Advise a Tenant

Wallpaper over it, take the deposit and leg it.

The room's painted, she would notice a square of wallpaper in a room where there is none. Worth a shot though i reckon, cheers

How about getting some filler from the diy store, some sandpaper and some paint that matches the rest of the room?

Watch out though, because Evil Doesn't Knock... It Has The Key!

We've got filler, but the amount of wall missing is about the same size as a sheet of A3 paper. We'd actually need to replace the missing shape before "touching it up" with paint and filler and neither of us have DIY skillz

Wow stan, it looks just like her

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Let the landlady get it fixed - she'll probably think your efforts to repair it are rubbish, and have it re-done properly anyway - but make sure the cost for this is taken out of your housemate's portion of the damages deposit. Since he caused the damage, you shouldn't have to pay for it jointly.

GET SOME SELF ADHESIVE MESH DRYWALL TAPE. TAPE IT UP. THEN GET SOME SPACKLE, COVER OVER THE TAPE. SAND IT WHEN IT DRIES AND RE-PAINT. ALTERNATIVELY, Cut your own rectangular patch, larger than the hole, from a piece of drywall the same thickness as your walls. Place the patch over the damaged area, trace around it and cut out along the lines as above. You need a “backer” for your patch. If you install it now, it would just push right through the hole! Here’s the solution: Cut two boards (I’ve used leftover molding, furring strips, a broken yardstick - anything that you can screw into) four inches larger than the opening. Slip the wood into the opening, center it under one side and install all-purpose screws through the wall and into each end. Repeat on the other side with the other board. Now you can insert the patch and screw it to the backer boards (one screw in each corner). Place self-adhesive mesh dry-wall tape over the seams (don’t overlap the tape - it will leave a bump). The routine from here is the same as above. Apply two coats of spackle, sanding after each.

Wow! thank you Lupton, this sounds achievable. I even think we have some drywall in the cellar we could use. Though CJ is right i think, i'll show my housemate your DIY advice and i'll let him decide: it's his money afterall.

Pitman OTM, but if it's as big as an A3 sheet most definitely cut a piece of drywall rather than just mesh taping it.

chris v is yr nu-god!!!

A bloody genius!

A frend of mine had a similar problem except it was n his parents house while having an unauthorised party. During a 'play-fight' someone's ass (literally) went through the wall. Thankfully, the next day with the help of a hungover joiner friend of ours it was fixed pretty much as described above.

This is an unrelated landlord/tenant problem, but this seems an okay place to bring it up:
The lock on the front door of my house has been broken for a few days, and, today, the landlord came to fix it. My roommate got a phone call from him later, in which he said, "Tell Kirsten to clean her room, because we might be selling the place." Okay. So...first of all, I'm a little creeped out that he went into my room. Second of all, yes, my room is a horrible mess, but it's just a clothes-on-the-floor mess, and, for the record, it's like that because I almost never sleep there. I just stop home and change clothes. And thirdly...if the landlord is selling the place, wouldn't he have an obligation to call and tell us when he was coming to show it to prospective buyers? Thus giving me time to clean my room? And why, when our living room and kitchen and bathroom all have small holes in the walls and loud paint and broken things, would he specifically demand that I clean my bedroom, and nothing else? It just seems weird to me, and I'm kind of put off and offended.