On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 20:04:33 GMT, (Luke ) wrote:


Has anyone tried using diluted white wood glue as a stabiliser
solution for powdery old mortar? When I am drilling to install wall
plugs in an old brick wall built with lime mortar, and hit a joint, if
I don;t have the option of drilling in a diferent place, I usually
scrape away a lot of the loose mortar in the joint I've hit, blow all
the dust out thenand squirt in some stabilizer solution. Then when
it's dry, I pack the hole with polyfilla or cement mortar and later
drill a proper small hole to take the plug. In the absexence of
proprietory stabiliser solution, I often wonder if diluted white wood
glue would work OK. Has anyone tried that?

Luke

PS. In retrospect, I'm not sure if white wood glue and PVA are the
same thing. Are they? It's white wood glue that I always have on hand,
so that's the stuff I'm asking about.

Thanks