Bit of advice ?!

Farrell

Farrell

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Hi lads

Wondering if anybody could give me a bit of advice

Currently plastering a whole house on a very tight price but the walls are so high suction that even thistle bond it struggles , I'm quick but by the time you have laid on a 2.4. By 4 meter wall I get to the end it's already pulling so much to the pint you can't trowel and try and get a good finish , it any advice would really help me bring stung here , the house was built in 1930s
 
You just given me a bit of hope pal ! Every days been a battle with it ! Used every tool and trick I know
 
Farrell said:
Hi lads

Wondering if anybody could give me a bit of advice

Currently plastering a whole house on a very tight price but the walls are so high suction that even thistle bond it struggles , I'm quick but by the time you have laid on a 2.4. By 4 meter wall I get to the end it's already pulling so much to the pint you can't trowel and try and get a good finish , it any advice would really help me bring stung here , the house was built in 1930s
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Personally I'd Just give it a good 50/50 PVA water...

Id use the suction to my benefit and just keep laying down quickly a 2nd coat with same gear...

Small hits 4 gauges a day
 
Thanks for the reply pal!

I have also tried this and using it as a second coat , but it goes off so quick that u are fighting it even if I flatten and lay with the same muck immediately it pulls so much that white spots appear where it's pulling it that much ! Never experienced or seen it tried using sponge float which did help but as I said on price which is making me do 6 small pathetic sets . I'm hitting a 1/2 gauge when I can normally do least 1 and a half gauge mix without breaking too much of a sweat if walls are big and flat
 
Budget is tight and your using thistle bond it lol,

I'd still be using pva or sbr just plenty of it
 
Farrell said:
Hi lads

Wondering if anybody could give me a bit of advice

Currently plastering a whole house on a very tight price but the walls are so high suction that even thistle bond it struggles , I'm quick but by the time you have laid on a 2.4. By 4 meter wall I get to the end it's already pulling so much to the pint you can't trowel and try and get a good finish , it any advice would really help me bring stung here , the house was built in 1930s
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Thistle gyprime watered down 3 or 4 to 1
 
Only using it because otherwise it's even more of a struggle , she sounds like a good shout pva just not up to it I even sprayed the walls with a mist till they cudnt take no more water
 
Pva tight coat it let to go hardish then pva and skim the lot even if price is tight your reputation should be worth more, why the tight price,never go in to price just to get by f that
 
Tight price + thistle bondit does not compute. How long you been plastering? I use 507 rendagrip or SBR on the very driest of areas but rarely a need for it.
 
I'm not sure why this has not been mentioned before, but have you tried uni-finish the plaster that doesn't need pva ? Allegedly doesn't fail and when it does it gets hushed up and never spoken of again.
 
gps said:
I'm not sure why this has not been mentioned before, but have you tried uni-finish the plaster that doesn't need pva ? Allegedly doesn't fail and when it does it gets hushed up and never spoken of again.
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Read the thread, jobs on a budget lol
 
Would it be easiest to bang a coat on the whole room, get it flat then pva that and go at it properly?
 
In all seriousness another way is pva the wall a coat of bonding then pva and skim suction should be controlled a lot lot more
 
I'd get my tools and never go back all that grief and chasing for a poor price no chance for me
 
I don't think I've ever came across wall so high suction that by the time I've put on 10 metres it's unworkable is it crazing everywhere too? Call me cynical but I don't think the suctions the problem...
 
Your tight priced jobs just gotten a whole lot tighter then OP. You'll need to plaster the house twice now to control suction :tonto:
 
Lodan said:
Would it be easiest to bang a coat on the whole room, get it flat then pva that and go at it properly?
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Very good idea. It's what I'd do if I was doing the job as I've did it b4 with very good results. Pva walls. Mix piss wet skim put it on as tight as u can. And that is it. Just pva as normal and off u go. Well done the boy from gold trowel.
 
pva it to death. I've just raked off old blown plaster, pva'd the scratch coat (where I've not had to go back to brick) bonded out, pva twice with heavy roller. Left overnight then skimmed in the morning. Took f*****g ages to go off! twiddlin thumbs sat on me phone tryin to find some hooters but no 4g
 
theclemo said:
Very good idea. It's what I'd do if I was doing the job as I've did it b4 with very good results. Pva walls. Mix piss wet skim put it on as tight as u can. And that is it. Just pva as normal and off u go. Well done the boy from gold trowel.
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Lol, atleast im not mad, made sense to me. You could lay a coat on a room flattening as you go in less than half an hour
 
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