How to Repair a Small Hole in a Spanish Knife Textured Wall

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Steps:

1. Remove any debris from the hole in the wall.

2. Scoop some DryDex Spackling on to your plastic taping knife.

3. Fill the hole with spackle.

4. Gently move the taping knife over the newly covered hole in multiple directions.
5. This will ensure the spackle completely fills the hole.
6. Let the DryDex Spackle dry.
7. You will know the spackle is dry when it turns from pink to white.

8. Sand the newly spackled area down until the spackle is level with the original wall.

9. Scoop some All Purpose Joint Compound on to your putty knife.

10. Smooth the joint compound on the wall, covering the area you want to re-texture.

11. Gently drag the putty knife through the joint compound to create ridges.
12. Creating ridges is a creative and unique process. You get to decide how close you want the ridges together and at what angle to make the ridges.
13. Let the joint compound completely dry.
14. You will know the Joint Compound is dry when it turns from grey to white.

15. Mix the paint that you have leftover from the first time you painted the wall.

16. Paint the section of the wall that you re-textured.
17. Paint each ridge.
18. Let the paint completely dry.