Just realized I was sanding body filler with dry paper for 20 years

Watched a guy at a shop in Phoenix use wet sandpaper on filler and it came out glass smooth in half the time. Has anyone else been doing this wrong the whole time?

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andrew_miller9010d ago

Twenty years of dry sanding filler. That's a solid decade of unnecessary elbow grease right there. Wet sanding is the cheat code nobody tells you about until you're already covered in dust. Now you get to look back on all that time with a nice mix of relief and regret.

jana_ellis959d agoMost Upvoted

Andrew Miller a buddy of mine who builds custom cabinets switched to wet sanding filler a few years back and never looked back. He told me it cuts his finishing time in half because the paper doesn't clog up every five seconds. Plus the dust stays in the water so you aren't breathing it in all day. Makes sense when you think about it. I still see guys on jobsites blowing through a whole box of sandpaper on one door and wonder why they bother.

morgan.mary8d ago

Andrew Miller mentioned his buddy switched to wet sanding for cabinets - what grits does he run on filler before the wet sanding step? I always figured you had to keep it dry to see when the filler was flat, but maybe that's why I'm still rubbing out dust clouds in my garage.