all right so here we are today and we're just going to be uh doing a quick um video on uh
filling bug holes in with cement so as you might have seen in previous videos we had a few statues
with bug holes and a few concrete pieces with some small bug holes and in this video we're going to
fill them in with some cement so what we're doing is sort of sticking to a similar formula to how we
make our concrete so that's adding two parts sand to one part cement and we'll be using pva glue
which is the same as a pva bonder we use i just got like a smaller tub for inside use same stuff
and we'll be using washing up liquid for like a plasticizer type thing um which comes in handy
we're going to be using the i have been using like the manufactured plasticizer but it'll be okay
using the washington liquid is like for a small little mix as we're doing there so as you can see
i'm just showing you the very liquid and before that we had the pva glue so mixing that together
uh we mix the sand and the cement together dry and then obviously introduce the pva glue or bonder
and the just a tiny bit of washing up liquid i'm just adding some water there just a simple job
and uh so once we mix that we can fill in the holes any holes that are on our statues there's
not too many on some of the good casts um some of the casts i'm leaving the holes in because i want
to do some kind of special effects paint jobs on the ones that have got a quite bad bug hole so i
want to go for some like rusty uh paint effects i'm gonna do that over the christmas winter
period so just spraying down the statue there the statues dry so just uh spraying
into the bug holes just spraying all over and that'll help our cement stick inside the
bug holes or holes in the concrete so they're just using a spatula just a dropped a bit there
and just uh apply the cement into the holes and that's it
and we can like smooth that down with our hands or or the uh spatula we got there um i haven't got
any gloves on so i'm sure there'll be people that will pick me up for not wearing gloves so uh wear
gloves um i'm not wearing gloves at my own risk here so obviously it's recommended to wear gloves
to avoid any reaction to your skin with cement so i'm doing this at my own risk
but again it's obviously advisable to wear gloves latex gloves if you've got them
or other kinds vinyl gloves whatever your gum to protect your skin so once i put the
cement into the holes i'm just kind of dusting off there with
a uh sort of firm brushed firm haired paintbrush or whatever you want to call the the bristled fine
a firm bristled paintbrush i should say but not so firm it's just like kind of like once you've
smoothened off the cement in the uh bug holes for in whatever way you have the
the paintbrush kind of blends it in with the existing concrete on the statue so that's pretty
much it just a simple little job um pretty straightforward and now we're just finishing
up the other items that we need to fill and then prepare them and then they are prepared ready for
a paint job or a wash or just natural con cream
and i'll say let the um cement dry out over a few days and try and get the cement to match in
with the color of the concrete so obviously to achieve that you want to keep your ratios
consistent although this video did add a little extra sand to the two to one ratio
to sand one cement just to thicken up my mix a little bit
and then we've got some nice lions there and like i say you've probably seen these in the
previous videos i'll probably merge all these short videos into
one full length video at some point maybe over the christmas period so they're all in one place
and there we are there's my nice little dragon we got a couple of these dragons they're uh they
turned out nice uh they want to they want too many problems with um the bubbles where
the bubbles did collect is in the obvious places like in this case with the dragon there's a few
bubbles underneath the chin and you'll get the you know the most likely places they're going to
collect is under those like the recesses because of course when you pour the concrete it's the
other way up so it's going to the air is going to obviously trap in those recesses
if it's going to get trapped at all spa me like to avoid usually get some holes um it's quite
hard to get them out sometimes it's got a vibrating table but you want us maybe you
know there's there's different methods to try and get the the air out burping the bubble zone
of course quite difficult um with the bigger moulds to maneuver them um
i know some people use like a vibrating stick pole to get the uh bubbles out anyway there we
are so we'll just let the cement dry and then we'll do whatever we're going to do with the um
the concrete pieces there either paint jobs natural concrete washes or whatever so you
see there's a couple of pieces there that i just left the bug holes in like i said
they'll be used in like a special effects thing at some point so there's some examples of some washes
and paint jobs work in progress is there wips an old buddha there with a silver coat i'm gonna go
for some more sort of like natural washes over the next uh paint job videos so anyway i'm waffling
hope you enjoyed the video thanks for watching and see you soon over and out for now
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