Water damage drywall repair and orange peel texture match

This water damage drywall repair and texture matching project is in the Cloisters subdivision of Indialantic, Fl.

We were contacted by a past customer to do a drywall repair on the already cut out and dried out the water damaged walls in two of the guest bedrooms of their home. Water had got the drywall wet on the one exterior wall in each of the two guest bedrooms of this four bedroom home here in Brevard County.

Once we arrived the drywall had already been cutout up to the window sill around 20″ in one bedroom and at 16″ on the other bedrooms wall. The base board and carpet had been removed by the water restoration company when the plumbing leak had first occurred.

So, all we had to do to get this drywall repair party started, was to prep the floors and cover personal items with plastic. Next, I used the paper masking machine to cover the window sills and bi-fold doors ect… so that nothing would get on them while doing the drywall repair and re texturing of the affected water damaged areas.

After resecuring the drywall (with screws) where it had been cutout
We installed 1/2″ drywall at all of the cutout areas
Applied self adhesive fiberglass mesh tape at all drywall repair seams
Next,I applied three coats of 20 minute compound for maximum joint strength
Sprayed orange peel texture to match existing texture
Lasty, I primed and painted the wall repairs using a 3/4″ roller nap on my roller

Noitice that the drywall was kept up off of the concrete floor by at 1/2″ kept the drywall from getting wet at all on this wall.

Because of a slight slant of the foundation the water from the leak went straight over to the east wall of the bedrooms and the water wicked up into the bottom section of the drywall. Luckily the leak was caught in time so that only a minimum part of one wall was all that needed to be removed.

Bedroom-1:
***Sorry if the photos are a little blurry. The sun was just to strong on that side of the home to get the lighting right for photos. But, I was there to do a drywall repair so hopefully you’ll get the idea by the photos anyway’s. 😉

Water damage - Drywall cutout - Bedroom-1

Drywall cutout at 16″ just below the electrical outlet – Bedroom-1

Drywall finish – Three coats of mud

Prepped and ready for orange peel

After orange peel was sprayed

Spray texture matched

Orange peel texture blended

Close up of the texture on the drywall repair

Primed and painted-1

Primed and painted-2

Primed and painted-3

Bedroom-2:

Drywall cutout at 20″ just below the window sill – Bedroom-2

Water damage wall repair texture

Installing the drywall

Drywall installed in bedroom-2

First coat of setting type compound (20 minute) over fiberglass mesh drywall tape – Bedroom 2

Second and third coat of setting type compound (20 minute) – Bedroom 2

Orange peel texture applied

Orange peel texture blended to match

Orange peel texture matched

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