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Summary: Learn how to patch sheetrock after leak repair in this free home repair video from a construction expert and home renovation professional.
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Shannon Kniep Shannon Kniep has worked in the construction industry for twenty years, having begun with his father doing residential remodels. Later, he received his gener... read more
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Questions & AnswersMy name is Shannon Kniep and I am speaking on behalf of Expert Village. Now this is the joint compound we are going to use to do the cracks, the seems, and the sheet rock. This is typical joint compound you can get it in any hardware store building supply center. Very inexpensive, but it's designed specifically for this; caulking will not work spackling will not work. You have to use joint compound and get it right because your going to have to fill it in and plain it out to make it really flat. Alright, I'm now going to show the process of filling joints. What you want to do is go in a cross motion like this, and fill it in as thick as you can for the first row. You want to go over it like this with a wide blade, just want to flatten it out. At this point we are going to wait a minimum of 24 hours. Hopefully we will be able to put some fans and lights on it in order for us to speed the process of drying. This compound needs to dry completely in order for everything to be solid enough to where we can go back and sand it and that would be the next thing. When we sand it we are going to smooth it out and do this exact same process again, we are going to do it three times in order to get it as smooth as we can possibly get it.
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