I wanted to send a thanks to everyone who responded to my posts about Home Theater installation. I drilled a couple of exploratory holes near where the toner indicated there was wire and fished around a bit. Later that day I was at Best Buy and asked what it cost to have Geek Squad come out and do it for me. They were actually very reasonably priced and I decided just to have them do it for me. Keeps me from tearing up the walls, though my geek ego took a hit.
Also finally scheduled someone for curtains and bought a couple of rugs for the hardwoods to kill the echo, and bought some bookcases for the walls. The place in finally starting to look less like a half unpacked dorm room and more like a real home. We pained the walls but the colors didn't come out like I wanted so we're gonna repaint. Might be good that we repaint anyways since I already sliced into the walls. ;) Yes Erika - one day I will have a housewarming, but not yet... -Cameron On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Rob Parkhill <[email protected]>wrote: > If you have to cut a hole, and if you feel slightly handy, it takes hardly > anytime at all to patch the hole back up with drywall. > Cut out a square hole, KEEP THE PIECE > fish out the wire, using whatever technique you like, you can make the hole > big enough for your hand if you want. > Go to your local hardware store and buy a drywall patch that is bigger than > the hole you cut and some pre-mixed drywall compound. these patches are > sticky like tape and are just a bunch of little squares. > Stick the patch to the piece of drywall you have taken out and then fit it > back in the hole (making sure the wire is out :) ) > The patch should hold the drywall back in place and leave you with a > relatively small gap where the wire comes out. > Take the compound (and I'll assume you have a trowel or something else > metallic to spread the compound with) and make the compound nice and smooth > and covering the entire patch etc. as you get further out from the patch > make the compound thinner until there is basically none. > > Make it as smooth as possible > then sand the next day slightly trying to again achieve smoothness. If you > don't like what you see when you are done sanding, add more compound and > try > again (just try not to make it look like a Hump) > > The biggest thing is that you will then have to prime and paint the fresh > drywall. But this way you wouldn't have an ugly cover where the hole was, > but instead something that looks (mostly) like the rest of your wall. If > it > is near the ceiling, no one will notice if there is a slight imperfection > anyways. > > HTH > > Rob > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:283776 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
