Recent content by Bumhair

Lol, one of the apprentices called me it years ago and it stuck ha ha.

Are these plastic trowels as good as people say. Bloody joints are killing me lol. 54 and im ready for the knackers yard :(

get a marshalltown mate, great for getting them bits off the floor at the end of the day and when ya start plastering get yourself a tyzack ;)

Any you guys had this problem. Had two this month, not big amounts but a ball ache all the same. Looking at getting a debit card machine and stop taking cheques, anyone recommend a good provider.

You can get boards from Vistaprint for around £25, they are A2 size and printed on that corrugated stuff estate agents signs are made of. Check em out, they call them lawn signs. Websites, mixed results imo, they are not the holy grail that web designers have you believe.

Sod all :D No doubt he is still inundated zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Leave it with custy, if big job then skip

I agree with Bruce, if they are fair with you then go the extra mile, i too have had the piss taken in the past, so no more. pristine - i dont tend to use day rate on domestic for the very reason you stated, she expected to pay more. This week a women calls who i have worked for before and asked...

Its sod's law, since buying my window cleaning round i've had quite a few calls for plastering. Done the smaller ones when we had the snow but the bigger jobs had to sub oot :(

are ya sure flynny, my mate went off the back of his, and he's now back after 6 months coz of the lack of work.

My mates just back from Perth - no work :o Check it out first mate.

I have been at the moment as im a bit slow coz new to it but wanna try cut that to 3 days so can still do the odd plastering job when i want to

I bought a round Steve, so straight into it really. Its worth £1800 an month so pretty good, already had a few new ones come on so fingers crossed. Had to pay 3 times the monthly income to get it though.

I just priced a job - bedroom 4m sq. Remove old ceiling, joists are all out so allow to re noggin, reboard & skim (barrel ceiling), prep walls with wba (some t**t has painted them with gloss paint), reskim all the walls, come back after the chippy has made some fitted wardrobes and skim a...

I've semi hung up the trowel, just bought a windy cleaning round thats worth £1800 every 4 weeks, gonna build on that and do the odd plastering job, its s**t round my way.