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You can't stick it with plasterboard adhesive as it won't stick. You could level it with dab then screw through each dab with screw and washer but that's alot of time and effort to save a small amount of money. The customers paying so what does it matter

Which product you using? 18 days for 1 man or 2 of you?

You need to tape the joints and needs to be done well as only 1mm spray applied

Out of interest how many days labour in total to prep, spray and sand?

Pva it, bonding coat then skim

Decent on internal curves

Its very quick for a full house and not labour intensive. Couple of days to prep it all tape up windows, tape and bead, then a few days to spray it all. It'll never catch on though, expensive machine, and only good for empty houses

We said self employed not a company owner. Self employed overheads are virtually nothing. Van and van insurance just the same as anyone needing a car and car insurance to get to work. Public liability 100 a year and maybe 100 pounds of tools a year on average. What other overheads are there for...

Nursery fees being a business overhead is abit of a push. Spudknit is right overheads for self employed is not much different from anyone else other than 100 public liability what's different?

Someone can't handle their Friday shandy

Have you had a fail with Pva?

Has anyone not had a product fail though. I've had a fail with green Grit to but also had fails with Pva. Every product is always going to go wrong now and then

Your cleaner charges you £17 but they don't earn £17 an hour a self employed plasterer has very little overheads earning 1k a week he'll be around for a while yet

To board and skim that is a days work for a plasterer. You're probably going to pay almost the same labour to get it plastered as you would to get them to board and plaster it

It will to a degree, and will even them out. Old ceilings joists usually 400mm apart maximum so will pull it up

Who'd be a plasterer hey. All that mostly good work and beads being a couple of mm out of line and the customers thinking about not paying. Having said that it is infuriating to look at and I don't know why they've done that with stop beads

Sorry new to forum and didn't know how to message them direct. Just saw their name and realised I've bought some stuff from them

I won't lie I don't know what they do. I bought a load of your scrim a while back though and not getting on with it it's really plasticy and if it's not in a dead straight line it won't go flat and shows even after 2 coats. Just a heads up

Sounds a decent place to work

Hi, I don't think the average tradesman is on 300 a day some are but plenty on 200 15k would be a couple of guys for over a month they'd need very long lunch breaks to drag that out

My dog would turn that down I think

Looks like water to me

How soon before you had a fire? Are the cracks only on the wall that the fire is on? Could be soot from the fire on the walls prior to plastering

Which bit is funny Spec says to use bondit I'm pretty sure

Genuinely is that the before or after photo?

Noone on a plastering site has ever heard of skim falling off moisture board & they never will. Almost 100% of plastering isn't done to spec including all of yours. BG say you should use bondit don't they?

Richard Hardy plastering if you must know

Do it right and reboard it. Will take a couple of hours and much easier to skim

Ok you're one of the old school spreads, everything better in my day kind. Tip for you, enjoy your retirement and stop worrying about plastering

If you really aren't capable of it then use a sachet of extra time. Will give you an extra 30-45mins per coat

I take it from that, that I'm the c**t? Very aggressive over abit of skim. Multi adheres fine to moisture board. Noone on here will have had or will ever have a fail on moisture board skimming straight onto it, can guarantee it.

No problem with dot and dabbing them, and no need to prime them

Is this a running joke?

Go on

The guy who did it can't render and that won't have changed since he did it I'm afraid. Just hope you didn't pay him

Theres secret bits? Intriguing

Website doesn't look good on a mobile unfortunately mate. Can barely read some of it

I've seen it all now. Same as the other replies that is the worst rendering I've ever seen I'd expect a labourer to do better

A spot board for 1 wall seems excessive

Someone having 2 jabs and still getting covid isnt unusual. Ive had 2 doses and still got covid, as did mother in law, father in law, and several friends. All still here and well thankfully

This sounds like a sore subject! I'll let myself out

Just wondered which ingredient was posion? A lot of people have had it I don't know anyone who's had more than a sore arm or slight flu like symptoms for a day

Hi, welcome

Which ingredient is poison?

Alot of long covid about

Thankyou for the warm welcome

Yep just keep going over it. As has already been said it would be a big waste of time and energy though

There's no such thing as one coat. They'll fill the joints then go back around. They'll make decent money but it'll never be on par with a decent plasterer 2 coating how the job should be done

Depends on the job. Reviews and recommendations are good for basic skimming, but if its a more specialised job such as damp or lime, looking into previous work, pictures, asking the relevant questions when they quote is important

Been plastering longer than I care to remember. Thought I'd say hello