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What's everyone paying for multifinish at the moment Multi in my local merchants just gone up to £10.20 a bag

Brought refina cordred one Saves so much time and takes the pressure off I still go over it with hand float after but takes main bulk of work out of it

this year has been a nightmare with customers not being ready walking in to bedrooms to skim them and all their stuffs still in their floors covered in clothes turned up to do a bedroom ceiling last week customer had forgot i was coming and filled the room with new bathroom suit and kitchen...

thats it iv had about 8 the last few years all lazy or jack the lad n all mouthy this ones polite quiet but just doesn't think ahead without me telling him so

thats it hes only young so knows nothing a really nice lad but i feel more stressed having someone working for me than without

having spent many years working on my own i decided to employ a labourer had him a few months with intention of teaching him to plaster but now it feels like im having to work double hard t o cover his wages althou it makes life abit easy sometimes i sometimes wonder if would be easier just...

never had no dealings with weber monocouche renders anyone recommend any training courses

4 tpf mugs in that pile is my guess

Ohh will have to do some research as never seen or heard of the stuff

Is that just done with standard s&c

The desired finish

Fooking phone Got a job coming up with a render finish that iv not seen before Just dunno how to attach photo to thread for you to see As need advice on how to finish to match

Finishing

normally just soak em with water out of spray bottle but really is drawing in fast any one use pva or any other ways

naaa unfortunately where has been hacked of the brick faces have been damaged

got a bungalow to render has been render originally to floor covering dpc its all been hacked of so needs rendering again above and below dpc going to run a belldrip bead along the dpc line wen rendering the underneath aint sure weather is going to bridge the dpc any way around it ?

how do you all work out your scaffold costs iv got a regular company i use but without keep hassling them for prices for potential jobs any one have a method

yer i went to look yesterday where the electrician had fitted them the holes were about 2 the size needed to be and they sat proud of the plasterboard

just been to look at job iv got to start in next few weeks and they have had flush fit down lighters fitted exactly the same as https://www.dusklights.co.uk/kitchen-lighting/downlights/astro-5655-blanco-square-recessed-interior-downlight.html but they have to be fitted in ceiling first as...

anyone else having a mentally hectic time at the moment work just keeps piling in getting on average about 10 calls a week with people wanting work carried out dont get me wrong cant complain that are busy but it dont half get stressful

anyone use this for their invoicing if so is it any good or is it costly

it just made me think earlier today wen went to look at a few jobs by the time id finished i'd used up 4 hours of my time and driven 50 miles

i just wasnt sure if was a 80s early 90s thing

i no i myself have it in my adverts call for a free quote but was there ever a time wen quotes weren't free and how much did people used to charge

when spraying multi do you still 2 coat ? or does the machine apply it to heavy for two coats ?

i've noticed its been very glupy does not trowel up like it should do always ends up needing an extra trowel

had one call me asking to price up a ceiling for a lady who was aboard go there get told its just ceiling so price up for it don't look at the walls or any other areas get given the ladys number to call with the price ring her up give her the price and this is putting right another...

seems strange dont it all seems a bit gulpie to me

ever since the new bags with the uni finish ad on the gears become playdoughie if makes sense just setting weird they aint getting unfinished in with the multi are they ?

sound thank you was just double checking as gotta give a rough estimate dont wanna go short

just a quick one is it 3 meters of coverage per bag ? its been a while

thanks for the advice pretty much summed up what i was expecting to hear thankfully

i no its not really plastering related but been asked to price for repointing gable end of a 2 storey house done a fair bit of re pointing over the years buts its got an old bitumen style dpc which has seen better days just the pointing above and below the dpc is shot to bits and needs...

yer i had actually forgot about them ill give em ago see if there sands any better

your local where do you get your sand from my local place only see that red sand

what ratio do you use for the butter coat i dunno wether its just the **** sand but can never seem to butter the mix up enough to hit a big section before throwing the stones just seems to draw the life outta it and sometimes struggle to get stones to stick p.s i hate pebble dash at the...

in brighton the monday after pride a **** stained rubber with hair on the kitchen worktop me old boss went mad at the customer

i bought a cheap multi tool cutter from screwfix think i payed 60 quid ideal for jobs like that as in my opinion it limits he dust and mess

Naaa they where alright only ordered few bits though

bit of a stupid question but as iv never used it does it go on to bricks and become finished product or is it just top coat on top of s&c

used them once never had no problem

theres a major difference between a course plasterer and time served being time served you come across alot of different problems on the job and learn ways to get around them you get trained in every aspect of plastering float & set s&c screeding the lot read stories on facebook with...

you've just got to look at some of the groups on facebook to see some the stuff that goes on in the world of plastering the stories of people doing the courses and setting up business so can imagen be alot out there that struggle to do a days work properly

dont go cheap on a mixer get a good quality mixer and it should last you a good few years being able to change the bushes when worn

cant imagine with the gear on the beads are going to bed otherwise if that was the cause the fire wouldn't be made out of metal

Van finally got signs on

naaa for some reason on my hone can only read tpf cant comment as dont give the option

ill have a look in to it at the moment the hand application side of things is more important to learn to me as dont have a machine

i would put picture up of my van but i still cant upload on here looks good althou just basic they stand out

im from down south live near brighton yer iv looking around the net and on here trying to research as much as possible