Issue rubbing down wood filler, pls help

[kilo_4que]

Hi guys, I have some Ronseal 2 pack wood filler. Recently I used it to fill gaps between skirting on external joints. When rubbing down it was pretty straight forward and looked the part once finished.

Now I was using the same wood filler to fill some screw holes. I left the filler a little proud so that i can rub it down. However when it comes to rubbing down, its smoothen up but you can clearly feel the small patch of filler. Furthermore its not very easy to rub down, I thought it would have been a little more brittle.

Btw i tried rubbing down for a good 10 minutes and eventually got somewhere but it ended up faintly unveiling the screw hole.

Any tips guys?

 

[Bilioustrumpstaine]

Use a sanding plate with a large surface area, they look like a plaster's trowel. Or just put a strip of sandpaper on a piece of wood.

You can always fill the bulk of the hole with the two part filler and then use a standard filler for the finish.

 

[kilo_4que]

Hi Bil,

thanks for the reply, I am currently using a sanding block, the mothod of sanding is easy, its just that the amount of effort required to rub down the stuff is excessive in my opinion. I thought it had all the properties of car body filler, but car body filler rubs off much easier.

Do you know of any filler that is easy to rub down i.e. rubs down powdery so that i can finish off these screw holes with such filler?

 

[Bilioustrumpstaine]

I use Toupret as a general interior filler.

http://www.toupretpro.co.uk/products/product_view.php?pid=1


I use P38 by Isopon as a two part filler.

http://www.jellydeal.co.uk/davids-isopon-p38-repair-kit-250ml.htm

Toupret available from your decorators merchant, not from the sheds. P38 available at Halfords or any car accessory shop.

 

[kilo_4que]

Hi Bil, thanks for the info matey. However I found a much easier solution, one i thought would never work assuming it would damage the skirting

Basically I got my power sander, and used that for the rub down. Bloomen amazing result