Quickest drying wall filler for largish hole (before tiling)

[DIYNotIan]

I'm might have ballsed up here...

I was planning to patch up a few holes like this one before it gets tiled in just over a week or so (could be less):





I had thought to use mortar, but now I'm thinking that might take too long to cure enough for tiling over (more than happy to be corrected if I'm wrong!!)? If I'm right, is there anything else I can use that could be dry/cured well enough in 5-7 days+?

I'll get there one day!

Cheers

 

[sxturbo]

This should do the job

https://www.toolstation.com/deep-ga...x5fH1hdvA--mgtpqDQxoC7t4QAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

 

[RandomGrinch]

Hi,

This may be a bodge, but if it's just going to be tiled over, fill with some expanding foam - cured in hours!

 

[DIYNotIan]

This should do the job

https://www.toolstation.com/deep-ga...x5fH1hdvA--mgtpqDQxoC7t4QAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

That looked great and almost too good to be true! Reading through some of the reviews though, perhaps there's a reason for that...

Hi,

This may be a bodge, but if it's just going to be tiled over, fill with some expanding foam - cured in hours!

If it works, it's not a bodge Interestingly, I'm going to be using low expanding foam around the frame anyhow to seal it. So if it will work in that sized hole then I'm happy. There is actually another hole on the side that has been filled with expanding foam (presumably many years ago) and tbh I wasn't sure whether I needed to get it out to re-do it. So I guess that would answer that too!

Many thanks for the responses.

 

[RandomGrinch]

Yep, you can layer up the low expansion foam.
Mist the area with a water spray first to help speed up curing, and then cut back when done.
It might also be worth masking up the edges of the windows, just in case!

 

[Deleted member 174758]

Toupret do some deep fill stuff which sets fast - certainly seems to be a brand a lot of the pro decos have switched to in recent years. I use some of their wood filler products and they are first rate

 

[foxhole]

Fillers dry in as little as 20mins.

 

[DIYNotIan]

And the winner is...:

Toupret do some deep fill stuff which sets fast - certainly seems to be a brand a lot of the pro decos have switched to in recent years. I use some of their wood filler products and they are first rate

I've used Toupret Le Reboucheur in the past (also having read how much pro decorators rate it), and I thought it was excellent stuff. Not used it for a few years, and so forgot that it says there's no maximum depth. I'm not sure if TX110 was about when I bought the other stuff - can't remember seeing it - but with a quicker setting time and still no limit to the application thickness, I'm going with that option.

So thanks for helping remember Toupret, but also to everyone for taking the time to respond.