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hi guys been to look at a job today and its just a couple of walls want re-skimming ..th thing is the stuff thats on the walls now looks and feels like sandpaper has anyone come acroos this stuff b4 ?? will i be ok wi just a couplke of coats of pva then multi ???

hi guys gotta wall to do , the customers have taken wallpaper off and it has pulled the skim off back to the old render . the render when u touch is bone dry and crumbles when u touch it . is there a product that u can use to kill the suction . i thought about going over it wi hardwall but the...

went to price a job today a bloke been doing a bit of renovating to his house wants me to skim few rooms to finish it all off .... the bit that is puzzling me his that he,s boarded a section of his hallway which meets up to an existing wall ... but the boards are about 3mm off the level off the...

been to look at 2 jobs this week where customer has a 2 adjoining walls (ie external angle so usually put an angle bead on and skim both)but both customers have said " theres nothing wrong wi that wall just want one wall doing " ive explained the benefits have having both done wi putting angle...

a friend of mine has just boaded his box room out ready for me to go round and skim . he rings me up all excited telling me he,s finished and i can go skim anytime . i went round yesterday just to check his work... his boarding was spot on . but then i asked him why he didn,t use plasterboard ...

went to look at a job today boys ... an old cottage really really high ceilings .. anyway the place is riddled wi artex , she wanted me to skim the ceiling (not to big) and 3 sloped walls which come down three quarters to meet the straight bit of the wall which goes to the floor .. i reckon...

been to price a job up today ... anyway part of it is a sloped ceiling wot leads into a small window half way down the slope i need to put anglebead up but the angle is greater than 90 . do they do beads wi wider angles and wheres best place to get em from ... cheers

im feeling pretty low boys i need the help of this forum now cos my head is spinning ... heres the story did a box room for a mate 10ft by 8ft ceiling just over old emulsion . no wallpaper on there no backing paper on no artex on none of that shiny paint s**t.. straight forward i thought a few...

come on danny its been nearly 2 weeks now ... i cant read any posts mate

wots up wi this site .. no pages are showing up is anyone else having the same problems ... has danny been informed

been to look at a job the other day and they want all the stairway and landings doing etc ... thing is from the bottom of the stairs to the ceiling its about 25-30 ft any ideas how im gonna get up there ???

hi all .. just wanted to know if there are any other spreads from the hull area on here . im fairly new to the game and would benefit from maybe spending a day or 2 picking your brains ... dont wory about money or owt . just want to watch and learn from a spread thats been at it a while...

got a wall to do . for some strange reason its got a length of wood smack bang in the middle of it. i know u cant skim straight over the wood .Is bonding ok to stick over the wood 1st ..the wood is about 2mm below wall level ?

:( did a wall today where the customer had taken wallpaper off but as they had pulled wallpaper off the skim had come off too back to the render . i went down yesterday and gi it a good covering in pva which soaked straight in ( to be expected ) give it another coat this morning which dried...

went to price up a small bedroom the other week .. it had wallpaper on the walls the customer has stripped the wallpaper of all the walls but rang me up panicking cos has he pulled wallpaper off the old skim came off with it ...told him not to worry and all that ... the walls are still pretty...

doing a chimney brest tmrw averaged size gonna put angle bead on the corners pva it all skim the front and the 2 sides should take no longer than the morning ... so wot would u guys charge for this

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hi guys just asking u my stupid daily question... is there a limit to how much a ceiling can hold ... ie i went to look at a mates ceiling as it has loads of hairline cracks ... the ceiling is 9.5 mm plasterboard then it was artexed then someone else has skimmed over the artex now he wants me to...

can any of you guys give me advice on mastering skimming over artex .. i can never seem to get it rite .. i must be doing somet wrong but cant put me finger on it .. most of the ceilings i get now are to cover the bloody stuff up today mixed 1st coat up let go off a little then put 2nd and a 3rd...

woke up wi a stinking hangover .. had a bathroom to skim ... ceiling over artex .. pretty straight forward oh no not today just couldn,t get on. the ceiling plaster just wouldn,t go off waited about 3 hours b4 it was hard enough to polish off .even the walls which are plasterboard took an...

been to price up a kitchen today she wants ceiling done over artex its about 13 by 13 ft and 3 walls average sized kitchen 1 wall has a window in i reckon it would take 3-4 bags of multi to do the job .. wot prices would you guys charge for a job like this ??????????????

hi guys been to look at a job tonight ..its a 400 yr old cottage .. anyway an old couple live there and they want me to skim 6 ceilings  approx sizes are bedroom 1, 13 by 10 bathroom 11 by 4 ( this ceilings curves at the edge were it meets the wall) landing 14 by 7 bedroom 2, 21 by 8...

hi guys just skimmed a wall of which i had put a coat of bonding on the day b4 ... i give it 2 coats of pva 1st coat let dry 2nd coat to tacky then skimmed it but the whole wall came out in the dreaded air bubbles ... any ideas has to why or how to elimate this ... my pva was mixed at 4-1 ...

hi guys been to look at a bathroom job .. the customer has pulled all the tiles off and scraped most of the tile adhesive .but where some tiles have come off it has pulle d the plasterboard away in places (only small holes though ) they want the wall smooth cos gonna paint and not retile...

hi guys same house again in the kitchen the ceiling has been covered in wot looks like a gloss paint ... wots best option is it wba or just pva and skim as normal

hi guys...advice needed again im doing an old council/corporation house it has an adjoining extension which has like a concrete slabbed ceiling and brick walls wants the whole thing skimming gonna board the walls ....... just wondered best option for ceiling .. i thought maybe pva coat of...

hi guys how many 8 by 4 board do u on average do you get to a bag of dri-wall adhesive ...say on a blocked wall thats had its first fix ?????

hi guys is there a way how to work out how many boards 8 by 4 you would need to do a ceiling say 13 by 12 ... and is there a formula u use to work it out

when im skimming a room i usually have a couple of 500w halogen lamps in there ..obviously to cast more light on the job .. the instructor on my course said thats wot he usually does ..... just wanted to know is this common practice :-/

hi guys wots the knack on measuring the cutting point on coving and also love any hints and tips on putting on wall got a box room to do soon ( quite straight forward i know) but dont wanna waste loads by measuring wrong etc .... tim

wots the general method of you guys when u do ceilings . do u spend time batoning the room out or just use stilts ... i work on my own and would struggle to get the stilts on and off to ie wash bucket out and do 2nd mix . but sometimes u can spend half ur time batoning the room out and not have...

hi guys as im kinda new to all this still baffled sometimes when i look at answers on this forum . ive just done the basics ie dot & dab and you basic reskims and basic internal rendering wi browning so get confused when some products are mentioned ..... 1 . hardwall wots this for and the...

hi guys wots the best wat to get your skim down the 3-4 inch gap that you usually find between 2 bedroom doors or when u usually find lots of doors situated together .. i have a midget trowel but sometimes thats even to big for the gaps . seem to waste more time skimming this gap than doing the...

went to look at a job today .... it was a living room approx 15ft by 15ft over shitty artex like the old half moon squirl .... looked like a lot of work .... wots the general idea on pricing for a job like this .. p.s is there such a word as squirl ::)

when i skim onto plasterboard i get a very reasonable finish and 1 im happy about .... but when i do a re skim on a normal wall i can never get the same type of finish as i do on the board . i more or less do the same things but it never turns out the same i,e a few blemishes or maybe a few...

hi guys this is my 1st post so here goes ive been plastering for a few years now but never done stairways . so just wanna know wots the best way to get to the high spots above the stairs . is it batons in between 2 ladders or do you just use ladders . i work on my own so really need to know the...