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You want to see the joint all the way around 1/10....why didnt they just take the cove down and put new up I said...his answer was?i don't know...it looks total shite.

Hi chaps it's been a while since I posted on here,anyway skimmed my mates kitchen out the usual crack bit of bonding here and there then a skim,anyway he told me he had his through lounge ceilings doing overboard and skim a few years ago,went in and took a look!ffs....they only overboarded with...

How many times do you get the knock back when you say its a £25 charge per quote?

How do you other plasterers rumble a customer when you know they are just using you for a quote and got no intention giving you the work??as for myself,when they phone I instantly ask them for the insurance company they use,and 9 times out of 10 they immediately tell you (which is good) but to...

update on the paint/plaster blistering....went back there this morning 3 blisters about an 1" inch in size,back of the van pollyfilla out,filled holes,(told him to rub them in when dry) job done.....now even if i wasn't in this game,i would know to put a little bit of filla in there,infact even...

£75 a wall i charge for an average living room/bedroom ,£130 for a ceiling,then chuck the mats on top then a £10 diesel....

so hes proberly using a vinyl product, when he should be using a matt emlusion watered down 50/50???feckin hope so anyway as i aint come across this before....

thanks tony will take that on board

to be honest essex thats what ive been thinking,but just thought i should help him out a bit,i just wanted to rule out a bag of bad plaster(but it went on sound enough and troweled up like normal)plus it was a month ago since i finished the job as well....

hi chaps just a quick one,had a call last night off this customer of mine where he said on this one wall in the box room that when he added the emulsion undercoat to the new plaster it started to blister and bubble up???thats a new one on me as i aint had it before on any jobs....any ideas...

spunky just took a look at your link and thats the baby i got....

nice one mate thanks for the advice.....

it has got two holes on the handle spunky,just above the part where you grip it mate....where can i get a pole from then bud?

No mate,its just says a "finishing spatula" for plaster,got it from refina,its got a black handle and very thin blade...(sounds the same as what your on about)

Hi chaps,got myself one today from refina, 22 inch.Thought id invest in one for the ceilings,anyway just want to know the pro's and con's with them,plus does anyone use them for finishing walls as well???as im just thinking are they mainly for ceiling work...p.s. took your advice from here on a...

i plastered down the side entry of this house about 18 months ago and its well covered (as she uses it as a wash/laundry room,fridge in there etc etc),anyway its all ok apart from the paint has started to blister OR the plaster underneath is playing up and bubbleing (no probs with it up until...

plastic trowels from barton trowels off the web! am i going to regret it when it lands and i start using it?ok i suppose for 15 nicker...

ive done quite a bit of smooth rendering but aint done any pebble dashing im afraid,been asked to do a 12 x 6 foot wall and i want to have a pop....just advice needed if you can chaps,ive got no probs puttin the scratch on by the way...

beddy thats different,if i got someone mixing for me and keeping everything clean i can knock a big load out,90% of the time im just on my jack mate.....

yep no probs knocking out 2 odd walls at a time mate....if its a big ceiling and i need a lift i always get my mate to give us a lift for the day and also he can knock out a few walls for me also.....give him £115 a day hes happy as larry......ive always gone by the rules that i make sure the...

only do domestic mate so ceilings aint so big,i can manage most things now on my own.....

been doing just domestic work now for about going 5 years,and ive always been parnoid about my speed and should i be doing more?basically when im on my jack all i can knockout is a bag of multi at a time....ive always been paid for my work which is very clean and im very very tidy but its always...

so how much plastering work do you expect to get then mr fireman?

and found a big fcuk off water stain mark from a previous leak,just wondering what other people do to make sure it dont come through again after i reskim it....im just thinking a real tight coat of pva....i know there are stain blockers out there on the market but dont really what to go and buy...

23/24 plus all the loading out,loads more info for you on this thread dude

and 5 windows,reveals and everything....are you including getting all the stuff up2 flights of stairs and mixing up as well?dont forget we are on £11 hour 8am till 4.30

23 blade....

soz 24 boards per flat mean to say not per room

23/24ish loads of them, therma boards and 12.5 all 8x4s and 6 windows to cut round,also forgot to say we had to load out for that as well.....up and down 2 flights of stairs....

dont really do much site work,anyway started a job yesterday in solihull just dot and dab on a dayrate through an agency,£11 an hour.....i thought im happy with that for 2 weeks till one of my job starts....so got there me and a mate found our feet and cracked on (big gaffer of firm not there...

thats what i thought too...anyway when the job is done he wants to rent it out i think...

i know,its just feckin stupid....you can be a busy fool you know....

me and my mate looked at a job here in brum saturday.....it was 2 and half weeks work for the pair of us round the corner £110 a day each,loads of boarding, skimming,bit of rendering,hes supplying mats....anyway we wanted 2800 for the job,i gave him the price of 2650 in the end just to get the...

phone him and wind the fecker up

what a fecking pi$$ take though.....i felt like smashin his head in

he got really shirty when i mentioned illegals

lol with....

Directgov jobs and skills search - Job details i phoned up and had a pop at him,told him hes got to be employing illegals,he wanted at first 2 bedrooms plus ceilings done and a hall/stairs and landing all for £250 and done in 4 days as well...what a fecking prick....one of our asian friends...

anywhere past north of brum is flat cap and whippet country to me.....feck that im all sarrrffffffff mate....

cheers chaps for taking a look anyway

here goes then chaps i got it live last night,ive got a few tweeks to do it here and there but lets us know what you think...cheers chaps.. Home

any ideas on which are the best ones around?

chaps,been on my own now for 5 years just doing domestic work really....just want to know what peoples take on them.....are they a yay or a nay?

Just done a four page website (well the mrs did anyway as she has the right tools at work to do it)....anyway just want to know how do you go about getting it on googles first page and what the costs roughly are in gettin it on page 1 of google...just got to buy the domain name this week....then...

bagington,just round the corner by the peugeot garage by the big roundabout

been working in cov for the last two weeks mate

yeh mate customer wants to keep them

went to look at a hall stairs today but the corners on the walls were big feck off rounded corners where you cant mesh bead them off square......just like to know what people on here do to get round the problem as i aint came across rounded corners that big before in the 5 years ive been on my...

i price now for an hour of sheeting up then charge an hour for the clean up at the end (although not much to do to be honest) .....£10 an hour......i hate wrappin up at the end of the job and loading the van up for some reason (strange)....anyone else like this??????

yeh got one in me shed.....aint used it in donkeys though.......you naturally think there is good power on the job and light even.....builder is turning a few rooms into flats on a house in brum