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I've been offered to go on the tools by my cousin who owns his own squad. Its been a few years since ive skim coated and all that i have in tools is - I have is a small marshallstown trowel, nips,hawk,tape,levels. I need to buy some new tools and with so many brands, sizes, and all new products...

It will look right to me. I can skim, its just I'm not use to putting boards up. Im on a low budget fixing my house up so have to do most work myself.

Might invest in one for my bonding work. My wife will like it for her birds to

But.......... They also have their cons

After boarding out my walls, some of the boards needed bonding because I stupidly pushed the board to far into the adhesive. As well as bonding some boards, I had to bond 2 walls to straighten as well. With the heating on the bonding has dried out and I want to know, will soaking it with water...

Got the name from, I was just after knocking one out in the bathroom while I was looking in the mirror. That was just before I joined here so I thought it was an appropriate name for. Do you not like it?

Says on the back of the bag. Mix, let sit for 5 mins then mix again. My brother says tiling adhesive is Luke this, mix,let sit then mix again. Its supposed to be a better bond if mixed this way.

Im going to bring them back to see if they'll change the 4 bags. I know bags can't be returned but with them being bad, I'm hoping they change them for new good bags. If they don't exchange them, legally are they OK to not to or do I have rights concerning this sale?

Only scratched the wall, haven't had the time to finish it with the weather and my wife wanting the inside of the house finished before the wall. I'm not charging for these jobs because it's our own house.

I cut new boards to size to dat&dab onto an old kitchen extension because walls were badly plastered. They are out by inch and half in places so thought best to board rather than to bond it then skim. All boards cut to size, mixed up full 25kg of board adhesive. Let it sit for few mins as...

But is it not needed for the garage wall. What is it you don't like about it.

A 4:1:1 mix of sand,lime,cement, when making up a mix like this if used on the whole wall, does adding that much lime not make it dry quicker? Why I'm asking is I remember 2 old time plasterers arguing over that type of mix and one mentioned about it drying quicker. He just wanted 1 shovel in...

I know what the angles are but why did he say 'hard' internal angles. Why lime on piers and not the wall

4:1:1 ? Hard internal angle\returns ?

5:1 seems very weak. I know and knew a few plasterers and they never spoke of a 5:1 mix. Always 3:1 or 4:1. They always said that your next coat always had to be just that bit weaker.