How Big Is Your Skimming Trowel

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How Big Is Your Skimming Trowel

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beddy said:
Andy send me an 11" trowel so I can try it rather than me buying one. Trying it then slinging it in the van. Plus I really haven't got space in the van for another trowel. I've got a refina but only use it for dabbing or in tight spaces.
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OK no problem mate.
 
11 inch for me, same a Essex, got one a bit longer for flattening some times, ime a bit older than Andy but ime sure that's all we had years ago before Marshltown appeared.
 
I'm a domestic only worker and use a 16 mt all the time,I think it's right in that if I was doing higher metres then would probably drop down to my original 14(which I was taught with) I just find it's easier for flattening etc with a 16.
 
use a 14" trowel the most.

for years the only trowel in uk was the 11" one day in the early 70s i purchased a 14" marshtown from a enfield tool shop. when the other plasterers that i worked with saw it they called it a sabre, after a few days i could not get it back from them. next weekend back to enfield to purchase some more.
 
Almost every trowel I own is an 11" - plus a 14" free SS trowel I trialled from [ref ina]. ......... Leather handle and everything :RpS_wink:
 
Hi guys and gals, (wishful thinking) Just a quick note to say hello really. Name is Paul and beavering away in he midlands area. Interesting day today. Priced a job last week to skim ceiling and chimney breast. Arrived this morning to find the key where it should be and a note to " The Plasterer" Help yourself to Tea/ coffee and please be careful with the new carpet? you got it brand new burgundy red carpet down. I left a note and went home.!!
 
Hi Slapon, Great name, there is a link which was just posted on another thread for newbies here, click and enjoy. Link was posted by Nisus a few posts ago. Welcome :RpS_thumbsup:
 
Olican said:
Hi Slapon, Great name, there is a link which was just posted on another thread for newbies here, click and enjoy. Link was posted by Nisus a few posts ago. Welcome :RpS_thumbsup:
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slapon said:
Thanks for that Olican. Where was that Link?
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Hi Slapon I can't find the link mate but Olican just sent it me from his bookmarks for you so if it's the wrong one blame him as he's getting on a bit lol :-)


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I use a 20" for everything I have two one that is flatter for putting on and flattening and another well broke in for troweling up.
 
malc said:
use a 14" trowel the most.

for years the only trowel in uk was the 11" one day in the early 70s i purchased a 14" marshtown from a enfield tool shop. when the other plasterers that i worked with saw it they called it a sabre, after a few days i could not get it back from them. next weekend back to enfield to purchase some more.
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Gill and Oxby? Closed now shops a block of flats.
 
makes me laugh nowadays as people say they 1st coat with this size, lay down with that size, then trowel up with a plastic float.. fuk me, when I started you had a roughing trowel and a finishing trowel..lol... you would need a long wheelbase tranny to get all the trowels in..lol I think its a fad... I use a M/T 14 inch... for every stage of skimming..lol...
 
malc said:
i can not remember the merchants name, but we often had to go there to pick up durite,and different spars.
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That would have been Long and Somerville then on Southbury Road was a good merchants for mats and tools sadly long gone also flats now, some of the old staff are at Selco just seeing there days out.
 
i remember them i bought my first mixer from there haha, then they moved down to mollison avenue then buttles bought them out, i bought my stilts from the mollison ave brance when they were closeing/changing hands
 
What's all this 11" 16" 20" bollox :RpS_unsure:

The 2 old blokes I started off with showed me the proper way to do it.

Some people may laugh but I know they taught me the proper way :RpS_cool:


These are the tools of my craft :RpS_thumbup:


How Big Is Your Skimming Trowel



How Big Is Your Skimming Trowel
 
cassie said:
makes me laugh nowadays as people say they 1st coat with this size, lay down with that size, then trowel up with a plastic float.. fuk me, when I started you had a roughing trowel and a finishing trowel..lol... you would need a long wheelbase tranny to get all the trowels in..lol I think its a fad... I use a M/T 14 inch... for every stage of skimming..lol...
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So you don't use a drill to mix your plaster then, cos we never had them either when you started?:-)
 
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