My 'quick' bathroom shelf fix turned into a full wall rebuild

I saw a wobbly shelf in my guest bathroom and thought I could just tighten the screws. One of them spun free, so I pulled the shelf off to find the drywall anchor had torn a hole the size of a baseball. Over the next two hours, I cut out a square foot of wall, learned how to patch drywall on YouTube, and used a whole container of joint compound. My simple 10 minute fix is now a three day project waiting for mud to dry and paint to match. Anyone else have a tiny repair that just kept getting bigger?

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eric_martinez17h ago

My uncle tried to fix a leaky faucet and ended up replacing the whole kitchen sink.

gibson.seth16h ago

Wait, how do you even mess up that bad?

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