**IF THIS DOESN'T WORK FOR YOU** If the walls and roofs are red and don't' ever turn green no matter what you try, it may be because you're using a mod that allows you to scrap everything in your settlements. Mods like this prevent the group select feature from working properly. So you must temporarily disable the mod while you're using this technique. If you are not using any mods, then it's possible you're doing the technique wrong. This technique still works on all platforms as of the date of this post.

8+ years later, and this is helping a whole new group of folks playing Fallout since the show aired!!

I really wish that when fallout 4 was originally made, with sanctuary they would have added: 1) ability to delete all standing buildings in sanctuary 2) delete everything deletable at once 3) an undo function

And here i been using paintings for plugging up the holes in the wall lol

Finally Nate/Nora can live in their old house without fear of turning into a peoplesicle for Christmas.

I follow a couple other channels about building and repairing in Fallout 4 but sometimes they over complicate things. Your video was easy to follow, short and to the point. Thank you!

I like these repairs. I wish the game had building repair functions available considering one of the Minutemen quest lines is rebuilding Sanctuary.

To anyone confused why the floor doesn't snap to the 2nd floor, you need to select "shack upper floor" instead of "shack floor".

7 years later I am still building Sanctuary in F4. Playing second time, now lot of building going on, lots of resources and different gameplay. 🙂👍🏻

7 years later and still been useful, thanks a lot!

I’ve always found it interesting that you can scrap glass but not fit any kind of windows

Why there is no "fix houses" quest for some high amount of material, people (without work) and time as part of the vanilla game ?.... shame. Thank you for this. This is actually what i wanted to do but didnt know how :)

This is not the first video I've seen using this glitch; but it has some of, if not, the best demonstrations I have seen. They are methodical with ample explanations without being tedious. Also, it seems like a small thing, but it is nice for people on different platforms that you don't just name the buttons you mention what they are primarily used for. One last thing, I don't know if it is useful information or not. However on my first playthrough, before learning about all the various tricks and building glitches, I learned something while trying out different ideas to patch and/or build on top of the houses in Sanctuary Hills. If one climbs up on a roof or closely looks through some of the holes from inside there is a a metal frame in the roof for each house, and one right above the ceiling tiles separated by a space slightly higher than the thickness of the shack ground floor. Through experimentation I found each set of frames has its own collision mesh, so with a steady hand and *a lot* of patience, one can place thin objects and building pieces between them. That was also how my first character (made the first week after release, so everyone was still trying things out) fixed the roofs in Sanctuary and made all their interiors count as sheltered areas for beds, etc... I made rectangular sections out of the corrugated tin roofs in the wood set (they are the same as the ones used in the wooden pre-fabs) and then used the multi-select feature to more or less thread the section in that space so it would sit on the frame above the pre-existing ceiling panels. As stated I don't know how useful this is, as the method you showed is so much quicker and blocks the sunlight and the falling rain effect. better since, as demonstrated in the video, the floors can be stacked using the rug glitch. Still, I thought someone might find it interesting.

ive watched this information on 5 other channels but for some reason your video strikes me as the easiest to follow. thanks a lot

Great tutorial! As someone else commented, I was using paintings to cover holes. Never heard of the rug glitch, but I'll be using it tonight. Thanks for the great video! :)

one way to keep Preston out of my household.

I'm glad I found this video again! I forgot how to do this and have been struggling with these houses. I think my OCs will be quite busy re-building for a while now, thankyou!

YOU ARE SO HELPFUL THANK YOU. I know these are older videos but I have been totally hopeless with building lately and you've given me so much inspiration!!

Thank you, thank you, thank you! Trying to find a way to put doors on buildings has frustrated me beyond measure! (I'm new to the whole building settlements from ground up) this has been sooo helpful! Thank you, again. ❤️🙏

I always wondered if anyone was able to fix up one of these houses, and here you are to show me it is possible.

Just liked and subscribed; incredibly helpful and will make my settlement so much cooler and wasteland dovahkiin is the perfect name

thank you! I was struggling with how to do this again. and your explanintion is straight forward no over complicating anything. Thank you!

I'm really late I just started playing this and this really help me a lot thank you

Great video. Im happy to know theres a way to do this without mods. Thanks for taking the time to make this video.

Revisiting this game over Christmas. The Vault Dweller has been sitting on the roof of the Workshop house with a drink beside him for five years. Thought I'd fix up the settlements. This is good info. Thanks

Not having the repair option in the game for holes in the ceilings and walls is aggravating. So this is nice to know. Thanks!

I’ve been playing this game for years and just gave up hope with the ceilings. This was easy to follow and holy crap worked first time. Thank you !

WOW !!! THANK YOU FOR THE "RUG TIP". Now Imma go straighten ALL MY CROOKED HOUSES. HAHAHA

Thank you Good Lady for a great video! I'm fixing the house that they (Shaun /family) lived before the world . especially the ceiling

I just used the same method, to fix the roof on Taffington boathouse. Thank you!!!! I have been looking for a way to do this.

You're literally my superstar after starting Fallout 4. Tips, tricks and inspiration, and the best voice by far to complete the whole package 😋

OH my, you can't imagine how glad I am I found your video. Clean, straight to the point, and you explain really well! Finally I can fix my ugly ass neighborhood lmao They should let you delete the "usable" houses too, like even the shacks look better lol So thanks a lot! *w*

No one else has explained this well enough thank you

I know this video is a year old but I just wanted to leave a message to say u are honestly amazing are great I've played the game for almost three years and considered my self a pro then u come in teach me all of these new glitchs so thank u

Im glad KZfaq recommended this video im playing fallout 4 for the first time and im trying to rebuild sanctuary thanks for the tips 👍

Thanks for the video, you've explained it quite well.

Awesome video! Thanks for sharing! Sanctuary will look a LOT better for me now haha

You awesome I have been struggling withg with this eye sore for a while now !!! Thanks Hal

That was great. All those messed up houses and not being able to fix them up in a game that encourages you to fix stuff up! With a building program in the vanilla game! Jeebus. Thank you much, this is so satisfying.

Thanks for the video. I never minded the walls too much, but I did wish I could put in more doors, and make the roofs look like they'd actually be able to protect the interior from rain.

Repairing Croup Manor, and this came in handy. Already knew how to do upper floors using a pillar.

I have to try this trick. I was trying to renovate Sanctuary last night and it is so frustrating with the busted houses. I gave up and went to the castle. lol Love the video!

thank you so much this is going to make my playthrough so much easier I hate spending hours building but I want my sanctuary to at least be ok for the few I have living there

you have just made my day! thank you!!

With your method and some time to measure things nicely, you can use the barn elements from the Far Harbor dlc to get roof done as well. Thanks for the nice video. I've got few hundreds hours in game, yet I've never used this exploit to repair my walls.

I love that your showing this with the x box controller, which is what I use. Also if you don’t know, the warehouse doors kinda work on the houses here and any other old houses I’ve found. They open and close although there’s still a bit of a gap I just tell myself my settlers aren’t good carpenters

Watching this extremely helpful guide in 2024! 😊

Yo this video really helped a lot I used it to fix the main houses in sanctuary

Great video will definitely be trying this on my Settlements.

Very helpful. Thanks for making this.

Just getting into the game and this explanation was much easier to follow than a lot of other videos with similar themes. Still wish the mechanism allowed you to patch holes more easily. Maybe an option to paint over the walls after. Oh well - core gameplay and storyline outside the settlement stuff is still interesting at least. Feels like there's so much the game doesn't tell you which admittedly is something I'm not used to with most modern games.

Ive been trying to figure out how to use the rug glitch and bro you solved it

Your creative, very smart:) Ty very much! I hope you continued with your content.

Thank you for this, saved me a lot of frustration!

Very nice! Thanks for a great video!

Really helped me a lot! Thank you!

Oh you're actually fixing the house I thought this was a mod spotlight. Still a pretty good video tho, keep goin.

Very helpful thanks. I'll get to work on doing this

this was an awesome vid, will be wasting hours tonight fixing up the town

Very good instruction! Thanks a lot!

Thanks for the tips I cant stop playing this

Nice video, well eplained. Many thanks

Your video was very helpful! Thank you! ^^

Great video, I know what I'll spend my next week doing

awesome . just what I was looking for

Very well done!

nice. thanks for explaining how to fix the walls and roofs.

Great tutorial, def doing this!

Great vid!

Thats really impressive . Thanks for the tip , cheers

thank you I like your video I found it very helpful please continue to make more

If the roof could be removed and salvaged, the connection points of your ceiling modification you do might allow a new roof if my thinking is correct. At least in theory, it would sure look better than the original rotten roof.

Great video. Thank you so much!!!

If you're on PC (don't know about consoles) there's a mod called 'place everywhere' which allows you to basically build anything anywhere ;)

Awesome video!! thank youuu!

Awesome tips !!!

Thanks so much for this video! Works great on most houses, but for some reason the house to the left of that one the roof won't take. Tried sooo many times in different spots. Any tips? Wondering if it's fussy in every game or just mine :P

Very useful tips...thnx! 🤘🏼

you are awesome I have been trying to figure that out since I got the game

So cool and so easy, thanks heaps

8 years later, and this is still getting mileage, thank you, trying to figure out how to fix the roofs was driving me mad.

Very nice. Thank you so much.

Thing is these are modeled after the Lustron houses which being prefabricated homes were extremely modular by nature meaning that panels and framing from one should fit neatly and cleanly onto every other one. Panels don't even need to be room specific so it would have made sense with the junk houses that were only good to scrap for Bugthesda to instead allow you to salvage them to repair the others.

Thanks for properly explaining how to do this lol.. those houses do my head in so I can fix em now :)

Very nice good idea

Awesome! Thanks!

Thank you so much for this. I know how to put doors on but I can't figure out how to fix the roof or walls 😅❤

Thanks very much appreciate this is very helpful

Thanks! Wanted to live in my old house.

Very cool thanks for the video

Awesome! Thank you so much for the video. Unfortunately the workshop will no longer allow me to build anything in Sanctuary. Hopefully I can find a pc console to work around this so I can fix all the roofs.

Great stuff

Bethesda must've done something in an update that changed this... I recently started playing Fallout 4 again and this technique is something I learned from this same video back in 2016, but I just can't get it to work now.

Just a point to make. I don’t know if it’s just an xbox feature but, i can manage fit a door in the existing door frame of the house. It actually clips to the frame.

2022 this is still useful, thank you!!

im that kind of guy who cant sleep if my walls or roof or floor doesn’t lay down properly to surfaces

Wow! That easy huh?!?! I been restarting for 8 years now🤦🏿‍♂️🤷🏿‍♂️😭.. GREAT TUTORIAL!!💣🤯🔥

You can take those "ceilings" out once permanently installed them. If you accidentally screw up or whatever. Just build a platform next to the house at the same level, then use several rugs to connect the two and pull the entire thing out.

Genius, thank you.

Wow thank you so much I really worries me when it storms on the rads get us and dam we have been living like cave men this is so better ty