Repairing a hole in drywall

Some people call it wallboard,sheetrock,drywall. If you have a hole in your wall,you can repair it several ways. Some hardware stores or lumber yards, do carry a patch that may fit your hole,or you can take a utility knife,drywall knife and cut the hole to fit your patch. These patches have about a inch or so of paper that is on the outside of the patch.After you have your hole the size of the patch, you take some drywall compound and place on the edges of the paper and then place the patch over the hole,once even with the existing wall, you then apply a layer of drywall compound over the patch, getting it as smooth as you can. Let it dry and then lightly sand to see if it needs another coat of drywall compound,if not its ready to prime and paint. Other ways of patching a hole if no patch is found, is to cut out sheetrock to halfway into a stud in your wall, on both sides of the hole. You then would cut a piece of sheetrock and nail it to the studs on both sides and then, tape your joints with sheetrock tape,apply coats of drywall compound, maybe couple of coats is needed. Let dry and paint.