Can you still get plastic wood?

[XmisterIS]

I remember back in the '80s my dad used to buy something called "Plastic Wood" which was a wood-coloured filler used to repair notches and holes in wooden things.

I've looked on B&Q, Homebase, etc, websites but they don't have it.

Has anyone heard of it? Do they still make it? And if they do, what is it now called?

I assume it is still made, but it's name has been changed to "modernise" it, so that people who remember it can't find it anymore ...

 

[philipbh]

http://www.foxdiy.co.uk/consumables/wood-filler/125ml-joy-plastic-wood-natural/prod_747.html

This stuff?

 

[Gerry Attrick]

You can get the modern equivalents, generically known as wood fillers. Google "coloured wood filler". You will get plenty of results.

 

[HLaB]

Do you mean Wood Filler ? Plenty of places sell that.

 

[XmisterIS]

Muchos gracias! I did a variety of searches and found the modern equivalent at B and Q and Homebase.

I expect it's the same stuff just "re branded".

I wanted plastic wood specifically, because it is almost exactly the same colour as unstained pine and so blends very well!

 

[terry huckle]

Bought some today! Synchronicity or what? Bought a small tube of the stuff....teak coloured, to repair a coffee table £2.19...the box it came in even had a little applicator.

 

[levad]

Bought some today! Synchronicity or what? Bought a small tube of the stuff....teak coloured, to repair a coffee table £2.19...the box it came in even had a little applicator.

Is a £2.19 coffee table worth repairing

 

[rich p]

Joy still make it - available from all good hardware shops!

 

[terry huckle]

levad....very good!

The set of G Plan tables cost me £50 from an antiques and collectible place....solid teak and hardly a mark. One minor blemish on the smallest of the three required the plastic wood treatment.

 

[snakehips]

Ahhh Plastic Wood ! Is there a smily for misty eyed nostalgia ? If there is please consider it to be inserted here.

Snake

My Library

 

[twowheelsgood]

levad....very good!

The set of G Plan tables cost me £50 from an antiques and collectible place....solid teak and hardly a mark. One minor blemish on the smallest of the three required the plastic wood treatment.

I've started buying such things and doing the odd minor repair too. High quality but deeply unfashionable, hence cheap furniture.

I first equipped my appartment with Ikea stuff, only to realise most of it really is total crap and worse, likely to be landfill within a short period of time. The slightest mark and it looks awful and there is no way in most cases it can be satisfactorily re-finished. I have a wardrobe from them that I cannot move because it will fold like a pack of cards if I tried!

 

[Fnaar]

I thought this thread was going to be about plastic surgery as a remedy for erectile dysfunction

 

[twowheelsgood]

I thought this thread was going to be about plastic surgery as a remedy for erectile dysfunction

You never disappoint, Fnaar.

 

[Fnaar]

You never disappoint, Fnaar.

... only since the surgery