The former owners of this home had a bunch of hooks on the ceiling of the guest bedroom. I cannot think of any conspicuous reason for those hooks other than some sort of 50 Shades of Grey activity. When roommate and I removed the hooks, we were left with twelve 1-cm holes in the ceiling.
On our first trip to Lowes Home Improvement, we decided to pick up some stuff to fix up around the house. We picked this spackling and hole filler from DryDex. It seems simple enough, fill holes, sand if needed, and then paint if necessary. The cool thing about this product is that it comes out pink (like peptol bismol) and then supposedly dries white.The directions say to use a spackle applier. Ain't no body got time for that. I just used my finger and it washed right off.
Step 1: Probably the hardest step was to cut the tip off the bottle. This is hard without a scissor.
Step 2: Squeeze into hole. This did not work well for me since the holes were on the ceiling. I ended up just squeezing the stuff into my finger and mushing it onto the hole.
With the pink color and the squeeze bottle, the whole process reminded me a lot of putting frosting on a cake. Mostly like when you mess up and need to flatten out the frosting and then you redraw it.
You can kind of see on the photo to the right the pink dots. Our ceiling has that funky texture, so I have no intentions of sanding it down. I'll let you know if it dries white.
So spackling the holes was pretty easy. Do you have any other fast repair tips?
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