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Hi, i accidentally kicked a hole in my wall because there was a huge spider and i had a quick reaction. Does anyone have advice on how to fix this?

Hi all, I’m a renter in an apartment who’s less than stellar at hanging curtain rods (drill doesn’t go far enough for the anchor) and in the process I messed my wall up a bit. And still didn’t really fully manage the curtain rod part. I’ve been living with the crooked curtain and mangled wall for a while now and want to finally do it right, but not sure where to start. Here’s what I think are my options:

1. Try to fix the holes in the walls myself, and then after the wall is fixed hire someone to install the curtain rod properly. For context I do not have any of the tools needed to patch the walls, so I’d need to buy them somewhere.
2. Hire someone to fix the curtain rod first, and then fix the holes in the wall myself.
3. Hire someone to patch the walls so I know it’s done right, and ask if I can pay them to fix the curtain rod too

My problems with 1 and 2 are that I’m not very handy (as you can see with the wall) and I’d also need to buy everything needed to patch the holes. Any advice for how I should tackle this? Should I just suck it up and try doing it myself? Any help is greatly appreciated

EDIT: thank you all for your help I will be hiring this out and just trying again next time 🫡

I found a hole in the ceiling of our hallway closet in our townhome. (See picture, taken from below). It is 14" x 2", and there appears to be wood (joists?) right up to the edge of the hole on both small ends and one of the long sides (the bottom on the provided image). I assume the exact placement of this hole between these joists has something to do with why this hole is even here to begin with, but I have no idea. The other long side butts right against the cabinet frame, and on the other side of that is our HVAC vent, which you can see at the top of the photo. Most drywall patching videos I've seen suggest to add a backing board, which I can't do here because of all the things around the hole. I considered doing a "California patch", but it looks like this hole might be too big for that, especially since it is in the ceiling. I know there are metal mesh patches as well, but similarly, I'm not sure if that is appropriate for this sized hole.

Bits of stuff have been falling from the hole recently into the things in our closet, so I'd like to patch it up somehow. Wondering what the simplest solution is here. I'd love to not have to make the hole bigger, if possible. It's tricky getting tools in here because the closet has shelves. Thanks for any advice.

Bought this house after some remodeling was done - I imagine it was a popcorn ceiling that was removed and retextured but this seem was too uneven to hide

Is skim coating the answer to reduce this?

Some of the old drywall is starting to do this in small spots on the ceiling in the hallway and one room, not sure how old but this is becoming more and more common throughout the old drywall areas.
A contractor I use for projects said it's old and either needs to be scrapped, floated and retextured or replaced.

Some info.
This is an 1960s house.
Old blow in insulation in attic
Weather is Hot and Humid, 80% of the year.
Attic is well vented.

Im honestly just posting this to see if anyone else has had a similar issue and if there was a underlying cause.

Im under contract on a duplex. Its located in the Colorado Front range and sits on Bentonite clay. I know the key is to keep the foundation super dry to stop heaving. Its a very good deal so im tempted to move forward on it. Im buying it "as-is".

That being said, I am concerned about these cracks throughout both units. The current tenants mentioned these cracks haven't grown in size in more that 8 years. I have a structural repair guy giving me his opinion this week.

Id love some outside perspective.

I am a DIYer that dabbles in drywalling. A friend of mine has asked me if I can make some outlet holes disappear. Seems like a tailor-made case a California patch. When I asked about any texture on the walls, they sent this.

I’ve not done much texturing and I have not tried anything like this. What is this texture? And how easy is it to recreate?

Thanks in advance.

Drywall noob here. 1955 home in Sacramento. I patched a bunch of cracks about 4 months ago but waited to repaint to see if my patches would last. Most did, but this part of the house just seems to keep settling, and this area cracked again so I opened it up. Many of the cracks had been patched before, including this one.

Given that the house continues to settle and I can't afford more foundation work (I've already done some at the back of the house), should I just keep patching or hang new drywall? New drywall will just crack too, right?

Hi everyone - first time dry walling and at 2nd coat there are these ridges at the joint. I suspect maybe I didn’t have enough mud behind the paper tape. Would I have to cut these out and retape or is this something that can get skim coated and smoothed out at third or fourth coat. Thank you!

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