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Hi Paulydoodle are you keen to do mixing and learning? I'm based in Hornchurch and been plastering for 32 years and do work all over East london and Essex, just finishing a loft and house alterations in Cranham this week but start an Extension in Brentwood next week where i may need someone if...

Plastering/skimming on Artex is all about timing, i use to detest going over Artex when Multi first come out around 20 years back and nothing worse than when you keep trowling up and feel your not getting anywhere and your still trowling when it's changing colour, call me sad but i actually...

At £11 a bag its cheaper to use PVA and Multi, £5.50 a bag i may think about it.

Same here, knocking up for 2 price workers for years, £15 a day, over the moon and felt like a millionaire when I went up to £25 a day lol

I know but every shop these days seems to sell the red rubber handles.

Bring back the old wooden handles, so much better than all that rubber stuff, Hawks as well.

My local B&q is a mess with split Multi bags everyday, but as stated you have to twist them as their stuck with a lttle bit of glue, it you lift them then they tear, apart from that the actual Multi itself is lovely to use of late so well done BG.

I got one last week and have used it a couple of times, i've read the many threads on here re the speedskim and i'll have to give it a thumbs up, i just use it after i've applied my 2nd coat once, it's a lot quicker than a first trowel for sure, it's only really suitable on big areas, anything...

Always have used boards myself, i do mainly domestic which involves covering carpets with dust sheets, can imagine it would be very dangerous working on Stilts and dust sheets.

Surely the people with the most posts on here are the ones never at work :)

Sting & Andy Summers from Police and more recently the Reading ex Arsenal @ Man City goalkeeper Stuart Taylor

I use Multi on all backgrounds, i'm based in Essex and it seems the best it's been in years at mo especially since the bags have the advert on them with the new plaster coming out.

I've never had a problem rendering straight onto dashing as long as it's solid, you can't get a better key going onto stone.

Building sand always liable to crack more, I know of some spreads who put a couple shovels of sharp in with Building/pit sand, I've always stuck with Soft wash, harder to use but goes a lot stronger. Leighton Buzzard goes solid on the wall but I've always found its a fecker to use.

Thanks irish_spread, funnily enough that's the sand i'm using for the scratch coat at mo, it is quite white for soft wash so will give it a go, cheers mate.

Mainly do inside work as it's what i prefer but have done loads of Rendering jobs before in my time but cos you can never rely on weather mainly stick to interior, got a small rendering job come up and the customer wants the old rustic look(flat render that looks white) i know to use Snowcrete...

I've just ordered some from here :- Everbuild Super Scrim Joint Tape 50mm x 90m White

Deffinetly mate, leave the spounging as long as possible, and as warriorupnorth says, try not to get on it early and move it about too much when rubbing up.

We tend to Rule/travis the 2nd Coat before we rub up, too many people just trowel it on now, quick rub over and spounge for quickness, it's obvious the sunlight will show the humps and bumps then.

lol, I signed on over the xmas period while having a couple of weeks off, been plastering 26 years and said to them sort me out to get one of the CSCS Cards then, they even laughed and said don't bother they're a waste of time and they'll be gone soon.

I've earnt decent money in the past, been in the the game 28 years now, Domestic work in January and February i'd say are the worst two months, admittedly i'm use to getting the £150 a day but at the moment when bills need to be payed you tend to notice if you keep asking for that rate you'll...

Trade Point at B&Q lol, My local B&Q now have all the Builders white vans parking at the main entrance, it's chaos..! I understand to get a trade point card you have to be VAT Registered, not all builders are, the other day i had to get ten 8ft plasterboards on trolley to load up on van, store...

Which then if both frame and wall are out you then have to decide what to do, generally i split it. I've always been taught side beads first.

So for those that put the head beads up first supposing the window is out of level, do you run your side beads level with the window or with the wall? If the way your saying and the window frame which sometimes happens is out of level your side beads may well not meet up with your head bead...

Are there any good sites online to order bulk fibre tape and beads, just paid around £4.80 for a roll of fibre tape in B&Q, years ago there was a place around the Wisbech area, Cambridgeshire where i oderered bulk beads/PVA and fibre tape but have lost their contact details, anyone with any...

Can't see you needing one with Domestic work, i've been in the game 25 years and learnt of the old man who's still working with me, 90% our work come from recommendations, i very much doubt even in 2020 my customers are going to ask me if i've got an NVQ, i stilll advertise in the local rag and...

I agree, complete waste of time, obviously it was one coat in which took four or five people where one person on their own would/should do it in the same time without the machine.

The problem could be where it's a new forum they could be using a new database, in which case yours and everyones old user names will have been deleted, try re-registering with your old user name, i did and am now waiting to be activated by a moderator.