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Paint and dry wall advice.

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So, some movers gouged my walls. We hate the color our walls are, so this isn't too bad, but I am not ready to paint the whole thing.

Is there some substance you put on a wall to "fill in" the gouge? There is a tiny bit of pattern or stucco-like texture to the walls. I can take a picture if needed. I can snap a picture of the paint and go to Home Depot and ask them to recreate it if we don't have a bucket already, that I know how to do, but do you guys have advice on the gouged part? It makes me mad every time I go past the areas and see the trouble.
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Ice Cream Jonsey wrote: Fri Dec 01, 2023 10:24 am So, some movers gouged my walls. We hate the color our walls are, so this isn't too bad, but I am not ready to paint the whole thing.

Is there some substance you put on a wall to "fill in" the gouge? There is a tiny bit of pattern or stucco-like texture to the walls. I can take a picture if needed. I can snap a picture of the paint and go to Home Depot and ask them to recreate it if we don't have a bucket already, that I know how to do, but do you guys have advice on the gouged part? It makes me mad every time I go past the areas and see the trouble.
Wow, a homeowner never had to solve this problem before, I as an apartment dweller have done this so many times I could qualify as a journeyman. In fact my wife created a new opportunity to utilize this skill just this week. What you're gonna need is some kind of putty filler, I'm not sure it matters which kind for this problem. There's spackling, wood putty, and a few other names that I can't tell the difference among, basically plastic based white putty that hardens. I just bought spackling for this current job.
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Get yourself one of these bad boys, as cheap as possible.
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Open the plastic tub, mix it up because it's likely separated, glob some on your putty knife and scrape into that old gouge.

I'd recommend bringing a sample of the paint (i.e. pull off a chip of the actual paint) to Home Depot because their matching machine probably works better with the actual paint than a phone screen.

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Hellballs yes!! Thanks, CO. I have used wood putty for arcade games but never thought to translate it for the home. I'm gonna putty everything in the house!
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Yeah, that's all you need. I was gonna post the exact same product but had to leave before CO posted.

I actually just used some at work in the bathrooms the other day!
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Ice Cream Jonsey wrote: Fri Dec 01, 2023 3:23 pm Hellballs yes!! Thanks, CO. I have used wood putty for arcade games but never thought to translate it for the home. I'm gonna putty everything in the house!
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Hey, Honey, I got some spackle for ya!
That's what she said!

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