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Shame your not in Kent I would of bitten your hand off, I would put my notice in tomorrow from a £28,930 job I hate to earn £350 a week doing something I really want to do! Mugs..

Spanish trowel

I had an older converted Lwb T4 which was a day bus, great van but a little dated now.

Correct that toyota hiace!! Stupid phone

T5 would be my choice all day long, but id hate to ruin it. T5's are for day vans or campers. I reckon toyo. HiHoaxes would be my choice.

Quick question, what's your preference on the ideal plastering van?

Don't get me wrong I do take a lot of pride in my work and I fully understand what your saying I only lined the walls as the rest of the room was having paper and this wall was having a fully fitted cabin style bed so it was pretty covered. As you say id def aim for best possible quality as...

I was young and stupid with no experience I remember mixing another bucket mid laying on the first coat by the time id got it all om the wall had sucked most of the moisture out the first bit and it was un workable. Hence the lining paper to cover it up.. still all came good ish in the end.

Cheers minh, good advice! I have done some work I my old house a couple of ceilings and a few walls I've got to admit first wall was ok for lining paper ;) but I did get the hang of it and enjoyed it. Nothing was pro standard but still good enough for paint. Hopefully I can get the c&g done and...

Appreciate the feed back guys, I've wanted to do it for years and something has always been in the way normally finances. I take on board there's only so much they can set up in a training environment for people to learn from, what appeals from gold trowel is they do seem to be the best course...

Who you using plazma?? I haven't managed to find a course over 6-10 weeks yet, lots that say you can an "NVQ with 5 days theory training!! Be good to see who you have chosen and get a bit of feed back from the old timers on here.

Na all taken in light, I'm with you! You can't learn anything on a 5 minute course, unfortunately peoples lives wont warrant being able to do a complete apprenticeship in an ideal world we'd all love to retrain and do it the right way but it just wont fit with others lifestyles.. I don't doubt...

My apologies "spunky not slinky" stupid phone!

F*****g pikey??? A little strong I may add and its traveller not pikey!! I dont pretend to be anything def not an "expert of the construction industry" Obviously I know nothing about you slinky, but who's to say you haven't come from a 2 bit 5 day night school class?? You never know and I...

Your right, however at 36 I'm pretty sure hes not going to be an apprentice my guess 6 week course at the most then onto doing small little jobs to get by. Which I appreciate to you guys is a piss take to your trade however that's the way things are going with this day and age fast track...

Ha, and so the constructive critism begins. :)

I love this forum, what makes me laugh is that I got ripped solid for being to old and told pretty much not to bother as I'm 35 !! Just goes to show there are possitive people and negative people who would rather put off the fast teachers or newbies. If there's anything I have learnt from...

Thanks for the response, I'm pretty sure what you said is right redundancy will be offered again before fair and sustainable comes in I do get a lot of time off and the possibilities are there to go family friendly hours or flexible rostering.. the other thoughts I had as I covered most tasks...

Cheers gooner, not bad ideas ill have to kick the misses out to do full time she can earn good money nursing and I can take it easy :)

Ha, its not so much the wanking now mate its more watching them play helicopter when checking through the door flap

:( time for a rethink!!

Appreciated and fully understood there's no quick fix, ideally id like to take the money and run then possibly labour for someone just to top the income up as my outgoings would half after paying a few bills. But even getting in with someone is hard ennough I'm 35 now and I'm sure most would...

No offence taken I appreciate all input given. I am kinda swaying to sticking with the service but going part time which would still give me just over a £1000 a month then do something else on the side till I find my feet, are the trades really that hard out there st the moment?? Question for...

Quick background of me, i left school and became a qualified mechanic, then went on to do engineering and then onto being a domestic appliance engineer and without sounding big headed have always been able to turn my hand to most things I brought my house ripped out the ceilings, partitioned...

If im honest, id like to retrain and leave the prison service. With a course of £2000 id like to think that it would teach me enough to skim a ceiling or a small. I appreciate platering is a bit of an art form but id hope that the basics are the same whether it takes you 2 hrs to do ceiling or...

Hello everyone, im considering using gold trowel and doing the 6 week training, obviously I dont expect to be an expert after 6 weeks but id kind of hope that im proficient enough to tackle small jobs I do have a little experience from tackling my previous property and I dont think the end...