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Replacing round bathroom fan. How best to approach patching ceiling?
I’m replacing an old bathroom fan with a 13” circular rough opening in the ceiling. The fan that is going in requires a 10 1/4” square rough opening and has a 13” square grille/trim.
How would you approach patching the dry wall? Replace a larger section of drywall joist to joist and cut a fresh square hole or try to ‘reuse’ the circular opening and patch the gaps left.
Ceiling is rock lath - I assume I’d approach patching like I would any regular drywall?
u/flying_trashcan — 10 days ago