Beamish DIY uses a tape template to patch an awkward hole
The wall-repair compilation moves from drywall patches to homemade mortar applicators, while viewers question what holds one repair in place.
Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 101,662 views a day, 6.7 times a normal first day on this channel (15,268).
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An irregular hole in drywall doesn't get squared off in Beamish DIY's repair compilation. Instead, a worker traces its outline onto tape, cuts a matching plug with a jigsaw and screws it into a wooden backing piece fitted behind the wall.
That sequence is part of a construction Short that drew roughly 100,000 views in its first day, nearly seven times the channel's usual Shorts start. There is no spoken explanation: hands, tools and successive stages of each job carry the tutorial.
The compilation keeps returning to tools shaped for a particular task. A modified pipe container leaves grooved mortar lines along a curb. A half-pipe applicator deposits mortar before bricks go down, while triangular wooden blocks support string lines for aligning brick courses. Elsewhere, two trowels work together to smooth an inside corner.
The opening drywall patch, which uses metal clips rather than wooden backing, has prompted practical questions in the comments. Some viewers question what supports the patch after the clips' tabs are snapped off; another suggests cutting a regular-shaped replacement instead of matching an awkward opening.
One viewer picks up on something less structural: the drill stopping sounds remarkably like a crow.
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What viewers say
The stop of the drill sounded like a crow😂
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- Channel
- Beamish DIY
- Subscribers
- 663,000 ▲ 5,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 10,664,265
- Channel views, pace per day
- 1,559,359 (on a normal day: 1,952,595)
- Video published
- November 9, 2026
- Video views so far
- 139,059 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 136,154
The numbers
The wall-repair Short reached well beyond Beamish DIY's usual first-day audience for this format.
💡 Test your knowledge
Which tool cuts the matching drywall plug in Beamish DIY's irregular-hole repair?
The worker uses a jigsaw to cut the drywall plug after tracing the hole's shape onto tape.


