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Tom looks like he caught his finger with a hammer prior to this video ( 1:30 ). My world is destroyed.
Thanks Mr. Silva!! Always enjoy learning from you!
OMG. It would have been easier to cut it out and put in a patch. Especially with those cross straps above. And who has all the extra lumber laying around to make the jig, etc. I love some of these videos but others leave me SMH🤦🏻♂️
Why wear a tool bell like that
Tommy could cure cancer i'm sure of it.
Tommy is genius.
i like this show i can do most repairs my self ill will ask them how too do ajob
Exactly what happened to me today.
I love watching "This Old House" these guy's are good..what's with the thumbs down..don't know a professional guy's when you see one
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Paint this in a couple days. You think you can handle that? Lol 😆
"Strapping" has nothing to do with electrical wiring. Its primary use is to level a ceiling constructed with poor quality joists!!
Just wait
I like how at the end it’s like geez you couldn’t fix the ceiling you think at least you can put a coat of paint on it
Maybe not use the attic as a storage unit
All that was uncalled for
Cheap fix
Great work !
This looks like it is much more time, tools, supplies, money, and expense than necessary if you were to just cut out the damaged drywall and replace it.
If you're going to solve a simple drywall patch with a convoluted custom made jig, glue, plywood sheets, etc… Then at least explain why you aren't doing it the simple/cheap/normal way.
They always get the most spacious attics, I never get attics like those
"When I nod my head, hit it !"
Um,I dont think so!
Great job. A good handyman understands that there is always a right way to fix something for a job. Clearly here are other methods. But he understood the positioning of the damage and applied his experience and took the approach he thought was correct for that situation.
Very good fix! I have been remodeling and repairing since 1990's.
Seems like a lot of fancy dancing too screw up a little bit of sheetrock
A friend had a water leak that damaged the drywall ceiling in her kitchen. It got into a joint and ran along it, so I had to tear out about eight feet of joint tape and re-do it. Nine-foot ceilings, and part of the damage was above her very large refrigerator & cabinets, all but impossible to reach from the ladder… so I did that part of the job sitting on top of her fridge. I never worked on a ceiling while sitting down before. 😁
So maybe a rookie question, byt why wouldn't you just cut out the damaged area in a square, measure and cut a piece of drywall to match up and then tape, mud and paint?
Lesson in procrastination. Why do today what you can postpone until tomorrow? Start a project AND finish the project. Get your projects (attic) done.
Tommy was making that repair the hardest way possible because he was bored at his house
You have got to be kidding me. In the first place, that is not skip trowel texture. By the time it took him to cut the plywood, drill the holes then cut more plywood you could have cut out the damage, put in a new piece of drywall, tape and texture it and been done before he got his plywood cut.
Maybe don’t be such a Kevin next time, Kevin.