Home Improvement

Noodleface said:

Thanks. Yeah the wall just looks like that because the bozo that did the bathroom did some questionable work with that area. I think some moisture just got under the drywall mud and a whole section started peeling off

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If fixing this, I would score the spot with some tool, scratch the paper/paint off the spot with a screwdriver or something in some random pattern. Also remove the loose pieces that are not adhered to the ceiling around it. So the same shit does not happen in the future.





Think of this as sanding something before putting on paint so it does not just crack off. Usually there is a layer of paint there which is not conducive to a good contact between the mud and the drywall. This is also why it failed in the first place. get yourself a nice wide dywall mud tool, like 12" with a plastic mud pan the same size, they are pretty cheap. Buy a premixed small bucket of the shit at home cheapo and mix in a bit of water into it in that mud pan. This will make it smoother and easier to spread. Go in stages, fill the hole first, let it set, then go for one more layer to make everything smooth around it, bigger the better to spread out the spot into 2xor 3x its size so its harder to notice it was fixed. Because there is some shrinkage when the stuff sets and water evaporates.

If there is paint below the plaster hack job, yeah you need to score it, like I said its why it failed in the fist place. And that picture it sure looks like paint below the plaster. they prob put a skim coat over the ceiling because it looked like shit or whatever. If not scoring it because youre afraid, go in there with like 80 grit and scuff the area.

I had a room in my current house where they just put wallpaper right on the primered drywall when the place was built. Even before painting it. So it was such a bitch to get off because removing the wall paper actually removed some of the wallboard paper underneath. It was a fucking mess. I had to skim coat all the walls after. Some people just dont do a job properly. If they were to skim coat a wall or ceiling WITH paint on it, they need to sand the area so the fucking mud/plaster has something to stick to. Its just common sense.

BrutulTM said:

Yeah I don't think scraping is going to work very well, you'll probably have to sand it down. Honestly if you don't have drywall skills, you have very little chance of not making it look like dogshit, especially since there's a texture to match. Do yourself a favor and find a handyman that does drywall and pay them to fix it. It will take them very little time and the result will be much better if they know what they're doing.

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That just looks like texture from paint roller to me. Honestly thats like 30 min job at most. and anyone can do it. You can texture the paint to match with a bigger pile roller after. Just paint the whole ceiling after texturing the spot a few times with paint before. I would def NOT be hiring some schlep to do this for me for $100s of dollars when its shit that every homeowner should learn to do IMO. This is not like a popcorn texture, which I agree would be a pain in the ass to match.