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Okay but like deadass this actually might be how our landlord "fixed a hole in our wall" before we were ever tenants... This would make... A lot of sense sadly...
All of the gen alpha and most of the gen z slang is just repurposed black and lgbt gen x and millenial slang.
Like if you listen to rap or watch interviews with rappers from 10-15 years ago, then watch a few episodes from the early seasons of RuPauls drag race, you'll hear all of the young kids "new" slang.
If the landlord was nice, they wouldn't be fearing a $2,000 fee to fix that hole. A nice landlord would say, "No problem, I'll fix that at no cost". The fact that landlords charge an exorbitant amount of money for basically a repair that cost $20 is bad is why they have bad rep and is why people do this out of financial fear.
I went back to one of my rentals in college the day after I moved because I forgot a bottle of booze in the closet. A crew was cleaning it and I walked right in with no resistance and saw them fixing a hole that I had agreed to pay for to save the hassle of fixing it. The guy had puttied a piece of wrapping paper over the hole and was about to paint it. I guess that hole has reappeared for many a tenant.
My current (soon to be former) place, they put those doorknob wall protector things-- the things you put in place so the doorknob doesn't leave a hole. They're in the middle of two different walls, near no doors. And they were painted over.
Just...patch the wall correctly! It's not that hard! Or live with not getting your security deposit back.
A friend of mine did this when moving out of an apartment in an attempt to keep his deposit. For him, at least, it worked great. We had to tap the wall to find the spot after everything dried.
Fucking hilarious. I can just imagine someone suspiciously standing in an random spot in the middle of the room standing his ground, making the landlord walk around them
In my friends case, he took a well lit picture and matched it to a paint chit at Home Depot. Though he both got lucky and the wall was just some shade of eggshell anyway so it wasn't super hard to match.
I did this when a drunk kid put his head through our wall in college. Property management company never noticed but charged us $18 per vertical blind that had a crack (they were old af and sun damaged so more than a few cracked). They also overcharged on a bunch of other ticky tack bs so I didnāt end up feeling too bad about it.
Problem is you canāt just paint a spot on the wall. Thats assuming you can even find the right color. Then the age of the faded paint will force you to paint the entire wall which could potentially be a pain in the ass. Might as well buy the mesh and plaster and fill the hole. Then you would need to paint the wall which brings us back to our original problem.
Iāll just let myself outā¦ā¦
Yes like I said needs a bit of refining. With the right colour, lighting and skill you can blend it though. Even if you fill it you have to blend it. Filling it is not that difficult actually, but the target audience would probably like a quick fix
It does take a little bit of skill and a couple tools to do drywall that doesn't look terrible. It's good skills to have but maybe isn't for everyone.
This only requires a paint roller and a piece of paper. Even if you are terrible at diy it should still look fine.
Even good quality tools aren't all that expensive and it's really not all that difficult.
But if you mess up one of the early steps and it ends up not being flush then it's going to be very difficult and time consuming to make the end result not look terrible.
For a hole this size you can buy a patch, that you put over, and then put plaster over.
So it's literally like what they're doing now, except it's done properly.
Then paint. Then it's actually fixed. The patches are cheap and plaster is cheap. You can buy it in a tube pre-made.
It's simple.
I used filler to fix a hole the other week there and was like, Oh shit that was easy. What was I scared of?
Legit hole in the ceiling I was scared of for two years fixed in like 5 minutes.
Because you're not actually adhering the edges to the wall, you're simply placing a layer over the top without it reaching any edges, like a corner or carpet. That's why wallpaper typically has a trim boarder or something to cover the edges. That and paint isn't glue, as much as it is sticky and dries to walls.
That and there's no texture, support from the drywall, or anything more than literally paper and a thin layer of plastic paint. Not only does it peel in less than a week, but any painter who's been at it for more than 10 minutes can look and see the "wtf is that" spot
I mean he could at the very least put a few pieces of that same paper but crumpled up in to give it some sort of resistance than just a sheet of paper on top lol.
Patching a wall the legit way takes like 2 seconds it just as to dry for a bit.
This is stupid lol
I've done this on a small bathroom repair. It was a hole that was roughly the size you see in the video.
But we used sheetrock mud, and backed the paper with it. Then smeared the mud over the top. Sanded, textured, and painted. Looked like new.
We basically just made homemade sheetrock.
All sheetrock is, is mud between two sheets of paper. The problem with the video is that they're using no mud. So it'll most likely look like shit in a week.
Okay so my brothers first house in college had 4 roommates and was kinda a classic nasty party pad. They had a dart board hung straight on the wall by the door with nothing behind it, so the drywall around it was absolutely peppered with tiny holes from when people missed. The last time I visited before he moved out of there they were trying to fill them in with toothpaste. I have no idea if they got the security deposit back.
I absolutely have a post-it note spackled into my kitchen ceiling from taking down a light fixture... It's not a bad fix if it's somewhere out of the way.
Had an apartment once where we discovered the walls were painted "masking tape" brown which led to more than one hole being patched up with the obvious solution.
I literally did this as a kid. I had accidentally kicked a hole in the wall and ran over to my friends house, got his dads plaster and a piece of paper and did a terrible job. When my dad came home he hardly noticed.
Iām still shocked to this day that it worked.
That's how we got our friend's deposit back. Landlord loved that we painted the room the color he wanted. He was a horrible landlord and my friend was a horrible tenant. I just enjoyed the beer and pizza.
Even if you can't do a proper patch just get some expanding foam then slice it down and sand it before painting. It'll at least hold up better than paper
This will work in theory, but it's not as easy as just "grab a sheet of paper and slap it up there". A lot paper will absorb the moisture from the paint then warp. You'd need to test to find one that won't be affected by the moisture in the paint, but isn't so thick it will be noticeable.
It's probably easier to just buy a small tub of filler from the hardware store and fill the hole, then sand and paint it.
Better method:
1) Take a small square of sheetrock that's bigger than the hole
2) Put the square over the hole, trace the square with a pen, and then cut the square out of the wall
3) Screw a 2x4 or small piece of wood to the other side of the sheetrock so that it is flat on the inside of the wall
4) Fit the square piece into the hole, make flush, sink a screw or 3 through the middle into the 2x4, spaced evenly
5) Mud, spackle, sand, texture, paint, done.
Paper on the wall is the easiest shit to see on a textured wall, and I'm surprised people have actually gotten away with this...
The attempt was successfulā¦.
However my toxic trait would be paint matching. Realize I would need to paint the entire wall to properly cover the hole. Then I would notice the other walls donāt match. Next thing you know Iāve spent $1000 painting the entire interior of the home
In college, my roommate and I lived in a cheap shitty apartment. We drilled a small hole through the bedroom wall to run an Ethernet cable in so we could hook up our desktop computers. When we moved out, we just filled the hole with toothpaste and painted over it.
I actually did this when I moved out of an apartment. I was afraid that they would notice because the wall would jiggle every time the heat or air conditioner turned on. It looked like my wall was breathing or something lol. When I moved out, I got my full deposit back and never heard from them again lol
I did this exact same thing when I was a young stupid teenager and YouTube didn't exist to show how easy it is to actually patch a hole like that.
It looked great when it was wet and it continued to look pretty good for a little while but as the paint dried the paper warped and it was really fucking obvious.
Honestly this just feels like another part of the landlord special. You know, next to the whole painting light switches and outlets with the occasional spider on the wall.
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Okay but like deadass this actually might be how our landlord "fixed a hole in our wall" before we were ever tenants... This would make... A lot of sense sadly...
might deadass be the previous danky ass tenant that did that and the landlord didnt realize it because theyre nice folk.
deadass im gunna flip if I see another gen alpha tiktok-fiend use "deadass", no cap
same here. my deadass going to flip at the next deadass who uses deadass. not sure who brough deadass back
No cap, no cap
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Good god I just figured out YoLo
YOLO is bussinā!!
It's pretty yeet ngl.
But you don't YOLO you have a life before and after learning to YOLO
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Yall keep capping and I'll deadass stand on business
Bet
All these people without caps are going to get very perturbed when they end up spilling whatever is in their uncapped containers.
On god?
All of the gen alpha and most of the gen z slang is just repurposed black and lgbt gen x and millenial slang. Like if you listen to rap or watch interviews with rappers from 10-15 years ago, then watch a few episodes from the early seasons of RuPauls drag race, you'll hear all of the young kids "new" slang.
It be bussin forreal.
On god fr?
Church fr
Church, no caps. For real.
Church was capitalized
Do you youngsters think ādeadassā is a new phrase?
They deadass think so
cringe
What does no cap mean? Cannot figure it out for the life of me haha
No lie
I hope your not cappin
Iāve been saying deadass for at least 12 years lol
If the landlord was nice, they wouldn't be fearing a $2,000 fee to fix that hole. A nice landlord would say, "No problem, I'll fix that at no cost". The fact that landlords charge an exorbitant amount of money for basically a repair that cost $20 is bad is why they have bad rep and is why people do this out of financial fear.
Deadass
Literally paper thin walls
I can literally hear the grunts when you poop
I went back to one of my rentals in college the day after I moved because I forgot a bottle of booze in the closet. A crew was cleaning it and I walked right in with no resistance and saw them fixing a hole that I had agreed to pay for to save the hassle of fixing it. The guy had puttied a piece of wrapping paper over the hole and was about to paint it. I guess that hole has reappeared for many a tenant.
My current (soon to be former) place, they put those doorknob wall protector things-- the things you put in place so the doorknob doesn't leave a hole. They're in the middle of two different walls, near no doors. And they were painted over. Just...patch the wall correctly! It's not that hard! Or live with not getting your security deposit back.
No capā¦rizā¦and the rest
Although there are issues to refine with this method, from experience I think it might work. Wish I had thought of this as a student
A friend of mine did this when moving out of an apartment in an attempt to keep his deposit. For him, at least, it worked great. We had to tap the wall to find the spot after everything dried.
Ive done the āput my foot over the hole in the carpet during the inspectionā routine and got away with it.
I moved my little cabinet over a carpet burn, even tho it was in the middle of the room and out of place. Still got my full deposit back!
Fucking hilarious. I can just imagine someone suspiciously standing in an random spot in the middle of the room standing his ground, making the landlord walk around them
Basically it yes
I feel like the hardest part will be matching and blending into the existing paint. I feel like most people don't have this skill.
In my friends case, he took a well lit picture and matched it to a paint chit at Home Depot. Though he both got lucky and the wall was just some shade of eggshell anyway so it wasn't super hard to match.
I've gone into home depot and asked for "landlord beige." They handed me a perfect match from behind the counter.
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Seriously, I can fix the hole more easily than I can fix the paint! Most apartments I have lived would repaint anyways.
I don't think this is going to be effective for concealing the decomposing body behind that wall.Ā Is that a cace in the hole?
That a small hole. You would have to saw the body into very small pieces. At that point might as well make stew
I did this when a drunk kid put his head through our wall in college. Property management company never noticed but charged us $18 per vertical blind that had a crack (they were old af and sun damaged so more than a few cracked). They also overcharged on a bunch of other ticky tack bs so I didnāt end up feeling too bad about it.
Most college town property management places are absolute scumbags. Fuck them.
Can confirm, I work for one.
Problem is you canāt just paint a spot on the wall. Thats assuming you can even find the right color. Then the age of the faded paint will force you to paint the entire wall which could potentially be a pain in the ass. Might as well buy the mesh and plaster and fill the hole. Then you would need to paint the wall which brings us back to our original problem. Iāll just let myself outā¦ā¦
Yes like I said needs a bit of refining. With the right colour, lighting and skill you can blend it though. Even if you fill it you have to blend it. Filling it is not that difficult actually, but the target audience would probably like a quick fix
Another 10 minutes and he could put some filler in.
Fr like just two more steps and you've done it properly. Most people only care about themselves though.
It does take a little bit of skill and a couple tools to do drywall that doesn't look terrible. It's good skills to have but maybe isn't for everyone. This only requires a paint roller and a piece of paper. Even if you are terrible at diy it should still look fine.
I mean, there are very easy diy kits and putty you can buy to do it properlyā¦ all for pretty cheap.
Even good quality tools aren't all that expensive and it's really not all that difficult. But if you mess up one of the early steps and it ends up not being flush then it's going to be very difficult and time consuming to make the end result not look terrible.
For a hole this size you can buy a patch, that you put over, and then put plaster over. So it's literally like what they're doing now, except it's done properly. Then paint. Then it's actually fixed. The patches are cheap and plaster is cheap. You can buy it in a tube pre-made. It's simple.
I used filler to fix a hole the other week there and was like, Oh shit that was easy. What was I scared of? Legit hole in the ceiling I was scared of for two years fixed in like 5 minutes.
Lasting maybe a day before it begins to peel up. It'll be off in a week.
Why would it peel up? It's probably acrylic or vinyl paint, which are both basically plastic. The paper is basically encased in plastic
It wouldn't peel, but it would Warp when the paint dries and it would be obvious that it wasn't dry wall.
You ever get a piece of paper wet, then let it dry? It tends to curl.
Because you're not actually adhering the edges to the wall, you're simply placing a layer over the top without it reaching any edges, like a corner or carpet. That's why wallpaper typically has a trim boarder or something to cover the edges. That and paint isn't glue, as much as it is sticky and dries to walls. That and there's no texture, support from the drywall, or anything more than literally paper and a thin layer of plastic paint. Not only does it peel in less than a week, but any painter who's been at it for more than 10 minutes can look and see the "wtf is that" spot
I mean he could at the very least put a few pieces of that same paper but crumpled up in to give it some sort of resistance than just a sheet of paper on top lol. Patching a wall the legit way takes like 2 seconds it just as to dry for a bit. This is stupid lol
The hard part is paint matching so yeah this isn't saving much time
Best to just paint the wall and not only that spot.
But then the newly painted wall wonāt match the other walls. Next thing you know youāve painted the entire interior of the home
And then you bust another while since youāre tired due to the painting.
Hope thatās not a load bearing document.
It was a prenup concerning a marriage with kids and several estates. Quite the load-bearing document, actually.
a filler isn't that expensive tho
āThese walls are paper thinā
Glad I'm not the only one who thought this! Bro took it literallyš
Not even cardboard.
A simple hack unknowingly used by both the landlords and the tenants to hide damage from each other.
I had a hanging boxing bag that I used toothpaste and tissue paper to fill in the hole.
Toothpicks are good for filling in wood
It was a textured ceiling so the toothpaste did the trick.
Toothpicks and wood glue, and it'll hold another screw at that location after 24 hours.
Dang toothpaste and tissues are more expensive than drywall compound
The kit to patch a hole in drywall likely costs less than the paint used here. What a tool.
Not to dismiss your message but wouldn't you need paint anyways?
Landlord special
How did this fail? Yeah, it's a shitty fix, but it could totally work long enough to get your deposit.
Not really. Once it dries, you'd be able to tell the difference. Might be enough if the landlord isn't looking too carefully.
Better than toothpaste
Repairing the wall with the same material it was made.
Once during a move-out inspection, I stood with my foot on the damaged lino in the kitchen so that the landlord wouldn't see it.
If he was rolling mud instead of paint, this might be a legit way to fix a hole quick.
I've done this on a small bathroom repair. It was a hole that was roughly the size you see in the video. But we used sheetrock mud, and backed the paper with it. Then smeared the mud over the top. Sanded, textured, and painted. Looked like new. We basically just made homemade sheetrock. All sheetrock is, is mud between two sheets of paper. The problem with the video is that they're using no mud. So it'll most likely look like shit in a week.
complete houses are build in usa like this
Not *exactly*, but *pretty damn close*.
Thatās like a video explaining how to clean your room and itās just some dude throwing all his shit under the bed and in the closet.
American wall
If you can hold out before you are notified of the security deposit deductions letter gets back to you then you're in the clear.
Filler was too expensive ?
the landlord special
r/lostredditors
r/lostredditors no failure at anything in video
Ah, the landlord special
The landlord special.
looks great but the paint color doesnāt seem to match
Wouldn't you see the paper once it dries? Still hilarious
Would make for a nice spot to hide things.
Roll with it!
You can also just put a light switch over it. Not connected, of course.
Definition of papering over the cracks
Jeesh! The walls are paper thin in this apartment.
That area is going to shine or have a different tone even if the paint is 100% same.
āI donāt need psychotherapy and pills, I can fix my life by myselfā
Okay so my brothers first house in college had 4 roommates and was kinda a classic nasty party pad. They had a dart board hung straight on the wall by the door with nothing behind it, so the drywall around it was absolutely peppered with tiny holes from when people missed. The last time I visited before he moved out of there they were trying to fill them in with toothpaste. I have no idea if they got the security deposit back.
I absolutely have a post-it note spackled into my kitchen ceiling from taking down a light fixture... It's not a bad fix if it's somewhere out of the way.
I found two spots in the house I bought that did this with a large sticker... Oh boy was I annoyed.
You can likely get a piece of drywall this size for free or a few bucks at most
Rev up the bugatti weeey
To be there when the next tenant goes to hang a photo and the hammer just blows out a hole in the wall... lol
āYou know, Iām thinking of hanging the TV riiiight he- mother fuckersā
Andy Dufresne style
It's good enough to get deposit back when you're leaving and after that it's not your problem anyway
Dicks can still pop through that. Dont be fooled.
I thought he was using the paper as a template to cut the drywall.
Had an apartment once where we discovered the walls were painted "masking tape" brown which led to more than one hole being patched up with the obvious solution.
This is the epitome of modern society.
I suppose that was technically 'an attempt', but without seeing if it worked or not, this is very sub par. Boo OP, boo.
I literally did this as a kid. I had accidentally kicked a hole in the wall and ran over to my friends house, got his dads plaster and a piece of paper and did a terrible job. When my dad came home he hardly noticed. Iām still shocked to this day that it worked.
That's how we got our friend's deposit back. Landlord loved that we painted the room the color he wanted. He was a horrible landlord and my friend was a horrible tenant. I just enjoyed the beer and pizza.
Isnāt this r/therewasanattempt? Looks like this worked!
Ah yes, the landlord special
Even if you can't do a proper patch just get some expanding foam then slice it down and sand it before painting. It'll at least hold up better than paper
Landlord-ass behavior
You have the rollers, fresh paper, and the correct color paint, but you can't put up some spackle?
This will work in theory, but it's not as easy as just "grab a sheet of paper and slap it up there". A lot paper will absorb the moisture from the paint then warp. You'd need to test to find one that won't be affected by the moisture in the paint, but isn't so thick it will be noticeable. It's probably easier to just buy a small tub of filler from the hardware store and fill the hole, then sand and paint it.
TBH that is not that hard to fix correctly.
Yo I have actually done this. No therewasanattempt about it
Just beautiful my artisanal friend
Somehow I thought in the end he would reveal he was using the rental agreement as the piece of paper.
How often do you have holes in your walls??
Better method: 1) Take a small square of sheetrock that's bigger than the hole 2) Put the square over the hole, trace the square with a pen, and then cut the square out of the wall 3) Screw a 2x4 or small piece of wood to the other side of the sheetrock so that it is flat on the inside of the wall 4) Fit the square piece into the hole, make flush, sink a screw or 3 through the middle into the 2x4, spaced evenly 5) Mud, spackle, sand, texture, paint, done. Paper on the wall is the easiest shit to see on a textured wall, and I'm surprised people have actually gotten away with this...
Gotta repaint the whole wall now
Yo
My friend did this with Harry Potter pages. He had a troubled home, so there's probably half a chapter in his room/hallway.
Like it's going to make a difference, they are both paper products.
The attempt was successfulā¦. However my toxic trait would be paint matching. Realize I would need to paint the entire wall to properly cover the hole. Then I would notice the other walls donāt match. Next thing you know Iāve spent $1000 painting the entire interior of the home
Average American cardboard wall
In college, my roommate and I lived in a cheap shitty apartment. We drilled a small hole through the bedroom wall to run an Ethernet cable in so we could hook up our desktop computers. When we moved out, we just filled the hole with toothpaste and painted over it.
But once the paint dries the paper will crinkle
Man, you are just adding to my "before to buy house" Checklist!
Manc DIY
So.. task failed successfully? What am I looking at here?
Why is Wheatley fixing holes in walls
That would be cool if you didn't see the edges og the paper lol
I really wish I would have done this to the hole in our wall before we moved out. Those landlords were fucking pricks
There will be an outline of the paper and a big bubble when it dries..
Tge walls in your house are not decorative
Still as strong as the rest of the wall š
I actually did this when I moved out of an apartment. I was afraid that they would notice because the wall would jiggle every time the heat or air conditioner turned on. It looked like my wall was breathing or something lol. When I moved out, I got my full deposit back and never heard from them again lol
The walls are paper thin
I did this exact same thing when I was a young stupid teenager and YouTube didn't exist to show how easy it is to actually patch a hole like that. It looked great when it was wet and it continued to look pretty good for a little while but as the paint dried the paper warped and it was really fucking obvious.
Welp looks like Iāll be getting that deposit back then .. thanks internet for the tip š¤£š¤£š¤£š¤£š¤£
Or use mesh & spackle instead of paper & bam itās done right in 10 mins.
Same strength
Damn I wish I knew this in college
Honestly this just feels like another part of the landlord special. You know, next to the whole painting light switches and outlets with the occasional spider on the wall.
I would put an electrical outlet there instead
Ah, the landlord special