Transform Your Space with Cuyahoga Falls Painting

Life happens! Sometimes a door opens too wide and puts a dent in the drywall, or your kid throws a rock into the dry wall, or there’s a bad patch job that sticks out from when you moved in. No matter what happened, Color Concepts Painting can make it look like there was never any damage to begin with. We’ve seen it all and patched it all. Here’s a few things we can fix and how we fix it:

• Drywall Dings & Dents: If there’s a dent or ding in your drywall, all we need to do is scrape away any loose debris and spackle over the dent with drywall putty/spackle. Then we even it out with a putty knife until it is smooth and flush. Then all it takes is a sanding with a fine grit paper and determine what the texture around it is made of and retexture evenly. Texturing is a very easy step to get wrong. If the texture compound is sprayed unevenly or too much in one area it will stand out and be an eye sore. Experienced contractors know exactly how much to use and where, it comes with practice.
• Door Handle Holes: Requires a wire mesh to be place over the hole. Then, using lightweight joint compound, stick it over the mesh thoroughly in a crisscross pattern. Feathering the edges blends the spackle with the wall. Let dry and if necessary add another layer of compound. Once you sand it down until the patched area looks flush with the rest of the wall all you have to do is add the texture compound in the same concentration as the rest of the wall, then paint. If done properly you will not even know there was a dent to begin with.
• Holes 6 Inches or Bigger: Drywall holes 6-8 inches wide are a lot more intensive to fix and requires more than just spackling, sanding, and texturing like the smaller holes. One of the simplest ways to deal with this is to cut out the hole into a square, then measure that square and cut out a piece of drywall that is the exact dimensions of that square hole and secure wooden backing strips to the back of it to give it more strength and support behind it. Secure it with screws the tape it off at the seams and use joint compound to cover the seams in the same way as you would when installing new drywall sheets on a wall. Then you sand, texture, and paint.