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alright lads might have a bit of work coming up in the next few months around manchester an liverpool . is anyone interested? an what m2 can you do in a day skimming old houses,(multi finish) approx of course depending on the job pm me if you like no prbs

got 2 garden walls to render old render has all blown so will take it all off one of the walls and re do in 2 coats. the other wall has only half blown and the other half is pritty much solid is it possible to remove blown render off this wall and patch up to old and then do one top coat...

im the only soft c**t whos got a dead line for wednesday? two 4 bed house's to finish in south liverpool just skimming old lath walls , in box me ya day rate if u want to jump on it with me. any way im off to work !!!!!!!

hi , whats the min temp that you can render outside to try to prevent cracking and failing? is there any certin mixer for diffrent temps? its a outside of a house just taking old render off and it neds re doing thanks lads.

The sand and lime mix left on the wall on the left ia about 1.5inc thick and stuck solid! Top of the window is wooden. Just not too sure how to tackle this and what's best for me and the customer. Thanks

can u dot and dab and skim a external wall but inside the house. its in the kitchin on the ground floor. there is no damp at all . its a old house just very old horse hair plaster fell off wen the old kitchen was ripped out. or will it have to be bonded and skimmed? thanks lads

best tool in the box , makes a 4 hour job into 30min with hardly any effort, any one got one?

what mix do you sugst for rendering over breeze block be for i skim it ? thanks

got a artex ceiling to patch its like wave effects about 2-3 mil deep its just a small patch about 6inc sq how do i make the wave efffect? i knoe to use a sponge to make the drop effect thanks the boys!!!!

any advise

i have a gloss wall to skim any advice be for i do it , you can almost see your face in it its so shiny. thanks lads

i have to skim a ciling with coving as a kind of boarder its about 20inc in fron the eges of the ciling should i try plastering around it and prob loose the step on it or take it down and skim the ciling and ge tthe fella to put new stuff up. by the way the edges of the ciling are curved to the...

what would you charge for dot and dab room and board ceiling and skim, 6ft x 13ft and 7fthigh one window one door

can you do it on to peddeldash walls the customer had a extension built to the side of the house one side of the extension is breeze block an othe other side it the outside wall of the house (pebble dash) its all quite solid i thaught if i scrape any loose stones off and make sure its secure for...

how do you do it? i have done it by scoring every 2 inc then snapping the board to get around a curved ceilling. i heard a mate of mine say he dampend the paper on the board and leand it agains a wall over night but what if the board is 2-3 feet and would not have enough weight in it to bent...

how long dose it take to dry? doin a 9 ft high wall and the boards are 8ft so i would like to know the safe time to take the bricks out that are propping up the boards with out it all sliding down, thanks

internal brick walls and walls with windows in them, ~12.5mm boards with a inc or 2 gap at the bottom with pva,d walls and dry wall adisive , that sound ok? or do the walls qith windows in them (outside walls) need sand cement or moistue boards?

when boading a room do you guys board the celling first or the walls first, im dot and dabbing the walls and the cellig are joists

how thick you use for walls and ceillings? when should thermo boards be used? cheers lad

dot an dab all walls in kitchen and board celling all ready been taken to the joists on the celling and the wall been taken back to the brick , its a sloping celling room about 25ft by 15 ft all boardf and skim just need a ball park figure thANKS LADS

how do you board around them to plaster? i thanks in advance lads.

hall way, stairs, landing . gave them a price . they asked for a reduction a few days later i agreed because i need the work. said i be there on the sat mornin (7days away) so i would all be ready for me , i.e boarding up a couple of doors . get there sat mornin the two walls could not be done...

what would you put on, one coat or multi finish on artex stripes on a wall?

has every one got a van for work or do some of you use a car?

this may of been coverd before but my client wants a curved corner where the celling meets the wall : do i overboard and use bonding to create the curve or is there anotherway an how do i get perfect rounded curves that match ? p.s the celling dose need overboarding its fooked thanks lads

do you think its getting a bit busyer or worse your end?

when boarding out a room i scrim all the joints together on the walls and celling but do you guys scrim the part were the wall touches the celling around the top af the wall?

overboard or bond over it if scraping it down is out the question ?

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celling 9ft by 7tf with a bit of bondong on it 1ft sq where they had a hole fixed, 3 walls 9ft wal, 7ft wall, 7ft wall, all skim walls bout 7ft high,. not including mats as customer is etting everything, i,e multi,pva,beads for 1 window .

i use a 11inc trowel, just bought a 14inc today, what do you all use? keep it clean lads

i live in liverpool and work in the wirral, i havent had any work for over a month now, im getting sick of not working , i could also do with getting some experiance off a time served aswell i think as i only been plastering for just over a year. i could help or labour , im not intrested in pay...

any one recomend the best type of stilts to buy? and price range?

ay danny the video section is good mate just been watchen that woman doing so called plasteing, but theres some good vids there mate, lookin good this site now buddy

builder wants me to chip old plaster away after hes getting a damp course done, any oinfo for me , i thaught the person doin the damp course took it all back to the brick ? to do it , i got the impression hes allready done the course and the old plaster is still on the wall,????

what do you guys suggest if you had a big job on i,e 2-3 weeks work , i uaually finish my jobs in 2 days and get paid after each job but if the job took 3 weeks how would you go about getin paid would you arrange it to be split in to 3 and get paid every week or what , or would you wait 3 weeks...

any one nticen work picken up? when do u think it will get back to normal? its dead in liverpool for me

have any one ever done thing like this?

anyone been busy today what you all plaster today?

cristina or britney? :P

when boarding a celling............ i know that the boards have to be staggerd but why is it to stop any cracks spreading right along the join or?. also what thickness of boards do you use on cellings and why compaire to wall. cheers lads

a idiot put a advert in the local paper by mine saying "full rooms reskimmed for 60quid" what a wanke*

this should be intresting ;D

13ft by 9 ft overboard and plaster celling high up bout 13ft high with a chimley brest in it . what price you all think i think ab out 200 labour?

who loves rice crispie cakes? had 4 in work to day a woman was feeding them to me non stop

what do you all pay your labourers , just general holding boards and mixing and cleaning , he wont be helping me trowl up or ne thing ???

had a ring from a regular builder who gives me the odd job here and there, he wants me to re board and skim a celling or just re skim , i havent saw it yet will av a look to moz but it is 13ft by 13t what would you all charge for this? and the other question is he says it may not need...

JUST APPLIED FOR A JOB THE MAIN DUTIES SAID FULL SPREADS AND PATCH WORK MY PLASTERING LINGO ISNT UP TO SCRATCH ..... WHAT DOSE FULL SPREADS MEAN? :o

any one else had a very hard day? this discovery channel really takes it out of you think id rather be in work havent had to make me self so many cups of tea since i was training and was the tea boy on site!!!!!

what mix dose every one use for rendering on a out side wall and the scractch coat, how much waterproofer do you lads put in per mix? out side wall block of flats