plaster and embed paper tape into it
> to give better strength if it is badly cracked. If the hole goes through
> there are a number of different methods used depending on the size of the
> hole.
>
> You may be able to just stuff some wadded paper in there and work plaster
> over it, you might work some adhesive tape to the back side of the jiprock
> with enough exposed sticky to hold a little paper to form a base enough to
> apply layers of the plaster mud allowing to dry as you build up the hole.
>
> Large holes may require you to cut a square out, screw some strips of wood
> onto the back side with screws through the board on the front overlapping
> enough to allow you to cut a filler piece and screw it into the strips of
> wood then apply a thin layer of plaster around the cracks and press paper
> tape firmly into the sticky mud before plastering over the lot including
> filling the screw holes. This usually takes a couple of applications because
> the plaster shrinks as it dries and the screw holes reappear through the
> first couple of applications. The paper tape is used to reinforce the cracks
> otherwise the shrinking plaster will form cracks which become visible.
>
> Many people now prefer the adhesive mesh tape. this is stronger but it is
> also thicker and I don't much like using it because it takes a lot more
> plaster to build up and hide the stuff and I find the lump left behind
> unacceptable. It isn't bad along the formed edges of drywall where there is
> a bit of a valley but across the ends and other butt joints requires more
> work than I like to do.
>
> You sand smooth and paint.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Dale leavens.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Blake Hardin
> To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 7:49 AM
> Subject: [BlindHandyMan] knowing what your walls are made of? And filling
> up wholes in your wall?
>
>
>
> Hi, ok what is the difference between dry wall and sheetrock? Or are
> they the same thing? Also, a room that im in has quite a few wholes in
> the wall and i was wondering how do i go about fixing them? I know you
> can use sheetrock mud and patch them up but how exactly do you do it
> step by step? Do i just buy the mud if thats what its called, spread
> it throughout the wholes as evenly as posible, then wait for it to dry
> and take a piece of sandpaper and sand it down to be even with the
> rest of the wall? I know that after its done you have to pait over it
> but thats fine with me because this room needs to be repainted anyway.
>
>
>
>
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