Drywall jobs are a common occurrence in my line of work. I was fixing a cracked seam at a customer’s house and had about a 15 mm deep gap to fill. Generally, I’ve just used the pre-mixed stuff from a bucket, but that dries so slowly and shrinks so much that a job like this would have needed to be spread over at least four days.
Decided to give the quick-setting bag stuff a shot, and wow - what a difference. Not only could I pre-fill the gap in one day, but I also managed to get the tape over it, leaving only the finish coat for tomorrow. This will save me literal months over my career.
I love discovering good new products and tools.
Bondo makes a wood filler product for large gap or fastener hole repair. Very similar to the car stuff but probably dries differently and accepts house paint more easily, if I were to guess?
Actual bondo is ancient though. No one uses it in auto body. It is one of the reasons I say consumer stuff is junk. The fillers from a pro paint jobber are orders of magnitude better. They hold shape better and they are far smoother. In the cheese grader phase they are far more consistent and they hold better feathering without lifting at the edges. The old junk is rougher and really only made for burying under a few coats of a high build epoxy then a 2k urethane, then a primer sealer. The better stuff can be finished smooth with just a single well applied 2k urethane primer that gets knocked down and color applied on top without a sealer in most cases. The old bondo is three times the work for half the cost of the can of filler, but three times the cost of primer. And it loads up sandpaper faster too. I won’t touch anything from the brand. It is a toxic venture capital zombie american company.