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    2 people on a machine

    I would say a least 3 and I have done a lot of machine work two would be a ball ache
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    Getting a bit more on

    I work on housing scheme 2 and 1 gang we do a four bed in 4 days 510 metres I reckon we could do it in 3 days if we wanted but standard would drop there is a Romanian gang here who do two in 5 days standards decent but I know the one coat we had one coaters before and had to to do a lot of...
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    How do I link up with a plastering gang?

    Fake it till you make it sure ur not fast but not all plasterers get fast its about doing what you do well enough to get paid
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    How do I link up with a plastering gang?

    If I were you I would say I have 2 to 3 years experience I have got work In pub but those days are gone asking on site s a good way or adds online is the modern way I just finished a job on site I have been in ten months housing development off a add I had on gumtree hard to believe I know
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    Young ens

    I work on site with 6 plasterers youngest is 36 and I dont any under that age and I know a lot of plasterers and haven't meet a apprentice in ten years the younger generation don't want to know and who could blame them
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    A weather thread to moan in.

    I am hoping for lots of rain as have lots of inside s to do and hate being outside in winter
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    Retirement

    My body knows because my mind tells it
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    Retirement

    49 and still working on site 5 days a week I don't work weekend I think ur body needs a rest every week working 7 days is madness on ur body
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    Floating methods

    I float on almost a daily bases done about 70 metres today slow day one wall was 30 on it's own I have a 6 foot 6 straight edge kill suction with water put on screed one way then the other float up when ready it's not rocket science but when u do it daily it hard on body
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    You ever had a trowel

    I have a ntinues like that could never skim with it and it's 10 year s old done tons of sand and cement only came good a few months ago lovely skimming trowel now
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    Oldest house basher on site

    I started with nothing and now I own two trowel s and s bucket to put them in
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    Quoins

    I just use timber prop them in a few places just till adhesive takes on the
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    Quoins

    No bother prop them to or there weight will pull them of
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