Learn how to patch nail and screw holes in your wall! If you have small holes from nails, screws, or anchors, this is the fastest and easiest way to repair them! Works for any small drywall holes too!
In our house, we always have an endless list of "to do's", and most of them are things that we don't want to tackle! Patching nail and screw holes in our walls is one of those projects that we typically avoided on our list. But today we're showing you how to patch a nail hole quickly and easily, without spackling or sanding!
Whether you accidentally get holes in your drywall, you're doing a full room redesign or renovation, or moving and patching up all of your wall holes before you sell, there are always small holes in the wall to fill, and we were looking for the quickest & easiest way to patch them seamlessly (i.e. you can't tell there is a patch!).
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Types of Repairs
There are several types of holes and methods when repairing holes in dry wall. This post is going to focus on patching nail and screw holes but can also be used on other types of holes as long as the patches gray area covers the damaged area.
Spackling and Sanding Repairs
Traditionally when you would go to repair holes on your drywall walls you would use a process of applying spackling, sanding, priming, and painting. This is messy and time consuming. You can see a 
Rapid Wall Repair Patch
The great thing about 
- remove the nail or screw, if a wall plug was used to secure the screw, remove from the wall
- with a knife blade from a
- Apply your first coat of paint. You want to be generous with the first coat of paint. I used a
- Let your paint dry, once dry remove the protective layer by pulling the pop-up tab up and away from the drywall towards yourself in order to release it from the patch. If the protective layer does not completely come off in one piece, use your fingernail to remove the rest of the protective layer prior to applying the next coat of paint.
- Apply your second coat of paint on and around the patch area. You will still likely see abit of the patch outline still, but thats ok.
Step 3:
- With the paint dry, apply your third coat of paint on and around the patch area. This may be your final coat (it was for us on a white wall), but depending on your paint colour you may need a fourth coat of paint for the patch area to completely disappear.
Tips for getting your Paint Colour to Match your Wall
To get your patched nail and screw holes in your wall to complete disappear you are going to need to the right paint colour.
Whenever we paint a room we try to label the paint can with the room/date/and what it was used for. This way we can easily grab the right paint colour if we need to do any touch up. But this may not work if:
- you don't have the original paint
- the wall was painted several years ago and is dirty and marked up
- the wall is sun faded and the orginal paint no longer matches
If you don't have the correct or matching paint don't worry! Remove a small piece of the existing wall as a sample near the area you are going to repair. You don't need the full piece of drywall just the top layer that has the existing paint colour on it.
If you choose a spot near the damaged area it will be patched over it when you apply your
We couldn't be happier with how this repair turned out! These DAP's Eclipse® Rapid Wall Repair Patch kits will definitely be our go-to for future wall repairs.
If you want to see a video with the wall repair kit in action be sure you check out the video below from our YouTube channel (wall repair with patch kit starts at 9:30 into the video).
If you like budget-friendly DIY projects, check out this other amazing IKEA hack -
- Apply your first coat of paint. You want to be generous with the first coat of paint. I used a
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Wednesday 23rd of March 2022
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