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Hello fellas I have just been to visit my mate in london to see his new house. He has had a bit of work done to it and I was concerned when he showed me the damp proofing. The front corner and the back corner of the house had showed signs of damp. A damp proofing company came in and said...

Im currently doing a full reskim and paint job at a house. I started last week when the weather was hot and the rooms I were working in were like a sauna. They dried out within a couple of days. My problem was when I painted one of the ceilings a 20cm2 patch of the second coat of skim came...

I ordered some silver scrim from ebay the other day as I have read on here it is good stuff. When I received it, it turned out to be something called speedline scrim. I think I might have been done. Is the silver scrim good enough for me to send this stuff back, it looks as rubbish as the...

Hello Fellas, Just a quick one. How long do you have to leave WBA before skimming? I have used it in the past and always did it the night before, but im sure I read on here that some people leave it a couple of hours. Is this about right? I have got a ceiling to do that looks to glossy...

I left rated people just over a year ago as i wasnt using it because i had enough work on. I have been invited back for the fee of £10 and they will give me 5 free leads. Hopefuly this is a sign that the website is not as busy as it used to be and people are going back to the old way of getting...

I have been asked to have a look at a swimming pool that needs some patches re-rendered. There is a band of tiles going round the top where the render has blown and popped some of the tiles off. If it is bad I might suggest knocking all the tiles off, re-rendering the band then re-tiling...

in the past two weeks i have seen two plasterers using a car for their work van. Ive seen them stacking multi up in the boot with all their tools on the back seat. I have even seen them cutting boards down to fit them in the back. Surely this cant be easy. Why cant they swap the car for a van...

Fellas I have got a reskim coming up in a living room. The couple have just had there chimney swept so they can start using it for an open fire. Is it ok to just skim as usual or should I use heat resistant plaster?

Hello fellas Im currently off work due to a RSI and was wondering if any of you have suffered from it. Ive been off for a few weeks now but hopefully will be back to work in a week. I have been to the osteopaths and he said I need to change the way I do things and try to limit how much I do...

I have just been reading the thread about pricing and how some had made a good earner out of a days work. I was just wondering how many of you have had the total opposite and lost money. I once took a job on and ended up working for £50 a day for 2 weeks. I wasnt very happy but I stayed...

Hello Fellas Ive been asked to quote for a job in an old victorian flat conversion. They need to make the cellar ceiling fire proof for 60 minutes. They said that they wont accept double board of normal board so I will have to use fire board. What are the best boards I should use? Cheers

There was a post some time ago that got deleted about a female plasterer. I think there was some trouble with the boyfriend disagreeing with what was being said about her. Anyway, if you have not already seen this then take a look at the video of her on the news. Its an old story but i have...

Hello Fellas Just wondering if any of you could give me a reason for something weird I came across the other day. Its not really a plastering question but I came across it while quoting for a reskim. I just wanted to know if there is a reason for this, was it common, or is there a name for...

I just recently booked a job in to reskim and cove a small living room. The woman had stripped all the wall paper off and damaged all the plaster boards taking off most of the paper. I was going to WBA all the walls and ceiling then skim and put up the coving. I was charging a bit extra for...

Just been looking at these videos and they both look pretty impressive. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfSwVu5wyEY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljP48ScSD_Q Do many of you fellas do this kind of thing?

I have just bought some stilts and was wondering how long it took you to get used to them? Ive had a quick walk round the house in them but dont feel confident enough to start plastering with them.

Do any of you fellas price jobs up without viewing first? If its just a bedroom or a ceiling reskim then do you ever just give a fixed price over the phone or is it too much of a gamble.

Is anyone a member of The Building Trades Database? If so, do you get much work out of it? http://www.btd.uk.com/

Alright fellas Whats the best way to damp proof a basement on the cheap? Ive got a mate that wants it doing so he can use it cos at the moment anything he stores down there goes mouldy.

Its that time now when domestic work should be flooding in with people getting started on their diy projects over the bank holiday. It has reminded me of a time i went to skim a wall for a chilled out black geezer who loved to do all his own diy. He had built his own extension a few years back...

I have been browsing the job bidding web sites and I am amazed at the amount of people looking for work. If you check the link http://www.mybuilder.com/job/view/18954 you will see that 94 plasterers are bidding on a wall thats damaged and needs plastering. Its a real shame to see. I just...

Alright fellas, I might be covering an old subject here but ive seen this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pssxkpXEb8 and looks pretty good. Do any of you do it this way?

Check this out. I saw it on another site and thought id post it here. Pretty funny and fair play to the builder. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=J-LqLU7CxeA&feature=PlayList&p=60368972A2A5CD0D&index=21

Alright fellas I have got some artex ceilings to skim coming up and I usualy just skim over them. I am only doing the ceilings as the walls are fine. My question is, if I overboarded them I wouldnt be able to scrim the edges so therefore they would crack wouldnt they? Its been a long day and if...

Alright fellas I was doing some work at college the other night about the health and safety risks with asbestos. I was just wondering if any of you use any kind of protection when scraping the high points off ceilings with the possibility of having asbestos in before skimming.

Alright fellas, have any of you used any internet sites like mybuilder.com or myworkman.co.uk to get work?

Alright fellas. Ive just been reading an old topic on here and it was talking about p/boards. Im interested to know what boards other plasterers use. I have always used tapered edge boards as thats what I was taught. Ive never had any problems with them but if there is any reason not to use...

I was just wondering if any of you advertise on ebay and if so have you had any work from it?

I am allways looking for new ways to improve the way I work and I have come across a couple of new techniques that interest me. I was just wondering if anyone has tried these methods? Have a look and let me know what you think Method 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6IKpd-E4A8 Method 2...

Hello all, I would like to ask a few questions and see how the majority of you work. I only know one other plasterer and after visiting some of these forums have seen that other plasterers have different ways of doing things. Some good and maybe some bad but we all work differently. I am just...