Recent content by BrumPlasterer

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    help - think my plasterer is trying to rip me off?

    He certainly sounds like a dodgy tradesman to me. What difference does it make to him having the cash in this day and age, a bank transfer usually clears instantly, and certainly within 24hrs. He sounds like quite a small outfit to me and is probably not vat registered, so him adding vat would...
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    Biostrip artex remover?

    Alrite peeps, Just wondering has anybody ever used this stuff or even heard of it? ta.
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    yellow pages

    Yellow pages are making all of the books smaller, so the size of the page will be about 70% of what it was so the advert that you may have used before may not be as effective because all the type will be slighty smaller. Also all the free line entries will be at the back of the book in...
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    Multi or Board

    well buy 5 then
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    Multi or Board

    board finish is cheaper than multi in Wickes
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    expensive work pants

    A shell suit, i'm a chav!!
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    Gold Trowel 6 week City & Guilds Qualification including a Krend (Rendering) Certific

    I went on a weeks course 6 years ago, started on my own straight after it and haven't looked back since. I'd consider myself on a par with any other plasterer, and a damn sight better than a lot of them. This trade is not the mystery people make it out to be, afterall you need no certs to go and...
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    Dont know how you lot do it

    Oh well, just one of those things on the first one. The second one, when a client tells you the price that previous plasterers have just quoted, she is going to turn out to be a complete and utter t&%t, I effin hate that!!
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    one coat

    looks neat mate
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    fastest way to?

    Just do it in 2 hits, simples!
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    artex and coving ?

    Remove coving, overboard and skim, and cove. I've had similar things before, usually go tits up in the end mate.
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    quickest, cheapest way

    grow weed in it, good sparky, and good extraction you'll make a fortune!!
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    1 coat skim to board tips needed anyone?

    Certainly since the last data sheet came out whenever that was. Must say, I thought it always did say that.
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    1 coat skim to board tips needed anyone?

    they must have changed the goalposts then
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