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Evening ladies long time away I need to refurbish alot of bay window mullions and sills all previously painted I cant get parex parinter anywhere nr me and delivery charge is ridiculous and will only be putting a total thickness of 4mm on in two coats with top coat being a OCR tight coat...

hi guys hows it going in plastering land things sure seem to be back on the up for most. im still taxi driving and to be honest cant knock it as it got me thru the bad times but im seriously thinking of doing what i did for 33 years waving at walls. probablylooking for employment full time up...

i have called or sent my cv to now in the last 12 months.i havnt recieved 1 phone call back.

we understood you will need the 3 points more than us. enjoy damn softie southerners:RpS_scared:

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no need for that. must be still bitter damn you

damn you how dare you well played:RpS_scared:

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i am being told plasterers in this area are very rare and can earn £50 an hour or 250 a day easily,sutton in ashfield apperently has a distinct lack of spreads. i would like to show the responsis to this thread to the person who told me this. thanks

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listen chaps just a quick pep talk for fellow spreads.35 years in the trade and over the last few years ive allowed people who cant plaster dictate price etc etc to me.5 months off the trowel and last week did a p1ss easy job that if id been plastering fit i could of done in a day but it took...

aaaaaarrrrrrggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh thats better cant be doing with bell ends

some of you will know the ongoing saga with me and b&q and parking ,well today they called the bizzies on me and i got a fixed penalty notice £60 fine AND 3 points for parking in a dangerous position. fcuking love it taxi driver here i come

had a 14 week run finished it today back to b&q. oh the joy

mondayitus :RpS_scared: just thought id share that

just under 5 weeks have actually been skimming.shows how important prepping and getting it to a skimming stage is. the thing is though all the herberts on the job aint got a fcuking clue what it takes

been having an ongoing feud with the joiner on the job im on,basically i keep asking if he will put floorboards back before i plaster the rooms as its very dangerous he has nt done one room yet i have been covering with ply but crap for pushing my scaffold about.keep pestering and he just keeps...

priced a little job yesterday kitchen ceiling and 1 wall i can do it in 1 guage told him £120 inc of mats and he said if i give you £150 can you do on wednesday.oh well go on then. p.s for those of you whom knew of what i was doing outside b&q (and continue to do) this job came from a job i...

must admit i hate boarding and im not very good at cuqtting using the sliding tape and knife method. what are peoples experience with those slide cutters(not blade runner) ie one of these Plasterboard Plastering Drywall Cutter Tools | eBay UK

since the new forum came online after i click on anything in here it takes 30 -45 seconds to appear does my napper in how do i sort it cheers

off someone i did some work for ive called for months im a stickler for having accounts in order and this bell end is being a di ck to me.whats the score i know the totals do i just file on line as though i have them or is there a way to make him send me one. just as a side note he also didnt...

lately i have been taking a 2x 1 foot square piece of plasrerboard with me,1 of them has a couple of thick coats of pva on them showing how shiney it is.the other has got a sample of soveriegn plasprime on it ,the differance is staggering and really helps with the sell.:RpS_cool:

the "talk about anything you like section" has left my screen anyone know why

into a chuck and then take a mixing paddle. i m on about a mixing drll with a chuck not an sds drill Mixing Paddle SDS Plus Adaptor - From Rapid Tools Direct UK

well i skimmed over it today the first time ever over one of these type bonding agents and i must say that skimming over it was much nicer/easier than pva,especially with the condition of the walls.thats the plus point. the negatives are what a horrible product to have to get on walls would...

always used pva but got a customer who has previosly had some re skimming done and it has cracked and asked me what could be done.i have recomended he pays for me to plasprime as that is the only one of these types of bonding agents that i can get locally.its approx 40m2 over old walls will 1 10...

4 Feet Aluminum Mini Folding Scaffold on eBay (end time 27-Mar-11 13:08:49 BST) used these type of scaffold for 20 years or more do your selves a favour and get one best little thing out there

in the states they have gangs who do just eml and set the beads before the stucco(rendering)crew arrive,there was usually a lot of eml .anyway the way these lads set beads nice and straight with no levels or straight edges was as follows if the wing of beads were say50mm wide they would...

do you need one if your van is nt sign written

i m so confused nowadays as to how bleeding low people seem to want things.as you know i m touting for work outside b&q and got a lead for a full house re skim house was empty ceilings upstairs were round at 1 end and badly crazed total was 280m2 inc a h.s.l which was a little tricky.i went...

what are those other floats that some people use instead of the normal polyetherene ones and how do people rate them.

yesterday for me.i did a wall in a house where the couple were hoarders dont know why they wanted a walldoing cos you just cudntsee any floors or wallls anywhere .just s**t everywhere. any way im there working and im going up the stairs to be met at the top by what cud only be described as a...

my garage got robbed :mad:the other month and now im getting it off the mrs about our french doors and how easy they would be to kick in they are inward opening.the problem is there not in a brick or solid wall but are attached to window frames in effect a wall of glass with doors in it and a...

fibreglass mesh 1m wide x 50m long surely cant be right if it is and its any good stock up. cant do links but look atwww.underfloorheating1.co.uk/rolloffibreglass-for-plaster-64.html. INCREDIBLE IF TRUE:RpS_unsure:

im getting bad condensation in my built in wadrobes .i have chest of draws under where clothes hang and the skirts behind are getting soaked also getting this in my kiddies bedroom behind drawers.they are both on the inside of the exterior wall that gets hammered by weather so they are quite...

parking with my plasterer for hire sign near to them .they say im on there land which is highly debateable.i park in a road that branches off from the samwe mini roundaboutthat the entrance ro there car park is.the road i park in is only about 10ft long then it finishes then waste land looks...

took me ,my van and my" plasterer for hire" sign to the b+q near us this morning and got a room to skim tomorrow and someone took a card. sat there for 4 hours reading my new irvine welsh book and bingo this time next year rodney :RpS_biggrin:

wont say who by as you never know.day work patching 80£ a day before tax plus 10£ petrol money.temporary job after tax=64 exra petrol =10-15 tunnel toll=4 total hours out of house=3-4 hours travel +8 at work=11 -12 total =approx 46£ a day for 11-12 hours work not bad hey

got 8 days there and now ive caught them up might have some in a week or so, monday morning its get my sign out time again please some tw at buy my house lol

to all the people whom showed concern and /or tried to help me i mean that.its nice to know not everyone in our game are selfish greedy bastards. i have a few weeks work might lead to something else so once again thankx :RpS_thumbsup:

run out of ideas to get work ive exhausted ny contacts ive advertised ive stoped at jobs ive prospected on the phone .so monday morning at 7 30 am i was outside a large builders merchants for 3 hours with a "PLASTERER FOR HIRE" sign. the feed back so far mon -nothing just a few sympathetic...

on the job center site late in the day yesterday.i call early this a m and say calling about the plastering job in preston they say can we have some details which i give.then they say we will call you if anything comes up ,hang on i say im calling about a specific job the one in preston, oh...

its fcuked aaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrgggggggggghhhhhhhhhhh

me my wife and 2 year old went to see my 5 year old in school play ,as it was starting i gave my 2 year old a polo mint and he choked on it got stuck in his throat big time took me a minute of hanging him upside down and thumping him.luckily it was a polo so cud still breath but in pain...

working on a re furb for a know all b uilder who doesnt like you prepping (thinks your taking the piss).taking some wallpaper off very old coming off a doddle when old know all says why you doing that i explain needs to come off coz drywall adhesive wont stick to it,his reply was bollox it will...