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    Your first job on your own?

    I taped and textured the walls in a room at our next door neighbors house when I was 15 yrs old. I'd been working for my Dads company since I was 12 in the summer time & on school breaks, I wasn't as confident as the neighbor was in what I was able to do on my own but I think the out come wasn't...
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    Help please!!!!

    I've seen that happen over here in the states where they might have skimmed the ceiling with drywall compound and then sanded it smooth, then without removing any of the dust they prime the wall / ceiling and then finish paint it. Before you know it the paint is popping off because it's only...
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    British Gypsum equivalent in USA

    https://www.usg.com/content/usgcom/en/products-solutions/products/finishes/plasters.html What part of the US did you move to?
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    Best scaffold ever

    If I built a scaffold like that the State would fine me a ton of money, unless they saw a Mexican working on it. Then they'd just look the other way because it would just be too much paper work going after an illegal and they'd probably have to spend state funds to deport them and all.
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    Church finish??

    You want rough? Had to match this a year ago.
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    Domestics

    Just about all of my work is residential since I've been on my own. The main things I DON'T miss about working on commercial sites is the theft of tools and equipment. And usual horrible parking and inconvenient places to stage your set up areas. Oh and those asshole megalomaniac job...
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    Looking for a trainee plasterer

    I quit 14 years ago. My Grandfather, my best friend, and my Dad all died of lung cancers. Woke me up a bit, + it's nice not having to spend all that money on something that isn't doing you any good.
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    trade union??

    In the mid 1980's for a year I worked for the Seattle School District on their maintenance crew, there was around 100 people on the crew, electricians, plumbers, brick masons, painters, window/ glass, carpenters, and more. While I was working there they busted the electrican foreman and a couple...
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    trade union??

    My Brother is in the Union here in Seattle. When he puts in a full week with them they take about $100.00 (66£)/week from his pay for "working assessments". I quit the union back in 1989. When I joined the union we used to get money for parking downtown, travel pay when you got sent out over 30...
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    Who negotiates??.

    Two weeks ago I priced out a job I didn't particularly wan't also. Almost no plasterers in this area that will do this type of work - a derivative of a Milestone material with a matching color outside on some garden walls. You leave it smooth and then stone grind it by hand the next day. I...
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    diy SOS the big build

    There was a blurb on the news this morning here in Seattle about you guys doing the renovation in Manchester, so it must be big news.
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    Alternatives to Parex?

    Here in the States my materials supplier switched from Synergy products to Parex almost 2 years ago I was real happy because the Parex products seemed to be a lot better priced. After having problems with the color fastness, plasterers not happy with the workability of the materials, and Parex...
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    Artex is Coming back!!

    Honey go in the living room and make sure the kids aren't climbing the walls.
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    Asbestos

    My Dad came down with asbestosis (He passed away back in 2000). They used to spray asbestos onto metal pans & beams back in the 1950's & 60's. The attitude back then was "real men" don't need to wear masks. We also used to throw in a shovel full of asbestos with every batch of stucco mud that...
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    Future low energy homes.

    It helps if you build a moat around your house and fill it with hungry alligators, that really messes with those nutty wolves.
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