Can wood filler go rancid?

[Mitchell Andrus]

I opened a tub of Famowood wood filler that's been open but untouched for about a month.

HOLY MACKELS, ANDY! It stinks like a broken sewer pipe at halftime at Giants stadium.

Anybody ever have this stuff go 'bad'?

[Dale Lesak]

I got some filler from ace one time and after using it and closing it back up the next time I used it the stuff turned moldy and real stinky. It was the water base fill tho. They replaced it with no questions asked.

[Per Swenson]

You bet.

It all goes bad,

Any water soluble stuff, including spackle, premixed thinset,

etc. Mitch, in order to save dollahs I use to keep half cans of everything

for the next job, then forget about them 'till a few jobs later.

I would be all alone out in the exhurbs, open the can and feel like Louis

Pasteur.

I now try to stick to the oil based fillers.

Per