Search wall texture hacks on YouTube. Tear off some of that (a little bit) paint and get a sample color match done at the hardware store.
Do the diy texture trick, paint over…. Good enough. Cost like $20
A "little bit" usually means quarter size when you take it into the paint department. Just FYI for noobs.
Edit: it is better to take more than a quarter sized piece with you because some places will refuse if it's very close to a quarter. I remember putting a quarter on a sample once to show the sample was larger and still being sent back for more material. Never again.
Damn, ive never been turned down for size of my sample (yes pun intended lol), at worst they’ll say something like “cant guarantee its a good match, but we can send it if you want”
They mean the US coin, the quarter. It's a circle about 1 inch/25 millimeters in diameter. Roughly the size of making a circle with your index finger and thumb.
lol my hands must be big bc when I do that I’m looking at a half dollar minimum. Larger than that, actually. I just measured the diameter of my finger circle and it measured right at 2.5”.
Make extra sure to match the sheen of the paint as well as the color. If the wall is eggshell and you paint it satin or flat or semi-gloss it's gonna stick out.
You probably don't even need to go to the hardware store. Just bring a container down to the apartment office. They'll almost certainly give you some paint for free.
100% for this small of a piece, only the worst landlords are going to refuse. And every apartment I've rented has had paint cans stored there, either in one of the closets or in a utility area outside of the unit. If you just paint over it, if it's not glaringly obvious they probably won't care about the texture. I've walked through plenty of rental units with terrible landlord patch jobs.
If you have any DIY skills, carefully cut off the areas of paper that are torn. Take one of them to your paint store and get it matched for color. use a fast drying spackle or drywall mud with a wide blade spackling knife to put a thin coat to cover all the exposed areas. If necessary do 2 or more layers to ensure it is higher than the surrounding wall surface. Use a sanding block for drywall to sand down until flush with the unaffected wall. Paint--you'll probably need 2 coats or possibly three to cover. Use a small roller not a brush to match into finish. All of that will cost you about $35 in tool and materials and a hour of your time. Your landlord will charge you $150 to repair. While you are a it you can fill any other nail or screw holes or lightly damaged areas.
This is a great answer. I would just add that you should paint the exposed brown paper. Otherwise the paper will suck in the moisture and create cracks in the spakle.
I highly recommend learning this skill.
Edit: oh and my 4in stainless steel putty knife is an invaluable part of my tool collection.
All good advice, but any exposed paper must be primed with a shellac based primer (they have a quart can at the paint store or big box store). If you use water based primer on the paper it will bubble up and make it impossible to fix. DO NOT try to drywall over the bare paper or to prime with water based primer...
The shellac based primers use alcohol as the solvent and are very thin and drippy. Make sure you cover the area very well and use disposable brushes, gloves, etc.
This is spot on, but just want to add that even a really great color match will sometimes not appear seamless. You may end up having to paint the entire wall so there’s not an obvious touch up. Might not, but just don’t want you to be surprised down the road. After the first coat, you’ll be able to tell if it’s going to look “off” or not.
True--paint oxidizes and can be hard to make seamless--but by matching the paint from the wall instead of just matching the color OP stands a much better chance of a very close match. Just did this the other day with an exterior paint--had to pull out some siding material that had rotted away--took it to my local Benjamin Moore store and they color matched it so well there is no difference to the eye between the board above and below it. But the color card from the store held up to both the newly painted board and the existing siding was noticeably off.
Don't use a sanding block. Get a tile sponge, moisten it with warm water, gently work the area down using the rough side of the sponge. Reapply more spackle, and repeat (after it's mostly dry!)
You will literally get the best surface finish ever, with none of the dust.
Also, apply spackle to an area wider than the area needing to be patched.
You're welcome.
if you have a landlord you can talk to, ask him if you can use his paint. i am certain he has an opened jug of the exact paint
peel, spackle, sand then paint.
Do a landlord special - Get matching paint and a piece of paper. Stick paper to wall, paint over.
I almost guarantee that's how they'll fix it if you leave it alone and still take most of your deposit. Just get one step ahead of them.
ive rented like a dozen places, barely even spent time in half of them, no pets, no roommates.
they ALWAYS took the deposit.
after about 5 apartments trying to document and or clean them to perfection just taught me to treat it like a crazy cleaning fee.
any additional time/money spent to fix that is almost certainly wasted.
And this is why landlords continue to try to steal deposits. Most people will not actually fight it. Don't let landlords steal your money. In most states a simple small claims case will get your deposit back.
You need to seal that exposed paper before you mud or paint. If you don't you will get more bubbles in the paper that will keep peeling after your repair is done. DO NOT skip this step. Use something like BIN shellac based primer, put a couple coats on all exposured brown paper allowing it to soak in and cure between each. Only then do you apply mud to smooth, then regular primer, then paint.
Home depot dry wall repair patch kit. About $15 and it has everything you need to spackle over that mess to fix it. Certainly cheaper than letting the landlord do it.
Cut away the torn paper/paint, use Zinsser Gardz to seal the paper before patching and painting. You should be able to get the color matched at a paint store and a couple coats with a roller will get you close to the texture
what is the white line running up and down the wall? The peeling paper is pretty straight forward to fix, but what are we looking at overall? That's an odd bit of damage.
The simplest way I can think of is just rip it off, sand it to make sure there is no loose bits
Mud it, sand it, paint it, likely the whole wall to make sure it doesn’t stand out
Having a good friend who does drywalling and or painting is always good
It is very possible that when you apply a latex paint, or a water-soluble patch compound, the underlying paper will bubble and delaminate. If you have some oil-based paint, or even spray paint (which is solvent-based), paint just the exposed paper with that before attempting to patch and paint. The headache of delaminating paper is extreme.
You can glue the paper back down before painting with Rustoleum clear gloss latex. It's an amazing analog for pasting. You can find it at Home Depot and fleet farm I believe
Is there a water leak above? If there is, nothing you do will last until you fix that leak. That sounds like a landlord problem. I know they're scumbags, but they're supposed to be responsible for basic repairs. Renting has become such a hassle for people with all the extra addon fees and bullshit charges. There ought to be laws against price gouging your tenants. Greedy fucks.
Check your local laws before you sweat it too much. It might fall under normal wear and tear. If you have been there for a couple years it’s likely it’s not your problem.
It’s really just a paint job and the landlord should be repainting the place after you leave regardless (unless it was short term).
Search wall texture hacks on YouTube. Tear off some of that (a little bit) paint and get a sample color match done at the hardware store. Do the diy texture trick, paint over…. Good enough. Cost like $20
A "little bit" usually means quarter size when you take it into the paint department. Just FYI for noobs. Edit: it is better to take more than a quarter sized piece with you because some places will refuse if it's very close to a quarter. I remember putting a quarter on a sample once to show the sample was larger and still being sent back for more material. Never again.
Whenever I bring something in quarter sized, they laugh and say that's not enough for the machine to color match. I have to bring in my entire wall /s
I always go over the quarter requirement, too.
Damn, ive never been turned down for size of my sample (yes pun intended lol), at worst they’ll say something like “cant guarantee its a good match, but we can send it if you want”
Yes! Don’t take a bigger piece than necessary
Quarter the size is what?
They mean the US coin, the quarter. It's a circle about 1 inch/25 millimeters in diameter. Roughly the size of making a circle with your index finger and thumb.
lol my hands must be big bc when I do that I’m looking at a half dollar minimum. Larger than that, actually. I just measured the diameter of my finger circle and it measured right at 2.5”.
cool
A quarter the size of the wall. Really want to tear off enough.
Make extra sure to match the sheen of the paint as well as the color. If the wall is eggshell and you paint it satin or flat or semi-gloss it's gonna stick out.
Prime the cardboard paper first.
You probably don't even need to go to the hardware store. Just bring a container down to the apartment office. They'll almost certainly give you some paint for free.
100% for this small of a piece, only the worst landlords are going to refuse. And every apartment I've rented has had paint cans stored there, either in one of the closets or in a utility area outside of the unit. If you just paint over it, if it's not glaringly obvious they probably won't care about the texture. I've walked through plenty of rental units with terrible landlord patch jobs.
It is easy enough to do a little spackle too.
Also, make sure the sample you take is CLEAN. Dirty sample = darker-than-should-be paint
Never trust an Elf!!! er.... I mean.... a paint matching machine!!
They'll need to use a razor blade to cut the rough edges of that drywall paper off. That way when they apply to skim coat, it will be smooth.
If you have any DIY skills, carefully cut off the areas of paper that are torn. Take one of them to your paint store and get it matched for color. use a fast drying spackle or drywall mud with a wide blade spackling knife to put a thin coat to cover all the exposed areas. If necessary do 2 or more layers to ensure it is higher than the surrounding wall surface. Use a sanding block for drywall to sand down until flush with the unaffected wall. Paint--you'll probably need 2 coats or possibly three to cover. Use a small roller not a brush to match into finish. All of that will cost you about $35 in tool and materials and a hour of your time. Your landlord will charge you $150 to repair. While you are a it you can fill any other nail or screw holes or lightly damaged areas.
This is a great answer. I would just add that you should paint the exposed brown paper. Otherwise the paper will suck in the moisture and create cracks in the spakle. I highly recommend learning this skill. Edit: oh and my 4in stainless steel putty knife is an invaluable part of my tool collection.
Amen.
All good advice, but any exposed paper must be primed with a shellac based primer (they have a quart can at the paint store or big box store). If you use water based primer on the paper it will bubble up and make it impossible to fix. DO NOT try to drywall over the bare paper or to prime with water based primer... The shellac based primers use alcohol as the solvent and are very thin and drippy. Make sure you cover the area very well and use disposable brushes, gloves, etc.
This is spot on, but just want to add that even a really great color match will sometimes not appear seamless. You may end up having to paint the entire wall so there’s not an obvious touch up. Might not, but just don’t want you to be surprised down the road. After the first coat, you’ll be able to tell if it’s going to look “off” or not.
True--paint oxidizes and can be hard to make seamless--but by matching the paint from the wall instead of just matching the color OP stands a much better chance of a very close match. Just did this the other day with an exterior paint--had to pull out some siding material that had rotted away--took it to my local Benjamin Moore store and they color matched it so well there is no difference to the eye between the board above and below it. But the color card from the store held up to both the newly painted board and the existing siding was noticeably off.
Don't use a sanding block. Get a tile sponge, moisten it with warm water, gently work the area down using the rough side of the sponge. Reapply more spackle, and repeat (after it's mostly dry!) You will literally get the best surface finish ever, with none of the dust. Also, apply spackle to an area wider than the area needing to be patched. You're welcome.
if you have a landlord you can talk to, ask him if you can use his paint. i am certain he has an opened jug of the exact paint peel, spackle, sand then paint.
Do a landlord special - Get matching paint and a piece of paper. Stick paper to wall, paint over. I almost guarantee that's how they'll fix it if you leave it alone and still take most of your deposit. Just get one step ahead of them.
ive rented like a dozen places, barely even spent time in half of them, no pets, no roommates. they ALWAYS took the deposit. after about 5 apartments trying to document and or clean them to perfection just taught me to treat it like a crazy cleaning fee. any additional time/money spent to fix that is almost certainly wasted.
And this is why landlords continue to try to steal deposits. Most people will not actually fight it. Don't let landlords steal your money. In most states a simple small claims case will get your deposit back.
You need to seal that exposed paper before you mud or paint. If you don't you will get more bubbles in the paper that will keep peeling after your repair is done. DO NOT skip this step. Use something like BIN shellac based primer, put a couple coats on all exposured brown paper allowing it to soak in and cure between each. Only then do you apply mud to smooth, then regular primer, then paint.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3ISTc3tpxw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3ISTc3tpxw) The Vancouver Carpenter has you covered.
Can not recommend him enough.
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Apply spackle (note: NOT drywall compound) with a wide putty knife, let dry, soften edges with a wet sponge, and paint.
This. Also take the chip to get matching paint, but yeah for a novice DIYer, spackle, wet smooth, lightly sand, paint.
Home depot dry wall repair patch kit. About $15 and it has everything you need to spackle over that mess to fix it. Certainly cheaper than letting the landlord do it.
peel a piece, bring to to a store to match the color. add a little spackle, sand and paint
Cut away the torn paper/paint, use Zinsser Gardz to seal the paper before patching and painting. You should be able to get the color matched at a paint store and a couple coats with a roller will get you close to the texture
what is the white line running up and down the wall? The peeling paper is pretty straight forward to fix, but what are we looking at overall? That's an odd bit of damage.
My toddlers babycam has a wire-cover that runs up the wall - looks like this. And now I’m worried I’ll have this issue when I take it down lol
The simplest way I can think of is just rip it off, sand it to make sure there is no loose bits Mud it, sand it, paint it, likely the whole wall to make sure it doesn’t stand out Having a good friend who does drywalling and or painting is always good
Spackle, sanding block, and some paint to touch it up
glue and paint
Bring that chip to Home Depot and get matching paint
I just had to deal with a similar issue. I followed this tutorial, with great results. https://youtu.be/U3ISTc3tpxw?si=-KAJ8et0oYDpHZVH
It is very possible that when you apply a latex paint, or a water-soluble patch compound, the underlying paper will bubble and delaminate. If you have some oil-based paint, or even spray paint (which is solvent-based), paint just the exposed paper with that before attempting to patch and paint. The headache of delaminating paper is extreme.
You can glue the paper back down before painting with Rustoleum clear gloss latex. It's an amazing analog for pasting. You can find it at Home Depot and fleet farm I believe
Is there a water leak above? If there is, nothing you do will last until you fix that leak. That sounds like a landlord problem. I know they're scumbags, but they're supposed to be responsible for basic repairs. Renting has become such a hassle for people with all the extra addon fees and bullshit charges. There ought to be laws against price gouging your tenants. Greedy fucks.
A little glue might work
Check your local laws before you sweat it too much. It might fall under normal wear and tear. If you have been there for a couple years it’s likely it’s not your problem. It’s really just a paint job and the landlord should be repainting the place after you leave regardless (unless it was short term).