not sure what to do, I had a handyman come in to remove the wallpaper from all my walls. He was to lazy and gouged the heck out of my walls as well as leaving the glue behind. The walls look terrible. bad plastering did not help the case. So do I sand everything down and apply thin layers of plaster? have you come look? or light a match to the whole house

Good post.. I have a question for you.. In my livingroom i have i have noticed on one section of the wall the drywall screws are popping out? Any reason why that would happen? And what do i need to do to fix it?

Thanks and I love your blog!

Great to hear from you! Thank you so much for the thoughts… I want to do everything I can to make these posts more useful and informative for folks… so I appreciate the input.

And, by the way, I think you are doing a great job with your web site http://hometipsandtools.com/ … I think the association you've put together is fantastic.

By the way, do you have the latest flash plugin for Firefox? The video is streamed from YouTube, so without the flash plugin, it won't play.

Look forward to speaking with you more! You're welcome to drop by our blog any time!

Don

As for this article, … and my comments are more from my writing style / perspective. You focus on the "how to" steps flow nicely, and funny but I jumped right there and skipped over the intro (just read that we shouldn't be writing long intros … so I have to unlearn that).

My sense is a little out of balance:

o Would develop more, which types of repairs to try yourself … or not

o Would address the planning up front, i.e. how much painting

o Didn't see explanation of multiple coats & feathering out

Funny but I was hoping to learn more about when to use the "ball of newspaper" approach to a hole versus mesh tape repair kits? Funny how everyone has their own approach.

When we talk, maybe we can come up with approach to give each other feedback like this … maybe monthly call?

Thanks for letting me know about the browser cutoff on the drywall-repair post. I think the problem is a IE6 problem… as it doesn't always handle php correctly… and a plugin running on this site might be causing the problem. Anyone else who has this problem… just send an email to webmater @ mastermylist.com and we'll email you the article.

Don

You blog post is cutoff here….

"So the purpose of the following guide is to help the beginner do-it-yourselfer accomplish his/her first drywall repair, with minimal steps, tools and materials. Since most of you reading this post live in "

Thanks… looking forward to reading the rest of this post.

Dave