Just lost a solid $40 and a whole afternoon trying to use the wrong kind of spackle on a plaster wall patch.

I grabbed the lightweight stuff for drywall without reading the label, and now I have to scrape it all off and start over, so what's the actual best product for old plaster?

3 comments

3 Comments

linda4911mo ago

Used to grab whatever was cheap. Learned the hard way that plaster needs the real deal, like a setting-type compound.

dakota_singh3928d ago

Forty bucks and an afternoon, that's the classic "buy cheap, pay twice" tax I see people hitting on everything from paint to plumbing. Spackle's not spackle when it comes to old plaster, you need the setting compound that hardens by chemical reaction, not just drying out.

caseys301mo ago

Lightweight spackle on plaster? That's a total nightmare waiting to happen, you must have had a huge mess to clean up. Linda491 is totally right about needing the real setting-type stuff for old walls. The cheap all-purpose fillers just crumble and crack because they don't bond right. You definitely want a plaster patching compound or a heavy-duty setting compound for a job that lasts.