Back
to work after Christmas - I had planned to work on the walls over the
holidays, not personally celebrating the event, but ran low on
polyfilla and had to wait til the stores opened again. I picked up a
new tube regular polyfilla - and a can of spray polyfilla to
investigate.
I
made a complete botch up of the first fill-in or two - where I broke
off loose plaster and applied large globs of polyfilla. Severe
sanding down was required prior to getting the paint tub opened!
However, as I progressed I found a way of making the polyfilla
application both easy and look good. Bye bye scraper-tool, hello
disposable glove!
A
friend had said that using a finger was easier, and this did appear
to be the case. However, being a clean-freak that avoids chemicals as
much as possible, I prefered to wear the disposable gloves that I had
over from caring for my father.
The
trick is to spray the polyfilla spray onto the area to be filled
first. The second step is to apply a small glob of regular polyfilla
to a gloved finger and work it in - repeating til the hole is filled
- then smooth it over. A gloved finger makes the result much less
lumpy than the tool - which I found pulled the polyfilla out more
than smoothed it in. I did end up with a few splotches on the carpet
though - but they seem to wear off easily.
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