Recent content by cornwallplasterer

rite on gonna get one ordered! 6ft it is! cheers

Hi there all, What do you find are the best sizes and straight edge for levelling sand cement render? I find can't really go wrong with a 1200mm darby with the handles. Was looking at getting maybe a 1.8 or 2.5 straight edge maybe something like this Link Removed anyone use the 2.5m? had...

6.50m2 was for the skimming not per board. this wasn't a site job was a one off the ceilings were double boarded as well so actually was more than 700m2 of boards. We decided to do the boarding on day rate as we don't have a labourer and was a lot of boards to load out setting up working...

I have just boarded and skimmed a house out 700m2 done the boarding on day rate dot dab £150 and the skimming on price £6.50 the vaulted ceiling was 110m2 which needed counted batten and boarding had 3 of us in total on that. The total price for labour came to around £8000 for the skimming...

Well there is fair bit of people around here that want slate and granite stonework doing and you can be looking at around £150-£200 a tonne so can quick add up, I think your right though cities prob won't be as much call for it. Stonework aint my favourite thing so if this system is any good...

Well for me I'm a plasterer and builder lots of people like the idea of stonework, in their gardens or fireplaces etc... but the cost of decent stone, obviously it takes longer to build than a standard block wall, you always end up with stone left over, could be another option for people who...

Do you do any of these courses in the southwest would be interested? Dan

cheers dean will give that a go next time!

cheers for the comments think it could be a combination of the boards getting damp then drying out and a bad batch of multi!

Cheers oli seems a good forum, Yeah we got through it just a lot harder than it needed to be never really had a problem with multi finish before maybe was just a bad batch like you said.

Yeah seemed to tare like it was too dry an you was using a dirty trowel not had it happen before, don't know if you use a skim speed but even straight after we laid it up the skim speed seemed to tare into it. You had a few problems recently then mate, you think its down to the multi finish?

Hi all, Just like to introduce myself I'm dan been plastering for 8 years but recently two of us was plastering on to plasterboard in a wooden cabin and the multi finish went all weird, and was very difficult to finish seemed to go dry quickly even through it was fresh skim brought the same...