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Monkey Boy
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Sitemonkey
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Staples never have cut it . Clouts are the best by far . Was years ago and still are to this day. Them staple guns are wank
plas1
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Staples are fine into plasterboard,never had a problem.Stanley stapler and 10 or 12mm stanley staples and always been ok for me.
essexandy
The Lake Governor
I've stapled the beads up in over seven hundred houses and have never had a single one fail. That includes beads for float and set.
Sitemonkey
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Float beads with a stapler that's different ha ha.
Ha , I’ve got one of those wank staplers it has its place (No doubt )
30mm clouts are sh!t hot ...
Sitemonkey
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Definitely but there OK on float beads I'll have to give it a whirl on 7 inch newton's
Cockney
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Clouts are ok for landscape gardeners.
Yes dead right.... ( for holding that landscape fabric to planters )
Sitemonkey
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Don't talk pile of pie n mash . Clouts are the best thing since bono from u2
Stewie03
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If you like clouts so much you can have one round your f**k**g ear hole if u want
Sitemonkey
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Had plenty of them in me day Stewpot
essexandy
The Lake Governor
Literally hundreds of plots done to a high standard like that. Nails top and bottom and stapled in-between.
Sitemonkey
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So do II remember using clouts for nailing plasterboard ceilings!
Sitemonkey
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I've always used the gear I was going to float with I.e browning hardwall s/c and got em plumb with a level must of been doing it wrong then . Ahh well
Stewie03
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Same here what a bloody game that was I used a marshalltown drywall hammer to bang them inI remember using clouts for nailing plasterboard ceilings!
hollybank
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Absolute nightmare trying to nail them boards on upstairs ceilings with loose ceiling joists.
Screws have made life easier especially with this new timber today.
Sitemonkey
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Still got mine 20 year old minus the claw
Lastlaff
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Proper tacking that was, quite miss it - Estwing hammer left a nice dimple around the pb & nail for a key.I remember using clouts for nailing plasterboard ceilings!
tapit
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f**k**g love it monkey.
essexandy
The Lake Governor
You weren't doing it wrong, just differently.
Sitemonkey
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I know I wasn't it's you talking b*ll***s nailing top and bottom and stapling the middle never heard shut like it in my 33 years on the trowel
essexandy
The Lake Governor
Well I trump you with my 41 years lol
I'll see if there are some old photos knocking about somewhere to put up.
Whether I have or not the fact remains that I fixed thousands and thousands of f&s beads fixed with nails top and bottom and stapled in-between. These were on Celcon/Thermalite/Durox blocks and even the guys plastering some of these houses for me couldn't believe how solidly you can fix beads using staples.
Sitemonkey
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Yiu can
You can't get a decent fix on thermalite/ durex with nails or staples you'd be able to pull em off with your little finger . Even if you was in the mortor joints it's like dust . Ha ha
essexandy
The Lake Governor
Well thankfully you're wrong.
40mm large headed clouts get a good fixing in Celcons etc., as do 14mm staples. Proven over many years.
Sitemonkey
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So now we're back onto using good old clouts as I said was better than staples
essexandy
The Lake Governor
I said right at the start that I used clouts top and bottom of the beads.