hello this is Gio and this is a hole in the wall actually it's an old remnant of a cable TV cable that used to come through here and used to be secured by faceplate but that cable has been removed the faceplate removed and now I want to fill in this hole so I'll show you how to do that today but one of the problems with this particular hole in this wall is that it's a lap and plaster wall now now these are different from drywall walls dry walls have studs and a sheet of drywall screwed or nailed between the studs in the olden days they used to make walls out of laughs which are basically thin boards that used to go kind of horizontal along the wall between the studs and then they used to kind of spread spread the plaster on the laughs which are slightly spaced and that holds the plaster together for it to dry and so those that is that technique was replaced by the drywall that you see today but a lot of old houses still have this lath and plaster and you if you look closely you could see some wood behind here which are part of some of the original laughs you can even wiggle them a little bit so and now this wall is a little more complicated even yet because it has a third layer it has laughs it has plaster here and then it has this third layer which is actually a layer of drywall which somebody placed on top of everything and quite commonly when the plaster got old and it's many people find it easier and Sitter to replay repair the plaster to just cover it over with a new layer of drywall so this is kind of a complicated situation so we have laughs some plaster and some drywall but before I can actually place the drywall into the hole I need a way to secure it so it holds tightly and just gluing it or plastering it on the edges here is not enough you just kind of popped through I really need a way to hold it from the back and so there are some of these residual laugh pieces here but they're very loose and really couldn't hold anything so I need to play something back here that will hold and so I I just I just happen to have one of these kind of little sticks the stirring stick it's pretty stiff and I think it is stiff enough to for such a small hole to secure the drywall you could use a thicker piece if you like but I think this will work and so I need to cut this to the proper size so I can go ahead and secure it on the back so I went ahead and cut two pieces to size and that's just kind of extend on either side of the hole and so you could stick them in see if I can do this with one hand and then secure it against the wall so there's something that the drywall could hold on to but you need to secure these these these pieces of wood to the back of the wall there's two ways of doing this you could either install these and put a screw through through the lath and plaster or drywall and secure the wood or what I like to do instead is just use simple Elmer's wood glue or carpenters glue to just glue them in back and for these small holes I found those work really well and hold not only for laughs and plaster but also for drywall so I'm going to apply some Elmer's glue and ease each side of this kind of a liberal amount I don't really don't care if it gets all messy go ahead and slip this inside like that holding on to the wire and then just give myself enough room and then I'm going to just pull on this and then I'm just going to kind of loop this a couple times like this and stick in my pencil I can that in here sure it's tight and then just with the pencil keeping this in place of course put this back in place you have to hold it tight as you twist and you're twisting like that and the pencil in this case will hold it in place until the until the glue dries and I'll go ahead and do it with the other piece on the other side and go there a little bit off-kilter but you can just move them a little bit you don't need them really tight just pushing is there's enough pressure against the back of the laps to hold it in place while the glue set so we're going to let this set and then when it's nice and set we'll go ahead and snip off the wire okay so we've let them set for a little while and so they should be ready to be removed take that one off and maybe just use the snips for this one there you go and I'll just trim those off and it's holding pretty good so you can see the laughs wiggling a little bit when I apply pressure to the wood so these are really well secured and so I'm just going to clean this up and then we'll get ready for the dry