CLEANING TROWELS

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oi reckon it'd b a girt lush piece of thermaloite block keep wettin your trowel dahn and rub it with the thermaloite block also when it's clean keep the old bugger aslong as it's stainless in a tub of water overnight
 
brick acid is good stuff..long as you get proper brick acid, not that shite patio cleaner...
cleans plaster marks off tiled floors a treat..
 
2 wet trowels, bit of sand and rub against each other against a flat surface. Added advantage of cleaning 2 trowels at a time.
 
i hurd if u piss on it leave over night then crack a few eggs open and rub all over..leave in the sun and peal off should look mint..well thats wot i tell the lab 2 do with his..
 
i hurd if u piss on  it leave over night then crack a few eggs open and rub all over..leave in the sun and peal off should look mint..well thats wot i tell the lab 2 do with his..
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That's shocking behaviour mate, you should be ashamed of yourself. At least I have the decency to p*ss on my labourers trowel for him ;)
 
i hurd if u piss on  it leave over night then crack a few eggs open and rub all over..leave in the sun and peal off should look mint..well thats wot i tell the lab 2 do with his..
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just don't forget who makes the tea :)
 
Whats the best way to clean your trowel?
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wat kind of trowel are you using cos mine is stainless steel n a just clean it with a splash brush n water n it comes out dandy n a never let any slip dry on it cos a hate havin to scrape it off
 
Read a post somwhere.... ::) and the guy reckoned you should leave it in a stream for a few days!

No me neither :-/
 
Easy for your skimmer, just soak it in a bucket of water over the weekend, monday morning just brush off the fat
 
Thats what we do chuck your trowel (assuming its stainless) your hawk and any other little trowel thats stainless into a waterbutt after the days over slight little rub in the morning and they are as good as new it take a bit longer for your hawk but about after a week its all shiny again only trouble is in winter you get a freezing cold arm BRRRRRRRR ;D
 
when chippy goes for his diner get his best wood chisel and scrape away.comes up like new and only takes a minute.make sure you clean his chisel before you put it back cos this doesnt impress them :mad: ;D
 
I left one of my Trowls in some brick acid for about 5 hours and they look brand new . But could see if i left them in there any longer it would start eatting at the base of the handle.
 
I clean mine with a brush and water as im going. As soon as i finish troweling i clean it, everytime. So no need to try any of the stuff posted here unless you abuse your tools and thats just lazy!! innit, butt!! ;D
 
i had a leak in my garage so i left a spare h/wall butt to catch the water and put my spare hawk in it , 6 months later i just wiped the plaster off ............then my first job with it was dabbing and left it too dry hard on it ...doh!!
 
does anyone else remember seeing "only clean tools need apply" in the situations vacant for any building trade?
 
does anyone else remember seeing "only clean tools need apply" in the situations vacant for any building trade?
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If someone turns up with a bucket of sparkling tools the alarm bells ring!!!
 
does anyone else remember seeing "only clean tools need apply" in the situations vacant for any building trade?
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only clean trowels need apply refers to the state you leave the job in more than the shine on your trowel,maybe it should say no dirty ba$$ads need apply!
 
does anyone else remember seeing "only clean tools need apply" in the situations vacant for any building trade?
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only clean trowels need apply refers to the state you leave the job in more than the shine on your trowel,maybe it should say no dirty ba$$ads need apply!
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Thats me fooked then!! ;D
 
as long as their stainless get most of the clegg off and leave them overnight in a bucket of water it should go mushy and you can wipe it off in the morning
i soak my clothes overnight in my left over bath water on a friday ...........saves breaking the washing machine ............not nice if youre the first person in the shower in the morning though ;D
 
I used to clean my trowel along time ago just lost the passion for a clean trowel maybe one day it might come back who knows probably when i got too much spare time on my hands, I remember i was working on a job years ago i was cleaning my trowel and the builder i was working for came in and starting having ago at me about cleaning my trowel in his time and i came out with the spill it was part of the job if i didnt clean my trowel the job wouldnt be very good and he agreed i was right and after that he never bothered me about cleaning my trowel in his time :)
 
we had a job putting a tight coat of aimes all over board ( specialist board dont know what it was) and we had a subby come on who's job it was to sand it with a power sander
i was with the boss ( i was a lab at the time) and he'd done fook all but fook me he had clean tools!!!
the job was at an all girls prison ............jesus we some sights :p
 
this was really tight mate almost grinded on ................a tight coats a really thin coat mate dont read into it too hard, you could say give an artex ceiling a tight coat of bonding but it could still be 4-5mm ...youre just getting it on as thin as poss so it would be a tight coat
 
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