Fillers that did not work!

[howsthat]

I have used two different powder filler materials without success for repairing holes in a wall of the alabastine and polyfiller variety but each time, both these fillers turned to a powery white chalk that rubbed away easily and therefore cannot be sealed or painted.

Both products are probably ten years old (alabastine just opened) and so I am starting to think that these product age and loose their adhesive and binding qualities. They might be ten years old. Am I correct? I have always relied on the former product which used to set hard to a pink plaster colour but is now white!

 

[OwainDIYer]

Yes it's too old.

I dread to think what your fridge is like if you've got 10 year old plaster.

 

[howsthat]

Fridges? They are between 3 months and 9 months of age. They don't need filling or plastering However, if the filler is too old, why isn't packaging dated accordingly, I ask myself?.

 

[kbdiy]

I dread to think what your fridge is like if you've got 10 year old plaster.

I think you'll find that's what they call irony!

 

[howsthat]

Correction. It is called humour But never mind.