okay so I finished removing the wires and again the backing is pretty secure and since it's kind of an irregular hole it's not a rectangular square I'm just going to take a piece of paper lay it over here and just kind of gently kind of trace the hole and I'll use this as my template for cutting out the drywall if you have a square hole or rectangle hole you could just measure it out and cut it but for my purposes I'll just use this as my guide and cut out to drywall pieces that match this okay so I made two little little round roll drywall plugs here now I would have much preferred to enlarge this hole into a square rectangle but the lath and plaster really makes that difficult you can do it but quite often you get into trouble you know you cut through a piece of laughs and then you break off a piece so if you can just try to keep the original hole if it's at least symmetrical or a good size if it's all irregular then you'll have to cut out a more regular pattern but in this case I just made two little round little plugs and I could either glue them in via a joint compound or in this case I'm just going to add some Elmer's glue that does a pretty good job so I will add a liberal supply of glue and I'll just put it so it goes all the way back to those backing boards that and then again with this second one just a liberal supply and then get them that's far back as I can and so here we go and I'll just sit and go to the next step okay so I let it dry it's quite dry right now and so the next step would be to apply the the joint tape and the drywall tape and the drywall joint compound now I like to buy it in a bucket or you know a smaller perhaps a quart size you could also buy it in a powder form and mix it with water to the consistency you like but I find it easier for such a small job just to buy a small little bucket but before I do that I'm going to use some steel wool because it's a pre painted surface I think this paint is probably either satin or semi-gloss you want a texturized is just a little bit since I'm going to be building up the joint compound all the way around it awhile so I'm just going to use steel wool to kind of texturize the wall a little bit and make sure that it at least has a little bit of texture so when I apply the wall compound it will stick you could also use some sandpaper if you don't have any steel wool so I'm going to just kind of clean off the surface with from any dust and go ahead and apply the tape okay so I went ahead and cleaned off all the dust I also have my my my joint tape my drywall tape right here and so I'm going to first rip off this about the right size that I want to apply this big okay I'm going to rip off a couple pieces and so I'm just going to apply the tape just like this but first I'm going to take some my joint compound and just try to fill in all these holes as best I can and then just apply my tape and then pull try to keep all the air as much air as you can out of the tape apply here and then put this back on again try to remove all the excess air you can from underneath the tape so right after I applied the tape I did apply a thin coat of joint compound or mud and I've let it dry so it's nice and dry here and now I'm just going to take 150 grit sandpaper you could also use a hundred grit sandpaper I have a little block to help me sand and just really lightly go over it to get a lot of the ridges off you don't want to sand too much because you want to sand down to the tape you just want to try to get the top so I got most the rough spots off and so I'm going to take actually a larger trowel I originally use a smaller trowel but now I'm going to use a larger trowel to get a much broader stroke and go over the original coat and there I'm done with the second coat don't mind the little Ridge there they'll be sanded away and I'll let this dry and do one finish coat and now for the last coat finishing up some of the sanding it's getting really nicely in nice and smooth so I went quite a bit away from the original hole because when you build up the joint compound or the mud it kind of makes a little bit of a mound and you want to kind of taper the mound out so it will get the most smooth appearance I probably went a little bit farther than I wanted to but because the wall was slightly irregular I just kind of want to make sure that I guarantee that smooth look and I have the matching paint so it shouldn't be a problem but so there you have it I hope this helped you out a bit see you next time bye bye