re: Patching a hole in my ceiling. (Update in OP)

Its going to be probably $300 or more for someone to fix that for you if you help a little, $500 or more if you want to be completely hands off. To do it right, they need to come back at least 3 times most likely. To do it perfect more like 5-6 times.

Just find an "Odd Job Joe" and work out a deal with them. If you are willing to repaint it and move the furniture, it will probably save you at least $200.

Total cost of material for this is $30 for you to DIY. Its just its 5-6 1 hour days.

Cut back the sheetrock cleanly to the studs. Screw in new sheetrock. Mud the seam gaps and let it dry. Tape and mud the seams. Let it dry. Come back to float it. Let it dry. Texture. Let it dry. Paint.

You can use quick drying mud and do it all in a day fairly easily. But that usually doesn't look as good.

Oweo

Problem of this job is that its going to eat up someone's time. Almost no material cost for someone in the business.

Biggest pita is to make it look unnoticeable, it will need to me mudded/floated out at least 18" perimeter from the edges of the hole to be able to hide the seam tape. So that means removing a large area of texture and then re-texturing after mudding is finshed. A decent handyman should be able to get this done in 3 visits. 2 if you are willing to paint the ceiling after the mud is dried. And yes, likely the whole thing will need to be repainted.

Damn good job man

My brother did that crawling through my attic and I warned him a million times and at the very last step.....boom, foot through ceiling

Nice job...

I'm still waiting to hear the attic slip story though... always love a good attic story

Updated thread are way underappreciated.

Looks fantastic. Did you already have some paint to match for him to use?

You going to paint the entire ceiling right/???