[plazaman]

ready patch is good stuff, used in wood, metal doors,

 

[kenscar]

20 minute sheetrock powder, mixed with water and a little of the wall/trim paint so it disappears under one topcoat. Mix it to the perfect peanut butter consistency. Dries quick, sands OR wipes smooth with damp sponge or rag. For really time-crunched jobs: 5 minute powder.

You're welcome.

 

[Cache]

Just wanted to resurrect this thread and throw in my 2 cents. I'm not the paint guru that some of you guys are around here, but I wanted to give a side-by-side comparison of two homes. For nail holes, my painter used Crawford's painters putty on the first and then "Fast n Final" on the second.

He said he'd been wanting to try Crawfords because he'd seen a lot of guys buying it and everyone claimed it to be non-sanding. "Just strike it off with your knife and move on."

I'll make a long story short here. His preference was obvious after the first coat of trim paint went on. I think he was hoping that I would say it was ok, but it clearly wasn't. I've never seen so many dimples showing through paint before. That might fly for some tract homes, or some subsidized apartments, but not for customs.

While he was filling holes he was loving the Crawfords. Said it was much faster, and not having to cleanup dust after sanding would save him a bunch of time too. Well, that went out the window when he was going back and sanding the semi-gloss trim paint and refilling the dimples with spackle, then of course still having to sand the spackle and re-clean before spraying again.

Needless to say, he tossed the rest of his Crawfords in the dumpster, and said he'll never use it again. Both homes came out in the end according to my specs, but the Crawfords created a ton of work for him. There's no way I would call a job done with all those dimples. When he uses Fast n' Final, perfectly smooth every time.

P.S. Just walked through a parade home next door as the cabinet maker was showin off his handiwork. Obviously, paint was supposed to have been finished and they were installing cabs, lights, and hardwood. While talking to him, I looked over at a room with dark brown trim. It looked like every nail hole had been sanded and refilled with spackle. Turns out the painter was in the master bath, doing the same in there. I asked what he used for filler. CRAWFORDS!! GC was making him refill all the holes and re-spray before paying him. Poor bugger looked pissed.

 

[ClosetPro]

Colgate toothpaste.







JK!!

I always use SW Lightweight Shrink Free Spackle.

 

[Paul Painter]

Fillers

Wow..everybody fills with something different!! I have used the dexdry..its good..sometimes when there are bigger holes to fill along with small,I make up a batch of Sheetrock 45 or sheetrock 90..its a setting compound and is sandable..I hold my vaccum up when sanding to pick up dust or wet sand with a green srub pad..if it is just small nail holes I use premixed drywall compound,cut in while it drys,sand,spot prime,then roll..

 

[vandyandsons]

It seems around here most of the OLD guys use window glazing and the younger guys all use something that needs to be sanded (MH ready patch, the light fluff, or some other spackle).

i'm a young buck....

i use galzing putty flopped around in some durabond powder.

 

[capital city]

i'm a young buck....

i use galzing putty flopped around in some durabond powder.

Ive been using this since Vandy mentioned it on paint talk last week and it works perfect. The ease of glazing with no shrinking. I may try to add some paint in there like someone else mentioned to see if that will even make it better.

 

[sparehair]

i am in Mass too; here is the what you need:
exterior trim (Azek included)--Bondo (they make white now too)
interior trim--elmers wood filler (orange can)
walls--mh ready patch

I don't know man. Elmers is slower to dry than the drydex and sand's a little slower. I prefer the dex for smaller finish nails holes and the like. Bondo has a rep for blowing out when exterior wood expands and contracts. Haven't used the mh ready.