filling nail holes in walls

Brad & Ree · Feb 20, 2009 10:14 pm

I have pulled off fake wood panneling stuff of walls and how im left with with nail holes in the walls.
They are raised due to the nail coming out, how to i patch the wall and get a smooth surface, i have tried just trying to fill the hole spac filler but it is still raised.

wake_me · Feb 21, 2009 9:17 am

it will need to be sanded.

Uncle Arfur · Feb 23, 2009 2:13 pm

In hindsight the raised gyprock where the nails came out should have been set back with a hammer then filled and sanded

wake_me · Feb 23, 2009 2:59 pm

Uncle Arfur

In hindsight the raised gyprock where the nails came out should have been set back with a hammer then filled and sanded

I believe brad and ree's house will be either a QLDer or a post war which means either VJ or

asbestos

cladding. Very unlikely that it is gyprock in that area. hence why i recommended sanding.

Brad & Ree · Feb 23, 2009 7:54 pm

uncle afrur, you hit the nail on the head, sorry didn't mean it as a pun... that will proabaly work.

wake_me what is teh difference between post war and qlder?

wake_me · Feb 23, 2009 9:40 pm

Brad & Ree

uncle afrur, you hit the nail on the head, sorry didn't mean it as a pun... that will proabaly work.

wake_me what is teh difference between post war and qlder?

So you have a timber floored gyprock walled house in south brisbane that has had timber cladding put on the walls. What sort of house is it?

Queenslanders have that tall lanky classic decorative colonial design specific to qld. Built completely out of timber (stumps, flooring, single skin vj wall linings, ceilings) usually with a front and back deck and straight through (front door to back door) hall way. Most have decorative awnings or eaves and extremely high ceilings (12ft is not uncommon)

Original post wars are generally smaller homes built on tight budgets and usually of a very basic no nonsense design as a result of the post war material shortages and high demand for housing to accomodate the countries new found desire to reproduce rapidly.

They usually stood on concrete stumps and were constructed of hardwood frames lined with asbestos sheeting on the inside and either champher or weatherboard cladding externally (sometimes just more asbestos)

I'll post some pics later of my post war i have just sold after 6 years of painstaking renovations.

Brad & Ree · Feb 24, 2009 12:55 am

wake_me

Original post wars are generally smaller homes built on tight budgets and usually of a very basic no nonsense design as a result of the post war material shortages and high demand for housing to accomodate the countries new found desire to reproduce rapidly.

They usually stood on concrete stumps and were constructed of hardwood frames lined with asbestos sheeting on the inside and either champher or weatherboard cladding externally (sometimes just more asbestos)

That sounds about it!

Asbestos???

Strumer · Feb 24, 2009 6:35 am

Brad & Ree

Asbestos??? :shock:

You better believe it - more homes than not built in the Brisbane post war boom era feature significant use of asbestos.

If you are in doubt get it checked - seriously.

Cheers,

Earl

wake_me · Feb 24, 2009 4:37 pm

That aint no gyprock :shock:

Better not sand it either.

I'll guarantee its asbestos.

Dont be too concerned it just needs to be handled with some thought.

Best bet will be to just scrape of the raised sections with a sharp chisel, fill the hole left and paint.

Below are a couple of things that make handling small asbestos jobs less risky.

Get your self a spray bottle and fill it with water. set it up to spray a light mist and keep the surface you are working on slightly damp. this will reduce the amount of dust and make cleaning up loose fibres much easier.

Use a damp cloth to clean up any dust or chunks and when finished tie it up in a plastic bag and chuck it.

Always seal any exposed asbestos straight away with paint.

Dont drill, cut or sand. if you have to make any holes (like for new power point) use a screw driver to punch through it and pliers to break it out.

soniferry · Feb 28, 2009 2:46 pm

To fill "nail" holes in a wall, e.g. where a picture has hung, use toothpaste straight from the tube.
It dries to a smooth hard surface which you can then paint or paper over.

StressedOut · Apr 06, 2009 3:16 pm

Brad & Ree

wake_me

Original post wars are generally smaller homes built on tight budgets and usually of a very basic no nonsense design as a result of the post war material shortages and high demand for housing to accomodate the countries new found desire to reproduce rapidly. :shock:

They usually stood on concrete stumps and were constructed of hardwood frames lined with asbestos sheeting on the inside and either champher or weatherboard cladding externally (sometimes just more asbestos)

That sounds about it!

Asbestos??? :shock:

I am renovating my house and there is asbestos in the wall. Houses built before 1983 in some form have asbestos. It needs to be removed properly, just too dangerous to do it yourself. One fibre can cause problems!
The asbestos looks like a golf ball cover. I took this photo of mine, the dark bits are dust and cobwebs, I had to climb up on a chair to take it! :lol:

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