"Doug Miller" wrote in message
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I need to fill a 3/8 " hole I put in the wall.

I'm pretty new at these things...I had thought the walls were plaster
(house is a brick colonial built in 1948), but there are no laths, and
looking closely at a couple places in the house where there are larger
openings in the wall, it looks something like 2 layers of drywall,
totaling about an inch thick.

Looking online and in a DIY drywall book, seems like the hole is small
enough that I could try filling it with joint compound and then (I
guess...really new at this stuff) putting drywall tape/mesh on top of
that.

Does that sound reasonable?

No. If it's only 3/8" diameter, just fill it with joint compound. There's
no
point in using tape on something so small. Use sandable setting-type joint
compound that you mix with water -- one brand name to look for is
EasySand.

That is the "correct" way to do it but you end up with a bag of Easysand
with a spoonfull removed and it doesn't store well...Just get a small tub of
Red Devil One Time Lightweight Spackle and fill it a couple of times , sand
and touch up paint...Good Luck....http://www.reddevil.com/howtopatch.cfm