Best product for fixing surface cracks in painted plaster?
 

I'm not sure what to use! Unibond's "No more cracks"? The cracks are
small enough that they'd need a syringe with a fine needle to inject
anything into them. Or shall I just paint over them?

Mr F.

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I'm not sure what to use! Unibond's "No more cracks"? The cracks are
small enough that they'd need a syringe with a fine needle to inject
anything into them. Or shall I just paint over them?

Mr F.

You can hide *very* small cracks - maybe 0.2mm - simply by painting over
them. With anything 0.5mm upwards, I always rake them out with a screwdriver
or chisel point to make them a bit bigger - then slightly over-fill them
with polyfilla, and sand down level when set.

Whereas the tubes of flexible 'decorators' filler are good for gaps round
skirtings and architraves etc., I have always found them totally useless for
filling cracks in flat surfaces.
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In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
Mr Fizzion wrote:

I'm not sure what to use! Unibond's "No more cracks"? The cracks are
small enough that they'd need a syringe with a fine needle to inject
anything into them. Or shall I just paint over them?

Mr F.

You can hide *very* small cracks - maybe 0.2mm - simply by painting over
them. With anything 0.5mm upwards, I always rake them out with a
screwdriver
or chisel point to make them a bit bigger - then slightly over-fill them
with polyfilla, and sand down level when set.

Whereas the tubes of flexible 'decorators' filler are good for gaps round
skirtings and architraves etc., I have always found them totally useless
for
filling cracks in flat surfaces.

Having done a bit of work in the car bodywork area when trying to repair a
chunk that had been hacked out of a coving i used car body filler. IMo much
easier to use as its very sandable and dries quickly too. You can use it
1mm thick to deep gouges. A friend also did the same and you would never
know 2.5 years on

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I'm not sure what to use! Unibond's "No more cracks"? The cracks are
small enough that they'd need a syringe with a fine needle to inject
anything into them. Or shall I just paint over them?


I used 'Fine Surface filler' from a local diy emporium. It is a very
fine grained filler, spread it into the crack with a wide bladed filling
knife, it will be almost smooth. when dry (it dries pretty quick) just
run over it with some finish sandpaper and repaint.

Paint alone will fill some cracks, but then of course you find those
that it doesn't....

You don't need to repaint the whole wall. with most emulsion syou can
just touch up the area concerned.

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Chris French