Now is not a great time to learn this:

When you cut the hole, bevel the cuts toward the center of the
piece. One of the multitools does this extraordinarily well.
With care, you can keep the original piece without damaging it.
An application of DAP or similar will "glue" the piece back into
the hole. A bit of touch up paint, but if the wall is white to
off white, may not need any.

Another good trick is to cut the patch 4" larger than the hole.
Cut the back side of the rock to size to fit the hole, peel off
the drywall leaving a 2" flap of finish paper around the
perimeter. Scrape back the texture around the hole, butter well
with compound, install the plug, striking the paper tight to the
wall. This will be much tighter than the build up you will get by
taping and bedding on top of the drywall.

Neither system requires any fasteners and make quite sound
repairs.



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DanG
Keep the whole world singing . . .


"Zootal" wrote in message
. 97.131...
I had to cut an 18x18 hole in the wall to repair the plumbing
(@#$% plastic
pipe anyhow...).

Now I have the challenge of repairing the hole. I can use some
2x2s or 2x4s
to build a frame around the hole to attach the sheet rock to,
and while a
bit of work it's not too bad and will work. Are there any other
ways to put
a big chunk of sheetrock back in place that would be less work?
Clips to
hold in in place, etc.?