{"id":501,"date":"2012-05-29T16:35:32","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T16:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/robuild.co.uk\/painters_decorators\/?p=501"},"modified":"2012-06-09T21:01:41","modified_gmt":"2012-06-09T21:01:41","slug":"filling-hairline-cracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robuild.co.uk\/painters_decorators\/filling-hairline-cracks\/","title":{"rendered":"FILLING HAIRLINE CRACKS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may not be able to push enough filler into hairline cracks to ensure a good bond: <\/p>\n<p>\u2022 it is often better to open the crack up further with the edge of an old chisel or screwdriver so the filler can penetrate more deeply and key better to both sides of the crack<br \/>\n\u2022 when using a textured vinyl paint there is no need to fill hairline cracks, but cracks wider than 1mm should be filled.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.robuild.co.uk\/london_builders\/albums\/userpics\/10001\/normal_house_refurbishments_london16%7E0.jpg\" alt=\"painter decorator filling cracks walls\" \/><\/p>\n<p>DEALING WITH FITTINGS <\/p>\n<p>Protect electrical fittings so paint or water can&#8217;t enter them during cleaning and decorating:<br \/>\n\u2022 ideally, power to these fittings should be cut off and the fittings removed<br \/>\n\u2022 if items cannot be removed, use masking tape to protect them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may not be able to push enough filler into hairline cracks to ensure a good bond: \u2022 it is often better to open the crack up further with the edge of an old chisel or screwdriver so the filler can penetrate more deeply and key better to both sides of the crack \u2022 when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robuild.co.uk\/painters_decorators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robuild.co.uk\/painters_decorators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robuild.co.uk\/painters_decorators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robuild.co.uk\/painters_decorators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robuild.co.uk\/painters_decorators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/robuild.co.uk\/painters_decorators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":529,"href":"https:\/\/robuild.co.uk\/painters_decorators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions\/529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robuild.co.uk\/painters_decorators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robuild.co.uk\/painters_decorators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robuild.co.uk\/painters_decorators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}