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Container Types and Maintenance Tips

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Filling Holes 101. What spackle or filler should you use?

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The presenter discusses the importance of container design for spackling products. He criticizes metal containers, which used to be standard, because they often rust from the inside, contaminating the spackling and causing discoloration or bleed-through in paint. Additionally, metal containers tend not to seal as effectively as plastic ones, leading to premature drying of the product. He advocates for plastic containers due to their superior airtight seal, which extends the shelf life of spackling significantly, sometimes for several years. He also shares a tip: if spackling starts to dry out, a little water can be added to rewet and reconstitute the product, prolonging its usability. Finally, he advises regularly cleaning excess spackling from the container's rim to ensure an airtight seal.

Goal: Understand the impact of container type on spackling longevity and learn maintenance tips.

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products right here and we're accustomed to you know actually rolling um priming just spot priming our spackle if we need to or rolling over multiple coats of paint two coats of paint is and your first coat of paint is acting as your basically your primer over your spackle and then your second coat um usually you don't see where you spackled it all so but if you want to Prime uh if you don't want to have to prime or you're not too coating you know sometimes these products U might be a good option um I've just never got accustom to using them there are spackle out there also that are colored they'll go on like a pink and when they dry they're white it's kind of convenient but um and for do-it-yourselfers but these are the two products the um vinyl spackling paste best uh heavy bodied spackle that I've or vinyl paste that I've ever used right there by Crawford's um Tower sealants best uh lightweight one I've ever used I carry those four products talk a little bit about containers now and what to look for in a container when you're buying spackle so I know I've got you'll see you'll me using um in plastic containers crawfords crawfords also comes in um metal cans and most most spackle products do come in metal cans that and I think they might be getting um rid of them you're starting to see more plastic containers and one of the reasons is I can't stand the metal containers at all that's used to be what everything came in and one of the major drawbacks is the metal containers begin Rusty and they're Teflon coated but that doesn't stop them from rusting inside doesn't stop the spackling from drying around the edges around the sides and one of the the the problems with the rust is the rust begins to get mixed in with your spackling and then it begins to discolor it that begins to bleed through through your paint it just causes a lot of issue those issues and those metal containers don't seal nearly as well as a plastic container does these these containers are a lot more airtight and give your um product a lot more life little tip you can add um a little bit of water to your products if they begin to dry out or put a little touch of water on it and it'll keep the tops of them um keeps the tops of them wet you do when we're working with these we got the lids off of them we're working with them you know you get some evaporation that begin to dry out both these products we just add a little water to it and it'll basically rewet reconstitute the product and it'll…

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