How to repair a hole in a wall?

Question

How do I repair a hole in a wall? It is plasterboard, one of my kids has managed to go through the wall with a door handle. It is a rented property and I am worried I will get charged. Do I need to plasterboard and plaster the whole room?

Patrick · Accepted Answer

A hole created by a door handle can be filled with polyfilla 
Allow that to dry before sanding down. it can then be painted over. Painting the entire door would produce a better and a more complete job.

Gareth · Answer

get a bag of easy fill and apply a few coats, sand back level and repaint

Richard · Answer

Cut the area into a square with a stanly knife or padsaw, cut a peace of plasterboard to fit, drew to bit of wood behind the excisting wall, then acres the plasterboard to this, then use some easy fill over the area of plasterboard and onto the excisting wall leave to dry and sand flat

Stuart · Answer

Get a piece of plasterboard, cut a neat square out, fit the new piece with a bit of baton behind and fill gaps with easy fill. Sand down and repaint should do it.

Jamie · Answer

For a simple handle repair job, I’d advise you to cut a Square out of damaged plasterboard. Once exposed get 4 bits of wood and fix them inside of the square. Only fix half of the wood leave the other half for the new bit of plasterboard to be fix too. 

Scrim the joints with scrim tape and plaster over with muiltifinish plaster. Once dry, paint. Good as new.

James · Answer

No just cut a neat square hole and put a bit of timber in then plasterboard into that then fill it. Then put door stops on the skirting boards.

Keith · Answer

Plug the hole with newspapers as much as possible then add filler and rub down and paint

Steve · Answer

Hi 
No you can just patch the wall up. Normally I do these small repairs for £60. Let me know if you need help.

Ryan · Answer

Hi Patrick its easily fixed if its deep a bit of bonding to fill it out then a we patch of skim to smooth it out. Its a small easy job by the sounds of it

How to repair a hole in a wall?

Follow Us

Cookies

Manage Cookies

Essential cookies

Analytics & Tracking

Advertising