A hole in the wall in Manchester, NH
Doorknobs, furniture, elbows
This is the most ordinary damage a house produces and the one most often botched. A door swings back without a stop behind it, a bed frame goes through a bedroom wall during a move, somebody catches a corner carrying a washing machine down the hall. The hole itself is trivial. What separates a repair you forget from one you notice every day is whether the new material is tied to something solid and whether the surface around it was rebuilt or merely filled.
Why filler alone fails
Compound has no strength across an opening. Pack a fist-sized hole with it and you have a plug held in place by friction and paint, which cracks around its edge the first time the wall takes a knock or the house dries out in January. A proper repair gives the new piece something to be screwed to — a length of scrap timber slipped in behind and fastened through the sound board on either side — so the patch becomes part of the wall rather than a lid over a gap.
Small, medium and "cut it back to the studs"
Under about two inches, it fills and sands. Between two inches and roughly a foot, it gets squared up, backed and boarded. Larger than that, or anywhere the paper face has torn across a wide area, the sensible move is to cut back to the framing on either side and set a full piece in, because every edge then lands on timber. That last option sounds more drastic and is frequently cheaper than fussing with an awkward middle-sized patch.
If the wall is plaster
A hole in lath-and-plaster is a different job. The loose material has to be cut back to where the plaster still grips the lath, the lath itself checked for rot or breaks, and the void filled either with plaster in layers or with board packed out to meet the original thickness — plaster runs thicker than modern board, so a straight swap sits low. Crumbling plaster goes into this properly.
Put a stop behind the door
If the hole matches a doorknob, fixing the wall without fixing the door means doing this again. A hinge-pin stop costs a few dollars and takes a minute; a floor-mounted stop is better where the door is heavy. We fit them while we are there if you would like, and there is no charge for it.
Often turns up alongside
People dealing with A hole in the wall usually also ask about our cracks over doors and windows service, professional a brown stain on the ceiling and a ceiling that sags or bows services — call and we'll tell you which one your job needs.
Towns we cover
We take this work across the Merrimack Valley, including drywall repair in Bedford, Goffstown drywall repair calls, serving Hooksett, drywall repair for Londonderry property owners, Derry, drywall repair in Auburn, Candia drywall repair calls, serving Merrimack, drywall repair for Litchfield property owners, Bow, drywall repair in Concord and Nashua drywall repair calls, and the surrounding communities.
Send a photo of it
A photo of the damage is usually enough for a number the same day.
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