After reading what all the pros had to say above and learning a great deal, I decided
not to say anything about how I do it, --- because I "Don't" ----- Brenda does it instead, she says I'm no good!!!! What Brenda does is, uses different sizes of brushes and puts down white glue first, then sprinkles the ballast out, pats it down, after drying, (now get this part), she slips an old stocking of hers over the vacuum cleaner hose and sucks up what is still not glued down. Pulls the stocking
out of the hose and pours the left over back into her bottle. Works good for her
and I don't get told to stop messing things up!!!! LOL LOL
Randy