Termites ate some paper between the drywall and the high gloss paint job. The area is in several rooms and averages about two square feet per room. Here is what I am thinking about doing:
Taking a gallon of joint compound, adding 6 ounces of Floetrol and then feathering it out and trying to match that paint job without telegraphing every brush stroke. Is there anything that I should be aware of as far as adhesion problems over the now exposed gypsum? I have repaired holes but never this type of damage.
john
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Don't know what the Floetrol would do for you. You need a drywall patch. No pasper will leavre an unstable spot. If they ate the front paper, it is likely they had a meal in the rear also. I almost always fing that any SR rpair means painting the whole wall or room.
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you sure you don't know a guy named CAG (Neil 4)?
They ate his last term paper too.....lol
Be infested
andy
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How time has changed. Nowadays the dog wouldn't even touch the term paper.
It's the aftertaste of electrons that ruins it for the dog.
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Electrons? Mmmmmmmm, YUM, YUM.
I see you like that spark ling light taste.
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If the damaged areas are 2-feet square in each of several rooms, you're going to have to repaint the whole she-bang anyway, so you might as well put in patches of new gyprock. Cut out the damaged section in a square-ish hole. Cut some 1x3 to 'frame' the hole. Stick it inside the wall and screw it to the back side of the gyprock, leaving half the width of the 1x3 showing in the hole. Then cut a patch of new gyprock and screw it to the exposed wood you just put in. Joint compound and paint as usual.
Don't forget the termite poison before you close the walls....
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I think I knew all along that I was going to have to do a lot more work than I wanted on this job. I heard that Floetrol would make it very easy to feather the edge and that it really made it easier to work. I have a gallon left over from a painting job (homeowner got talked into it when she picked up some paint for me, I didn't use it, she gave it to me). I did get the proportions wrong, six ounces in a 5 gallon bucket of Joint compound.
john