Recent content by Seabream95

Thanks ime not a plasterer buy trade just do a bit here and there and did a bit at college but it's something I would like to get really good at and do more of have watched a lot of videos on YouTube for example a guy called Alex Morley and Kirk jonstone I can't see what I am doing different...

Thanks for the input I only use the plaziflex right at the very end I lay on with the steel then flatten with the speed skim and then go threw the stages of leaving it and flattening cross trowel etc all with the steel and repeat for the second coat ime not sure if maybe I should be applying...

And when I say I've shon lights down other walls I mean other walls that have been plastered buy someone else at different houses and they have the same effect going on so it can't just be me

Thanks I just wanted to know on how to avoid this I've watched a lot of youtube videos ime doing exactly the same as everyone else does no one shows lights shone down there work though so I can't tell if there all like this have u ever shone a light down u're work to see the quality.

Hi all just after abit of advice on how to improve. I do a bit of plastering here and there have been working at a family members house plastered some walls thought I had got them dead flat but ive been round and shone a head torch on high beam down my walls to see the quality and ime really...

Hi all looking for some advice have applied tanking slurry and thought would do the second coat next week however after reading the instructions again it sais that the second coat should go on around 3 hours after the first when it is touch dry however it also said that it should be left for...

Hi all guna be patching some render in and just wondered does anyone know how to achieve this finish have looked all over the internet and can't seem to find anything similar it looks to me like a wet mix has just been like flicked on after the floating sponging process thanks fornure advice

Thanks for the advice guys I did think of just screwing the board to joist then bonding out then plaster on top but didn't know if there was like a minimum thickness for the bonding as it would only be like 2mm thick I think Ime guna go down the dot and dab root pack it out 1 or 2 mil shy of...

Hi everyone so i have a hole in my ceiling that has lathes behind it the rest of the ceiling is sound the hole is roughly 0.5m square area the problem I have is the thickness of existing plaster is around 17mm so if I was to put a patch of plasterboard in and screw to joists and lathes I'd have...