- 1). Remove all furniture from the room. Cover the floor under the cracked portion of the ceiling with drop cloths.
- 2). Access the cracked ceiling from a stepladder. Wear safety glasses during ceiling repairs protecting your eyes.
- 3). Fit a drywall screw through a plaster washer. Screw the drywall screw thorough the cracked plaster and into the wood lath using a cordless drill. If you miss the lath when screwing in the drywall screw, simply remove the screw and try again until you find the lath.
- 4). Continue fitting drywall screws through plaster washers and driving the screws into the plaster along the crack. Evenly space the washers about 1 inch apart on the ceiling.
- 5). Spread a one-eighth inch thick bed of joint compound smoothly over the crack using a smooth trowel. Fully cover the plaster washers and don’t let the compound dry.
- 6). Press screen door replacement wire into the fresh joint compound bed. Skimming the trowel along the screen wire implants the screen in the wet compound.
- 7). Let the patched ceiling air dry for 24 hours.
- 8). Rubbing 100-grit sandpaper over the joint compound’s raised areas smoothens the patched area.
- 9). Skim joint compound over any sunken patches in the repaired area if necessary making the area level. Apply the compound as before. Let the joint compound set for 24 hours.
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Sand the entire patched area with 100-grit sandpaper until the ceiling is completely smooth. Wipe sandpaper dust off the ceiling using a tack cloth. - 11
Apply an even coat of ceiling primer over the patched area using a roller brush. Let the primer fully air dry. - 12
Coat the primed area with two separate, even ceiling topcoat paint coats using a roller brush. Make sure the roller brush is clean. Let each separate coat thoroughly air-dry.
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