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Our C60 packed in about a year ago, we couldn't get the correct spare part so sent it back to the factory, they fixed it, put a new PAT test badge on it and sent it back FOC.

Had a call from a mate last night, metal stoothing job he doesn't fancy doing, passed it on to me (although he did suggest I might cross his palm with silver if it goes well!)

They'll hang you by your nuts if there's any sort of accident and they find you've been using 240v !!

One bulider we work for has moth balled the 3 houses he was building and laid off half his staff, the houses will be roofed and sealed up they'll put the roads and drives in and then lay the rest of the staff off if there's no more sales, so that's about 25% of our work gone and the other...

A edge of the stop bead would be seen from the other side, just feather it in, if the client doesn't know what's good for him don't waste time and money on stop beads.

Radio1, Radio2, Radio4, Radio York, Arrrow Rock Radio depending where I am, what's on the radio and what mood I'm in. Radio 1 tends to wear you down after a while with the modern crap, Radio 2 has is a pleasant mix but too many old codgers, I stopped listening to Virgin about 5 years ago...

It's hard to find a real 'plasterer' on youtube, most of 'em look like chancers that started last week. I guess the rest of us are just getting on with the job!

Rub the back of your trowel with a decent chunk of clay brick, or as has been suggested use sand as an abrasive. Your hawk, scrape and wash off everytime you use it, it's not necessary to have it spotless, not until it gets too heavy to use anyway, then hit it with your lath hammer and scrape...

British Gypsum used to recommend: PVA-coat of bonding-skim, I don't know if that's still the case, but it's got to be cheaper than getting the asbestos specialists in.

All the builders I work for pay at the end of the month after they receive the invoice, this usually gets held up somewhere so it gets to me from the middle to the end of the next month. So, work invoiced for January gets paid at the end of February which will actually be 19-25th March. I know...

Interim payments on a 2 week job :o I left a job half done before Christmas, It'll take another week and a half to finish in January and I should get paid in March :-\

The cables should be left up, otherwise it's the spread's decision where the lights are positioned. The sparky's we generally work with all prefer them left up but we did work with one right 'merchant banker' that had the apprentice sparkx clip short lengths of cable between the joists then...

Hello there, I run a small, family (3rd generation) plastering business in York, pleased to meet you all.