- Patching Drywall Cracks Caulk
- Fixing Drywall Cracks With Caulk And Paint
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Buy a fresh tube of paintable silicone caulking.
Caulking is useless once it becomes dry.
Apply a thin bead of caulk into the crack.
Be sure to get the caulk actually inside the crack.
Smooth out the caulk bead.
You can use a wet finger if the crack is small enough. If not, use a 5-in-1 tool or a putty knife.
Smooth out the caulk bead.
Patching Drywall Cracks Caulk
You can use a wet finger if the crack is small enough. If not, use a 5-in-1 tool or a putty knife.
Clean away excess caulk.
Wipe the excess caulk away from the outside of the crack. Rubbing alcohol works great.
Fixing Drywall Cracks With Caulk And Paint
Paint over the patch with primer.
Don’t skip this step or you’ll end up with a permanently goofy-looking, non-matching area.
Apply touch up paint to the patch in your wall color.
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Any type of building can be viewed as a set of lungs that inhale and exhale throughout the year, taking in warm air and expanding, then contracting to expel cold air. As a result there is a natural level of cracking and expansion that will happen on a yearly basis and over the lifetime of a home, leaving behind cracks in places where two walls meet. These cracks will never go away, but you can maintain them to keep the walls looking crack-free at all times.
Caulking
Corners are more susceptible to movement than any other part of a home because they are where two different moving sections meet, similarly to how tectonic plates move beneath the surface of the Earth. Caulking is the best option whenever it can be used, such as with tile installations, wall paneling, wood paneling or anything other than drywall installations with textured surfaces like stucco or just drywall mud.
Latex Paint
Latex-based paints are the best solution if you have a painted surface. These have special additives included in the mixture which allow for greater levels of elasticity, or the ability to expand and contract without actually giving way and cracking. They can be used alone if all you have are spiderweb cracks up the corner, but if the cracks are larger you will want to caulk them first and then paint to cover the caulking as well as old layers of paint.
Grout Removal
A mistake that some do-it-yourselfers make when installing tile on their own is grouting the inside corners. If you have existing grout in the corners from a previous installer or you just didn’t know any better on your first time through, the grout must be removed from the joint and the corner filled with a color-matching caulk that goes along with your grout selection. Grout is cementitious and will always crack under pressure and during expansion and contraction, and if you don’t remove the grout it will just keep cracking over the years until nothing is left.
Texture Repairs
There are really only two solutions for unpainted textured walls that crack up the corner. You can try to find a matching caulk that will cover the cracks as well as possible, or you can caulk the corner and cover it with a new layer of stucco.
Understand that trying to match the exact color of dried stucco is very difficult, as there are numerous variations in mixing batches, manufacturers, dyes, additives and temperature, especially over years, that will never allow for exact matches. The best you can get is a close match that should be enough to pass anything other than close inspection.
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Tim Anderson has been freelance writing since 2007. His has been published online through GTV Magazine, Home Anatomy, TravBuddy, MMO Hub, Killer Guides and the Delegate2 group. He spent more than 15 years as a third-generation tile and stone contractor before transitioning into freelance writing.
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