What to use to fill this gap?

[Ferdinand]

I'm getting lots of queries in another place today.

 

What would you fill this gap with?

 

 

I think it is a newish house drying out.

 

So my comment would be Decorators' Caulk, or perhaps silicon if it is still moving.

 

I have fired off a couple of further questions.

 

Update: Answers

 

"The home is coming up to 3 years' old. I believe it's just a result of the house drying out/settling. The 'crack' hasn't changed much, if at all, in the past year or so.
Unfortunately Bellway refused to fix it because the crack wasn't big enough."

 

Cheers

 

Ferdinand

 

[Declan52]

A piece of quadrant. 

[Ferdinand]

Just now, Declan52 said:

A piece of quadrant. 

 

Good thuoght.

[Jilly]

4 minutes ago, Declan52 said:

A piece of quadrant. 

What's quadrant? It means something else to me ?

[Ferdinand]

9 minutes ago, Jilly said:

What's quadrant? It means something else to me ?

 

One of the types of trim. Also there's scotia, which is concave, and various others.

 

Your Wicked has them on the end of an alley.

 

[Jilly]

Thank you!

 

[MikeGrahamT21]

Think you'll struggle with quadrant or scotia on that, its curved! Quadrant may do it with enough nails in it, but you risk breaking it. Siliconised caulk for me, and then paint over once dry to seal it and slow it drying and cracking itself.

[joe90]

Yes timber drying out IMO and timber always moves a little so I second non setting caulk.

[JFDIY]

To make it look nice, cut out all the broken stuff first so it's an equal and even gap, otherwise when the new caulk dries it'll shrink and still show the original stepped stuff through

[PeterW]

Quadrant for me on this. Bonded to the timber with mitre bond and just pushed up to the plasterboard. 

[Dudda]

Try the flexible caulk first and if it still looks crap as it can be difficult for a first timer to make neat you can always do the quadrant later.

[Gallowgate]

Hi all. I'm actually the person who first posed the question to Ferdinand. I really appreciate him posting here and for everyone's thoughts and ideas.

 

I got my hands on some Wickes flexible gap filler and have started preparing the join for application. However the gap is really quite large. Is this product still suitable? It's going to need more than a bead it seems.

 

 

[AliG]

Flexible gap filler should be fine.

 

But before doing it I would take a scraper down the wall and take off the lip of filler that was previously there. Otherwise the new filler will dry with a step to that filler and it will look untidy.

 

There is always a trade off of time spent versus how neat it looks. TBH you could just fill the space there but it will look very rough.

 

Chipping out the existing filler first will look much better.

 

Then painting over the top of the filler and the the skirting will look better again.

 

It also looks like the stairs have dropped slightly so you may also have to paint the wall as well after you knock the filler off and perhaps fix it up too.

 

I think this is why people are suggesting the quadrant as it will cover both sides.

[MikeGrahamT21]

I would double coat that one to be honest. Clean it all up, and remove any rough edges with a scraper/knife, squeeze a good amount into the 'hole' to give a background fill and let it set, and then do a finishing bead over the top, and finally paint to seal it all.

 

Another option would be to inject expanding foam down the back of it (not loads), again allow it to set, trim off any excess, and then again use the caulk/flexible filler to finish it.