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    Want to start a career in plastering

    Well done lad thats a perfect pitch, tells a prospective employer everything about you and what you've experienced. As said you certainly sound an asset to any employer. Keep knocking the doors,better than ringing or posting cv, take your cv with you but go in person.offer to do a day or so for...
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    Ar*eoles who think they can pay when they like

    Lol, reminds me of a job i did with an upstairs bathroom and downstairs washroom, long story short, the customer was a copper and his son was as wide as he was tall, a problem occurred in the kitchen weeks after i had finished and the coper come to see me with a big big bill ???????? I laughed...
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    Womp Womp, Hello

    Hiya jarrod owbin ya? ;)
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    hi

    Hi and welcome
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    New guy

    Hi and welcome m8
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    Need help..

    &i'd get them to open an account for your materials etc so this limits your outgoings (actual loss) and be paid a week in arrears so if they do bounce you you lose just a week of labour. Even with a legal contract if the works are small and they bounce you it could be costly and not worthwhile...
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    Just Saying Hello!

    Hi and welcome m8
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    Hi all

    Hi and welcum m8, lived and worked in stourbridge many moons ago , lived up the side of the viaduct. Was also in the t.a up there for 4yrs. Is it still a shithole? Lo
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    Localtraders.com

    You are genuinely better off getting out there with flyers,website,networking,a-boards,sign writing etc than paying a middleman who sets you off quoting against others and charging you for the privilege. 500 flyers seems a lot but in reality you are looking more towards 10,000 flyers to get...
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    Hello

    Hi and welcome
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    immediate openings for 3 plasterers in Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan

    They don't want brits cuz we get the job done with less mess!
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    Just want to be a spread but getting pulled back into building game no builders left?

    Usually can't be arsed! Can only make £200 instead of £1000 for a days work!.
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    Local builders and developers and local people

    Comes down to whats being said on here all the time........ People will work for less.
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    advice on pricing please

    If you were happy with what you'd charged/got paid before asking the customer then thats the right price for you. Others may may charge more ,some less!
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    hi all new here any advice welcome (reading this will prob bore you )

    Welcome m8, plenty of good advice given about not rushing.
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    Domestic Maintenance Companies

    Theres them that want to work for themselves and THEM that actually do it. Your mates have the practical skills but no business sense or drive so are better working for someone else. You don't have to go into it full time yet, just p't in your spare time and see how it goes. Everybody who goes...
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    Refurbished vans.

    Would you buy an older refurbished van? Fully checked over,serviced, new paint etc, no faults, 12 months mot and low cost servicing/repairs after. say between 2k-4k various makes.
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    Domestic Maintenance Companies

    This is the type of work i do m8, i used to do large work like complete bathrooms,kitchens garage conversions, now i do handyman, everybody has loads of little jobs that need doing and would prefer one person to undertake all and pay accordingly. I also look after 4 vehicles and do the repairs...
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    large ceiling roses, how to fit.

    Use board adhesive trowelled on with a notched trowel, pre drill your screw holes and then drill 1/2 inch into the holes using a drill bit same sizeor bigger than screwhead so its countersunk, then fill. If you can't get 3/4 screws in joists use some toggles or metal drives, but make sure 2 are...
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    help please

    He had to sort the op out! You lot would'nt ;)
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    Alright guys

    Welcome m8, piss tekin barstewards the lot on em but so so funny, best forum for laffs by far! Just doh ask no plastering related questions ;)
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    Looking for Advice or Opportunity

    Hi and welcome ryant, very positive post m8. Have you rang round plasterers/ builders? Try stopping off on domestic builds and ask to speak to the builder/ plasterer, get some cheap cards made up and leave them with them. Good luck.
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    Fibreglass plaster moulds startup

    Thats tekin tha pish......... I'll gi ya £100 cash today ;)
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    help please

    Hi and welcome m8
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    Evening all

    Hi ccm and jd and welcome. Ccm get yourself a website, get 1000's of flyers, put on what you do, give a couple of example prices i.e 12x15 ceiling over artex ( subject to survey) x amount. People like an idea of how much before ringing. When working on a job , spend 1/2 hr droping flyers out...
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    Swinhoe from Blyth.

    Hi and welcome m8, gr8 banter here and it does help to have summat wrong to fit in ;), hope ya health recovers m8".
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    Back in the real world

    Hi and welcome
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    Labourer needed from tomorrow in London(south)

    Its only 3" away on a 50,000:1 map.....not that far really, and u cud sleep on the job and go to the local soup kitchen for foder . Sorted.
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    cornice is there any money in making it

    If you can spread ya wings where very few fly you will always be in work m8. Covings a niche mkt.
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    replies to problems

    Lol, you lot am maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaadddddd ya bloody wndalickers!
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    Plasterer looking for work in the herts/essex area.

    No money or too many chasing the work m8. Have you tried to work for yourselve? I and others can give you advice for that direction if req'd.
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    Hello to everyone on tpf

    Welcome m8
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    Labourer needed from tomorrow in London(south)

    if ya see julia roberts pass on me no. plz ;)
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    replies to problems

    no but it cums with a oldstation atatched to it
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    replies to problems

    I find the balance just right, advice is forthcoming if the question is not obviously stupid/pisstake, and the banter is brill instead of being deadly serious all the time, this i find on some forums.
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    Done 86 metres today

    Hi nps , i used to have a bathroom/kitchen biz, i did all assoc. work inc. boarding,skimming, patchwork. I've done a few of my own properties up inc. my present one, fully re skimmed throughout but would not class my self has a 'plasterer'. I'm a qualified plumber/ spark lol. After a few yrs...
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    Silica, Silicosis - Cancer and the Plastering Industry

    Findus are now putting seahorses in their fishfingers.
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    Done 86 metres today

    Not being a spread, what is a avg day of plastering ? Meterage wise on straight walls?
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    Done 86 metres today

    I did 1025 metres today! Running ;)
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    Plasterers transport!!

    Tell martyn n8rbos off here,ldv forum and transit forum recommended him to you ;) probs cost @ £150-200, its vantuner.com not co.uk. Theres loads of info on his site for you. There are loads of sites but because of the foums i belong to i know he comes highly recommende, in chats with him he is...
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    Went to see another job today but how are you supposed to !!!

    If you've got nowt else on this would be a gr8 learning curve ( no pun intended) work out a normal price per metreage or however you work out and add say half again. By the looks of the woodwork etc the customer will pay a decent wack BUT for a excellent finish. I've worked this way when...
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    Hi to all!

    Welcome m8
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    Plasterers transport!!

    Have it remapped mate, go to martin at vantuner.co.uk, he does all the transits etc for the transit forum and highly recommended.
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    Your professional opinions

    The customers an ass on the make! He threw this lad off the job and took another plumber onto carry on, now if i was to be asked as i have been inthe past, i would check the original plumbers work before i start adding my work to it, then i would highlight to the customer for him to decide what...
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    Plasterers transport!!

    I've always had ldv convoys, cheap to run /repair, loads of room and does what it says on the tin.
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    Your professional opinions

    From what you've said m8 you were thrown of the job because you'd kept the customer up to date with your comings and goings with regards your accident, this is in your favour and against the customer for being unreasonable unless he can show a reason why he isn't unrreasonable. How did he get...
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    A plumber and a plasterer ?

    As with any trade you have good and bad regardless of qualifications. I've put on here a few times my trades, plumber,part 'p' spark to name two, i also had a business @23 yrs,, now i'm just leisurely doing handyman work, everybody wants half a dozen little jobs doing, if your stuck with one...
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    Hey everyone

    Macynlleth,n.wales. Centre of alternative technology, gr8 place.
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    Hey everyone

    Get on uk hippy and tribal living mate, loads of eco stuffon them, if you ay bin go to the c.a.t. Centre in macy
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