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Just skimmed a HSL last week and went back this morning to drop the key off. It's all dried nice apart from one wall looks ******! The wall was sh.it hot when I left it but it's dried darker than it should be with white spots on it! Only small spots, like freckles! But loads of them! It feels...

Just about to buy a new trowel and I'm looking at the Marshalltown with the gold blade, anyone got any quick reviews before i buy?

Ive just bought a rendergun but it doesn't have the fitting to connect the rendergun to the air line. Anyone know where I can get this from? It's not the standard clip in thing. Anyone know where I can get the correct air hoses from? The one I have isn't very long. Can anyone recommend a good...

I was putting second coat on sand and cement render yesterday and got a sh.it load in my eye! Ended up having to go hospital for HOURS while they turned my eye a nice shade of illuminous green. By the time I got back it was too dry and hard for my feather edge and to be rubbed up!! Where I had...

Anyone used a rendergun? What you think of them? Save time or a waste of time?

Anyone know what compressor? where the best place to hire the compressor from? how much approx. to hire the compressor? for a rendergun.

Anyone have any idea why new plaster has blown from new render? Its not my work that's blown, just been asked by someone so I thought I'd get a bit of input from you guys

At the minute I only S&C rendering. If anyone has any krend, weber, EWI ect. In or near Manchester let me know, I'll help for free.

Any one tried putting tomatoe sauce in board finish?

Just been to price a job rendering a 3 bed semi, he already had a spread start it, front of house has been beaded and part scratch coat. He told me the other spread took half his materials and ****** off he's never seen him again.Should I be concerned why the other spread ****** off?

same job as my last thread (WOW! Some people are ******) Got there this morning started getting set up to knock the last bit of render off and theres a guy in the pub garden he shouted me and said "who gave you permision to put the scaffolding up?" i told him the owner of the house. He said im...

Hacking of the render today off the back of a terraced house next door to a pub! The started at 10 and got right up by 10:45, then the woman that owns the pub came out and moved the trampoline in the garden right next to the dcaffolding and sends her kids playing on it! I went round and tried to...

Any one tried thermacoat? I got an email today about thermal skim.

Anyone got one lying around they want to sell?

I'm not a damp expert so just wondering if any of you guys could give me some advice. I went to have a look at a job this morning, the render has blown on one wall and it has been patched up so many times it's hard to even count how many times it's also full of cracks. On that wall inside there...

How many metres are you guys on site covering a day, one your own? Skimming, float and set etc.

Why do I get the dick head customers? after my 'tiles removed' post I've got another one! He wouldn't let me get materials because he wanted to buy them from different places to make it cheaper! Lol 10m2 rendering, told him exactly what to get. Got there this morning he only got 2 bags of sand...

I work on my own and mainly do domestic work. I've been looking at buying a ritmo. Is it worth buying one for the sort of work I do? Once I have finished doing this nvq so I can get my CSCS card I will be looking into site work as well.

Has anyone tried them plasterboard hoists off eBay? Just boarded and skimmed a 14'x16' ceiling today! I AM feeling the pain!!

What do you lads find easiest to fill in where tiles have pulled the plaster off the wall? Id usually use multi finish but I got a s**t load to fill in tomorrow, just wondering if there's anything quicker? (I wanna get it done early and **** off lol)

Do you know any cheap websites for bulk materials? I don't mean 1000 skim beads etc. by "bulk" more like 50 beads, boxes of scrim, PVA ect. Any websites that do good deals if you buy a few different things at once?

Do you know any cheap websites for bulk materials? I don't mean 1000 skim beads etc. by "bulk" more like 50 beads, boxes of scrim, PVA ect. Any websites that do good deals if you buy a few different things at once?

I need to try and get my website on the first page of google for plasterer Manchester and other related search terms. Any tips or advice from the people who have already achieved this?

Anyone tried one of these speedskim's just came across a video on YouTube and had a look on there website.

How do you lads go about getting site work? I mainly just get private work or factory offices etc. Do you get much site work and what's the rates like?I want to try getting into site work for when the private works a bit quite!

Whats the pros and cons of going LTD? Is it best to be LTD or a sole trader?

How do you lads do it? Ive had enough of excel now, there must be an easier way. Don't really want to use an accountant at the minute cause things are a bit slow lol can only just about pay myself...

What the **** is GOLDCOMB!?!?!?! Lmfao!!!