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He certainly sounds like a dodgy tradesman to me. What difference does it make to him having the cash in this day and age, a bank transfer usually clears instantly, and certainly within 24hrs. He sounds like quite a small outfit to me and is probably not vat registered, so him adding vat would...

Alrite peeps, Just wondering has anybody ever used this stuff or even heard of it? ta.

Yellow pages are making all of the books smaller, so the size of the page will be about 70% of what it was so the advert that you may have used before may not be as effective because all the type will be slighty smaller. Also all the free line entries will be at the back of the book in...

well buy 5 then

board finish is cheaper than multi in Wickes

A shell suit, i'm a chav!!

I went on a weeks course 6 years ago, started on my own straight after it and haven't looked back since. I'd consider myself on a par with any other plasterer, and a damn sight better than a lot of them. This trade is not the mystery people make it out to be, afterall you need no certs to go and...

Oh well, just one of those things on the first one. The second one, when a client tells you the price that previous plasterers have just quoted, she is going to turn out to be a complete and utter t&%t, I effin hate that!!

looks neat mate

Just do it in 2 hits, simples!

Remove coving, overboard and skim, and cove. I've had similar things before, usually go tits up in the end mate.

grow weed in it, good sparky, and good extraction you'll make a fortune!!

errrm, bg website

Certainly since the last data sheet came out whenever that was. Must say, I thought it always did say that.

they must have changed the goalposts then

At £3/m might as well 2 coat it i reckon. I would like to know where it says the it can be put on in one coat, Bg don't say that and to my knowledge the standard doesn't either.

no it wasn't

Just bung the first layer on top of the studs, they do not need to be cut as said, they can just sail over the studs, the firts layer is only for creating extra depth, then the top layer board a normal.

As owls said, never work for friends and family, it's a simple as that, they all take the piss, you end up losing your rag in the end. I just say i'm too busy when they ask.

100m2 at £2.50? Thats £250, unless you and a labourer can do it in a day, which i doubt going over someone elses boarding, vaulted ceilings, reveals etc.. I would walk from that one. If the builders are doing the boarding it will almost certainly by garbage. "the plasterer can sort that out"...

Some people just aren't willing to accept anything that is different. Are some people saying that it is ok to to use a sponge when you are in the crap? If sponging gives an inferior finish, it is ok to leave an inferior finish if you are in the crap? Sounds like the sponge thing works for some...

done the site thing, never again, to much hard work to earn anything decent, to many effin idiots as well

Put a watermark on all your pics, stop any of that next time.

I would be quoting for removing coving, overboarding, skimming, re coving it, and decorating it afterwards. No need for a joiner to do the boarding. Insurance work is a good chance to actually make some decent money for change. Normally the insuarnce company agree to the price, pay the home...

While there is no real requirement for plasterers to have any sort of qualification to do domestic work we are gonna be grafting our behinds off for ever more. There are far too many fly by night plasterers working for peanuts for my liking.

If I am working domestics, depends on what sort of job it is, more often than not big hits aren't always possible in a 2 bed semi skimming a box room, so just take it steady, get you price right and your fine. It's about quality not about how many empty bags you have at the end of a day. I'm...

nice work tony

Always scarf, the one sits on the other, I find it much easier to hide joins. Scribe the corners, if you don't already, and you'll save loads of time that way.

Ended up meshing it all and going on top of that, worked out ok. Cheers for the input peeps.

Free with Santander. Business accounts make life very simple when it comes to the end of year, and if you ever had the unfortunate problem of being investigated by the tax man he would rip you to shreds unless you were squeaky clean and able to seperate your personal and business affairs...

cheers guys. Would it be ok to put a tight coat of render on top of the painted render? Just a though. Ta

I never work for landlords unless i can meet the tenant as well, i'm sick of being messed about, the landlord never lets the tenant know when you a due to start the work!!!!!!

Why is there a pic of him holding a fish?? And he looks a bit like john gregory. What a tool!!!

E. Ask the audience F. Phone a friend

Most of us will be dead in 10 years time carrying on grafting like this, so i wouldn't be worrying about what happes in 20. This time next year customers will be charging us for pluging our mixers in as well, it won't be long before we're paying the customer!! In 20 years time we won't be...

Most of us will be dead in 10 years time carrying on grafting like this, so i wouldn't be worrying about what happes in 20. This time next year customers will be charging us for pluging our mixers in as well, it won't be long before we're paying the customer!! In 20 years time we won't be...

Hi, Been asked to render an area of about 10m2 over existing render. The exisitng render is completely sound, the bloke just don't like the finish. He after a smooth render. It has a couple of corners. I was going to scutch the area for a key, sbr, and 5;1 mix on top. Will this be ok? Cheers

They will still expect a decent job to be done no matter what the price is. If there are plenty of good runs to go at and your labourer is decent, flattening down, beading, (turning up for work!!!) etc.. you'd be able to knock plenty out in a day. Good luck