Thursday 28th January 2010
by admin
Sakura U asked:
We have a 2 and a half by 1 and a half inch hole in our wall, and we’re going to pay a handyman to fix it. How much would it cost?
We have a 2 and a half by 1 and a half inch hole in our wall, and we’re going to pay a handyman to fix it. How much would it cost?
Tags: handyman, Hole In The Wall, Inch Hole
Well you can do it by yourself if you want too. There are many steps in the internet that you can do just search on it.
If you think you can’t repair it on your own a handyman can be a great solution too but the cost really depends since they need to inspect first the holes and its size before giving you the said charge (amount).
I would charge you 80 to100 bucks without painting. Its not the time it takes to fix it but the time and gas to get to your house. It would take me two or three trips and 5 minutes of work each time once I got there. Hardly any material. So at 20 bucks an hour and and lets say 30 minutes away is3 hours and 20 bucks in gas and 20 for the work. If you make 20 bucks an hour or more than don’t feel its to much. If you make less at your work or think it is to much you should do the work yourself.
Here’s a simplified, step-by-step how-to article on howt to repair your drywall hole in no time that is offered by a handyman site:
If you find that it’s a bit difficult to do, and still want a handyman to do it, towards the END of the linked article above is a text-link ad that offers up to four (4) Free estimates from local drywall contractors who can give you a price on the cost of having your hole repaired without any obligation on your part. (It’s the text-link ad that says, “Find Drywall…Contractors. Get Up to 4 Quotes Now…Free.”)
This should help!
If your wall is drywall and you want to save some money, it’s easy to do it yourself.
tools needed: razor knife, spackle trowel.
Let me say first off, that it takes longer to type these directions than it does to actually do the repair (not counting the spackling, which will take a couple minutes each day for 3 or 4 days). In the lingo of the drywall trade, this is called a “blowout patch”.
First use the knife to square up the hole. Lets say you end up with a 3 x 2 rectangular hole.
Now add 4 inches to each dimension, and cut a piece of drywall to that size, so now you have a piece of drywall that is 7 x 6.
On the back of the drywall, draw your 3 x 2 rectangle in the center, then with your knife, score the paper on each line but score from edge to edge of the piece. Now it should look like a tic tac toe board.
Now for the fun part. Break the drywall on each line, and peel the outside pieces off of the paper, leaving the paper on the front intact. Now you should have only the center 3×2 piece with 2 inches of paper around the edges.
With the trowel, put a thin layer of spackle on the wall around the hole extending out at least the width of the paper edges (2 inches ). Now push the patch into the hole and using your trowel, flatten the paper into the spackle. When the spackle dries, your patch will be glued in, and you can proceed to put 3 or 4 more coats on letting the spackle dry between each coat, and sanding off any high spots. Do a final sanding and paint and stand back and admire your handiwork.
Don’t pay anyone to do this small repair. You can do it yourself for under $10.00.
You will need to go to a hardware store and buy the following
(1) pint of spackle or dry wall repair ( ask for help from the employees.
(2) a small 1 1/2″ wide teflon “scraper” to spread the spackle
(3) one single sheet of 400 grit sand paper. to sand the repair smoothe when it is completly dry
(4) A small roll of wall patch tape, Yellow in color.
You will need to install the yellow hole patch tape over the hole and smoothe it out with the wall spackle. It should take you two coats to do it. Try to keep the spackle as smoothe and thin as you can.
Once it had dried and none of the yellow tape is showing you can sand it smoothe with the 400 grit sand paper.
If you have some spare paint left over , after the patch is completly dry and sanded smooth , apply the paint. If you do not have any of the original paint color left, you can always cut off a 1″ x 1″ piece (very thin cut) of dry wall and take it down to a place like home depot and have a small quart of it made up to match.
Give it a try and your confidence will build up, which will lead you to try to fix other things in your home, before you hire a handyman which can be a little expensive.
Good Luck
Stugotz
ask an employee if you are not familiar with any of the tools, material I am making a list of OK.
I would charge $25. No painting/primer
Mark
EDIT: Hey Rick, You need to use hot mud, you can get all three coats of compound on and sanded in 30 minutes!
it wouldnt be worth their while to come and do just a hole….