Personal Consumer Issues • Anchor Holes in Drywall - Do You Actually Fill Them or Just Spackle / Putty at the Surface

Rather than removing anchors, I usually bash the anchors in a bit with a hammer so that they sit behind the surface of the drywall...Helps avoid tears in the drywall paper.

I have found drilling through the typical plastic the anchor with a bit smaller than the anchor will allow it to collapse and be pulled out of the wall without tearing, and leaving a smaller overall hole than pounding them through the wall.

Then I press spackle into the hole to restore roughly full thickness. While not necessary, I just don't see a reason to stop at the minimum to make the surface flush.

Statistics: Posted by iamlucky13 — Tue Sep 10, 2024 12:08 am — Replies 12 — Views 1451

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