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    reskim

    first point i never said a reskim in 2 days more like 5 but your standard semi on new work any spread and lab should knock it out in 2 days i dont care what your saying the only people who argue about this are the ones who cant hack it, i know a spread who is old 68 and still works on site and...
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    reskim

    the one and only time a ritmo will be faster on then by hand is when there is a complete tool on the hawk and trowel trying to slap multi on.
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    reskim

    why will it? example today boarded a 3 bed house out, upstairs three beds bathroom and onsuite plus cupboard, 16 boards on ceiling you telling me a decent spread cant get them ceilings on in one with lab mixing etc? any day of the week. i dont want no fair ups starting on the forum but here is...
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    reskim

    i dont know where you come up with this s**t, on site a spread and lab will knock a too bed house out in 2-3 days so if its a overskim etc a hard 5 days 300 for lab and 900 for spead sorted one spread 14 days to do a 2 bed house is it a tardis or something
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    tool on diy sos

    thats the one
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    tool on diy sos

    did anyone see diy sos the other night i think it was a house in st helens for some bird, i swear they were using a compressed air screw gun that fired them in fast as f**k. ive had a google but cant find nothing. anyone see the show or heard about a screwgun like this?
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    Order of working

    are you a plasterer?
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    Who to use for Liability Insurance

    £4 quid a month id check to see exactly what is covered and read the small print really closely
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    14.4v or 18v li-ion makita screw gun?

    can you get your hand round the handle comfitably rich?
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    14.4v or 18v li-ion makita screw gun?

    hilti sd5000 with the smd 57 nosing everything else is just a toy!
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    anyone fancy being in a magazine

    its aimed at everyone tradesmen learning about new products, homeowners that want to have a bash themselves or homeowners that use the magazine as a refference to see what standard the work should be done to then when they employ a trademan they know what they should be having done, kirk im just...
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    anyone fancy being in a magazine

    hey guys, some people i know are starting a magzine similar to the american publication fine homebuilding (google it) as there is nothing similar in the uk. they are currently reading the first issue for publication and they are startting articles for the next couple of issues. features in the...
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    Site work

    100m2 a day is easily achievable its just down to how you work. how many lads sit down with a butty or a fag etc after they have laid down their walls. all the big hitting spreads are using that time to bead/tape etc other areas or load bags up etc etc. you have to be efficent at every aspect...
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    Site work

    site rates have dropped accross the board i know brickies getting 450 a thousand two years ago now getting 175 ouch. just the way it is.
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    dashing

    yea i think its around seven quid up here, or 260 for a big grab bag
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    dashing

    cheers church, just been p[ricing up i hope i get the job because i havnt done any dashin in yonks will make a nice change
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    dashing

    its a bunaglow kirky and wants it to match the one next door which has just been re done, so dont think im going to get much of a chance to change the ladys mind. no not been to keyline yet cheers dfella.
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    this is our trade

    i agree with you kirk i do, but who is goling to pay to have cornice run when they can use the money towards that new 60 inch led tv. the world is changing pal people dont want skilled craftsman in there homes they want to buy a house quick lick of paint themselves from b and poo then sell it...
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    concrete

    have you done the standard concrete finish church or do you mean a more terrzo (spelling) effect where you can polish it up with different aggrigates and pigments. (i cant spell to save my life by the way)
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    dashing

    can anyone reccomened a good supplier of stone for dashing in nw preton area? propbably going to be canterbury spa but the client has not decided yet
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    my day out

    out of curiousity steve how come you got into plastering? i only did it because me dad made me. which i had gone to uni or something though.
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    my day out

    yea i understand what your saying steve but if you choose to do this job you might as well try to enjoy it. you might be doing it for another forty years yet.
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    Grand wizard

    happy birthday grand.
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    my day out

    hi guys, woke up late yesterday morning and had an email from a mate saying national homebuilding show was on at nec. but it was too late for me to get there. so headed over to john boddys timber in north yorks to get myself some sweet chesnut for a hall mirror and some oak to make a bed frame...
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    what would you do

    sorted finally managed to talk her into knocking everything off then mr board dabbed on.
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    what would you do

    thats what i would do but she wont have it wants wet plaster, but because she dont want it skimming just unsure what to use. has anyone tiled over hardwall/ or bonding coat without skim?
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    i gave a quote today

    is that not the price to build the extension not plaster it
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    what would you do

    she is a pain in the arse. wants it all doing behind the bath so no battern, they have a friend who is a "builder" you want see her extension he did lol. and they just do everything he says. so no battern round the wall and i dont know if she will go for the hack everything else off idea i will...
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    what would you do

    been asked to do a job for a good friend, which as usual she wants doing on the cheap. its a bathroom that has been hacked off about half way up some of the walls the rest of the old sand and cement is stable. she wants me to re plaster the missing bits then a thin coat on top of all the old as...
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    shoe size

    Lol I was six foot before leaving primary school now I'm six five and size 15 feet its kind of a disability I'm tellin ya
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    shoe size

    just out of curiousity anyone here goty size 14 or bigger feet if so what steel toe cap boots do you wear and where do you get them from. im sick of having sore feet from bad fitting shoes.
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    main contractors discount?

    you ever done anything for plasterplus steve?
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    A little bit of luck

    lol he owns the firm
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    A little bit of luck

    lol they take it off for holiday pay twelve and a half percent you do get it back though eventually, well i did who did you speak to at plaster plus?
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    A little bit of luck

    thirty two point five percent stoppages and watch out for that adam potts
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    A little bit of luck

    plaster plus oh dear oh dear run as fast as your legs will carry you
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    photos

    bit harsh flat boy skim
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    dash render

    who you working for down south kirk? did you used to work at p t corkhills
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    anyone need a hand???????????

    shocking init steve but that what the lads at are firm get, or just fifty a day and two of them will load up four big three storys slave labour, they should get some of them boom trucks they have in the states
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    artex

    Dont need to know anything cheers diggler was just curious as to how much work you guys were doing with artex, heard a rumour redrow still use it on new build cant be true though can it?
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    artex

    how many of you guys get asked to do new work in artex, or 'blending' in. just been asked to do two ceilings in a house first time in a couple of years for me.
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    joddy mixer

    cheers boys i thought it might be easier when dabbing a house out on your own through some drywall adhesive in and let it mix whilst your cutting boards up
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    joddy mixer

    just out of curiousity anyone mixed dry wall adhesive or soundcoat in one of these?
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    Spot Boards

    tool station sell them cheap with a mdf top thrown in
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    my ceiling

    looks ok that kirk, you will have to spin a ceiling rose next and post that so we can all have a look
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    another price cut

    personally on new build i think spreads and tackers/dabbers should be on the same wage, if you think about it by the time you load up all these awkward three storys blue noard every where insulate everywhere then ten other different boards around the house foam superlines on rakes and all that...
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    Ricky Tomlinson AKA Jim Royal

    im sorry but no one from blackpooll can call preston a dump i get depressed just thinking about bkpool
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    fiat doblo

    i know what you saying bruce but i cant knock mine not had a problem with it yet. when i get tax rebate in summer i will be getting a new van thinking along the lines of a lwb medium roof transit then get a erbaspacher diesiel heater in so i can have the van defrost itself on a timer in winter...
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    scagliola

    dont suppose you could elaborate a bit more on it grand just found it mooching on the net and i quite fancy having a bash in the garage trying to make something
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    scagliola

    anyone ever done any of this? long shot im just curious it seems to be quite a rare thing
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