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    British Gypsum & supply issues!!!

    Been phoning around 3 b&qs local to me every morning. But seems there attitude has changed Shoreham branch called me at 1pm said as a trade point customer they will put 10 multi aside. When I got there they had 3 pallets in the back warehouse loaded my 10 on a trolley the rest is only for...
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    Work !!!!!

    Lets hope it picks up or ill have to go out and flog my ----:RpS_laugh: No GOOD LUCK to every-one,I Mean that!
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    Work !!!!!

    Had 3 small jobs since xmas on domestic! Seems its the worst its been so bloody quite,Hows every one else doing?
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    Should Asbestos Artex Be Removed Licenced Contrators?

    This is the second job in 2 months where both customers have just brought their houses and all the ceilings were tested and they paid to have them removed!!!!
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    Check a trade

    To true mate,i'm a member myself and get plenty of work,but at the moment its def a southern thing and you said about the band wagon thing yea these s**t companys trying to copy the genuine CAT !
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    Cock ups and general mistakes!

    when to work in an upstairs flat years ago,all trades where working away in there,the spark had took up some floor boards and some bloke was chasing out the walls so plenty of dust about and never see the hole in the floor and my foot went straight through and the down stairs neighbours...
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    Nice reputation this gives plasterers...

    It was Matt,cheers:-)
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    Nice reputation this gives plasterers...

    Hi Danny,Been on your forum a couple of years now-couldn't log in with my old name!! Thanks for your comments:RpS_laugh:
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    Nice reputation this gives plasterers...

    Hello Lads,It was me,had untold agro from this neighbour over the years,and I snapped.Hopefully this will be the end of it!!!!!!
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    accelerator

    At this time of the year i take the lime out in the float coat but add water-proofer!
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    checkatrade!

    Im a member of Checkatrade,and its the dogs rollocks,as Free says it started in the south 10 years ago and its spreading fast!! The city im based all the quality trades have that CAT sticker on the van.The customer has total peace of mind knowing theyve a tradesman or woman from. ;D
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    Corrosion on carbon steel trowels

    Ive heard the 13inch marble plastering trowels are blinding for skimin as they have a bevelled edge to them!Going to try one my-self.
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    6 month old plasterboard.

    As Irish-Spread says DEF pva it mate.
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    job today

    Getting a joke aint it.Had a call today she says need a kitchen ceiling skimmed,1 wall skimmed,hole in another ceiling patch repaired and some new pipes making good,she says whats your day rate,i tell her,oh she says it wont be as long as a day!(yea right) So i say anything over 3 hours is a...
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    Unbelievable !!!

    What a Joke.Cant understand the mentality of some people :o
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    Celebrities on the job!

    Worked on Ellinsons gaff who was in 'The Bill' as DC Burnside.
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    Whole house blown. re plaster!

    Must of left the afro-comb at home!Anyway would float and set mate.
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    SBR

    So would this rendaid work over matt paint on sand and cement to give me a key for a scratch coat of sand and cement,this is for internal work,or could i use WBA?
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    screeds

    Always use screeds,2 virtical then 2 horizontal,rule them,get level on them,make sure all is plumb,fill in your boxes and rule off useing your screeds,horizontaly then verticly,job done.Easy and quick
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    What do you put in your wash bucket apart from water

    Like wise my body clock is spot on in morning cup of tea and a dump then out the door!
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    Bad feelin

    Yea been mugged off a couple of times.Just go on my instinct ;)
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    Vandex

    Hello Lads ive got a small room to vandex The walls are sand and cement with a matt paint on it.Can i vandex straight onto this and then sand and cement and skim or would i ave to pin EML to the walls first?Cheers for any replies.Matt.
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    how busy are we all now?

    The phone aint stopped ringing for me the last couple of weeks.But i would say half of them calls want some thing for nothing >:(
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    (Plastering Tool) or not......

    This is just one of them tools that will gather dust.The sort of thing that you get from one of them cataloges put through the door,but for some reason you always pick the bloody thing up to look at all the sheit init ::)
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    Lime plastering

    Cheers for that nelly ;)
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    labourers, with or without?

    Yea ive made that mistake.Good advise mate.
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    A gripe, (sorry) but not about this forum

    Yea do the decent thing ;D
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    Lime plastering

    Hello mate Yea I know on the older properties and that so they can breath But ive heard that it should be used alot more cos the cement is damaging alot of properties and causing damp!Just wanted peoples opinion really mate?
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    Lime plastering

    Any one do much of this,and does any one rekon its gonna be used more and more?Cheers for any replys Matt.
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    labourers, with or without?

    What the f happened their.Wot i meant to say was Yeh got your point.Cheers Chris!
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    labourers, with or without?

    I might be wrong but if you sighn on and as you say you can work no more then 16 hrs a week.But you have to declare above £20 quid aweek ?
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    labourers, with or without?

    Only use a labourer if really needed.When i do have one they ave to be on the go,it does my nut if their standing about while im sweating my rollocks off-you feel like battering them. ;D
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    Featheredge's

    Yea same as Jetman and Napper.
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    Merry Xmas from bondi

    MERRY XMAS FELLOW SPREADS AND AVE A GOOD ONE ;D
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    Where online to buy decent cheap PVA

    Any one tried the no-noncense pva from screwfix it is sheit like blody water
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    wall paper

    Yea I was thinking that mate ;D deff nit this one i think specialy when the place is covered with brand new dark blue carpet!! Just asking for blod trouble eh !!
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    wall paper

    Looked at a job the other day customer wants lounge skimmed, wall-papers been stuck straight onto plasterboard how easy will it come off with a steamer ? Cheers for any replies.
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    The weather

    Yea same as soon as it starts chucking it down im getting calls for rendering just priced one up today!Mad aint it ???
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    Advertising

    Hi Spredz.Check this company out.'Checkatrade.com Iam a member myself and they have over 3000 members who are all Recommended,Vetted and Monitored by the customers.Its for all different trades and mainly cover areas from Dorset to Kent and Just north of London.Def worth clicking on their website...
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    vaccum

    You aint wrong about the Earlex (NRM2007) I just got one thismorning 40 quid -and is quality!
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    vaccum

    there doing the Numatic(Henry)For 90 quid in comet ;D
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    vaccum

    Hello m8 I need a new vacuum myself How much is the Dewalt? The couple i had in mind was the Numatic 1200 watt at 120 quid or for half the price the Earlex combivac for 50 quid,they both seem pretty good for the money?
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    PRICE Check

    Nah SkyZoo have to be 150 to paint same day ;D
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    Guild of master craftsmen

    I looked at them 2 Flynnyman,But joe public wont of heard of them will they? And GMC 50/50 i spose!
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    PRICE Check

    I would have gone in at 500,2 days work . over-board ceilings day 1 skim em day 2.
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    Guild of master craftsmen

    cheers for the replys lads.
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    things that p.i.s.s u off about skimming

    ;DYea deff plaster on the hand that has to come straight off and the poxy pva again that has to come staight off ;D
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