Choosing the Right Spackle Type

This is Chris, Seattle Painter coming to you with another answer to your question For my subscribers on YouTube and that's what interior or exterior spackle that we like to use And we typically keep two spackles in our vehicles and we like to use both of them in different cases And there's an interior exterior spackle that we use pretty commonly indoors and outdoors And that's a product from Crawford's and that's a vinyl spackling paste And that spackle we use in most cases But there's another spackle that we also use and keep in our vehicles And that's a lightweight spackle And typically lightweight spackles are only can be used indoors There are some interior exterior lightweight spackles But a lightweight spackle is not as durable is an interior exterior spackle Or vinyl spackling paste from Crawford's But indoors when we're trying to paint a room the same day and we're trying to do small patches We'll typically use a lightweight spackle to just fill little small holes Because it's going to dry very quickly and won't shrink Typically your interior exterior spackling paste that are a lot more durable Dry a lot harder and stronger but they do typically shrink a little bit And we'll require two coats and some sanding So hopefully that answers your questions what type of spackling or spackling paste we use There's two of them and we use Crawford's lightweight spackling Or we use Crawford's interior exterior spackling paste There's different brands out there of the lightweight spackle that you could use And we like a multitude of different ones when it comes to the lightweight spackles But when it comes to the exterior interior spackling paste Our favorite is Crawford's vinyl spackling paste