This is how every repair tutorial on TH-cam should be. Quick, to the point, no fluff, obviously from an experienced person, covers everything you need.
Why did I watch this? 1. I just got new baseboards. 2. There are some imperfections to fix. 3. This is a 4-minute video. 4. Super clear and concise video. 5. No unnecessary chatter. 6. Practical help. Thanks!!
I buy those felt pads for the bottom of the feet on chairs/tables. I stick those to my vacuum cleaner on the sides and front so it doesn't leave any marks on the boardboard when you inevitably hit it. Nice trick that has worked for years.
I agree. This is probably some of the best editing I’ve saw with these types of videos. As all said, right to point, yet still great steps and info between and no fluff to fill time. 👍
I have used regular bondo to repair wood. If you compare the safety data sheets between regular bondo and the wood filler version, they are essentially the same. They both have styrene monomer (which is polymerized to polystyrene plastic with the peroxide hardener) and talc. A bit of titanium dioxide is added for whiteness. So you can save money and just buy regular bondo. It will work. Great video. Really enjoy your channel.
I’ve been doing renovations for 20 years and I’m going to start making TH-cam videos and throwing a little comedy in there as well. It blows my mind what people do not know.
I bet you don't know how to do my job either. I will bring you and on the first day I will constantly tell you:"It's crazy the amount of stuff you don't know" and see how long you stay.
Love the videos youre putting out. Relevant homeowner repair tutorials that don't drag on and on for nothing. Now to be as efficient and skilled as you...
Seems to me being organized helps. And taking the time to do proper prep work. The coat of paint can work miracles but you have to do the prep that doesn't show so that paint looks flawless. Like installing a zipper when constructing a garment. Take the time to smoothly baste the dreaded zipper exactly where it needs to be before going to the sewing machine. I do not like hand sewing *at all* but I learned that my results were much more professional and I rarely had to tear out stitches and start over. So I hand baste my zippers before topstitching. I don't dread sewing in zippers anymore, either.
Bondo's automotive filler works just as well and is available everywhere. Comes with flexible spreader that cured filler peels right off of. I've even used it on exterior siding that had a pressed woodgrain texture. Before fully cured, drag the corner of the spreader or putty knife through it to replicate the grain pattern in the surrounding area. When cured, knock the peaks off and clean up the depressed grain pattern with a sanding block and you can't tell it was ever there.
We used the auto Bondo in professional furniture repair. I saw an armoire that had a crushed side and leg…forklift booboo. Once the repair technician was done you couldn’t tell at all that it was repaired. I really looked at it for imperfections. Dark stained matched and everything. From then on I knew to inspect the interior of furniture. 😂
Actually not a great idea in this location. While it is good stuff the odor is horrendous and I have had many complaints. There are other reasons not to use it
i just used bondo wood filler a couple days ago for the first time and LOVED it. It;s so easy to sand and so smooth and takes paint great. You used WAAAAAAAAY too much hardener. That's why it hardened almost instantly. It shouldn't be blue when you mix it up, but more of a very pale green. Keep up the good work!
Yeah, I like how he was careful and sort of excessively masked the wall, but had a tiny newspaper for his work area and didn’t even setup the bondo over it and got a drip.
Thanks for making and posting this video. My rescue dogs chewed the doorframe when I left them home alone. Looks awful, but now I can take a fair stab at fixing it. Thank you.
I find it so interesting that so many people need tutorials on how to do these type of stuff. I mean, I look at something like this and quite quickly I realise what needs to be done. It’s very intuitive. I’ve fixed and changed so many things in my home without ever learning. I believe that if you are a perfectionist you always figure things out and if you have a natural talent for this kind of stuff then you just know what to do so it’s interesting to think that so many people wouldn’t know how to do something like this without a tutorial
We have a filler here in the UK called Tetrion filler. It’s a 2 part filler that dries between 10 to 20 mins depending on temperature and how deep the filler needs to be. comes in 4 tones but white is the best one as it takes all sorts of paint extremely well and sands back great too. Nice video. 👍🏻 If I had done that repair, guaranteed to have pulled a bit of the wall paint off removing the masking tape, no matter how delicate a tape I used. 😂🤣
Immediate subscription! I love this video and checked your other videos and guess what? They’re awesome too. You are a man’s dream of TH-cam tutorials sir. Bravo! 👏
I pretty much did this exact same repair today repairing a door jamb. Except I use Crawford's as a finishing spackling since it sands easier than any other spackling. And I use the shellac in the beginning to seal things off as well.
I wish the Bondo Wood Filler wasn't so pricey, but yes this works great and I guess I should prime my repairs now. You demonstrated it so well, and I am glad to see you are using Festool, too.
Wow, This is PERFECT, Thank You!!! When we got our small Schnoodle, we knew she might chew shoes, as all dogs chew shoes. However, she took a liking to gnawing our baseboards, especially the corners. 😄
Bondo is good stuff. Solvent-based plastic wood in general is all I've had success with, especially on exterior repairs. Non-solvent filler is just crap across the board; it cracks, it shrinks, it doesn't adhere very well, etc.
I use epoxy daily. Best stuff for repairs. I use the two knife method as well. I use it also in many other types of repairs as well. Getting awfully expensive lately though. But gotta have it.
Often when I come into these repairs on fiber board I usually use something flexible to fix it like fast drying caulk, my method is to use a good knife wider than the repairs and add the caulking heavy over the area, use the knife to shape the material to the contour and it may take multiple coats to fill deep gouges, but the advantage to using caulking is if someone hits it again it won't just fall back out it has some give and flexibility.
Try using the Quicksteel wood epoxy, it comes in a pinchable amount that you can roll up and mix, also use a bit of water on the putty blade to get a smother application.
Great repair however if the house moves, the bondo wont expand and contract with the wood and will end up cracking. I like to cut along the corner join as its setting and use a little bit of flexible sealant afterwards it acts like a control joint.
Thank you for this video, I really needed something like this. I've found white baseboards seems to be of worse quality of traditional wood ones, or at least they deteriorate much faster
Another tip from the car guys. When using bondo, theres a moment as its drying that you can shave it down quickly with lower grit sandpaper to get most of that sandable material out of the way before it completely dries
Excellent video - you do great work! I have a lot of baseboard coming up and hopefully with your tips it will look more professional than any of my old 'installs'.
Using a walker after knee surgery really banged up the doorjambs, etc in my sister's home. She eventually kinda gave up trying to avoid them because she'd gouged them up so badly already. She had enuf to worry over without obsessing over some dinged woodwork.
Can you make a video on how to repair MDF around a window (the stool cap) that has water damage? We live in Canada… why do people use MDF at the bottom of a window….? BTW I love your videos. You are knowledgable and hilarious. You are fantastic. Thanks!
Watched to find out why this needed a tutorial and thought maybe it would be a special trade trick. NOPE. Comment section seems to show people actually didn't know (?) but its good that it wasn't overly drawn out.
I've found that once it is no longer tacky but still slightly soft, you can take a very sharp chisel and do 95% of the shaping by slicing off the excess a bit at a time. Then once its hard, a little finishing sanding and its done.
Hello Funny Carpenter - I find your videos very useful and I will usually use your advise, I was wondering if you have a video on patching ceiling cracks, some of the ceilings in my house that needs to be patch, texture and paint. Some of the videos that I've seen requires to make the cracks wider and then patch the area a lot wider than the original crack, any advise will be appreciate it. Thanks
Ceiling cracks are difficult to deal with! If the cracks aren't to extreme you can try put some white latex caulking into the crack and smooth it over. That can take the eye away from it and sometimes is a quick fix. Otherwise your looking at scraping off the section, retaping, mudding, retexturing.
Yes, that's just how I would do it, but I use filler. It dries white, is sandable and paintable - and it's just £1 in poundland 👍👍💯💯 takes about 1 - 2 hours from start to finish ( or less)
You have to be careful with bondo, including the wood filler, with any moist areas or with wood that sees large seasonal movement; I’ve had bondo pop right off/out of wood. 2 part products can work great as I’ve had good results with putty epoxy fillers as they seem to stay a bit more flexible then bondo. I also like Plastic Wood for smaller fill areas as it’s Acetone base evaporates quick allowing fast sanding. In a pinch filling primers, like used in auto body work, can help with small imperfections. Shellac is hard to beat in the fast work area; I keep an 8 oz squeeze bottle in my kit for small fixes as you can just squeeze a bit on and flatten it with an acid brush. I also like lacquer sanding sealer for use on slightly unstable or rotted wood as it can firm things up before filling and help the filler get a good hold; it has a faster set than shellac but a much higher chemical odor. Love the concise and to the point video; how TH-cam should be.
This is how every repair tutorial on TH-cam should be. Quick, to the point, no fluff, obviously from an experienced person, covers everything you need.
Thanks buddy. Hopefully there's just enough info there for people to take on the repair themselves.
Agreed!
Agreed!
Exactly. Perfect from start to end.
Not only how, but WHY he does it that way. That's an important part of a how-to for me.
Why did I watch this?
1. I just got new baseboards.
2. There are some imperfections to fix.
3. This is a 4-minute video.
4. Super clear and concise video.
5. No unnecessary chatter.
6. Practical help.
Thanks!!
I buy those felt pads for the bottom of the feet on chairs/tables. I stick those to my vacuum cleaner on the sides and front so it doesn't leave any marks on the boardboard when you inevitably hit it. Nice trick that has worked for years.
Bondo tip from car guys. Don't stir the Bondo, fold it. Stirring introduces air causing pin holes. Not that big of a deal but it can save a few steps.
Good tip.
Bondo on a car😳😂jjj jk
I loved this format. Nice to see every step while still in a shorter video.
Glad to hear!
I agree. This is probably some of the best editing I’ve saw with these types of videos. As all said, right to point, yet still great steps and info between and no fluff to fill time. 👍
I have used regular bondo to repair wood. If you compare the safety data sheets between regular bondo and the wood filler version, they are essentially the same. They both have styrene monomer (which is polymerized to polystyrene plastic with the peroxide hardener) and talc. A bit of titanium dioxide is added for whiteness. So you can save money and just buy regular bondo. It will work. Great video. Really enjoy your channel.
Thought the same as soon as he said hard to find. In Canada, that phrase means it costs more then the thing you're fixing.
I appreciate the info, thank you
By ‘regular’ do you mean the Bondo painters putty?
@@Avital4414 Bondo "filler". Putty usually refers to glazing putty so no.
Most outside house painters do
If only every how-to YT video was this concise, informative, and devoid of ego. Learned a lot in 4 minutes.
I’ve been doing renovations for 20 years and I’m going to start making TH-cam videos and throwing a little comedy in there as well. It blows my mind what people do not know.
These are so useful. First time owning a house or renovating one is a universe of random shit and tips and problems that’s mind blowing
I know nothing lol. I have quite a bit of things around my house that need fixing. These videos are great!
I bet you don't know how to do my job either. I will bring you and on the first day I will constantly tell you:"It's crazy the amount of stuff you don't know" and see how long you stay.
Love the videos youre putting out. Relevant homeowner repair tutorials that don't drag on and on for nothing.
Now to be as efficient and skilled as you...
Thanks buddy
Seems to me being organized helps. And taking the time to do proper prep work. The coat of paint can work miracles but you have to do the prep that doesn't show so that paint looks flawless. Like installing a zipper when constructing a garment. Take the time to smoothly baste the dreaded zipper exactly where it needs to be before going to the sewing machine. I do not like hand sewing *at all* but I learned that my results were much more professional and I rarely had to tear out stitches and start over. So I hand baste my zippers before topstitching. I don't dread sewing in zippers anymore, either.
Bondo's automotive filler works just as well and is available everywhere. Comes with flexible spreader that cured filler peels right off of. I've even used it on exterior siding that had a pressed woodgrain texture. Before fully cured, drag the corner of the spreader or putty knife through it to replicate the grain pattern in the surrounding area. When cured, knock the peaks off and clean up the depressed grain pattern with a sanding block and you can't tell it was ever there.
Thanks for passing on some knowledge
And most importantly it’s much cheaper.
We used the auto Bondo in professional furniture repair.
I saw an armoire that had a crushed side and leg…forklift booboo.
Once the repair technician was done you couldn’t tell at all that it was repaired. I really looked at it for imperfections. Dark stained matched and everything.
From then on I knew to inspect the interior of furniture. 😂
Yup, I've used Bondo automotive with plywood boat building.
Actually not a great idea in this location. While it is good stuff the odor is horrendous and I have had many complaints. There are other reasons not to use it
i just used bondo wood filler a couple days ago for the first time and LOVED it. It;s so easy to sand and so smooth and takes paint great. You used WAAAAAAAAY too much hardener. That's why it hardened almost instantly. It shouldn't be blue when you mix it up, but more of a very pale green. Keep up the good work!
I thought the same.
yes this changes everything....from now on my life is cleft in two separate parts.... the part before and the part after I saw you Bondo a baseboard
Here here🍻
Wow! You are saving me mega bucks. My puppy chewed! Repairs around here are so pricey. THANKS!
Best wishes on the repair 🍻
That dribble of filler on floor ( next to the paper) is driving me bananas. He never wiped it off. Probably gonna leave a spot on the hardwood
Saw that too. lol
Yeah, I like how he was careful and sort of excessively masked the wall, but had a tiny newspaper for his work area and didn’t even setup the bondo over it and got a drip.
Absolutely amazing. I too love the short, and to the point, videos. Thank you.
Great tutorial, short and to the point! Thank you!
Thanks for making and posting this video. My rescue dogs chewed the doorframe when I left them home alone. Looks awful, but now I can take a fair stab at fixing it. Thank you.
Very smart use of the two filler products. Bravo.
I find it so interesting that so many people need tutorials on how to do these type of stuff. I mean, I look at something like this and quite quickly I realise what needs to be done. It’s very intuitive. I’ve fixed and changed so many things in my home without ever learning. I believe that if you are a perfectionist you always figure things out and if you have a natural talent for this kind of stuff then you just know what to do so it’s interesting to think that so many people wouldn’t know how to do something like this without a tutorial
Superb video! Absolutely love the honesty bloopers at the end. Top class!
We have a filler here in the UK called Tetrion filler. It’s a 2 part filler that dries between 10 to 20 mins depending on temperature and how deep the filler needs to be. comes in 4 tones but white is the best one as it takes all sorts of paint extremely well and sands back great too. Nice video. 👍🏻
If I had done that repair, guaranteed to have pulled a bit of the wall paint off removing the masking tape, no matter how delicate a tape I used. 😂🤣
Надо использовать старую малярную ленту или самую дешевую. Она плохо приклеивается и легко снимается, можно феном для волос погреть
I wish all TH-cams were as helpful as this.New Subscriber 👍🏻
WOW! GREAT Tutorial...VERY DETAILED and to the POINT! U ROCK!...FYI AMAZING WORK!
This is why I switched to PVC baseboards. Great video
Damn, your tutorials are incredible. What an artist.
Body filler is the best friend of paint grade carpentry projects.👍
Wow, I love the clear and hands on explaination. Thank You !
Immediate subscription! I love this video and checked your other videos and guess what? They’re awesome too. You are a man’s dream of TH-cam tutorials sir. Bravo! 👏
Thanks buddy, hope the tips are useful🍻
I pretty much did this exact same repair today repairing a door jamb. Except I use Crawford's as a finishing spackling since it sands easier than any other spackling. And I use the shellac in the beginning to seal things off as well.
That was a brilliant idea,the process was tedious, but the results were amazing
I wish the Bondo Wood Filler wasn't so pricey, but yes this works great and I guess I should prime my repairs now. You demonstrated it so well, and I am glad to see you are using Festool, too.
Regular bondo is usable on wood.. says right on the container
Ha!!! This is the video I needed. I've been doing this stuff for the last couple days moving along. Thank you for the Bondo tip
Professional decorator here and you made hard work of that mate.
Amazing, thanks for doing this despite it being throwaway work, great to see real world fixes that work.
Wow, This is PERFECT, Thank You!!! When we got our small Schnoodle, we knew she might chew shoes, as all dogs chew shoes. However, she took a liking to gnawing our baseboards, especially the corners. 😄
Good video. Never thought of using bondo on wood. Small tip for you, use less hardener and it will set up slower
This man makes it look easy. If I tried that the base board would be looking more jacked than when I started.
It would likely take me a few hours to do.
Bondo is good stuff. Solvent-based plastic wood in general is all I've had success with, especially on exterior repairs. Non-solvent filler is just crap across the board; it cracks, it shrinks, it doesn't adhere very well, etc.
Excellent video, thanks for posting. I am actually going to need to do this soon for a job, and I wasn't sure what the best approach was.
i have been doing this for years on my outside corners . works great for crown molding also
I use epoxy daily. Best stuff for repairs. I use the two knife method as well. I use it also in many other types of repairs as well. Getting awfully expensive lately though. But gotta have it.
Often when I come into these repairs on fiber board I usually use something flexible to fix it like fast drying caulk, my method is to use a good knife wider than the repairs and add the caulking heavy over the area, use the knife to shape the material to the contour and it may take multiple coats to fill deep gouges, but the advantage to using caulking is if someone hits it again it won't just fall back out it has some give and flexibility.
I’d just buy a new home
😂
😂😂😂
Exactly what I was thinking 😂😂😂
Obviously. I mean.. who would try even doing that?
Just bought a brand new home and here i am
Try using the Quicksteel wood epoxy, it comes in a pinchable amount that you can roll up and mix, also use a bit of water on the putty blade to get a smother application.
EXCELLENT, fast how-to. Thank you sir!
You're like the "Trim Whisperer". Great repair.
Excellent video, well done. Nice to see and flow like a charm.
Excellent work and great method, thanks!
Easy to find in the UK listed as 2 part filler, or car body filler. great stuff
Thank You! I need to do the same in some parts of the house. It came at a good time.
Dude! You work FAST af!!!
Thanks, this was great. I just suscribed. Love that you're to the point and provide great info, instructions, and tips.
Thanks for the sub!
They sell this filler at Home Depot… I use it all the time on old houses we work on. 🤙🏼
Good to know! I couldn’t find it available in Canada, I had to order some and pick it up in Washington.
The tape didnt pull the paint from the wall! Bloody amazing!
5 min drywall mud works well too and often easer to work with than the bondo.
The green banded stuff right? It can be really hard to sand, but get it really close the first time and it's harder, I think, than Bondo.
Great video . Thank you for taking the tone to show us this 👍
The hardener is benzoil peroxide. Industrial strength zit remover.
Great repair however if the house moves, the bondo wont expand and contract with the wood and will end up cracking. I like to cut along the corner join as its setting and use a little bit of flexible sealant afterwards it acts like a control joint.
Merci beaucoup. J'ai les mêmes plinthes chez moi, celà va beaucoup m'aider 😉 Thanks for the trick !
Excellent repair , going to see if i can get some of that Bondo in the UK.
Mmmmm...fiberboard baseboards. Yum-yum🥰
I really enjoyed watching this!
Thanks for the tip. Would have been nice to see a running clock to understand how long it actually took you to do the job.
Never understood why anyone would use MDF baseboard? MDF is fine for crown molding, where there's little chance of damage after installation.
Cost. Try buying 700ft of wood baseboard vs MDF.
Cheap. I see it in bathrooms and wet areas. Awful.
@@Longtack55 Never had a problem with it indoors. Crazy tho I’ve seen it on exterior trim.
It is irresponsible to use MDF in baseboards and even worse to use it in bathrooms. Building codes shouldn't allow it.
The mdf baseboard in my bathrooms is killing me...
That changes absolutely everything 😉
Thank you for this video, I really needed something like this. I've found white baseboards seems to be of worse quality of traditional wood ones, or at least they deteriorate much faster
I've been using Minwax bondo wood filler for years
This guy's incredible he's fast😊
Another tip from the car guys. When using bondo, theres a moment as its drying that you can shave it down quickly with lower grit sandpaper to get most of that sandable material out of the way before it completely dries
Excellent Job!! Great Demo!
I had no idea Bondo made wood filler!
Excellent video - you do great work! I have a lot of baseboard coming up and hopefully with your tips it will look more professional than any of my old 'installs'.
When spraying use a box fan and a nice filter. Will pull the overspray down
That last part of you admitting to tearing it all up anyways made me laugh hard lmao great video
well of course it’s fast at 3x speed 😅 bondo fixes everything (edit: nicely done, sir, you are a pro)
Thanks buddy🍻
Using a walker after knee surgery really banged up the doorjambs, etc in my sister's home. She eventually kinda gave up trying to avoid them because she'd gouged them up so badly already. She had enuf to worry over without obsessing over some dinged woodwork.
Awsome guide, fast and easy!
Wow you work fast
Can you make a video on how to repair MDF around a window (the stool cap) that has water damage? We live in Canada… why do people use MDF at the bottom of a window….? BTW I love your videos. You are knowledgable and hilarious. You are fantastic. Thanks!
Awesome result! ❤
Thank you! Cheers!
Very well explained.
I wish I could sand this quickly as it is my least favorite thing to do. But thanks for the video. I've got some work to do 👍
Watched to find out why this needed a tutorial and thought maybe it would be a special trade trick. NOPE.
Comment section seems to show people actually didn't know (?) but its good that it wasn't overly drawn out.
This is so easy I love it!
Thanks dude - I learned something
NIcely Done I would have used a sanding block.
Excellent. A helpful video that is succinct.
I would really like to learn how to apply formica laminate. Also learn to use routers correctly. I think they are an awesome tool.
О! Отличная идея!
So beautiful ! 👍
I've found that once it is no longer tacky but still slightly soft, you can take a very sharp chisel and do 95% of the shaping by slicing off the excess a bit at a time. Then once its hard, a little finishing sanding and its done.
Did you use the same sandpaper grit throughout the project or was the first application a tougher grit than the 2nd time sandpaper is used?
150 grit will work through out.
Hello Funny Carpenter - I find your videos very useful and I will usually use your advise, I was wondering if you have a video on patching ceiling cracks, some of the ceilings in my house that needs to be patch, texture and paint. Some of the videos that I've seen requires to make the cracks wider and then patch the area a lot wider than the original crack, any advise will be appreciate it. Thanks
Ceiling cracks are difficult to deal with! If the cracks aren't to extreme you can try put some white latex caulking into the crack and smooth it over. That can take the eye away from it and sometimes is a quick fix. Otherwise your looking at scraping off the section, retaping, mudding, retexturing.
@@TheFunnyCarpenter Thank you
Thank you! You saved my life 😂
Perfect. Thank you.
Yes, that's just how I would do it, but I use filler. It dries white, is sandable and paintable - and it's just £1 in poundland 👍👍💯💯 takes about 1 - 2 hours from start to finish ( or less)
Excellent work
you are popping off on tiktok btw, keep it up!
A bunch of TikTokers just steal my videos. Pretty sad.
Now do a video on how to clean up the over spray on the hardwood floor. 🤙
Thx for the tip. Too bad for the liiiiiitle bit of overspray. 😱
I may have gotten a little hasty due to the fact I'm ripping out the floor in the future.
@@TheFunnyCarpenter I would do worse myself so nooooooo problemo. And if that floor goes, who cares 😎
You have to be careful with bondo, including the wood filler, with any moist areas or with wood that sees large seasonal movement; I’ve had bondo pop right off/out of wood. 2 part products can work great as I’ve had good results with putty epoxy fillers as they seem to stay a bit more flexible then bondo. I also like Plastic Wood for smaller fill areas as it’s Acetone base evaporates quick allowing fast sanding. In a pinch filling primers, like used in auto body work, can help with small imperfections.
Shellac is hard to beat in the fast work area; I keep an 8 oz squeeze bottle in my kit for small fixes as you can just squeeze a bit on and flatten it with an acid brush. I also like lacquer sanding sealer for use on slightly unstable or rotted wood as it can firm things up before filling and help the filler get a good hold; it has a faster set than shellac but a much higher chemical odor.
Love the concise and to the point video; how TH-cam should be.