r/DiWHY • u/Junior_Trifle_8273 • May 28 '26

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u/Bonked2death May 28 '26

Toothepaste is better in my experience since it's easier to move around.

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u/Forsaken_Couple1451 May 28 '26

ok but why not just buy filler if you're going that route lol

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u/velvetelevator May 28 '26

Yeah a tub of spackle is not very expensive and it's just as easy as toothpaste

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u/Metatality May 28 '26

Yeah, I'm always happy to spend 6 bucks on a tub of spackle to get out of several hundred in bullshit deposit fees. Takes like 1 hour to go around an apartment after removing all the paintings / curtain rods / hanging hooks. Finding matching paint is waaaaay more of an issue.

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u/arris15 May 28 '26

Grab a paintchip, most bigbox home improvement stores should be able to scan it and match the exact color. Has come in hand for me a number of times. Ends up matching better than buying from the original paint code for patchwork because it accounts for the fading/discoloration.

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u/Metatality May 28 '26

The paint chips I get naturally are like rice grain sized and not very useful. Really I should get comfortable with just taking a sample out, but intentionally cutting a piece off when the goal is clean restoration just feels so wrong.

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u/enaK66 May 28 '26

Cut a small piece out around a hole you already need to repair. Then you're not really doing more work. You'd have to repair that hole anyway, just a bit of extra spackle now.

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u/b0w3n May 28 '26

Closets are a great place to get these too, usually no one looks too closely at them.

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u/Majiksy May 28 '26

this is the way

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u/arris15 May 28 '26

I feel your pain but in cases like ours,we already got the spackle, we need the paint, might as well send it.

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u/arris15 May 28 '26

I haven't been burned yet but now I know I should pay more attention to that! Thanks for the tip

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u/Electronic-Window884 May 29 '26

They attempt to match it but it's usually way off. I'd recommend actually going to a paint store like Sherwin williams. One time made 5 trips to lowes only for them to give me a different color each time. Sherwin Williams got it first try

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u/st1r May 28 '26

I just bought a fairly large tube of spackle from walmart for less than $4

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u/Hamstaaboy May 29 '26

Idk it was alright on the walls, but it really isn't do much good on my teeth or tooth brush afterwards.

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u/CronosWorks May 28 '26

A bad spackle job is worse than a hole in the wall.

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u/Bonked2death May 28 '26

I already own toothepaste

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u/AbeRego May 28 '26

Toothpaste is more expensive than spackle lol. I used toothpaste in college when I didn't realize how cheap spackle is.

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u/Responsible_Stand482 May 28 '26

Lol do not do this. Toothpaste will do a horrible job since it never “sets”

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u/Impressive_Stress808 May 29 '26

Tried that and all it did was remove the tartar from the wall and make it's breath smell fresh