Do it Yourself: Re: [DIY] I need mesh tape help

27 October 2011

Re: [DIY] I need mesh tape help

They will all work

Dale in the Flat Lands

Cindi Waters wrote:

In the meantime, I did apply the mesh before I read your post, and fortunately it's in a place where it will be behind the shelf so it probably won't show too badly. But I will keep this in mind for the future. You're saying tissue. Do you mean tissue like facial tissue, or tissue paper? I've heard some people use newspaper.

From: Dale S <dalu@hbcomm.net>
To: DoIt_Yourself@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2011 10:55 AM
Subject: Re: [DIY] I need mesh tape help

Don't use the tape as you will wind up with another bump. Stuff a little tissue in the hole leaving about 3/8 inch for the mud and fill the hole with sheet-rock mud. You may have to do it twice because of shrinkage, then sand and paint.

Dale in the Flat Lands

clean_boost wrote:

Yeah, so I'm onto plugging up a hole that the handyman made yesterday kind of by accident. Here's what happened -- she was attempting to put up a wire utility type shelf on my freshly painted wall. :-( And the screw with the plug or whatever you call it did not entirely go in because I think there might have been a firewall behind the drywall, stopping the complete insertion of the plug. As a result, we decided it needs a shorter plug & screw. We think the drywall is 3/4", and something was behind that particular wall preventing the 2" plug and screw from going all the way in. Meantime, now there is a lovely 1/3" hole in the freshly painted wall. sob. my freshly painted wall. And so NOW I want to try to put up drywall mesh tape to spackle & paint over it. Question -- what is the technique for applying this tape? I bought the tape (yellow) and I want to know if I should dampen the spot on the wall before applying the tape, because I read something about dampening the wall before even putting spackling or mud on a spot. Thoughts?