We're going to be getting the exterior of our house painted soon and the previous owners have coax run all over the place. I'm going to pull it down but I'm not sure what the right thing to fill the holes with is. I'm talking about the screw holes from any clamps and where the cable is run through the wall, painted cedar siding. Putty? Caulk? Something available at Orange or Blue if possible.
Patching coax holes in siding
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a good quality latex caulk will do the trick . pump it in and wipe it to blend the texture
southalabama
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What he said "good quality" caulk.
cdestuck
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Go to the speciality parts drawers at big box or hardware store. But plastic plugs for your hole size. You might have to drill your holes a bit larger to fit the size of the plug. Nice finished job.
BillK
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On wood siding I would be more inclined to use a good exterior wood putty. I have never had good luck with painting over caulk, even the "paintable" ones.
cowboy73
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I would be inclined to use a quality exterior wood putty to fill the holes. Fill the holes. Sand smooth to the surface of the wood, prime with a good primer, and then paint with your desired topcoat.
I would be inclined to use a quality exterior wood putty to fill the holes. Fill the holes. Sand smooth to the surface of the wood, prime with a good primer, and then paint with your desired topcoat.
38 Dodge Coupe
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Depending on the size and location of the holes you may also want to consider using a wooden dowel rod to make a plug and tap it in flush.
engineer2
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OSI Quad would work. Can be worked or cleaned up with mineral spirits. Pick a color that is close. You can paint it as soon as 24 hours despite what the label says, but it may need a touch-up second coat in a week or two.
GarageGuy89
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+1 For the OSI Quad. I've always used the cheaper stuff and a contractor gave me a couple of left over tubes when I was doing my house. This stuff is light years ahead of anything else. It's super tacky and will give your forearms a work out, but when it dries it stays and does not crack.
Only downside is painting. Depending on your color/shade it leaves a different sheen behind where the caulk is.
Only downside is painting. Depending on your color/shade it leaves a different sheen behind where the caulk is.
dave_dj1
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Bondo
fourjeepin
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+1 for bondo
James-W
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Get yourself a plug cutter and a short piece of 1X4 cedar board. Get a drill bit the size of the plugs you will be cutting out of the 1X4 cedar board. Drill out the holes in the siding, put some wood glue on the cedar plugs and tap them into the holes you made. Make sure you don't over tap them, just be sure they are flush with the cedar siding. If necessary you can use a sander to make everything smooth around the area of the plugs. But to be quite honest, that really shouldn't be necessary.
engineer2
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^^ that would work, especially if the holes are too big for caulk.
If the siding has a rough sawn texture Bondo could be a PITA, but for smooth or fairly smooth surfaces Bondo is great.
If you want a quick fix on the interior, lol, a shipping label works great 
We rearranged the living room, and an ugly coax hole that was behind the couch was suddenly exposed. We had just painted the room white, and I didn't feel like messing around with patching it. So I cut a 1" square off the corner of an unused shipping label. I popped it over the hole and it's been there 8 years now, lol. You wouldn't notice it unless you knew it was there. Sure, it's half-***, and I'll fix it right someday, yadda yadda. But it's a quick fix if you happen to have white walls that match a shipping label.
We rearranged the living room, and an ugly coax hole that was behind the couch was suddenly exposed. We had just painted the room white, and I didn't feel like messing around with patching it. So I cut a 1" square off the corner of an unused shipping label. I popped it over the hole and it's been there 8 years now, lol. You wouldn't notice it unless you knew it was there. Sure, it's half-***, and I'll fix it right someday, yadda yadda. But it's a quick fix if you happen to have white walls that match a shipping label.
Durhams Rock hard water putty. Mix up what you need and fill the hole. its soft enough when dry that you can come back and get your artistic groove on and make match. Normally a putty knife and a wire brush gets me the texture I'm looking for.
PWC Repair
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That water putty is some pretty amazing stuff. I also might be inclined to drill and glue in dowel plugs. I did that in several places in my hardwood living room floor and it works great.