Patching Holes

When living in a party house one might find the occasional hole punched or kicked in their walls after the ultimate beer pong defeat. My story starts after returning home to my college apartment after work when i heard a knock at the door. I answered the door and it was the land lord. He wanted to know if he could come inside and inspect the house and take some pictures for some reason, mind you that my apartment had been almost completely destroyed by myroommates over Christmas break. If I had let him in we would have been immediately evicted.

Thinking fast and in my work uniform i made up that i had to go to work and i would not be comfortable with him in the house when nobody was home. He then told me that he was going to give me 48 hours until he returns (he gave us more time than what is required by law which is 24 hours). Upon the closing of the door I let out a sigh of relief for if he were to walk even a foot into the house there was a hole as big as a road sign there to greet him, not to mention the 30 other holes were throughout the house. I called everyone I knew and partied with, the ones who broke my house. I went with my roommate to the hardware store and purchased some dry wall pieces, screws, dry wall mud, putty knifes, dry wall tape (which was not used or needed), razor blades, sanding blocks, paint rollers and paint. Then we went to work. we had the bulk of the damage in two rooms so we moved all the furniture into the first room so we could work on the other.

1) First We cut most of the bigger holes so they were square and to the stud.

2) We Measured the holes and cut out dry wall pieces to fix (nothing perfect but the closer the better.)

3) Then we took the newly cut dry wall pieces and screwed them into the studs in the wall.

4) Next came the dry wall mudding process, (simple enough take the mud with the puddy knife and spread over the edges until flush, its alright if you have a bit extra that's what the sandingblocks are for.)

5) We let the mud dry, sanded and mudded again, until it was flush with the original wall

6) Over night the final coat of mud dried and we did our final touch up sanding and moved to painting. (be careful with paint you don't want to explain how paint got all over the floor and then give up that you had all the holes.)

7) To mask the smell of new paint we had incense burning and fans blowing constantly during the drying process.

On the third day when the landlord came he inspected the place and couldn't find anything wrong, took his pictures and was out the door. It truly felt like an 80's movie montage.