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    the new thistle no pva multi finish?

    yeh think i got mine for bout 7.50, yeh i thought it troweled up well nice but i wasnt sure if that was me just having a placibo effect but it did feel realy nice, n smooth, it has been on over a week now and i havent had call from customer, didnt find that it hung to much bout normal but could...
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    the new thistle no pva multi finish?

    so has any one used it? i used one bag the other week fto give it a go ? still on the wall but i am very interested if any one else has used it and how they found it? oh and i used in over silk paint!!!!!!
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    right crack's!!!!!!!

    bubbles i just wonder if i could actually tell the customer that to solve the crack i have to remove the oak dado rail that runs the entire 130 foot of the building take the orginal boards off or even that i had to board over the whole run of 130foot. just to solve a crack as i said over...
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    right crack's!!!!!!!

    not really an option it has a dado rail, there must be a way to stop it for good????
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    right crack's!!!!!!!

    i have a bit of a head ache,, i have been asked to solve a re-accuring crack, so its a timber famed building brick skin, plaster boarded in side and theres a crack that keeps coming back it has been filled loads of times. and i scrim taped it a nd skimmed over it last time thought it was done...
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    what Breaks do we all stop for or not

    yeh depends on the walls dont it, but yeh i like a brew first thing then set to it, try n time it so i have my buttes. or my salad now as the misses say i getting fat!! at about 12, any later i dont like putting any more on. but suppose it depends how its going,,
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    skimming over an old ceiling?????????

    no mate i am the donk pretender! donkum...
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    skimming over an old ceiling?????????

    well got them today!!! sky walkers natural motion...... the bloke in tp tried them on fell over!!! i got home walking round the garden the kids thought it was ace.... i feel over !!! but yeh i think there going to pay for them selves!!! i don't need a gun i got a donk.... but donk was taken as...
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    skimming over an old ceiling?????????

    WHAT a Man Airborne!! i'll give that a go as i can't overboard it. due to the fancy coveing..... but thanks for the million suggestion to overboard.. also thanks for the welcome. and while i am here whats everyones views on stilts? i am sick of kicking a crate around and have always fancied...
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    skimming over an old ceiling?????????

    i have another job coming up soon where i have to skim over an old ceiling! yeh not to complicated i know but it has i assume a either led based or lime based paint (the property is about 1900's) now i would not normally panic but not too long ago i did four ceilings and they all came down...
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