Recent content by spready

Thanks guys! SBR it is then, can't put pics up as my smart phone just ain't smart enough lol

Hi all, I have been asked to do a front section of a house with Alpine finish. The owner has scraped off all the old stuff which was apparently loose and flakey, the S&C base coat underneath is sound although the devil float scratch is clogged up with Alpine. What should I use to prepare the...

Skim coat was about 2mm

It will be put right, in my 30+ years of plastering I have had maybe 5 walls or ceilings that have blown but I learnt from my mistakes on them each time, blue grit & bondit seem to be the solution for areas that arent really suitable for pva but my confidence in using them has been dented.

Hi everyone, I went and looked at the ceiling in question today and it looks like the whole lot is blown apart from a small area that was boarded. One thing I remember is that the walls had blue grit on them for about 48 hours before they were skimmed and the ceiling had blue grit on just 15...

Will know better tomorrow, just find it weird that the walls are apparently 100% and they were treated with blue grit also.

Forgot to mention there was a sparky pulling and hauling at cables for low voltage lights 2 days after it was skimmed, he had a problem with a trapped cable somewhere in the centre of the ceiling. Mmmmmmmmm

Will keep you posted! My thoughts on this is pva over the Blue grit then reskim. It has failed between the grit and the skim I believe.

Mixed it with a whisk and always use carlite or multi for reskimming as board finish isnt available in N. ireland any more, lovely gear though as I used it a few years back.

it was a ceiling Irish Spread.. It was rolled on Superspread.

No it didn't get dusty in between app of blue grit and skimming. Will have a look tomorrow bu t apparently it is off the blue grit very cleanly.

The blue grit is still on the ceiling And apparently it seems sound . Going tomorrow to have a look but it might be a bad bag of carlite, doing my head in this one!

Hello all. I have been plastering for 30 years & I would consider myself very experienced. I have always used pva on over skims, I have tried blue grit on the last few re skims due to there being vinyl silk paint on walls & ceilings as I have found that pva is not ideal on this type of...

Never used it. Is it mainly for drywall?

I completed a job earlier this month & it was an absolute nightmare from start to finish! I have been plastering for 30 years & have never had to do a job as awkward as this 1 :RpS_crying: It was a single storey extension that was going to be an art studio that had some weird arty farty ideas...