Recent content by Bolthosue

We shall see my grumpy British friend.

Like I said, the plasterboard, base coat and finish coat are all part of a product line/system by National Gypsum. I find that when learning something new in the trades, it's best to go with a pre-defined system to begin with, then grow deeper into the nuance of raw materials and custom mixes...

I'll post the finished result and you can judge that. How I get there is irrelevant.

I don't think she's in a position to sue, nor would she get anything out of the people who came before me. I'm just trying to help out by providing a trustworthy relationship and a reasonable level of quality.

I take it that your emoji suggests the delay between coats will affect the adhesion between coats? I had heard of that before, but again, the instructions on the package didn't specify a recoat time.

It'll be about 36 hours between the base coat and the finish coat.

I take your point. To put things in perspective, I'm the contractor coming in after her tenants ripped the walls open to steal all the copper pipe … and the contractor who stole most of appliances from the kitchen … then the other contractor who stole most of the supplies purchased for the...

Correct. It's part of the product line for that brand. It's the plastering system sold by the local home store.

I will only oppose you on the issues of eggs, I make a pretty good egg.

For the last 22 years I worked in the global fireworks industry, my last job in the business involved life on a mango orchard in rural Cambodia, where I was working with the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces, managing around 200 staff to resurrect an exploded fireworks factory. That ended after we...

I'm just talking s**t about the UK, it's my responsibility as an American. I probably shouldn't be telling you this, but the US has a deal with the Illuminati to consistently act like the world's most ignorant jackasses. It's all part of maintaining the world order.

There's actually a larger history to our "American cheese" than you would imagine. Also known as "government cheese", it was part of a federal program dating back to the late 1940s. The "cheese product" was developed as a method of long term storage for dairy product bought by the US government...

Yea I wasn't sure I needed to do that, in the US it's called "raking" or "combing" (so I've read) and you used to be able to buy these big steel combs for that purpose. It sometimes feels like I'm doing an some sort of archeological/anthropological study trying to learn how it's done in the US...

HA HA! I'll have to say, I thought you Brits where a more sophisticated bunch. But I guess tradesmen are men no matter where you come from. Frankly, I spent the last 6 years living in Hong Kong and had more British friends than any other nationality … frequented a pub called The Globe … really...