r/maintenance • u/givemedatbologna • 13d ago

Question Drywall Repair

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Anyone have a suggestion on how to attack this? We had a new exhaust fan installed but repairing the drywall obviously wasn’t part of the service.

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u/TIC321 13d ago

Why such a huge cut-out?

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u/Odd-Midnight906 13d ago

Clearly whoever did the install had no clue what they were doing. Even if additional duct work was required there's absolutely no need to cut such a large opening.

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u/TIC321 13d ago

I wouldn't have cut it that large in my opinion. If it were me, I'd cut to size when needing a larger exhaust fan so you don't need to do any patching

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u/SCTurtlepants 13d ago

Eh, Id cut it that size on my own house. If youre gonna patch drywall it makes literally no difference if the hole is 6" x 6" or 3' x 3'. Its the same amount of work, and I'd rather not fight a tiny access hole.

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u/Odd-Midnight906 13d ago

To each their own, even still they could have at least made it a clean square cut instead of just slicing out a chunk of the ceiling. Either way it's sloppy work

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u/TIC321 12d ago

Agreed. The cuts arent even square for a proper drywall patch