The right choice of putty during repairs is extremely important, as the future of your walls will depend on it. Therefore, it will be useful to deal with its manufacturers, varieties, application rules and other nuances of application.

Any putty includes a base, a binder and special polymer additives, the purpose of which is to improve adhesion to various surfaces, ease of application, elasticity, water resistance, and, ultimately, increase the durability of the applied material.

The range of modern dry mixes includes putties of the first layer for rough leveling of walls, filling joints at the joints of drywall sheets, sealing cracks, etc. It would be more correct to call them plaster mixes. Putties are similar in purpose to them, but they are more reliably and firmly fixed on walls or other treated surfaces, as they contain smaller particles of fillers and a special set of additives that make them plastic and non-shrink.

Modern putties are made both in the form of dry mixes, which dissolve with water before use, and in a pasty form, ready for use. Both those and other mixtures are divided into coarse or leveling and thin-layer or finishing. Particularly thin-layer mixtures are called superfinishing.

Putties are also divided into coarse (particle size of 200 microns or more), medium (from 20 to 80 microns) and fine (with particles up to 20 microns).