Another question that comes up a lot from today's Decorators is "what wall filler is breathable?" Which is an interesting question, because Everyone's a Decorator nowadays, but don't know the fundamentals of Decorating, which of course is surface preparation, even on their "Breathable" walls, in their house without lungs

 

So we thought we'd help out by giving a few recommendations for 'moisture vapour permeable' (MVP)  fillers 🤣 

British Gypsum!

 

Surely It can't possibly be the 'G' word!

SO OBVIOUSLY YOU MUST RUN QUICK 🤣

 

  • Just wait for our silicone page, that usually rattles the Armchair Experts nowadays  👍🤣

On our page covering our Heritage Lane Wall Caulking We explain the connection of Britidh Gypsum with it's parent company, We also explain how to save yourself from wasting hundreds of pounds unnecessariy, so. Make sure you check that  page out too! 👍

Shown above are two powder based fillers which get overlooked these days because of the  'G' word, and the enormous amount of the assumptive mided people today.

 

For those who aren't  familiar with us : "the inquisitive mind prevails. Where the assumptive mid fails"

 

Both of the fillers shown above are lime based fillers, they set  via a combination of "air dying" and a small chemical reaction with the added water to createc a herder overall product, so all you "breathable" people will be happy there. Both of these fillers do contain small percentages of additives to speed up the setting time, in the same way as NHL's do, which are moisture vapour permeable, despite the wrong info being pumped around online these days: we've done another page on the armchair experts  nonsense about NHL's continuing to harden, which is co pletely unfounded nonsense - have a read on our page and learn!

Now, back to the two fillers above; in simplicity the first filler:  "Easyfil" is a slightly more coarse filler and is therefore useful when you have some deeper cracking and/or deeper imperfections.

The second filler: "Quick Sand" is a finer filler for minor filling and can be used over fully dried Easyfil to create a fine finish to any deeper filling you need to do.

To reicapitulate: both are lime based powder fillers (just add cold, clean water to create the filling pastes) 

 

Both utilise "air drying" and also contain asmall percentage of "setting agents" to reduce the overall setting times, whilst hardening the dried filler.

 

Both are easily abraded (that means "sanded" to the Experts 🤣) and shaped once fully dry - just as a side note, sandpaper goes in the bottom of birdcage,it is not used in Decorat8ng, whereas Abrasive papers are used, (real Decorators "abrade," they don't sand)

 

And finally; yes, there are other fillers available also,  these are two more 👍