Our bird bath developed a
bunch of cracks and would no longer hold water. It was a shame,
because the bird bath was great. It’s made from light weight
plastic and has a little solar panel in the middle which runs a pump
so the birds can have a shower as well as a bath. For a while, epoxy
worked to seal the cracks and stop the leaks. Eventually, though,
epoxy couldn’t keep up with the cracks. When we looked for a
replacement, we couldn’t find anything we liked.
Plasti Dip to the rescue! If you
haven’t used Plasti Dip before, enter it as a search term on
youtube and you’ll see people using it in all kinds of creative
ways. It’s a product which creates a flexible plastic barrier that
feels sort of like rubber. We used a can of yellow Plasti Dip
(because that’s what we could find) and a paint brush to fill and
cover the cracks in the bird bath. We didn’t want a yellow bird
bath, so when the yellow Plasti Dip dried/cured, we used a rattle can
of gray Plasti Dip to cover the entire top surface of the bird bath.
Plasti Dip was easy to use and worked
exactly as we hoped it would.
The bird bath is now getting heavy use and isn’t leaking. The birds are happy and we are, too.
