Hi all,
Little introduction. I am 36 years old and have been doing warehousing for 18 years. I have come to a point in my life where I not happy in what I'm doing anymore and want to change my life for the better and so something I am happy doing and can be proud of. I've just signed up to an 8 weeks part time course to learn basic plastering skills and want to eventually do it full time.
I did my first class night and loved it! We did some rendering with sand and lime and then flattened it off with a darby flush to two wooden battens either side of our section of wall and then keyed it ready for skimming next week. I was really happy with the way it came out with it being my first time ever picking up a trowel.
So I have some questions that are stupid I know but thought id ask on here and get community help...
My mother has a wall that has blown and the plaster us coming away from the wall so she has asked when I have finished my course if I can fix it. I know this is going to involve remove all the plaster from the wall back to the brick and start again. It's an external wall which the window is on so is it better to hardwall it and multifinish as apposed to plasterboard for and dab and skim?... How do I get the wall 100% level without having battens in the wall as we did in lesson 1?
Second question and this one is gonna be the one I expect stick for... I want to skim the walls in one of the rooms which isn't used for the practice to upskill myself. So... The wall is already plastered and painted so the edges are gonna have steel angle beads on them I assume... To reskim would I need to stick new angle beads over the old angle beads? And reskim over those so you would have an angle bead on top of an angle bead? In my head that's the way to go cos your gonna have a couple of mil thick plaster which will be weak on the corner without it right?
After I have finished my course I want to just do little jobs to try and upskill myself until I'm at a point where I can advertise for work and do jobs for people. I don't want to fly in with no experience and get a bad reputation I want to do a good job for people. Is there any advise on how to get in with anyone else for experience or would people be hesitant to help train you up as you are potential competition.
Thanks guys
Little introduction. I am 36 years old and have been doing warehousing for 18 years. I have come to a point in my life where I not happy in what I'm doing anymore and want to change my life for the better and so something I am happy doing and can be proud of. I've just signed up to an 8 weeks part time course to learn basic plastering skills and want to eventually do it full time.
I did my first class night and loved it! We did some rendering with sand and lime and then flattened it off with a darby flush to two wooden battens either side of our section of wall and then keyed it ready for skimming next week. I was really happy with the way it came out with it being my first time ever picking up a trowel.
So I have some questions that are stupid I know but thought id ask on here and get community help...
My mother has a wall that has blown and the plaster us coming away from the wall so she has asked when I have finished my course if I can fix it. I know this is going to involve remove all the plaster from the wall back to the brick and start again. It's an external wall which the window is on so is it better to hardwall it and multifinish as apposed to plasterboard for and dab and skim?... How do I get the wall 100% level without having battens in the wall as we did in lesson 1?
Second question and this one is gonna be the one I expect stick for... I want to skim the walls in one of the rooms which isn't used for the practice to upskill myself. So... The wall is already plastered and painted so the edges are gonna have steel angle beads on them I assume... To reskim would I need to stick new angle beads over the old angle beads? And reskim over those so you would have an angle bead on top of an angle bead? In my head that's the way to go cos your gonna have a couple of mil thick plaster which will be weak on the corner without it right?
After I have finished my course I want to just do little jobs to try and upskill myself until I'm at a point where I can advertise for work and do jobs for people. I don't want to fly in with no experience and get a bad reputation I want to do a good job for people. Is there any advise on how to get in with anyone else for experience or would people be hesitant to help train you up as you are potential competition.
Thanks guys