Fixing ceiling holes made by drywall anchors

Curtains and blinds are often attached to the ceiling with plastic anchors. This Instructable provides a technique for removing and patching the resulting hole on stipple ceilings.

Step 1 Supplies

Equipment List:
Rotary Tool with rounded grinding attachment
Crack filler
Plastic bottle (cut in half)
Latex glove (or similar)

Comments

[honorman]

As a 33 year new home builder and 20 years owning and repairing rent houses, I find the way to repair a texured ceiling is to fill the holes with sheetrock mud or spacke, then make a soup mixture out of the texure compond that was sprayed on the ceiling , paint the repair with this and you will never find it again.

[MD_Willington]

I have no dremel, I cut them off with a razor knife and fill them the same way, less mess & job done... personally I hate stipple and texture, it allows builders to get away with hiring very cheap drywall installers that end up doing very cheap jobs...

[geoffh]

Unfortunately, the anchors were a 'feature' of the house I moved into. I wanted to minimize the size of the ceiling holes and the barbs on the anchors tend to rip out more ceiling when yanked out.

[Patrik]

Nice professional job.

For the cheapo, "I need to vacate my rental appartment today" version - plain old white toothpaste can hide a *lot* of blemishes, especially on a ceiling where nobody's ever going to touch it again anyway.

[uguy]

What are you doing using wall anchors on the ceiling? lol

[dentsinger]

Nice! This method maintains the integrity of the ceiling without risking pull out.

[caledonian]

They yank-out easily enough, no need for the Dremel.

[logic bomb]

never seen this technique before. great job.

[theRIAA]

nice job