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Sorry to hear you've had one of those days. If it makes you feel any better we've all been there. It usually feels like less of a problem after a few days and you can steel yourself for making it right.
I've never had any TX110 around for long enough to find out if it stopped working. I do measure the quantities of water to filler and use warm water if I want it to dry faster as per the instructions.
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It was just leftover from a random job years ago, bags and bags of it were going spare so I loaded up. I now clearly need to bin them off!
In the end the other filler sanded really well, I’ve painted it with zinsser, and walked away happy. I asked £40 and some beers, which means I’m not really out of pocket on materials, and I don’t feel I’m burdened to the quality of the work. If I charge anywhere near full whack, it needs to be completely up to standard (which it isn’t entirely).
Just another lessoned learned along the way. And you’re totally right, give it a day or two once you’re finished and it’s no longer such an insurmountable nightmare.
Nef
Just thought I'd offer a word of warning. TX110 does definitely "go off". I had some old bags that were still sealed (couple years old maybe) so I tried to use one of those to do the repair. After an hour of waiting, it hadn't started to set at all. So I tried encouraging it with a hairdryer, which just encouraged more of the damaged plaster off the wall. Note that it was about 830pm, and this was supposed to be a favour for the neighbour before they had a survey done today. So I end up scraping the wet filler out, including more of the old plaster that has gone soft with the added moisture, and I try and bodge it with this stuff that I had kicking about,
https://www.screwfix.com/p/ronseal-big-hole-ready-mixed-wall-filler-grey-1-2ltr/95289
and had previously had good results with.
It's a great filler for deep holes and sets rock hard, but was a complete nightmare to try and fill a large shallow hole with, impossible to float flat. So I made a big mess, and now have to go and sand it flat.
This was after spending a couple hours wrestling on some bath panels - the floor is completely rotten and warped, which is why the old sides had been taken off, but it meant that I had to aggressively scribe the new sides on (taking off the lip on the bottom to aid fitting). It was just a total fiasco, aggravated by the notion that it needed to just be a quick job to cover the damage beneath the bath for when they survey is done (is does look better tbf).
So the work is too shit to ask any money for (aside from covering materials), I feel guilty about the quality of workmanship, and I'll probably end up having to do it properly at some point anyway. FML.
CSB/ but I just needed that out my system!