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Hawk, trowel, polyeurathane float, snips, brush, stanley knife, bucket trowel, pointing trowel, small tool and lath hammer. The only things ever in my tool bag.

K rend or weber mono? was that not the stuff the Romans used in the colleseum? lasted 2500 years (seriously, it's still there!) I aint never heard such rubbish The render inside the pyramids is still there too, over 5000 years! reckon they were onto something.

I just got me first job in three months.

Not many punters are happy with having workman in when they come home from work but most love to have a nose around on a Saturday, and punters do love watching spreads.

Don't all walls dry different shades? a lot depends on the depth of the plaster.

I'm 100% with church on this one.

Tell em to F**k off

I always put free estimates and advice. All work considered.

Stick wood up but make sure it's bevelled or it will pull the render off when removed. Scratch coat between battens then rule off and float as usual. Following day, (2 is better) remove battens and fill in with small tool then screw a piece of the batten down the centre of your float and float...

I love to hate it.

I stick coving up with a thick mix of artex and tack a couple of clout nails underneath as a temporary support

One hundred and fifty must be a reasonable minimum charge, plus materials.

Screwfix do beads for pennies but mini mesh are well bendy

All I would add to tonys advice is when cutting obtruse angles, place the coving on its ceiling edge and think snooker cue. Good luck the joints fill well with cove adhesive.

Reckon it's possible but highly unlikely. Certainly wouldnt want to have to paint it.

Dab em on with a few spots of multi finish.

Little bit of plasticer in a lime mix sure does make it spread easy, no more than half a capfull though, failing that tiniest drop of, yip, you got it washing up liquid! Why break your arms eh?

G ;Dood here innit

No, there are many times I would use waterproofer, On thermalite blocks for instance but not for floating off. Also when pebbledashing. Trouble with waterproofer is it's at odds with all the enhanced cements, and most dust is now enhanced. It has a plasticiser in it that entrains air in the mix...

On no account should you finish plain face rendering with a trowel. Whilst it looks good green believe me it looks s**t when dried out, the water doesn't disperse and it ends up cracking. Trick with external rendering is the mix, 6 parts sand to one part cement and one part lime in equal...

I will resist the temptation to sing about 'luvverly time' Hows things over there? the boys in Clones were finding it a bit tight.

Where are you in N.I slippy? I was in Clones recently. Had a right good time. I did a gig there with Seamus Heaney and Edna O Brien.

Sirapite would sit on boards for hours, so would carlite which would then suddenly set.

We used to second coat the sirapite with board finish, it troweled up nice then, once I set some pink sirapite with a grey board finish and it looked like a type of marble.

F*****g 'ell I'm old. Sirapite b was a trick question when you phoned for trade work in the nineties, poeple would say we are fnishing with sirapite and if you said ok they would put the phone down. The answer should have been, god I aint used that for years. If I remember rightly it was...

I hope that bankers is rhyming slang!

Yes Mr Spoon, this is my third recession but the first time I've run completely dry. Xmas and all that don't help, especially for domestic work. Trouble being, take me away from my work and I somehow shrink, building sites are my natural enviroment I miss the craic and the banter and the sheer...

Somethings gone badly wrong mate, when people like us are scraping about for work. Might have to get a 'proper job' AAAaargh

Hey Slippy, me and you are the new boys, 55 years between us reckon we could teach a few tricks. Remember Sirapite b? I go back all the way to Keenes cement!

Blimey lads, I'm a bloody spread! And a out of work one to boot! Gissa job and I'll sign your walls, going rates ???

When I made that £25 metre remark, I imagined every spread in the country jumping up and screaming B*******s. Tell you what, I wish someone would give me 25 a metre for unibond and skim.

Well hello to you all, must say pug looks like he's up for a laugh, got to really.

Yes, I'm the clown plasterer, just a bit of fun really. Mixer broke down would you believe it and we had to leave the last few yards at the bottom unfinished. (get your excuses in early I say) It was a nightmare to float off though, had to scratch it again cos the scrach graffiti was so rough...

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Hi I am Ron the builder and one of the worlds greatest bores on the subject of plastering. 30 odd years of experience in many different enviroments. Love to have fun but finding work tight at the mo. If anyone could help anything considered. https://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=rO4orltyxfk look...