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dont think i ever said hello so i thought i would just get it out the way now ;)

had a call earlier, woman wants a price so i tell her i am working away but will be back on friday eve and will call to give her a price. she said that it will have to be before 6 oclock because thats when they settle down for the night. so i say it will be better if i call on the weekend then...

have any of you guys made any, i had to make a scratcher today and i got carried away and made a corner trowel too :)

working away from home, so to stop myself getting board i am doing more work of an afternoon, i got the upstairs of a pub to do next to the pub i am staying in ;) see you all in 3 hours

who has got there van done? i am getting my new van done an sat :)

its p!ssing down and i am stuck down hear! we will have to bead up all day IN THE FEKIN RAIN >:(

i did a job on the weekend, it was a reskim on a livingroom... any way i asked the fella if he wanted me to do something abit different to the fireplace, and run the corners with a template i had made last friday (sunken ovolo. once he seen them he wanted the same on his window wall which we had...

sometimes it isnt worth using them when you can just build out to wood

there are a number of ways to form them, how do you guys do them ?

if you want to set gypsum faster just add some portland cement ;D

a customer got this by mistake for me the other day, it went on well with the pva roller, anyone else used this?

so lets take it back! we need to raise the bar, put some skill back into doing things! then we can get rid of all the chancres and immigrants who are stealing our work and then we can start to charge more. its all this 'im just a skimmer' that is killing the game, if everybody started to offer...

i have made a few, i bought one and reverse moulded it and i have spun one with my own metal profile, i want to start adding detail though have any of you guys done much modelling? oh and that isnt a question of how beautiful you are ;) :-*

how many of you guys do much concrete work? like stable floors that have to have all the drip runs and gulleys?

i am going to start to offer these to my customers instead of just square corners formed with skim beads :)

just trying to find out what the majority of you guys prefer to do when you are plastering a brick wall?

A GUIDE TO FITTING PAPER BOUND CORNICE First things first, you need to make the walls and ceiling as flat/level as you can, this can easily be done with some bonding and a feather edge, you might not need to do this on every job but i find when doing a re-skim this normally helps allot. next...

just did a test run today, only about 1meter and it went very well ;)

which aspect of plastering do you like the best? oh and if you say getting paid or finishing or anything of the sort then you are G**

roller or brush? i do doth, roller for flat surfaces and cut in with brush

A GUIDE TO PEBBLE DASHING [/u][/b] this is the way i do it, there are more ways and this is just one of them. i have not included mix ratios as it is best if you decide for your self Grin (i think most people use a 4-1 or something like that, i prefer something else Grin) right first things...

A GUIDE TO DOT SCREED AND FLOATING THIS IS JUST A GUIDE FORE ROSSCO & ANY OTHER NEWBIES. THIS IS NOT FOR TIME SERVED SPREADS. THIS IS ONLY THE WAY I WOULD RECOMMEND TO A NEW STARTER AND YES, THERE ARE OTHER WAYS TO DO THIS THAT WILL BE FASTER Right first things first, you can either use dots...

GUIDE FORE FORMING QUOINS (this is the way i do it, there is more than one way tough) first of all get some lengths of wood (the same thickness that you want the quoins). attach the wood horizontally around the bottom and the top of the corner you are going to work on, you will use these as...

this is the best way to find out if you are a real plasterer ;D

just spoke to a mate that still works for the firm i used to work for, prices just went down today £3.50 board+skim :o

i am going to attempt to make my own marble plaster, using white cement, lime and cement colours. but what i need to know is what polish to use to make it waterproof?

DOSE ANYBODY KNOW HOW MANY METERS YOU CAN COVER WITH 1ltr PVA IF YOU WATER IT DOWN?

Although allot of plasterers still use the term 'dot & dabbing' this method of plaster boarding is nearly extinct. on building sites across the country nearly every plasterer will be just dabbing without the use of dots because it is much, much faster and an experienced plasterer will also be...

just done my hallway ceiling today and it looks great, i have formed a handcove that is a bit of a gentle slope and this runs down to some british gypsum cornice. made up it looks the dogs nuts :)

http://www.archive.org/stream/plasteringplaind00mill#page/n95/mode/2up

JETMAN FOUND THIS LINK! THIS IS THE BOOK I HAVE BEEN BANGING ON ABOUT! http://www.archive.org/stream/plasteringplaind00mill#page/n0/mode/2up on behalf of the plasterers forum thankyou jetman :) danny can this book please have its own section as everyone will benefit

was it you?

how do you get this nice effect around the window when rendering?

when do i get my fancy new trowel mate?

what i like to do if i get a ceiling which has loose bits over old lath is take out the loose plaster (carefully) wet down the laths, then i find if you mix driwall adhesive and bonding together it sticks to the laths like shite on a stick, dont forget to push hard enough to send the plaster...

has any of you ever tried this?

http://www.donhead.com/plastering_millar.htm

what is it? what dose it do? how do you use it?

got a phone call over the weekend and this fella i have done loads of work in the past for asked me if i could render the gable side of one of his houses for him, but then he went on to say some mate of his is a surveyor and he recomends i use thermal render. i have never used anything apart...

do you guys skim around, take screws out or take off completely whem re'skiming ?

most people work to live but i find i live to work? i just love plaster. how about you guys, is it all about money or do you love your job?

do you guys lay screeds when floating or just rule the wall flat? i always lay screeds

i dab them on but i used to nail them on

do you guys think that it would be a good idea to have a section were you can ask any question about plastering and only get good advice also no (french word) taking, it will be watched by the mods and anything not to do with the question will be deleted, a little part of the forum were there is...

i went to look at a job today that another plasterer has done, its a render finished with a brush pattern. the other spread has done a shite job and the fella wants me to go over the top but he dont want to pay to knock it all off, just wants me to go over the top. the problem is i dont think...

Do we all agree that pva becomes slightly live once wet?

whats the best way to go about making one of these? i was going to set 1/4'' stop beads around the room and round it in with hardwall then skim it ???

why dont we use lime plastering anymore? dont realy know much about it but if you guys enlighten me i would be very grateful ;)

why are we all sat in on the computer when we should be at work? the recession must still be on :(

£6.50 m2 skimming only anyone interested its nationwide work for BT