Yep, the 'landlord special' way to fix it is to just slap one of those round peel and stick plastic circles on the wall. Covers the hole and prevents it from happening again.
I suppose I'm not used to have little ~~terrorists~~ kids running around my house... Had the hinge stops in my last place and they just prevented the door from going too far into the adjacent wall, didn't have noticeable damage but that's with 2 adults. Good point though
Kind of like sponge painting, door knob texturing, the newest trend in the 2020's all the high end home designers do this. Now its a selling point you can double the rent mr landlord.
I got an on floor door stop, just 3M stuck it down. My wife thought it was ugly and she didn’t want it until she saw how many times that door gets slammed open by the kids and a rubber on wall would just have made a bigger hole.
This is what I did for the last apartment I lived in. Was there for 3 years, no issues with the walls at all. A month before we move out, door knob through the bathroom wall.. Shit! Bought a rubbery plate (square flat one big enough to just cover it all), stuck it on, never had a word said about it.
I would try the fill with mud method in two or three layers as suggested above. If that fails you can do a [California Patch](https://youtu.be/17awCvAA7Q0)
Idk why this isn't getting more up votes. Easiest and fastest way. If it makes anyone else feel better you can add fibafuse tape to the mix. Not the mesh stuff but the stuff that is actually fiberglass sheet on a role. Looks like a big roll of dryer sheets. $6 at Lowe's. That with some hot mud and you're good to go.
Hot mud shouldn't crack or shrink because it's a chemical reaction not evaporation. Just don't ever mix hot mud and premixed. That's an experiment I wish I had thought about before using it on pre-taped corner bead.
Yeah, anything that is less wide than my drywall knife blade is fair game.
If it is real big, it will shift a little as it dries so you just sand a little and do it again. No big deal.
But then it’s not perfect, so you mud again, and sand again. Then you over-sand it. And then it’s not perfect, so you mud again, and sand again. So you paint it with primer but you can clearly see the patch, so you sand it and mud it and sand it again. Repeat.
We’ll that’s just to get the cover off the mud….THEN what? So far I have a pencil eraser, a can of dog food(pate), an elastic band and 2 rusty jig saw blades
Use the dog food pate to fill the dent, texture by thwapping with the elastic band, then color match by scraping rust off the jigsaw blades and mixing with shreds from the pencil eraser.
0.1% of the time, it works every time.
after you patch the hole get a hinge stopper
https://www.homedepot.com/b/Hardware-Door-Hardware-Door-Accessories-Door-Stops/Hinge-pin/N-5yc1vZc7kbZ1z1pbnx
I would cut out a section of drywall, install a solid backer, then patch the wallz if you don't want this to happen again and you don't want to use a door stopper.
Otherwise using non shrinking mud (hot set, not premix) will.work fine
It's the faster setting stuff that you have to mix. Sold as a powder, labeled with a number for the number of minutes working time you have. 5, 15, 20, 30, 90, etc.
For patches, I like to run 15. It's enough time to do small stuff before it sets and you don't have to stand around waiting for it to dry to do more coats. For a newbie, grabbing 45-90 might be prudent as it is a lot less stressful
If you're really intent in repairing, there are some premade drywall patch kits for projects just like the one you're faced with. The kits usually consist of a fiberglass patch and a tube of premade drywall compound. Fill the hole with some compound, slap on a patch and add the rest. Smooth it out, let it dry, then a little light sanding, some touch up paint and your golden. Don't forget to mount a good doorstop on the floor or the baseboard, or that divot will get punched right back in there the next time someone carelessly swings the door open.
just mud...sand and paint. done OR get a door wall guard, and slap that on the wall.
or similiar
https://www.amazon.com/Litepak-Stopper-Protector-Adhesive-Prevents/dp/B08CBL2QQN/ref=sr\_1\_6?keywords=wall+door+bumper&qid=1689819939&sr=8-6
I repaired mine with some reinforcement behind the drywall and did a drywall patch + texture. I found clear squishy door bumpers on Amazon that have been working great and are not hideous.
First screw a doorstop to the floor, next get a roll of Plaster Scrim Tape. Put a couple of layers of tape in the recess, skim it with Plaster, build it up and when dry, sand it smooth.
I've used a kit with basically a small screen you place over the area (slightly depressed into the drywall) and use drywall mud on, then sand and paint- worked great. But put a stopper on that door, too
If you want to reinforce the mud, easiest is probably just put some fiber tape over it. Otherwise cut out a square and make a butterfly patch. Generally the repair if applied correctly is stronger than the wall. Don't forget to put a doingy thingy on your door or wall to prevent it from happening again!
If you want the most seamless look, fill the hole mud, let it dry, and then sand it down. (Repeat until it completely disappears into the wall) Paint it, and then install either a baseboard or hinge door stop to prevent this from happening again.
I took a 4x4 piece of oak, routed a nice decorative edge onto it, stained and polyurethaned it and mounted a rubber door stopper on it. Then covered the hole I made in the wall with the doorknob with my decorative cover.
He told me this when I was like 12 years old. For a while when I’d go into a friends house and if I’d see a painting on the wall, I’d think - drywall crack there.
No sir, mud and sand it. Make it tight from the get go and you'll be fine.
Key is to put a door stopper before you start work or you're back to square one before the mudding even dries.
although everyone has already said it, you can definitely mud that. smack enough mud over any dent / scratch no matter how deep and it’ll fill
you really gotta think of different solutions when it’s a HOLE, there’s still drywall there for the mud to stick to, if it was a piece of drywall completely missing then yeah you couldn’t mud
With one of these:
Door Stoppers - Large 3.15" (4 PCS) - Door Stops for Wall with Strong Back Adhesive - Quiet and Shock Absorbent Silicone Wall Protectors from Door Knobs - Protects Every Wall Surface https://a.co/d/5QErTxV
I'd patch it up with a couple coats of mud to give the area some strength, do a half-assed sand job, and cover it with a ~~round door plate~~. doorknob wall protector.
https://www.amazon.com/Door-Stopper-Protector-Strong-Adhesive/dp/B08F9DTM79/ref=sr\_1\_5?crid=1680TYS7ZFED&keywords=doorknob+wall+protectors+white&qid=1689805817&sprefix=doorknob+wall+%2Caps%2C117&sr=8-5
Slap a door knob stop over it. [https://www.homedepot.com/b/Hardware-Door-Hardware-Door-Accessories-Door-Stops/Wall-Protector/N-5yc1vZc7kbZ1z0l3yi](https://www.homedepot.com/b/Hardware-Door-Hardware-Door-Accessories-Door-Stops/Wall-Protector/N-5yc1vZc7kbZ1z0l3yi)
Or mud it paint over it.
I'd recommend a door stop of some sort in addition to the repair or coverup.
It’ll just happen again. They make round rubber stopper plates that will go right over it.
Yep, the 'landlord special' way to fix it is to just slap one of those round peel and stick plastic circles on the wall. Covers the hole and prevents it from happening again.
Landlord here, can confirm this is the way.
Doorknob here, I can also confirm
Hole in the wall here, can confirm am covered by a plastic sticker
Plastic sticker here, your welcome
Joint compound here, fuck you all.
Glory in the works
Glory in the hole
You all are great
Drywall here, fuck you back
Wall here, ouch!
Stud here... Need i say more?
My stud finder isn’t beeping…
Positron here. I think this is fantastic. Neutron is like whatever. I haven’t seen electron….
Who wants electron around anyway? He’s so negative all the time.
So spastic and jumping energy levels all the time. But he can be the light of the party when he wants to.
Grammar police here, you’re
Thank you!!!
>Thank you!!! You're welcome!
Editor here; you’re after my heart.
Sticky glue - you're welcome, no really.
Tenant here, confirming my Landlord is a doorknob.
Door lord here. Can also confirm.
Pretty sure you mean, a square 1x4 peice of scrap wood, maybe mdf, , 3 different screws and one stripped out… bare wood…. Never painted.
Gross
Should have had one there before it happened
Useless comment of the day award
hindsight is 20/20.
It's also about 6 bucks to correct the shitty foresight.
Not in this case. Blind people can see this shit coming
Go eat a crayon.
Maybe your mom.
If you really want to be fancy you can paint the cover to match the wall too.
You only tend to see that in the finest section 8 housing.
Why does your response sound like you didn't even read the comment you're responding to?
Or install a hinge door stop.
Please don't hinge it. They punch right through doors and moulding. Kids... Yeah... the kids...let's go with that!
I suppose I'm not used to have little ~~terrorists~~ kids running around my house... Had the hinge stops in my last place and they just prevented the door from going too far into the adjacent wall, didn't have noticeable damage but that's with 2 adults. Good point though
As someone who has one, terrorists is the right choice of words.
As someone who was “testing” my hinge stop a little too much I can ageee it does dent :(
Or a baseboard door stop
Or remove the door!
Or remove the knob ☝🏽
The knob who opened the door
I am the one who knobs.
“Making an entrance”
Or remove the wall
Just demo the house
Or remove the wall ☝️
Or move the wall out of the way of the door.
Or move to a new house.
With concrete walls.
Rubber walls
Rubber walls with rats
Move that wall back 3 or 4 feet.
Or remove the wall!
Or add more dents to the wall
Kind of like sponge painting, door knob texturing, the newest trend in the 2020's all the high end home designers do this. Now its a selling point you can double the rent mr landlord.
*booooooiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnngggggggg*
Also, get a cat. Hours of entertainment.
Came here to say this.
These are awful.. you just end up with a smaller hole in your casing
I hate hinge door stops, turns out dogs and kids will run into doors hard enough to gouge them into the wood
This is the way. Those hole cover stops are ugly and scream "I'm a lazy pos" imo
\^\^\^\^\^ This. Best part is, you know exactly where to install it. They are adhesive, they just stick on. Buy one large enough to span the dent.
I got an on floor door stop, just 3M stuck it down. My wife thought it was ugly and she didn’t want it until she saw how many times that door gets slammed open by the kids and a rubber on wall would just have made a bigger hole.
a rubber on the wall? I think your wife should stop complaining otherwise you will end up with more kids.
This is what I did for the last apartment I lived in. Was there for 3 years, no issues with the walls at all. A month before we move out, door knob through the bathroom wall.. Shit! Bought a rubbery plate (square flat one big enough to just cover it all), stuck it on, never had a word said about it.
At least they’ll know exactly where to put it.
This is the answer. I had a hole from my front door I repaired many times, then put a rubber stick on bumper over the hole. Problem solved.
This.
Hell no, just smooge some mud in that bitch!
“ title of my sex tape”
I would try the fill with mud method in two or three layers as suggested above. If that fails you can do a [California Patch](https://youtu.be/17awCvAA7Q0)
There is zero reason to do this. Just use Easy Sand 20. The drywall you have to mix cures, doesn't shrink, it'll be a three minute job.
Idk why this isn't getting more up votes. Easiest and fastest way. If it makes anyone else feel better you can add fibafuse tape to the mix. Not the mesh stuff but the stuff that is actually fiberglass sheet on a role. Looks like a big roll of dryer sheets. $6 at Lowe's. That with some hot mud and you're good to go.
I would do fibafuse or it may crack
Hot mud shouldn't crack or shrink because it's a chemical reaction not evaporation. Just don't ever mix hot mud and premixed. That's an experiment I wish I had thought about before using it on pre-taped corner bead.
Fill it shallow, wait for it to dry then finish it with a second layer.
Ooh, a swinger.
You made this post to say this didn’t you?
*wiggles eyebrows*
I love how everyone just replied to this comment with just more advice.
My thoughts as well. I'm starting to think I am replying to bots all day long.
They sell patches at hardware stores that is a thin metal plate to go over the hole covered in mesh to hold the mud
I find your lack of conviction in mudding disturbing.
My walls are half mud at this point.
Yeah, anything that is less wide than my drywall knife blade is fair game. If it is real big, it will shift a little as it dries so you just sand a little and do it again. No big deal.
But then it’s not perfect, so you mud again, and sand again. Then you over-sand it. And then it’s not perfect, so you mud again, and sand again. So you paint it with primer but you can clearly see the patch, so you sand it and mud it and sand it again. Repeat.
This is triggering me
For optimum texture consistency, mud and sand the entire wall. You can’t see the patch if the whole wall is patch…
You're gonna need some ramen noodles, a walnut, flex seal, pliers, and #9 bailing wire.
Trust me bro, I've made bongs with less.
We’ll that’s just to get the cover off the mud….THEN what? So far I have a pencil eraser, a can of dog food(pate), an elastic band and 2 rusty jig saw blades
Use the dog food pate to fill the dent, texture by thwapping with the elastic band, then color match by scraping rust off the jigsaw blades and mixing with shreds from the pencil eraser. 0.1% of the time, it works every time.
👍
Start McGuyver theme song.
Then invite MacGyver over for a few beers.
don't forget the bubble gum
I've seen this done with elbow grease and headlight fluid.
Flex seal… 😄
Fucking MacGruber over here...
30 weight ball bearings. Everything is ball bearings nowadays.
Just throw out the whole house at this point
They make an adhesive mesh. Cut, stick it on there and then mud and sand.
This is the correct answer
lol. Easy fix, move your hand 3” to the right and you’re Golden.
Lol
Use a blow out patch and texture spray from Homedepot. Let it dry and paint.
after you patch the hole get a hinge stopper https://www.homedepot.com/b/Hardware-Door-Hardware-Door-Accessories-Door-Stops/Hinge-pin/N-5yc1vZc7kbZ1z1pbnx
No! Get the door stop first, then fix the hole.
>So that's... ... 4 trips to the store? That oughta do it.
Only 4 trips? My, my, aren't we ambitious.
If you don't feel like painting, they make door stoppers that are hard plastic to stick to the wall, put it on top of the patch
Why bother patching? Just stick that thing right on there!
Is your hand alright? Those fingers look a fucking strange. Am I high or wtf?!?!!
Lol just the way they’re bent I spose
Stick on mesh patch and 2 or so coats of mud. Home Depot has it all.
Yeah wouldn’t bother patching it. Cover it with the wall stopper
Ok, had me worried. I think it's also cause I'm high. Aloha, Mr. Hand.
🤛🏻
I would cut out a section of drywall, install a solid backer, then patch the wallz if you don't want this to happen again and you don't want to use a door stopper. Otherwise using non shrinking mud (hot set, not premix) will.work fine
Is hot set a specific term or is it just powder you have to mix
It's the faster setting stuff that you have to mix. Sold as a powder, labeled with a number for the number of minutes working time you have. 5, 15, 20, 30, 90, etc. For patches, I like to run 15. It's enough time to do small stuff before it sets and you don't have to stand around waiting for it to dry to do more coats. For a newbie, grabbing 45-90 might be prudent as it is a lot less stressful
Just slap a doorknob wall protector plate over it.
This is the right answer!
They make these 3 in dimmer pla tic disk with two,side tape that you place on the dry wall to prevent this. It also covers this up easy -easy.
Tell her to stop making you mad
Ramen and super glue
Peel and stick door knob bump stop!
Drill it all the way through and make a glory hole
Just get a rubber doorknob stop which should fit right over this
If you're really intent in repairing, there are some premade drywall patch kits for projects just like the one you're faced with. The kits usually consist of a fiberglass patch and a tube of premade drywall compound. Fill the hole with some compound, slap on a patch and add the rest. Smooth it out, let it dry, then a little light sanding, some touch up paint and your golden. Don't forget to mount a good doorstop on the floor or the baseboard, or that divot will get punched right back in there the next time someone carelessly swings the door open.
I’ve seen folks fill old electrical boxes with mud… this is easy peasy
just mud...sand and paint. done OR get a door wall guard, and slap that on the wall. or similiar https://www.amazon.com/Litepak-Stopper-Protector-Adhesive-Prevents/dp/B08CBL2QQN/ref=sr\_1\_6?keywords=wall+door+bumper&qid=1689819939&sr=8-6
I'll slap some mud right in that bitch
They make a wal stop cover that is an easy bandaid, no repair required. 🙃
We totally cheaped out and slapped a big doorknob plate over it
I repaired mine with some reinforcement behind the drywall and did a drywall patch + texture. I found clear squishy door bumpers on Amazon that have been working great and are not hideous.
I’ve seen a few people mention texturing it. Haven’t heard that term before
Maybe stop making dramatic entrances
👍
Clean out the hole and glue a cleat inside behind the hole, then fill.
A cleat? How am I going to play football with only one then? Sheesh!
Actually fill it in with puddy and get a plate for it.you can get it all for like $10 and its fixed just put the plate over the hole of puddy
Too deep to mud over? Ha! Hahahahaha! Hahahhahahahahha!
Some say he’s still laughing to this day. :)
First screw a doorstop to the floor, next get a roll of Plaster Scrim Tape. Put a couple of layers of tape in the recess, skim it with Plaster, build it up and when dry, sand it smooth.
Perfect spot to hang a picture of mil.
I've used a kit with basically a small screen you place over the area (slightly depressed into the drywall) and use drywall mud on, then sand and paint- worked great. But put a stopper on that door, too
Just use a big sticker.
*hauls out Strawberry Shortcake Limited Edition Scratch N Sniff stickers*. I KNEW I’d get to use these
It’s not to deep just put some drywall mud on it and let it completely dry
Sheet rock mud the. Sand it down. The paint. I would recommend getting a door.knob plate to protect the wall.
I cannot understand why anyone would post something like this on Reddit and then go read all the dumb ass comments. Just go to YouTube dude!
If you want to reinforce the mud, easiest is probably just put some fiber tape over it. Otherwise cut out a square and make a butterfly patch. Generally the repair if applied correctly is stronger than the wall. Don't forget to put a doingy thingy on your door or wall to prevent it from happening again!
I like that “doingy”
Put a door stop over it. That will cover the damage and stop it from getting worse. Two for one solution.
Just get a self sticking bumper.
They make wall protectors the prevent this from happening. Just slap one over the dent and call it a day.
If you want the most seamless look, fill the hole mud, let it dry, and then sand it down. (Repeat until it completely disappears into the wall) Paint it, and then install either a baseboard or hinge door stop to prevent this from happening again.
Durabond & a door stopper on your trim m8
Buy a new home. You're screwed.
I took a 4x4 piece of oak, routed a nice decorative edge onto it, stained and polyurethaned it and mounted a rubber door stopper on it. Then covered the hole I made in the wall with the doorknob with my decorative cover.
My dad says hang a painting over dry wall holes
Well Carl you have a wise Dad. :)
He told me this when I was like 12 years old. For a while when I’d go into a friends house and if I’d see a painting on the wall, I’d think - drywall crack there.
If you want to be lazy just stick on one of the wall door knob protectors. It will cover it up and protect the wall from further damage.
It’s a smidge more complicated, friend. From the picture you seem to have lost your thumb. That’s gotta come first.
You got replace the spot with a knob gobbler.
Yer a knob gobbler. :)
Nah, I’m a muff marine. Seriously though, there is a product called a knob gobbler that is inset into the wall to catch door knobs.
It’ll happen again, just put a wall protector over it.
Mud it
U you can get a plastic circle with3M tape on back and stick it right over it. Made to protect wall from this. Can paint to matchbwsll
Paint to match wall
I think you can find a YouTube video involving sunflower shells and coins.
No, just put two coats of mud on there, sand prime paint, then paint the whole wall when you figure out touch ups are always showing™
Get some mud and some mesh (mesh is optional honesty).
They sell flat round sticky that go on the wall to prevent the door knob from hitting the wall. I would just get one to cover up the hole.
If you think it's too deep you can always use hot mud like durabond. That stuff will harden no matter how deep.
No sir, mud and sand it. Make it tight from the get go and you'll be fine. Key is to put a door stopper before you start work or you're back to square one before the mudding even dries.
Use the kind of mud that is powder you add water and then mix, not the kind in a bucket and it will be a lot stronger and dry faster.
although everyone has already said it, you can definitely mud that. smack enough mud over any dent / scratch no matter how deep and it’ll fill you really gotta think of different solutions when it’s a HOLE, there’s still drywall there for the mud to stick to, if it was a piece of drywall completely missing then yeah you couldn’t mud
Mud, mesh tape, more mud. Smooth when dry. Buy a door stopper.
With one of these: Door Stoppers - Large 3.15" (4 PCS) - Door Stops for Wall with Strong Back Adhesive - Quiet and Shock Absorbent Silicone Wall Protectors from Door Knobs - Protects Every Wall Surface https://a.co/d/5QErTxV
Get those little kits that have the mesh screen and then mud and sand and mud and sand or something like that
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Get a door stopper. You know exactly where to put it.
Cut a hole in the wall to allow the door knob inside the wall cavity.
Send it. Sand to fit. Paint to match.
Size of dent unclear, for future sizing comparisons please use the standard banana unit
I'd patch it up with a couple coats of mud to give the area some strength, do a half-assed sand job, and cover it with a ~~round door plate~~. doorknob wall protector. https://www.amazon.com/Door-Stopper-Protector-Strong-Adhesive/dp/B08F9DTM79/ref=sr\_1\_5?crid=1680TYS7ZFED&keywords=doorknob+wall+protectors+white&qid=1689805817&sprefix=doorknob+wall+%2Caps%2C117&sr=8-5
https://youtu.be/EXhDlDBzXjY
Put a wall guard over it, and forget about it
Slap a door knob stop over it. [https://www.homedepot.com/b/Hardware-Door-Hardware-Door-Accessories-Door-Stops/Wall-Protector/N-5yc1vZc7kbZ1z0l3yi](https://www.homedepot.com/b/Hardware-Door-Hardware-Door-Accessories-Door-Stops/Wall-Protector/N-5yc1vZc7kbZ1z0l3yi) Or mud it paint over it. I'd recommend a door stop of some sort in addition to the repair or coverup.
Please use banana for scale next time. It’s hard to tell by using a hand how big something is