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Nice one, you just made me laugh out loud, funny look followed from Mrs

Just moved to a village in Kent, had a brilliant Chinese take away, we move in someone else takes it over and it’s s**t

f**k I never knew you had a pierced lip

Have you tried donkey jizz? Does it work? Do you water it down? Does it have to be tacky like pva or SBR?

So much easier than nailing scaffold boards to a banker board, they were a god send. I actually had stomach muscles then, just a load of blubbery fat now.

We did, whole housing estates in Gravesend and Sittingbourne for a house building firm called SNW, they’ve gone now the recession f**k*d them over. I still have the Spurs from those days

So it should have been, horrendous stuff

A tin bath if you mean the old galvanised baths we used to use for knocking up by hand

That’s thrown another hand grenade into the hawk handboard debate. Now it’s dashing or harling they call it harling in the Shetland isles,

Looks like high build to me we rollered the f**k out of a lot of houses with that in the eighties

And the anti hawk demonstrations

And I suppose instead of a plasterers hod, you have a plasterers opensided bucket on a stick

Yes, scratch it then plant your beads on making sure the margin is the same from the sides of your fire place to the edge of the beads then the same distance all the way up between the beads the front face of the beads will have to be worked to the inside edge of the fireplace so you don’t lose...

No, I call a hawk a hawk, I call a hand board a piece of wood or a thing brickies use to hold their muck when pointing

The spiders don’t appear to think so

I would probably leave mine for a month or two but hey what do I know

There was one that went f**k off santa you c**t. I can’t remeber who it was by or any of the other words

And if you do don’t skim it when the PVA is tacky wait until it is completely dry

I think it’s because they consider your render easier to climb than a brick. Can you hang your coat on your flat? Render?

Surely not, he always comes across so friendly

May I enquire as to why you are going to give @essexandy a sound thrashing?

You read so much s**t on here, plastering is pretty damned easy but people insist on making it hard and expensive, I blame all these bloody courses

Just tell him to stop f**k**g your work up he is making it more difficult for you as you have to sort out his f**k ups on your work. Failing that drop him where he stands

It depends how he has fixed the Kingspan and what he has fixed it to. I would either get him to take responsibility for the plasterboard coming away or get him to take the Kingspan off and you do it all. If he takes responsibility you need it in writing

I have never seen anything like that before. I really don’t have a clue where to start but your picture above shows he is not a plasterer, you do not straight join cove, it should be mitred. You have my deepest sympathies try @JessThePlasterer and don’t tell @essexandy i told you that I will...

So true

And what’s wrong with the delightful Laura?

Your plasterer may not know how to float and set a wall, a lot of so called plasterers only know how to scim and so will dot and dab. A solid wall is much better (in my opinion) your chippy can fix it to the wall hopefully not having to pack it out if he does this can be easily sorted with the...

Float and set it

What a tight git, no wonder you live in Scotland

Over sixty threes not seventies

It might be Marina and the Diamonds Marina

Is that one of those hawks that’s about six inches square? I always thought they were for pointing, interesting to here they are called a handboard. Do you use midget trowels as well? Good job your not down south we use a hawk and they are around fourteen inches square imagine you having to use...

You are 100% right that is a shocking state and you shouldn’t have to pay for it to be sorted out. The only thing is if this is the best he can do then it won’t get any better. You will either have to live with it or get someone else who is a plasterer not a scimmer or a chancer who says he is a...

Oil based undercoat should stop it if you have any laying around

I only use one trowel always have, my son uses one of those weird things if it’s greasy and won’t finish, me personally I think they are G**.

I must own up to being Chaff too but I was chaffed by Cornwall Brothers, Tovil Maidstone kent, starting 1974

Apparently the thicker you go the more weight it will hold. Here is a link I don’t know if you have it https://smartersurfaces.co.uk/product/magnetic-plaster/

I think the easiest way to have the different plasters on the same wall would be to use stop beads as a frame or something else to give a break between the two. As for the weight issue I don’t know is the quickest answer but I suspect that no matter how thick you make the magnetic plaster it...

Reboard the ceiling, get him to scim between doors you can fit the toe of the trowel in there it’s no problem and use whatever cove you like. Just make sure that if he over boards he uses long enough screws to go into the joist puts them in the joists and uses enough of them eight to a row on...

A hundred weight, 112 pounds in weight, I thought you would know that, it’s how much the bags of plaster and cement used to weigh before the EU decided we were weeds

I thought links thingy was full of homos now

Is that cwt

You could hack it all off then rebuild the outer skin of your house so it’s brickwork. What you have there is pea shingle in sand and cement thrown at the wall, so pretty much concrete, not that easy to rub down with a piece of sand paper. Just paint it.

It’s bonding

Plastic devil float with nails in or screws if you get fed up with nails disappearing

What about a float?

I thought it was the staypuft marsh mellow man from ghost busters

After another look it looks like you had plenty of room for it to be done properly, until he stuck the reveals, tell him to take them off, stick beads up and float and set it, if he uses sand and cement make sure he sticks the beads with it too and doesn’t top coat the same day. Then tell him to...

I know what you mean it’s the Bain of my life this predictive shite