Recent content by happyplasterer

Thanks Tom, might be working some long days this week then!

This is what I'm hoping to do but gonna be a big ask with no labourer

After floating up normally or with devil?

Fair enough, any advice on spraying next day then?

Hi all, Got some tyrolene to do on block work. Gonna render in s/c and use tyrolene with s/c too. Problem is I've been let down by my labourer so am having to do this myself. I usually tyrolene same day as top coat render but this will be pushing things by myself. Will I be OK applying...

Cheers for this info, just ordered a pallet of carlite which should see me good for the next few jobs. Now to try and source some bonding...

(y) In more ways than one!

And great time to bring out the ad when I can't get hold of plaster for love, money or sexual favours :ROFLMAO:

Cheers Ray, yeah that's what I'd heard too. Gave the customer the option and thankfully they said no as not in a hurry. More painting woodwork in my house this week then, got a couple of render jobs after that then hopefully normal plaster will be less like rocking horse s**t!

Ha, yup, not me in the ad though, apparently my acting wasn't good enough to play myself

Can pick some of this up today but heard it's a nightmare to use, anyone tried it? Don't want to get a load and find it's useless, especially at £20 a bag!

wider, not deeper. Must be all this talk about cracks and grooming

Hi, was gonna upload some pics of my crack for you :RpS_wink: but not sure how, not very tech savvy sorry. Basically they are thin cracks less than 1mm spread all over 1 wall and in parts on two others. In a couple of places the cracks are slightly deeper. It takes a full on powerful hilti to...

Does thistle bond-it or the cementone imitation kill the suction in old walls? I know it's supposed to be for low suction walls but some walls just suck like mad still after several coats of PVA, someone told me bond-it does the job. Any tips on this fellas? Cheers :-)

Hi plasterers, I am looking for some advice and hope you can help. My parent's house has hairline cracks in the render in several places. There is one area where old render has obviously blown (so I will knock it off and re-render) but the rest of the render seems extremely sound, although one...