Bluebirds1978
New Member
Can any help?, got a job to do dabbing a window wall which consists of two windows. Do I dab the head and reveals first, or the actual wall. If head and reveals do i overhang the plasterboard and how much?.
Dot and dab
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Bluebirds1978
New Member
Ceiling just needs skimming
Cockney
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Topspread16
Well-Known Member
Less talk more work, mix up and slap it on.
JessThePlasterer
Queen Jess Elizabeth I
I like to put reveals on first. Find highest point. Cut all reveals to that.
Don't tell him mans a helmet.possibly smoother
Bluebirds1978
New Member
Thank you for the advice
Topspread16
Well-Known Member
Can’t believe he fell for that @JessThePlasterer you sure pulled the wool over his eyes.
essexandy
The Lake Governor
So the way the windows are fitted dictates how you do a wall? Do you do the same when float and setting?
Topspread16
Well-Known Member
Do you stick reveals last also?
essexandy
The Lake Governor
Yes mate, the correct way.
Topspread16
Well-Known Member
I felt like that guy walking opposite way round on midnight express till today. Nobody I know does it this way.
Monkey Boy
Well-Known Member
I do - now that is worrying for you
essexandy
The Lake Governor
We check the wall for plumb and then ping a chalk line on the ceiling. This is the process whether doing one wall or a massive detached property.
Windows are fitted to look right (?) with the outside brick/blockwork, and as we both know full well are often pissed, why let them dictate our work?
Nice to know we're not alone.
If the frame is pissed do you plumb your reveal so the margin on the frame looks terrable, although your work is correct?
essexandy
The Lake Governor
Yes I do. I keep the margin the same at the top of every revel in the property (I often use my angle gauge from the days of float and set) and then set them plumb. The board on the face of the wall that sails onto the cill will be plumb and set at the right margin, the revel board sits inside it.
I think that makes sense?
superspread
Well-Known Member
I always margin off the frame , I very rarely do dot and dab a doo but when I float always margin off the frame, I always ask the client too which they prefer but usually guide them to margin it
Yes, i keep the margin the same. Looks dreadful overwise, but dont have much problem with frames being much out anyway..
superspread
Well-Known Member
Especially in a bathroom if it’s being tiled
superspread
Well-Known Member
It’s the only way ain’t it?Some people take this job way too f**k**g seriously
Get a life aswell.who fcking cares its plastering you've got numbnuts chatting shite on here all day who havnt got any work as they on here all day ffs.by the way I aint referring to you I mean just in general
JessThePlasterer
Queen Jess Elizabeth I
Well I like to do reveals first. Meh
JessThePlasterer
Queen Jess Elizabeth I
@essexandy …….. there’s going to be a potato coming your way!
essexandy
The Lake Governor
Yum yum
paulf
Well-Known Member
I think you might get some mancunian compost in the shape of a potato, faked potato.
Cockney
Well-Known Member
Bartholomew
Well-Known Member
Reveals first to run with the frame (it's OK being right but it makes it look dog s**t) leave em proud, board around, cut off the excess
Bartholomew
Well-Known Member
And if the walls out of plumb I tell the customer to go with it because a reveal 190mm at the bottom and 210mm at the top also looks dog s**t
Monkey Boy
Well-Known Member
I remember an old boss telling me 2 wrongs don’t make a right….
Well he was a thick head and what I was doing was right and made the wrong right aswell
You got to scribe stuff in sometimes to go up against wonkey work to make it right
Well he was a thick head and what I was doing was right and made the wrong right aswell
You got to scribe stuff in sometimes to go up against wonkey work to make it right