10 year old 1 - 0 Wall - How do I fix this?

Conmaicne Mara

We have a demolition expert at work. 10 year old young fella put his knee through the toilet wall accidentally.

I know nothing about how to fix this, can it be done easily, and if so, how

Advice appreciated

mad m

If you can get your hands on a bit of plasterboard, cut a rectangle piece that is just wide enough and long enough to slide into hole, get a piece of twine and put twine through middle of rectangle bit of plasterboard and tie a knot on other side, put some adhesive on ends of plasterboard like silicone or something that will set quick and put rectangle bit of plasterboard into hole and pull twine.

Hold till it sets or that you feel it will stay in place. Next day fill over with some poly filler, the poly filler will sink/sag, so you will probably have to fill a couple of times till its flush with old wall. Sand down and touch up....

Conmaicne Mara

Thanks mad m

chris445

square off the hole using a stanley knife.
cut a piece of timber about 3/4 inches longer than the hole.
put the timber behind the plasterboard and screw at either side so the timberis behind the platerboard going right across the hole.
get a small piece of plasterboard. cut it to size and screw it in to fill the hole.
Scrim the joints and fill with gyproc joint filler using a large filling knife or trowel.

moy83

He must have a sore knee now . Am I right in thinking you are around connemara ? Im a plasterer in moycullen and if you want I can give you the small bit of stuff you will need to patch it up . I would have waste bits left over from other jobs , for all you will need its not worth buying .

dodzy

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

We have a demolition expert at work. 10 year old young fella put his knee through the toilet wall accidentally.

I know nothing about how to fix this, can it be done easily, and if so, how

Advice appreciated

His knee ? My money is on his boot That aside, all good advice above.

livingthedream

STOP STOP I've found a great instructional video on just this subject:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5h1RSyfZoo&list=UUH0FVCcsDd00tw6m6mUj4Yg&index=6&feature=plcp

Enjoy!

mad m

livingthedream wrote: »

STOP STOP I've found a great instructional video on just this subject:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5h1RSyfZoo&list=UUH0FVCcsDd00tw6m6mUj4Yg&index=6&feature=plcp

Enjoy!

FFS get that video over to slydice forum!

vicwatson

livingthedream wrote: »

STOP STOP I've found a great instructional video on just this subject:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5h1RSyfZoo&list=UUH0FVCcsDd00tw6m6mUj4Yg&index=6&feature=plcp

Enjoy!

She is the most amazing plasterer I've ever seen....and so clean looking after doing the job, y'know

Conmaicne Mara

moy83 wrote: »

He must have a sore knee now . Am I right in thinking you are around connemara ? Im a plasterer in moycullen and if you want I can give you the small bit of stuff you will need to patch it up . I would have waste bits left over from other jobs , for all you will need its not worth buying .

Only getting back to this now, thanks very much Moy, I'll take you up on that if your kind offer still stands

Conmaicne Mara

I was thinking it was his boot too for a while, but everyones got their story straight as an arrow lol.

Merch

No way a knee did that
Someone gave that a boot,

How do you fix the problem? a good clatter i'd say

I mean, a small amount of expanding foam and stop it expanding too far with a bit of cardboard, when its dry, pull out the cardboard and fill it neatly with filler.

Or just get a bit of cheap filler in a big tub and fill away, let it dry and then fill and smooth off.

Not worth buying a bag of stuff for that, if the fella above can give you some of his materials, that'd be the way to go.

Merch

livingthedream wrote: »

STOP STOP I've found a great instructional video on just this subject:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5h1RSyfZoo&list=UUH0FVCcsDd00tw6m6mUj4Yg&index=6&feature=plcp

Enjoy!

Brilliant, humanah

moy83

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

Only getting back to this now, thanks very much Moy, I'll take you up on that if your kind offer still stands

No bother