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Had a lad came by where I was working on Monday and asked me if there was a chance I would take him on as an apprentice. After a little shop talk we got down to the nitty gritty. "How much will you pay me?" "Not sure, how much were you thinking" says I. " Well I get about £350 a week at Aldi I'd...

the best way to deal with sparks who dont tuck neatly is to cut their cable so that it is just too short to fix into socket. then tuck cable back in box for them. by the time they notice or come to do 2nd fix you are long gone.

started on £160 ten years ago. still at £160. If you tell 3 different customers your price. cus 1.....Too dear. cus 2.....Too cheap. cus 3.......Spot on mate. You will never win.

same subject differant area. if Peak park are happy with it what are your opinions on limelite v nhl .

I am sure this problem has been discussed before on the forum but anyway. I have just been to view an old property that comes under "Peak Park" jurastiction. Which if you live in the Derbyshire area you will realise what problems they can cause for a project. Work has been carried out on the...

I have a bathroom to prep ready for tiler. 3 of the walls are on to studwork so no problem. the 4th wall is random/pretty rough stonework though surprisingly plum. can hardibacker type boards be fixed using dri lining adhesive or do I need to go with manual fixings or even a combination of both...

Cheers lads. Have warmed up room and it seems to have helped

I am new to the lime plastering game but been plastering for ever. Doing a renovation on a listed building in Staffordshire which is a combination of traditional and modern products. All the work is internal. External walls within the room have been done using 40mm cork boards topped of with...

cheers all. it all kicks off inn the morning !!!

thanks all, customer is being very helpful and understanding. he realises its not your run of the mill plastering job and is happy to be patient and flexible. a rarity in itself nowadays.

2014 soooooo much better than2013. the work deffo seems to have picked up and looks like it will last for a while. Also tried lime plastering for 1st time not bad at 48 years old.

I think so

Hi Gents, Got a job to do in the new year and the speck is to use fibre board for insulation reasons then lime plaster on top and a lime putty finish. I have done some previously that involved fixing boards to wall. roughing on and embedding plastic mesh into backing coat and then applying top...

not realy a direct answer to your thread but check out Travis Perkins collated screws, much cheaper than most stockists.

1 good thing about diy sos. at least that toss bucket tommy walsh isnt on it.

Its funnier than that pile of lenny henry ass kissing drival.

And that has got what to do with plastering? that is 6mins 7 secs of my life I will never get back.

Ta scribe !

where and when is eco build held ?

they are only expansion joints !!!

I used to go to the now defunct interbuild at the NEC in Brum but towards the end it went all green and very little for the proper building trades. Do any of you know of any trade shows that deal with tools in particular and perhaps innovations in our game that arent championed by dungeree...

I got myself some new steel toe cap workboots from that well known company that rhymes with truepix. They cost me £40 and were meant to be light and comfy. well there not they are killing my feet. I saw Danny had some pucker looking trainers on at BG. Anybody swear by their footwear?

why do we let people knock us down on price ? I dont go to morrisons on a friday night and ask for £30 off my shopping bill!

Just a thread to say thanks to Danny and the boys and girls at BG. what a cracking day out. Any forum members who dissmissed it as just a jolly ought to give the next trip a whirl. (next year !). It might be the only time you get to use uni finish ! cheers old son.

It can go both ways with old plaster. it can set as soon as your backs turned or sometimes it will hang around for hours. keep 1/2 a bag for patching but otherwise bin it.

I am a tyzack user as a rule but have test driven mt and ox. also recently given refina plazzie a whirl so I am always open to anything new. most work is domestic on most substrates.

I know plastering is considered the trade that is associated with most mess. I always endeavor to leave any job/house as clean as when I started. But today as I was finishing a bond and skim on a dining room the joiner turned up and said. "Fook me a plasterer with a hoover!" Surely that was...

Due to some hospital enforced downtime last week I resorted to watching daytime telly. 1 programme was called "Tommy Walsh fix it yourself". He went to the home of a nice chap in london who was doing a loft conversion. No problem there. This chap told Mr Walsh that he had been doing a plastering...

why cant he just use a milk crate and kick it along like normal folk ?

you sound like someone who wants to do things right. keep at it and ballcocks to those who knock you.

remind myself that I am old fat and ugly and that none of my female clients are remotly interested in me !!!

Hope you get a satisfactory outcome oldboy.

I just wonder how much re-claim BG are putting back into there multi. Its got to be causing some of the problems.

you can have every light going but once natures big orange ball shines through it can make a lovely job look like blackpool beach at low tide.

nice 1 fella, thanks for quick reply.

Has anyone used this product called tadalekt. I think its a kind of marble finish product. A customer has presented a tub to me and asked me to do a bit of research. any clues ?

should have stopped in bed.

dream to spread Limelite backing is a dream to spread. like spreading cotton wool. Not like bonding and hard wall which are similar to spreading chewing gum.

Has anyone noticed how similar hardwall bags and dri lining adhesive bags are ? It got a bit messy today when I put 2 buckets of water in the mixing bath, added stub end of a bag of hard wall then topped it off with a bag of dri lining adhesive. Oh how we laughed untill we realised we were a bit...

you da man !

he is annakin skywalker to my obi wan. we were a top team.

2nd best !!!

mr muir is a top spread, plasterings loss is engineerings gain.

I'm not greedy shall we say a small/leaftool for starters.

would that be mr muir ?

Just reading some threads and every now and then freebies from reps are mentioned. The last freebie I got was a darby off the limelite rep in 1983. (still got whats left of it along with my 1st Tyzack trowel I purchased for £25.) Anybody else think reps should be sharing the love with us a bit...

ye gods, what will they think of next !

Please tell me I am not too far behind the times. Just lost out on a small job because I told the customer that you can't skim directly on to plywood. even if pva is applied. But he insists the guy over the road who "does a bit of building" says you can. yes or no ?

back in the day we had a labourer who was a bit thick. he mixed up a bath full of bonding and it was bob on. 20 minutes later in his infinate wisdom he reckoned it neede loosening up a bit so added some water. chuffed as feck with his work until he tried to remove his shovel from his 30 pound...

A good mate of mine who was a regular on this site until recently started out in engineering and then retrained as a spread. His work is second to none as regards quality. Regretably he has had to return to engineering to earn a crust because customers are still happy to give out work to some...