Covering up AC hole

[Bienes Raices]

I was wondering if this would be expensive or difficult to put back to the way it was (the house is concrete block construction). I know that I could leave it there, but insurance co. may require me to remove it, and there is no way to hide it from them since they require photo of rear of house for quote.

[Bill Gulley]

Hi, unless the exhaust is blowing into another room, that is a load bearing wall, all exterior walls are load bearing. I have never heard of any insurance company requiring that a window air conditioner be removed.

From the corner, it appears that the A/C hole was cut through a stud. It should have been boxed in with a header as Steve mentioned, like a window, but I bet not. Few do. The stud is a vertical 2X4, maybe a 2X6 board inside the wall, you should cut one like it and place it in so that it acts as one piece running vertically and then use some lumber to scab on to the sides of the joints, placing a new piece on the side of the stud where the joints are.

After that, you might use 2X4s perpendicular to the floor between the stud repaired and the corner stud. This should be positioned so that the edge of the bolck or board will touch the existing sheet rock and will allow you to nail a new piece of sheet rock where the hole is. top and bottom. Cut the sheet rock to size and nail it to your stud vertically and across the blocks you put in. You should have something to nail to along the top and bottom of your new sheet rock and down the replaced stud.
Put some mud in the joints, run drywall tape over the wet mud and add more mud on top of the tape and smooth it out. Let it dry and come back the next day and apply more mud as needed to finish, let that dry and paint or whatever.

Glad it's you and not me, LOL