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i definately would but i don't know any plasterers good or bad and as i would be sticking them on one of my clients jobs i would only want to do it if i knew that they would do a good job i'm sure that if i did find someone in the yellow pages or whatever they would be fine but as i said...

i do work alone which is the problem and the point that i was making i never get chance to work with or see other skilled men at work which makes it very difficult to know if your going about things the right way, i did work on a house just after i had started up and there was an italian guy...

keep looking at that wall ever time i pass it while doing other work there it does look quite daunting(even skimming it it would be by far the biggest i had tackled), if i do hardwall it instead of plasterboarding i'm under no illusions about how difficult it will be with very limited...

not totally sure what you ment by that obviously i couldn't teach anyone on hear anything about plastering if you was saying that you thought i was blowing my own trumpet that wasn't what i was trying to do at all, just saying that every time someone says that they have had some plastering done...

thanks for the good advice that was just the kind of method that i was thinking of myself and as madmonk said starting from the stairs where the plaster depth is critical and working out from there,as there is still lots other jobs that i have to do on the job i.e new floor,new door frames and...

yes i did think it looked are large area and not ideal for for someone who hasn't done much with backing plasters the main reason that i was thinking of not dot & dabbing was that i am trying to match the two sets of stairs (1st & 2nd floor) and to keep the wall straight would mean over lapping...

i do all trades for my work basically anything that needs doing on someones house i'm not a experienced plasterer (only self taught so probably have some bad habits) and do plastering whenever it is needed on a job but this normally only entails doing a reskim or back to bare brick, dot and dab...