Vent: My neighbor said to skip the primer on drywall patch and he was dead wrong

So last weekend I was fixing a hole in my hallway drywall about the size of a baseball. My neighbor Bill, who's done like 3 home projects ever, told me 'primer is a waste of money just paint over the patch'. I figured he knew what he was talking about since he just redid his bathroom. Now the patch is all shiny and stands out like a sore thumb against the old paint. How do you guys fix a patch that's already painted without repainting the whole wall?

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hill.troy13d ago

Yeah @gonzalez.grant that light sanding trick can work but did you use the same sheen of paint as the wall or just grab whatever was handy? I swear the whole primer thing is like that old rule about washing your hands before cooking, it sucks but skipping it always comes back to bite you. What kind of paint did you end up using on that patch?

gonzalez.grant13d ago

Honestly that sucks. I read somewhere you can try lightly sanding just the patch spot and then hit it with a flat finish paint, it might blend in enough to not make you want to repaint the whole wall.