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After scrimming joints on sq edge board, do you put a run of skim or jointing mix over them ? if so.. why?

Or do you just scrim up then skim the wall?
 
hi
all board joints,beads,door frames, get one application of skim, before i start to apply the first skim application.

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Davy
 
bobby said:
I do with for sure,beads also.two tight coats of multi then.the scrim won't show through tben
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if the scrim is showing through,after skimming,not your problem,its a high point in the board.

i get payed to put plaster on the wall per m2,not to put others work right!

a subject i feel strongly about!
 
thanks all, so you just run a bit of skim down the scrim with your trowel? (seen a video he was using another tool)

With your corner beads, do you nail them and then a bit of skim or just a bit of skim to hold them? seems pointless nailing it into board as it doesnt really hold
 
davyt63 said:
if the scrim is showing through,after skimming,not your problem,its a high point in the board.

i get payed to put plaster on the wall per m2,not to put others work right!

a subject i feel strongly about!
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Luckily I don't do this for work lol. Couldn't the customer argue that the skim is too thin though? either way, if I was doing it for a living and knew what you guys knew.. I'd just do 2 quotes, 1 normal one and 1 with extra to sort the poor dry walling job.. as I'm guessing you could tell before skimming that there is high points..
 
davyt63 said:
if the scrim is showing through,after skimming,not your problem,its a high point in the board.

i get payed to put plaster on the wall per m2,not to put others work right!

a subject i feel strongly about!
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If the scrim is showing through,the plasterer isn't doing his job right,weather the boarding is good or not.
If some one skimmed out a room for me and blamed the boarder he would be gone!!
 
worz said:
thanks all, so you just run a bit of skim down the scrim with your trowel? (seen a video he was using another tool)

With your corner beads, do you nail them and then a bit of skim or just a bit of skim to hold them? seems pointless nailing it into board as it doesnt really hold
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The other tool you saw would have been a taping knife(12inch ish spatula) and he prob wasn't going to skim the boards it would have been tape and jointing.

you can nail your beads with galvanised nails if you wish or staple them,I just put about 4 down each side,they may sometimes feel a little lose but they won't fall off.

as a learner it would be good practice to cover your scrim and fill out your beads a little first then with the same mix put the first coat on,I don't always do it,I will just judge when it is necessary and I will know when I'm skimming over the scrim if it will show and I need to add a slightly thicker layer.:RpS_thumbup:
 
Fill out beads and scrim first, just a tight coat to cover the tape and the webbing on beads.
 
I with @leebo02 never fill out beads or scrim, just plaster away as normal. Never had this problem with scrim coming through, occasionally get a high spot where studwork is a tad out, I find a little tease with a hammer sorts this
 
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I usually give the joints and beads I'm working on a coat then just put scratch over the top just to know I did it right then I'm off to Bermuda whilst my arm does the work in robot mode ✈.
 
I always cover scrim first regardless of the board type just to make sure, takes about 30 seconds. Makes me laugh when I see plasterers leaving scrim showing
 
Why are people putting plaster over scrim and beads first? Its as if you are going to use one mix for the total job. First mix put on the whole wall or ceiling, flatten then check your phone or have a cuppa then mix second coat and apply then look after until final cross trowel.
 
I regularly mix one big bucket and do 2 coats with it, it cuts the time down a good 25 mins. I don't like hanging round for it to dry
 
We always fill out beads and scrim before coating. Same as above we try and mix enough to first coat and lay in with same mix.

Some do some don't. It's not wrong not to do it but we've always done it.
 
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