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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...

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...

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...

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...

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?

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.

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...

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 ?

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...

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...

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 ?

My youngun hid the zapper so had to watch tennis. That sharapova bird and some other skinny chick screaming and grunting at each other. thank god i am not blind or i would have thought i was watching porno!!!

Spreads, still having a niggle with a customer who wants lime/hemp throughout his old cottage. I have been reliably informed that if more than 30% of original plaster is removed then the job becomes a renovation and requires full insulation and involvement of building regs. Can you trusty gypsum...

Any of you fellow spreads having a day at uttoxeter races on sunday ? I shall be there to celebrate my birthday, as is our custom. you will be able to spot me I will be the one sneaking through the toilets and into the bar for a swifty and back out through the toilets back to my unsuspecting...

At least now the football season is nearly over it gives you sports fans a chance to focus on a proper sport and watch the mighty Wigan Warriors play a little rugby league. "Shaun Wayne's barmy army!"

Evening Scribes I quoted a while ago for a job on an old cottage and asked your opinions on how best to tackle random limestone internal walls. The chap has got back to me indicating I have got the job. He has now sent me a loooooooooong e-mail moving the goalposts in some areas. He has decided...

Got my first refina plastic trowel yesterday and have given it a whirl. Looking back over old threads on the forum with regards to best practise when using a plastic float and picked up a general idea. But then I got to thinking if some of the one coat wonders strayed onto the forum and started...

evening spreads. went to price up a biggish job yesterday. it is an old cottage and they have hacked off all the old plaster back to bare walls. one wall alone is part red brick part engineering brick part random limestone. The customer is not too concerned about it being plum or straight but it...

Spreads I have noticed over the last couple of months that the forum is getting a little bit silly. A fellow plasterer puts up a sensible post asking for help and advice and after the first couple of decent replies it gets down to who can post the "wittiest" response and then who can out...

I am sure most of you must have come accross this problem from time to time where you bond and skim an old wall and after drying rust spots appear on the surface. Usually caused by a hidden nail or screw. I have just finished a room and 7 of these spots appeared. after digging out 1 of the spots...

Fellow spreads. Over the last few months it has become obvious that the quality of multi finish has gone down the pan. As a collective could we not establish some sort of online petition to push BG into going back to an earlier formula or put it back in bags without plastic inner liners. (which...

there are a lot of threads on the site regarding pricing. but in general you could price the same job up for 3 different customers. customer 1 would say you were too cheap. customer 2 would say you were a robbing bastardo. and customer 3 would say you were spot on. you will never get every job...

Just finished 1st week on new site renovating a 70s bungalow. The sparks can use a sweeping brush. The plumbers dont mind brewing up. The labourer isnt a snotty know it all. And the foreman gets the bacon butties in on a friday while signing cheques. "HAPPY DAYS":RpS_thumbsup:

Got to work this morning to be greeted by the words. "shouldnt take you as long now mate ive done the boarding for you" Took me 45mins to take out all the steel screws he had used and replace them with drilining ones. completely replace board that didnt quite catch the joist. but hey its the...

Afternoon. I have been on the forum for about a week so thought it was time to introduce myself. Have been plastering since 1982. Self employed sole trader for 4 years working primarily in the high peak area but as I say " have trowel will travel!". Like moaning about how poor multifinish is at...

Morning all I had an idea the other day that was going to make me very rich. it concerns a collapsible insert to put inside backboxes when some nomark has badly cut round boards and left gaps round boxes.On mentioning this to my workmates they laughed and said you can already get them from lecky...