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    skimming instead of taping and filling

    Was only really doin it thursday friday to help a mate out, worked well cos it's been peein dow both days.Did a few ceilings and a few rooms downstairs. second wall i did i asked him what he thought and he walked over and slapped water over it and started floating it( he left it worse than it...
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    skimming instead of taping and filling

    skimmin over plasterboard aye its a piece of piss, never even looked at youtube beforehand. is that what you boys do?
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    skimming instead of taping and filling

    For the last week i have been putting multi finish onto gyproc instead of tapin an fillin, never tried it before but my god it's so easy is it not?
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    I have just taken on an apprentice ..... oh my god !!

    Cheers bigsegs, by no means was i takin the p*ss or anything, thought it was all plasterer's on here as only recently have i joined and never really had a chance to look through whole site to see what the crack was. So if i have offended anyone i apologise.
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    I have just taken on an apprentice ..... oh my god !!

    This forum is a bit mental is it not?? surely someone that has been at college for a year must learn something? If you have the slightest bit of common sense then you will pick thing's up after a day of doing it.. Then you read other post's on here about (plasterers) not knowing how much to...
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    What type of beads for rendering arched areas?

    I did a portico not that long ago with four arched window openings and a door opening. Had to do inside, outside and the reveal all in same day. I used hardboard to form a natural curve and it worked a treat..
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    wet dash roughcast

    That's all i ever used to do, the old 321 but a few years ago the company i worked for had major problem's with cracking roughcast, was a very stressful time for me cos everyone thought i was the cause of it. Turn's out it was the block company's fault and there was to much calcium...
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    wet dash roughcast

    Have you used k-rend roughcast? it say's to mix up enough roughcast you need for the day but that's near impossible i think when your putting on about 25 to 30 bag's of reciever by hand beforehand. I mix two bag's of cast at a time then slap it on straightaway but after a job's done there's...
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    wet dash roughcast

    Hi there folk's, new to this forum stuff so bear with me. Getting into a bit of the roughcasting stuff and was wondering if many of you do it or do you talk the client into the smooth stuff? or am i on the wrong forum and are you all just inside worker's?
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