Can I patch stipple artex?

[Fordy81]

I've removed a cupboard exposing a bit of a hole in the ceiling where a pipe comes down. Once that pipe is boxed in I'm going to be left with a hole about 2 inches square in a not square shape.

What's the best way to repair it? Cut it square with a new piece of plasterboard? Or leave it and put a mesh patch on it? Then do I need to buy specialist plaster of can I put a thin layer of easifill over it, then a wetter layer and 'stipple it' with a brush/sponge etc.

It doesn't need to be perfect at all. It's in the corner of the room that's hardly used and there is a previous patch where there's been presumably a crack. It just really needs to have the hole filled. It doesn't matter if it matches.

Thanks

 

[SFK]

Fordy,
Lots of different methods.
But for me, for a 2" by 2" hole in plasterboard I would:
- get a piece of flat wood and cut it say 5" by 2". (I am suggesting wood as I presume you do not have any offcuts of plasterboard and do not want to buy a big sheet)
- put a screw in middle of it to act as a temporary handle
- put the wood into the hole, so it covers the hole from the back.
- put two screws through sound plasterboard (so that their heads are sightly below surface of plasterboard) into the wood (at the longer lengths of the wood).
- remove the temporary screw or screw in further so sightly below surface of plasterboard.
- Fill hole and screw holes with filler. As it drys it will pull back and form depression
- Fill depression again and let dry.
- Sand down filler to make flat with plasterboard.

SFK