As previously posted, I attempted to repair my plastic bird bath. It didn’t work after caulking and cementing, waiting and testing.

Preventing a leak is a matter of persistence. I know I can do it; I just haven’t thrown enough at it to plug that leak which is a several inch crack in the bottom of the plastic bowl of the bath.

This time I decided to do more of the same. More caulk. More cement, etc. When I went to flip the bowl over, the concrete that I had poured on top flew off into my hands. So I had this saucer shaped concrete piece in my hand. I flipped it over and applied more concrete to the bottom where the leak would be. As mentioned, I dry pour Quickrete which dries quickly. I dry pour the powder which is powder plus aggregate. I wet it down and leave it alone.

Now I take the plastic bowl and flip it. I can see the crack and I apply a healthy goop of caulking and spread it around. The top I’m working on screws into a bottom pedestal; there are literally threads in which the top screws onto. I wind teflon tape around the threads running clockwise to seal the threads because the leak is within the thread. Once all that is dry I screw the bowl onto the pedestal and I’m looking down at the plasic bowl. I can see the crack and lay goops of caulk on it. Then I have a clever idea to glue plastic over the bottom of the bowl thus sealing it and that’s what I do. I didn’t even wait for the caulking to dry. I cut out a round piece from a tarp and glue it onto the bowl smoothing it out like I was creating a tight seal.

I then placed the saucer shaped concrete piece over the bowl and spin it until it finds a good resting spot. I then dry pour more Quickrete over the concrete and replace some broken off rock; wet down, and let dry.

So I re-caulked top and bottom. Applied teflon tape to the threads of the pedestal and poured more Quickrete onto the top and bottom of the bowl shaped concrete piece. All together it worked. I think.