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Lol, one of the apprentices called me it years ago and it stuck ha ha.

Are these plastic trowels as good as people say. Bloody joints are killing me lol. 54 and im ready for the knackers yard :(

get a marshalltown mate, great for getting them bits off the floor at the end of the day and when ya start plastering get yourself a tyzack ;)

Any you guys had this problem. Had two this month, not big amounts but a ball ache all the same. Looking at getting a debit card machine and stop taking cheques, anyone recommend a good provider.

You can get boards from Vistaprint for around £25, they are A2 size and printed on that corrugated stuff estate agents signs are made of. Check em out, they call them lawn signs. Websites, mixed results imo, they are not the holy grail that web designers have you believe.

Sod all :D No doubt he is still inundated zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Leave it with custy, if big job then skip

I agree with Bruce, if they are fair with you then go the extra mile, i too have had the piss taken in the past, so no more. pristine - i dont tend to use day rate on domestic for the very reason you stated, she expected to pay more. This week a women calls who i have worked for before and asked...

Its sod's law, since buying my window cleaning round i've had quite a few calls for plastering. Done the smaller ones when we had the snow but the bigger jobs had to sub oot :(

are ya sure flynny, my mate went off the back of his, and he's now back after 6 months coz of the lack of work.

My mates just back from Perth - no work :o Check it out first mate.

I have been at the moment as im a bit slow coz new to it but wanna try cut that to 3 days so can still do the odd plastering job when i want to

I bought a round Steve, so straight into it really. Its worth £1800 an month so pretty good, already had a few new ones come on so fingers crossed. Had to pay 3 times the monthly income to get it though.

I just priced a job - bedroom 4m sq. Remove old ceiling, joists are all out so allow to re noggin, reboard & skim (barrel ceiling), prep walls with wba (some t**t has painted them with gloss paint), reskim all the walls, come back after the chippy has made some fitted wardrobes and skim a...

I've semi hung up the trowel, just bought a windy cleaning round thats worth £1800 every 4 weeks, gonna build on that and do the odd plastering job, its s**t round my way.

I know what you mean patcher. i did it couple of years ago when they were doing it for free, i got mine that quick. To be honest if i'd been Stevie Wonder he would have still passed me, its a joke, money spinner for the government.

£950 WTF, Dick Turpin wasn't that harsh, get on the Mike Wye website, you dont need them clowns. Oh and dont believe the "theres loads of work out there doing it" - someone else said that about his courses, flexible cement or something, gonna take the world by storm.. yawn

Phil, ive got the ebay duras copies, there ok, if ya ever down Northants way you can have em, never use the things. now.

Until the cheque clears ;D

Been doing sod all after breaking me (french word)in leg >:( Dont do work for Asians.

45 matey, started when i was 25, feel like i'm ready for the bone yard ;D

Hate it, f**k*d back, f**k*d elbows, s**t dollar at the moment :)

Perfect Skimming part 2 matey, even tells you about it on their website.

Priceless ;D I rest my case about these clowns. And there was griff not so long ago laying into me for calling them that, a clown trained by clowns, get in ;D

sod all mate, numptys who i have shown it to thought it was cladding, done a car boot at weekend and set up me boards etc, again they thought it was cladding T***s. Just gonna take a bit of time i suppose.

Use Hardwall mate, Bondings for low suction background or ya could d & d it.

13" Marshall matey, used to prefer the old Tyzack but the ones they are knocking out at the mo are not to good in my opinion, the last one i had ended up like a banana after a couple of weeks.

An old jedi plastering master once told me "you have to slow down to speed up" and he used an 11" all the time, got bloody loads on but looked like he was just taking it in his stride. (took me ages to suss what he meant about slowing down to speed up mind you ;D)

I brought mine down to a ton a day and still losing out especially to numptys like that guy i mentioned on another post, £200 for any room any size, thats what we are up against :(

Well said mate. They have now started doing K-Rend courses, couple days for a few hundred, what people dont realise is you can go straight to K rend and they will show you how to use it for f*ck all, just costs you a ferry ride across the Irish sea. They are well milking the whole situation...

:o £58 per month, thats good, mine wants that a week, robbing barstewards. ;D

Yeah mate, i really echo the points in Church's post. Not matter what they tell you you will not be earning £300 per day especially in the current climate. Have a look at a few centres, they are not the only ones who offer this type of "training" and if you decided to go for it then take small...

These 2 week courses have us knee deep in chancers.

Hope this helps mate. http://www.k-rend.co.uk/media/495c14ab3688405196a44efb9f8733cdApplication%20Instructions%20K%20Rend.pdf Forgot to say the scraper needed is available from Refina. I made my own out of those jaggy plate things chippys use when making roofs aint got a clue what they call...

Yes mate, know where your coming from. Did you know you can go and PAY for an advanced skimming course with a certain training school (no names incase they spit their dummies out again) the mind boggles! Last time i checked skimming was the easy part of our job.

Thats the funniest thing ive seen for ages, cheered me up that after Man U's appalling performance last night ;D

I use board finish on reskims all the time with PVA and never had a problem yet.

Yes mate, thats a shame, let me know how ya get on, lets hope we get as much business as Ray doing it :)

Alright Chris, Im going down for the course in two weeks and im based in Corby mate, not far from ya. Good to know your near for any bigger jobs that come up.

i know what you mean phippsy, did a kitchen last week, sparks had been before to add new sockets etc etc, some of the tails were 2ft long so did as you and filled the buggers with plaster ;D get in. mrsnoopy - stick to being a sparks mate, u must be mad to wanna change to this.

I know how ya feel mate, i went through this a few months back, board finish all the way for me now.

Quality Guys, Ace LMAO ;D

Sorry for the delay guys was oot, the tool has taken his number off and only left an email contact (must know he is gonna get guys like us giving him a hard time) Heres the link, have fun with him http://cambridge.gumtree.com/cambridge/32/38206232.html

Speaking of crap rates, some tool is on Gumtree looking for time served spreads for a contract in Cambridge 8.30 - 6pm for the princely sum of £75 per day, i contacted him to see if he had missed a 1 off and he seemed none to impressed and then went on to tell me i was typical of crap British...

Yeah i remember that, feckin joke, what ever happened to freedom of speech. The truth hurts though eh!

Wheres the tiling work? I have two mates who are tilers and are both driving taxis at the minute as no work here (Northants)

Well said mate. The other thing is as well is the fact that we are knee deep in plasterers now thanks to these short courses. A very high percentage of these type are crap at what they do, have a main job as well as sticking in daft prices on domestic on a weekend. So as well as the spotty geek...

Yep ad in local rag, my ads have got me sod all for last 6 weeks but ya gotta keep plugging away i guess.

Sorry lads but gotta tell ya, first job this year tomorrow, 3 days worth at decent rates yipee. Lets hope theres more to follow on the domestic side as all the bloody sites are shut.

Do ya work on your tod Danny