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    2 people on a machine

    I would say a least 3 and I have done a lot of machine work two would be a ball ache
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    Getting a bit more on

    I work on housing scheme 2 and 1 gang we do a four bed in 4 days 510 metres I reckon we could do it in 3 days if we wanted but standard would drop there is a Romanian gang here who do two in 5 days standards decent but I know the one coat we had one coaters before and had to to do a lot of...
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    How do I link up with a plastering gang?

    Fake it till you make it sure ur not fast but not all plasterers get fast its about doing what you do well enough to get paid
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    How do I link up with a plastering gang?

    If I were you I would say I have 2 to 3 years experience I have got work In pub but those days are gone asking on site s a good way or adds online is the modern way I just finished a job on site I have been in ten months housing development off a add I had on gumtree hard to believe I know
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    Young ens

    I work on site with 6 plasterers youngest is 36 and I dont any under that age and I know a lot of plasterers and haven't meet a apprentice in ten years the younger generation don't want to know and who could blame them
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    A weather thread to moan in.

    I am hoping for lots of rain as have lots of inside s to do and hate being outside in winter
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    Retirement

    My body knows because my mind tells it
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    Retirement

    49 and still working on site 5 days a week I don't work weekend I think ur body needs a rest every week working 7 days is madness on ur body
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    Floating methods

    I float on almost a daily bases done about 70 metres today slow day one wall was 30 on it's own I have a 6 foot 6 straight edge kill suction with water put on screed one way then the other float up when ready it's not rocket science but when u do it daily it hard on body
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    You ever had a trowel

    I have a ntinues like that could never skim with it and it's 10 year s old done tons of sand and cement only came good a few months ago lovely skimming trowel now
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    Oldest house basher on site

    I started with nothing and now I own two trowel s and s bucket to put them in
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    Quoins

    I just use timber prop them in a few places just till adhesive takes on the
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    Quoins

    No bother prop them to or there weight will pull them of
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    Quoins

    I have fitted these before many times the company's that supply normal have a resin to fit then with but the last ones i done we used tile adhesive there still on 3 years later of course plasterer help s keep then there we set up a latte on wall to sit them on only do two on 3 at a time let set
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    SBR

    I dont water it down its watere enough me think s
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    SBR

    I paint it on and put it in mix if that helps stevieo
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    Should of paid his £600 wages

    Haveing went home maney a Friday without money i know how the lad feels promises promises and all that in my experience most builder s are c**ts cant beat working for Joe soap he has ur money before u start
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    People boarding

    Thats what i thought giveing it big man on here
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    People boarding

    Do u really talk to customer s like that
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    Who on here actually has a trade

    I have a trade but u an have it free of charge i am sick of it
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    Flu Jab

    I get it every year cant see why u wouldn't want to prevent sickness i use to get the worst flus last for weeks got pneumonia out of one get a jab for that now to
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    Need a nick name for business

    Toss pot plastering
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    What are you paying/being paid. Labourers/trainees

    You have a agreement he gets cheap labour and you get a trade which will pay off very soon i started in the 80s on 60 pounds a week i made a lot of money since then so stick it out till ur ready to go by the way you say your not good enough standard yet but he gets ur work passed
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    Why on earth

    Seen worse from sparks
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    Speed skim

    I started useing speedskim a couple of weeks ago brilliant to level with think it would take practice to finish with wouldn't fancey it
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    Conor vs Khabib

    Speaking as a Irish man conor is not well liked over here he s a scumbag and what he done in America proved it hope he gets s**t kicked out of him
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    Interesting skills

    Ceiling rose dident look that hard just build it out then screed it easey enoughe not rocket science i have done a lot of coin work and cuting stuff out off sand and cement not that hard once u have a plan it s all just seting out just like any plastering its repatriation like any job the more u...
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    Cheap way to stop Damp...in bomb shelter?

    What ever u do on the inside it will always be damp in my experience see its the clay fill needs a drain around outside and needs stone back fill a couple of feet out from wall big job i know but its that or live with the damp
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    Speed skim or big trowl

    I used a speed skim today for first time very impressed how well the flattens out the wall looks so much better not sure what size it is about1200
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    Little mixer

    I bought these collomix the yellow one in late 90s and the blue one about 2000 both work perfect if i had a pound for every bag of skim the mixed as the always worked in 2 and one gangs sometimes 3 and one mixing up to twenty bags a day at busy times there big money but buy god the last
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    Just back!

    Thats nice bringing your boyfriend and girlfriend on holiday
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    What made you choose plastering

    Prostitution was a none runner for me haveing no c**t and being butt ugly so perfect for plastering cause i am a c**t
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    The invasion

    I know its not the preferred option these days but i think if a few of these migrant boats were machine gunned that would be the end of it crisis over or second option put them back on boat to there own country
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    Becoming a plasterer?

    Do what i do and do what you want.dont ask other people to make up your mind for you because there s always someone whos going to tell you dont fo it because there back hurts or elbow s f**k*d or the walked on a nail moaning is a big part of plastering belive me because i love a good moan
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    Were spats and the like available 30 plus years ago

    I started plastering in the 80s my boss gave me a old mt trowel of his 11 inch i think that was the norn trowel in those days never seen a spat back then you had two trowel s back then at the most a bucket and a plunger and a few hand tools most trades men then went to work in a car ownley the...
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    Work out materials

    And he dose tarmac to when he s there
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    dear danny

    Dear danny i cant understand andy g posts you see i was only thought normal everday English in school so i am a bit behind the times is there a andy g spelling hand book i can buy plus i am a bit worried about his mental health
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    Carbon Steel

    My cock feels lovely to hold to but i wouldn't try useing him to skim
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    Straight from bucket or spot-board?

    I find a spot board a lot faster plus i broke my wrist years ago and i find it hurts if i work out of a bucket for some reason
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    Anyone left the game only to return???

    Just when i think i am out it pulls me back in
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    Where shall we put the portaloo?

    Well named the bio dome we call it
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    Where shall we put the portaloo?

    Ours is already 30 degrees
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    What time do you start work in the mornings

    Start at 7 finished at 3 30
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    Ltd or not?

    Had a few companies in past need to be doing a couple of hundred grand to be worth the bother tbh
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    Who doesn't love a bit of sausage on a Thursday

    Stop grooming your men poor f**k**s
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    How much concrete

    Theres lots of concrete calculators online
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    Feeling good today

    Not sure no understandable
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