One Strike Filler

Lime plaster with added horsehair, then lining paper.

Cowshit in many parts of the world, then when dry use it for making a fire.

just generally any gaps where planking doesn't meet, or I gouge a bit too much out of a block shape I am carving etc etc

But not I sense glass ones. Maybe plastic ones

Well te knack is to remove everything loose and crumbly. Then use the filler.

You can stabilise crumbly stiff with a resin hardener, but frankly why bother - it's more expensive than the filler is!

My parents front window had a rotten section of sill. We dug it out and built it back up with car body filler. It was still intact when the whole window was replaced 20 years later.

SteveW

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I'll check that out. Does it have to be out of date?

Bondage plaster is good as filler, stronger than finish plaster & helps stick any looseness together. If plaster is old it's no good for plastering as it tends to flash set.

NT

Google suggested this for 'bondage plaster'

Owain

I presume it's like very out of date gyssum plaster that sets hard within 5 to 10 minutes of mixing. When renovating my house 30+ years ago I used some out of date plaster as a grip fix adhesive for installing electrical back boxes in rather irregular holes in the walls. Being quick set a few blobs of old plaster would hold the boxes firmly in position with 5 minutes with enough time to make sure that they were horizontal and flush with the rest of the wall. Fresh plaster was used for making good afterwards. I used cheap disposable plastic cups to mix enough for one back box at a time.

In a friend's rented property it looked as if the owner had papered over an irregular surfaced wall with a ream of A4 printing paper. From a distance it didn't look too bad but closer it was possible to see all the overlapping paper edges.

You can ask for it at any builder's merchant, they stock it. It's much tougher than finish plaster & good for filling.

Putting body parts in it is a bad idea, some youngster suffered quite bad burns after putting her hand in some at school.

NT

Using "bonding plaster" instead got rid of the 'interesting' hits (oops!) and came up(!) with useful stuff.

of course. Anyone familiar with plaster knows what it's called.

NT

I don't use autocomplete, I find it a pain. Any diyer with a clue knows what the stuff is.

Contribute some diy knowledge. Until then it's back in the filter for you.

I wish I knew what had trained the autocomplete on my wife's phone. She frequently texts me shopping lists, and I usually have to phone back and get an explanation - for example, when she wanted "Buenos and Minstrels", she managed to send "Nemo's monsters"!

To be fair, I think the phone is learning her speech patterns.

At 21 she had kidney problems, but the GP thought is was a hormonal problem and put her on the pill (which is contra-indicated for kidney problems). She suffered a small stroke, lost power down one side for a few hours, couldn't understand speech 'til five or six hours later and had problems speaking for a couple of months afterwards.

For the last 30-odd years, she has struggled to get the right word when she is tired, often coming out with complete gibberish or just toitally the wrong word ... for some reason "chimps" is the most common one for any missing word, but we've had things like "It's in the gribgranch" when she has meant "dishwasher." She'll also try to say a word or phrase and although it's the right one, she'll keep getting parts of it wrong and repeated tries correct one part, while another goes wrong - "Stockley Farm" becoming "Fuckly Farm", "Stuckley Farm", "Stuckley Calm" and it can sometimes take a full minute or more for her to get it right ... usually because we're taking the piss out of her in a loving fashion.

"Chimps" seems to be a metasyntactic variable and cn stand for any other word or phrase - as in "Where's the chimps?" I am getting very good at deciphering from context what "chimps" actually stands for!

When she is not tired, she has few problems - for instance, as a dual-trained nurse amongst a team of mental health nurses, she could spout all the names of the drugs for both mental health and physical problems and tell them that ERCP stood for "Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangio-Pancreatography" without a hesitation.

Unfortunately, as she is on Chemo type meds, she is constantly tired at the moment.

SteveW

No, but time is money and sometimes you want it to set faster than would be the case for a fresh bag.

There is always good old-fashined plaster-of-paris ;-)

She actually lost more than just some skin :-