Mildly off-topic, and maybe more appropriate to uk.d-i-y
I saw this on ACF http://www.theartofstorage.com/monet.html Looks quite nice to me, and I'm looking at the space above the bed in the spare room. Its wasted space at the moment.
The question is that if I bolted a rack like this to a plasterboard wall, how easy would it be to put the wall back to its original condition once it is removed? Standard stud partition walls. I would probably have to find the wooden studs in the wall anyway, and screw into that as I wouldn't trust the plasterboard alone.
Rambling off further, I put up a nice metal pot rack from Ikea, but measured some holes wrong and had to plug them with filler. The result isn't all that great. Is there an art to filling such holes, or would the only real answer be to re-board the wall?
Rambling off further, I put up a nice metal pot rack from Ikea, but measured some holes wrong and had to plug them with filler. The result isn't all that great. Is there an art to filling such holes, or would the only real answer be to re-board the wall?
Fill them as smoothly as you can with a knife, then go over them meticulously with increasingly fine wet'n'dry sandpaper. With care and time, you can make it invisible.
do it twice: overfill and sand with a cork block and fine paper
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Rambling off further, I put up a nice metal pot rack from Ikea, but measured some holes wrong and had to plug them with filler. The result isn't all that great. Is there an art to filling such holes, or would the only real answer be to re-board the wall?
Fill them as smoothly as you can with a knife, then go over them meticulously with increasingly fine wet'n'dry sandpaper. With care and time, you can make it invisible.
Mildly off-topic, and maybe more appropriate to uk.d-i-y
I saw this on ACF http://www.theartofstorage.com/monet.html Looks quite nice to me, and I'm looking at the space above the bed in the spare room. Its wasted space at the moment.
The question is that if I bolted a rack like this to a plasterboard wall, how easy would it be to put the wall back to its original condition once it is removed? Standard stud partition walls. I would probably have to find the wooden studs in the wall anyway, and screw into that as I wouldn't trust the plasterboard alone.
Rambling off further, I put up a nice metal pot rack from Ikea, but measured some holes wrong and had to plug them with filler. The result isn't all that great. Is there an art to filling such holes, or would the only real answer be to re-board the wall?
Ask on uk.d-i-y but no with careful application of filler followed with sanding down second filler application and finishing (polycell ads are not true to life) you shouldn't be able to spot a filled hole.
Rambling off further, I put up a nice metal pot rack from Ikea, but measured some holes wrong and had to plug them with filler. The result isn't all that great. Is there an art to filling such holes, or would the only real answer be to re-board the wall?
Ask on uk.d-i-y but no with careful application of filler followed with sanding down second filler application and finishing (polycell ads are not true to life) you shouldn't be able to spot a filled hole.
What I do whenever I b*ll*x it up is get some of those kids' stickers from local newsagent and put them over the un-needed orifices. Quicker, cheaper, less effort and people say 'What a super idea to brighten up the walls'. You see, you can fool all of the people some of the time.
