Recent content by wm

::) First you tell me I'm getting people to knock their prices down, getting them to skim entire rooms, now I'm telling people how to do their job? It's not really the case is it. I tried to describe the job as accurately as I could for the benefit of anyone interested, if you disagree with...

Hold on there, you're making a lot of assumptions. Who said anything about skimming the entire room?? And who says I'm expecting people to drop their prices?? He had to dot and dab 2 walls. The room is 2.5x1.5m. He then had to skim those *2* walls and skim the ceiling which was already boarded...

£150 and we bought the skim/adhesive He did everything in the day except skimmed 1 wall. He didn't even start skimming until around 3-4, took him a long time to get the boards on the wall.. I took it all off today, no fun at all but it's now a straight run again. To be fair to the guy the...

They're defo t-hick, I can see down the sides. He went through 3 full bags of adhesive on about 7m2 of wall.

nope, level is in front of it and plumb. You can even see it's miles off just by looking at it. Attached another angle

I had a guy come and do part of this job today. Gotta be the worst example of D&D I've ever seen, boards must be an inch off the wall in places and the vertical level is a million miles off. Gonna have to rip them off and get someone else, he won't be coming back tomorrow. If you think I'm...

Thanks guys, got someone for this job now.

Is this true? I thought they could be skimmed just like any other board.

Yea, I have been ummm and arring over the same thing recently. I got a couple MR boards to try near the bath/toilet area and have some tanking to put on round the wet areas before the tiler arrives. FWIW, the boards I ripped off around the old bath area(been on since 1977) were just standard...

I'm just going off what work I've had done previous and trying to give you an idea how long it might take. I did say in brackets it could be a bit more. I'm not gonna be looking over your shoulder with a stop watch. :) Honestly, doesn't really matter to me how long it takes. Didn't mean to offend.

I have a small bathroom that needs doing ASAP. 2.5 x 1.5m. LS26 area of Leeds Ceiling has been boarded and needs skimming. One long wall and one short wall(both bare brick) need dry linng and then skimming too. I have 12.5mm boards here already. I estimate it's a mornings work(bit more...