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Last week had my garage walls filled with blow in insulation. Now I have 44 holes, 2 1/8 inch wide, where they blew in the insulation. They want $500 bucks to fill them in, so it's DIY time. First, the solution I'm considering, then a request for simpler/better alternatives.
I found some plugs with drywall disks glued to extra-wide drywall tape that you mud into place so the mud fills the crack between disk and hole--reestablishing the firewall. But they are too big and rediculously expensive with so many holes. Thinking of making my own using a hole drill. But the test piece shows I'll have to sand the edges and glue each disk to some very coarse paper.
Saw a you-tube video of the technique. You put mudding compound on the back side so the edges are covered, press the disk in (which squeezes the compound out onto the paper, then flatten the paper, mud over, dry and sand flat.
But this is going to be a chore, and I wonder if anyone has a suggestion for getting this job done with less effort. The integrity of the firewall is important to me and that's a consideration. And I like that the plug becomes part of the drywall while a simple patch does not.
I found some plugs with drywall disks glued to extra-wide drywall tape that you mud into place so the mud fills the crack between disk and hole--reestablishing the firewall. But they are too big and rediculously expensive with so many holes. Thinking of making my own using a hole drill. But the test piece shows I'll have to sand the edges and glue each disk to some very coarse paper.
Saw a you-tube video of the technique. You put mudding compound on the back side so the edges are covered, press the disk in (which squeezes the compound out onto the paper, then flatten the paper, mud over, dry and sand flat.
But this is going to be a chore, and I wonder if anyone has a suggestion for getting this job done with less effort. The integrity of the firewall is important to me and that's a consideration. And I like that the plug becomes part of the drywall while a simple patch does not.