"Rod" wrote

Rethinking various apsects of house. Involves removal of lots of battens
and shelves (and suchlike), which obviously results in holes where the
wall plugs have been removed.

I want to fill them ready for decorating but it is a tedious process. I
haven't found a good technique for getting the filler to the bottom of the
holes. So far I have been pushing some filler in, then tamping it down,
adding some more, tamping it down... I don't mind the doing of it as such,
but it slows everything down so much.

Just ordinary light-ish-weight block walls - the odd brick or whatever.

Any suggestions?

--
Rod

If the holes that are left are very sandy/crumbly, start by squirting in
some dilute PVA.
This will take a few minutes onlyt for all the holes and help stabilise the
area/avoid pulling all the moisture out of the filler.
Again this is far end of the proverbial stuff, but hey-ho

Phil