How to Fix a Concrete Pot

Concrete planters and flowerpots are typical, as concrete is quite strong but still porous, permitting air, water and nutrients to circulate in the growing environment. Concrete flowerpots generally are inexpensive, and many gardeners decide to simply replace ones that become chipped or cracked. Nevertheless, if your concrete flowerpot is very large or offers sentimental value, this may not be an option for you personally. You can fix cracks and chips in your concrete flowerpot to create it practical for planting again.

Instructions:

1. Scrub the cracked or chipped area with a bit of steel wool. This removes the small bits of concrete you can't tell are loose simply by looking. Vacuum over the flowerpot using the hose attachment of a shop vacuum to remove the actual concrete fragments.

2. Push a 3-inch nail into one end of every crack, and another into the opposite end. If you will find more than 12 inches between the two nails, insert another nail between them. Hammer each nail very gently to widen the crack a little. Remove the nails.

3. Empty each part of the concrete epoxy sealer onto half of a paper plate. Do not allow the parts to the touch and use a different utensil, if necessary, to get rid of each part from its packaging. Combine the two parts about the paper plate using a wooden craft stick and vigorously stir before sealer is uniform throughout in color and texture.

four. Smear a little bit of the prepared epoxy sealer within the base end of one plastic injection port with the actual craft stick. Do not get sealer into the interface opening. Slide the hole in the port over the cheapest nail in the crack and press it against the concrete flowerpot before epoxy sealer holds it securely.

5. Apply epoxy sealer to one port for each remaining nail and attach them just as as you did the first. Work the leftover sealer amply around each port, into the crack between the plug-ins, and 1/8-inch past each edge with a putty chef's knife. Smooth the surface with the knife face. Wait around eight hours.

6. Mix the epoxy following the directions about the package for the particular product. Fit the prepared bottle of epoxy into a regular caulking gun and tighten it just until you see epoxy in the the surface of the bottle.

7. Fit the tip of the epoxy bottle to the hole in the lowest plastic port. Squeeze the trigger from the caulk gun to fill the port with epoxy. Stop when epoxy is seen in the hole of the next highest port.

8. Continue filling the ports with epoxy all the way through. When you are finished, squeeze epoxy into any chipped areas and smooth the surfaces of repaired chips using the face of a putty knife. Let the flowerpot sit down undisturbed for five days.

9. Cut off the tops from the plastic ports with a saw. Apply more epoxy sealer within the ports to block and cover them. Let the sealer dried out completely, then sand all of the repaired surfaces sleek with extra fine-grit sandpaper.