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i have a ceiling i need plastering.it is 32sq metres , all joist are level, needs boarding and skimming. oxfordshire area. anyone help please.

says on the pot apply plaster when tacky, so all you people that plaster onto dry pva are really taking no notice of the manufacturers recoomendation, if it falls off in a years time , who's to blame ?? better to do it properly or not at all.

do as i said, but make sure you pva it properly , maybe give it 2 coats of pva , but wait until the first coat of pva is almost , but not dry. apply skim 2 coats. should'nt really be a problem.

i would give it a coat of 3-1 pva and apply new skim while tacky

never forget me roots , but as ive said always been a hawk since i started out in 1976.

im from middlesbrough , so well past the northern gap,when i left school and started my apprenticeship i was always told it was a hawk and that was from the 3 60 year old boys that trained me up.lol

had the injections 2 years ago, no problem since.

sorry i am having a brain block moment, i would'nt use hardwall in bathroom.

sorry that should say , would NOT use browning

aquapanel boards are ok in the shower area, the rest depends on wether its going to be fully tiled. i would use hardwall on the walls. better to dot and dab em. i have used bonding on the walls and tiled straight on top of that using mapei tile adhesives.but only on walls that are not going to...

how did this go, would be interseted if ever there is another trip.

the amount of time i have been in with a floor scraper and taken off a skimming coat because the walls where not solid is unbelievable, still each to there own as they say , but i would definately do as it says on the tub.

on most over skims you can pva any background using neat or 4/1 pva and it will be tacky within 30 mins to an hour, enough time to get set yourself up for skimming and maybe have a quick cuppa.as for plastering on dry pva , you wont see the problem till the custmer has either wallpapered and...

haha yes ross always a hawk, never a hand board.lol

whats the best way of getting on these council jobs, i would'nt mind a go of it myself. work is work after all.

same in a lot of places at the moment, does'nt help with xmas so close either, good luck in your search.

i know there banned in many country's because of safety reasons,i personally have never used them and i dont think i will either, hop up all the way , looks much safer.lol

thank you guys, looking forward to giving and recieving good advice

i would just use collated galvanised nails, but it depends on the area, you could plug and screw using washers , but i think the nails would hold it.

think you may be wrong on that score, just done a house where there was artexed cielings, was an insurance job after a leak, insurers would'nt let me touch it until the specialists had been in and checked it out, they came took samples and the family had to be put up in a hotel while the...

sounds like over use, a bit like tennis elbow, you need to go to docs, my guess is he will tell you to rest , maybe a good time if you have xmas holidays, to get that rest, if it dont improve, ask your doc to give you cortisone injections, had this done myself 2 years ago and have had no trouble...

you have to be careful when scrapeing artex as up until 1984 asbestos was used in artex, so alway wear protective gear,and if possible pva and skim over only.most ceilings in houses over 25 years old will probably have asbestos in the artex. i used to always scrape them back then pva and skim ...

if that was the case , then the manufacturers would say so on the tin/carton that it comes in, i have used pva all my life and regardless of the background, plaster should be applied when tacky as this gives it the bond the manufacturers are recommending, just read the back of the tin/carton ...

take it back to the blocks , eml on, then bonding and skimming coat , just make sure the eml is on flat and well secured, i have done this a few times without further troubles.

where abouts on the wall is this damp patch? up high, low to ground. ?

hi , im gordo, new to this forum , was looking for work on comp this morning and came across this site, looks great and having spent the last 2 hours looking around it , plenty of good advice and banter too. i have been plastering since i left school in 1976, did my city and guilds , glutton for...

im from the north , but have lived in the south and when i started plastering in 1976 it was always called a plasterers hawk, still the same down douth, i have no idea where handboard has come from, but never heard it in my time up north.

are stilts not banned on building sites now ?

always check the dates on the bags,anything within a month of the date on the bag has a chance of going off quickly, depends on the storage conditions, have to agree with a few posts , when they say there is the odd bag that goes off quickly,but you ave also got to make sure you dont over mix...

looking at the original question,what you should have done was put on neat pva, allow to go tacky before skimming,pva should always be tacky when applying the first coat of skimming. as for overboarding cielings , in my opinion thats a no no.. for a start you can never tell where wires or pipes...