Hi,
Paint chipped away while taking out the removable hook. I know I have caused the damage (well technically my partner).
Is there DIY fix or should hire handy man?
Damage is around an inch in length
Thanks
Help - Paint Scratched in Rental Property
LRGV on 05/08/2022 - 16:39
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I'd be more concerned about avoiding a lengthy jail term.
I believe that’s what i have to do if i report it to agent
Might as well buy a house to avoid this happening again!
Seriously, sand it back a bit, patch it and paint. You should be able to get it colour matched. Sand paper and plaster patch and paint are available in small tubes/quantities so should not cost you any more than $50 max!
Just patch it up with PollyFiller
Ask if the owner has some spare wall paint or knows the colour and touch it upAnd in future dont trying to do this again
Can you colour match and get a small pot of paint? Doesn't look bad at all
This is the best solution - these days the match is pretty exact if you take a sample to a proper paint shop with a colorimeter. Just cut a small piece of gyprock out from where you are going to be patching anyway.
Stick another hook back over it or give it a few coats of paint near the same colour..
Yeah, let the next person to remove the hook think they chipped the paint.
I removed a bunch of command hooks from an old unit that I rented and we damaged the paint in about 4 or 5 places (from ~70 command strips, pretty happy with that strike rate on old paint.
Went to bunnings, got some colour swatches and found the closest, bought it and it was a little bit too light so mixed in some black and green we had lying around to get a pretty good colour match. The agent said the walls were in better condition when we left that when we moved in, so they were happy with a patch up job.
The agent said the walls were in better condition when we left that when we moved in
Said no agent ever
False. My agent said it.
Did not
@[Deactivated]: The email I'm looking at from the property manager right now says different, but okay buddy. You have a good night.
70 command strips
Were you living in an art gallery?
Somewhat. 4 per picture, 6 on some of the big ones. Most of them are in matching sets of 3 or 4, so it ends up being a lot of strips. Especially when wooden frames are mounted above the bed and you don't want to wake up with a piece of wood in your face/skull
If you take a small sample to a proper paint shop they match it exactly for free with a colorimeter. You only need to buy a small tin.
How long have you lived there?
I moved out of a place and had a gash twice as big as that. lived there for 3 years, they didn't even mention it.
Almost a year..
After a few years long tenancy, landlords often have the interior repainted as a matter of course.
If that was the case they would not worry about the minor damage.
Colour match a sample pot at Bunnings, bit of spakfilla, paint over, done.
This exactly. For about $20 you can get a small brush, paint pot and a tub of quick drying polyfilla or spafilla, will enough for dozens of minor repairs.
Just need a small piece of paint to colour match it.
Get a sample of the patch that fell off, go to Bunnings and get s $10 sample pot made up using the patch to colour match.
Then get a small tub of spak filler to filler it up and paint over it with sample pot.
Agreed. When you spak fill, do it smooth with a spatula etc but don't sand it or it will come up shinier/smoother than the rest of the wall. Just wet rag around the spot to wipe off any filler outside of the hole. 3 Coats of paint.
Burn the whole unit to the ground and get the landlord to claim on their insurance.
That will be the easiest and quickest way for sure.
We ain't talking about killing spiders here.
As others have said just paint match and do some dabbing with a small paint brush. It is unlikely the agent will notice. Just don’t stare at the spot when the inspection is being done.
Or use cotton buds for maximum ozbargainer
This post got me thinking why such a basic DIY task is not common sense so I ran a test.
I sent the picture to my son (19) who said
a bit if filler and matching paint, simple, why are you asking me? you know what to do dad!
I sent the picture to my daughter (22) who said
I'd ring you to come and fix it but yeah I just saw that on ozbargain too
Looks like I've taught them both well.
I sent the picture to my daughter (22) who said
"What did OzBargain say when you asked them??" should have been her response :D
I would if it was country where i was born.. the painting and filler everything is completely different ..
And i feel RE agents have extra attention to details when it comes to end of lease inspectionThat makes sense. Cheers
Welcome to OZ where it's generally too expensive to get stuff done and trades often don't GAS.
This is a useful group:
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Hold on, hold on
I sent the picture to my daughter / 'yeah I just saw that on ozbargain too'
I can't say I've seen any OzB members called "Paint 3D"!
MS Paint, your older than I thought.
Maybe. But I had my kids very young by today's standards.
They were born at a very young age!
Did they neg you?
Draw attention to it.
Put a Frame around it.
Art?
According to the REA, that is going to be around $5,000 to repair as the only guy in the area who can fix it just also happens to be the REA's brother/husband…
Thanks all for the funny responses..
Filler for the chipped paint, sanding for even surface, sugar soap clean the wall, apply 3 in 1 paint for the whole wall.
Take a sample of the paint to OZB fav hardware store and get them to match a 1L tin (or 2L) as you need to feather it in and paint at least 30x30cm around so it does not look out of place or if you want to make sure you get the bond back paint around the repair 30x30 twice and then one coat over the whole wall. Make sure when you go in you know how many m^2 you need to paint so you can get enough paint.
You can probably just cover it up with another wall.
Cover it up by hanging a picture over it.
I don't think I've left a rental property yet without patching something over with a tiny bit of filler, and a blob from a small sample pot of white interior paint thoroughly mixed with a tiny bit of whatever random coloured paint I had lying around to colour match. Roll it on with one of the small sample roller kits you get from the bottom shelf in the paint section at Bunnings for pennies so there are no brush strokes.
If it looks a bit odd after drying I go over it again with a slightly different mix until I get it mostly right. No real estate images of the walls are high-res enough to distinguish some mild colour variation in a small spot or two, but regardless, nobody has time to examine the wall that closely for evidence of patching, mostly agents are just scanning for holes, scratches and scuffs.
Heh. One place the kids scraped a wire clothes rack along a maybe 1.5 metre section of this horrible off-pink wall. Filler and a smudge of red spray paint into the white sample pot and good to go. To be honest, that one might have been helped by being in a poorly lit room.
Another place we bolted a couple of white Bunnings prefab pantry units in the plaster wall in the kitchen because it was so short of storage. When we left, after filling the holes I mixed the horrible duck egg yellow colour by buying a small primary yellow sample pot to mix through (normally just the tiniest nip on the end of an artist's paint brush is enough, always better to start with a tiny smige and work in a bit of extra colour for the next roll through if need be, rather than the other way round). Paint also changes colour a bit after drying, so don't try too hard to match when wet. Let it dry and then if necessary adjust accordingly and try again.
Once we broke an entire custom wood turned baluster in the stairwell and had to get another one wood turned to match, jam the new one back in, glue and patch it all up, and paint it. That one we did get the paint properly matched at Bunnings, but that required a huge paint tin to cover. Ah, I could go on forever, good times. lol
There's a very tiny stipple in your paint. Your hole is probably too small to notice if things get a bit smooth through your patch, however if you're concerned the trick there is to get the furriest small sample roller you can find at Bunnings, the furrier the better, and roll the paint on super thick, as thick as you can without the paint starting to drip - if it starts to drip roll it off and try again. You'd be surprised how it dries back to only a very mild stipple. Simples.
I don't consider that damage, and I don't think a realestate would, but I would just stick another picture hook on it perhaps. Amd graciously say you'll leave that for the next tennant to hang something on.
Liquid paper is another dumb/fast solution.
YouTube is your friend
Just colour it in with some whiteout.
I wouldn't worry about it.
Small minded landlords will be small minded people, it's not Intention damage.
People provision for this in their rentals for repairs. Or should
If the removed hook and paint is intact, super glue it back on the wall.
Stick a command hook over it and let the next tenant rip it off?
Repaint the entire house or you will lose your bond