How do you patch a ceiling?
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Depends on type of ceiling...if it's like a wall, this is what I did:
Get a piece of cardboard slightly bigger than hole. Punch a little hole in the centre and put a string through it. Knot the string so that the know is bigger than the hole in the cardboard. Insert cardboard into hole in wall and using string pull tight while using wall putty to cover the entire thing. Push string through and leave in wall, putty that little hole. Let dry, sand and then paint.
Hope this can work for you.
Other answers:
duct tape
duct tape
get a mexican ( i hope that does not ogfend anyone its just a joke)
Mark. I need to know if it is the popcorn ceiling or just a regular type texture. how bad is the damage. there are a lot of various ways. I wish the 2 other smartalexs would keep there words to them selves. e-mail direct if you wish.
Go to your nearest home depot and ask them they should be able to set you up with any stuff you need to do this with and they can also give you instructions on how to do it as well.
What kind of ceiling? Wall board?
And what's the damage and what caused it? (if it's water damage, for example, has the original leak been fixed?)
The repair of wallboard ceilings is fairly easy. You cut out the damaged area so that the plug your gonna insert gets "framed" by the ceiling stringers. (If you are having trouble with this description, you'd do well now to hire a pro - this kinda work's not that expensive - before you do further damage and drive the repair cost higher!)
But if you're a stubborn, independent skin-flint like me, cut the plug from a scrap piece of wallboard begged from a pro and anchor it in-place using the proper fasteners. (Ask at your local Lowes/Home Depot.)
Tape and "mud" the seams. (Yeah - ask at the local Lowes...etc...)
After a couple of days, after the "Mud" is good and dry, repaint the whole ceiling. (see why you should'a hired the pro!)
After the professional is through, you won't be able to find the repair.
After YOU'RE through, the re-do is REALLY gonna be expensive!
Anyway, good luck! We know what you'll be doing next
weekend! (thumbing thru the yellow pages looking for a pro??)
Now - wanna know how to hire a pro?? :-)