Mono help search
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Orangemachineman
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If don't have confidence you can't complete these jobs don't take them on for a paying customer
Plasterers1StopShop
Well-Known Member
Where are you based? You may find someone nearby who would be willing to guide you in the right direction and teach you. I would also advise contacting the manufacturer of the product and go on their training course - this will help give you more product knowledge and an insight into how to do the systems.
S a plastering
Private Member
where ya based nob ed haha only jokin fella let us know where you are
mik8hx
Member
Wow. A decent cross section of responses. Where to start.
@Plasterers1StopShop and @madmonk I'm in west Yorks.
@Orangemachineman it's not confidence I'm lacking its experience
@stuart23 I'd be happy to put someone in digs and travel so I ain't having someone local be put out although my jobs are mainly repeat customers and don't generally look for work outside my own area or client base especially mono jobs. I ain't even arsed about making the money off the jobs just would prefer to know that I ain't gonna be letting folk down in future.
@GrantyBoy one of them was weber, a
big un for a guy I do loads of internal work for. It was s**t from the start old building had been hacked off and was red brick underneath so rend aid, loads of wonky columns, guy dint want to pay twice and use a base coat. All that being said I can't look at it with out feeling embarrassed. I couldn't do do out about the flatness but white spot, halos, discoloured and substrate showing in areas. Awful job all round and there was 550m of it,bought the sil.p to cover it but colour match was shite and dint bother asking for last grand owed.
The other was a simple garden wall job in special coloured krend and ended up putting second pass on too thin so breeze was showing through and although was only 2m high I dint manage to get it flat anywhere. I redid this at a loss but couldn't sort the flatness only the depths really.
I have had decent results on some too large and small but lack enough knowledge to be consistent .
@owls Your spot on fella there is a way and means and I think this is as good as any and since your from my county I reckon your the man to knock the clown out of me. Congratulations. C u next Tuesday .
@Rigsby the upcoming jobs are a garage to prep with rend aid and top coat unspecified yet. About 50m and bottom 2.5m round a house again will prob need a rend aid or like wise and bead top and bottom, this one about 100m2 or so.
The only prob with getting advice on forum is there's more than one way to f**k a donkey, and it becomes a mashup of a dozen bits off different advice from people that have varying skill levels.
Cheers for all responses.
@Plasterers1StopShop and @madmonk I'm in west Yorks.
@Orangemachineman it's not confidence I'm lacking its experience
@stuart23 I'd be happy to put someone in digs and travel so I ain't having someone local be put out although my jobs are mainly repeat customers and don't generally look for work outside my own area or client base especially mono jobs. I ain't even arsed about making the money off the jobs just would prefer to know that I ain't gonna be letting folk down in future.
@GrantyBoy one of them was weber, a
big un for a guy I do loads of internal work for. It was s**t from the start old building had been hacked off and was red brick underneath so rend aid, loads of wonky columns, guy dint want to pay twice and use a base coat. All that being said I can't look at it with out feeling embarrassed. I couldn't do do out about the flatness but white spot, halos, discoloured and substrate showing in areas. Awful job all round and there was 550m of it,bought the sil.p to cover it but colour match was shite and dint bother asking for last grand owed.
The other was a simple garden wall job in special coloured krend and ended up putting second pass on too thin so breeze was showing through and although was only 2m high I dint manage to get it flat anywhere. I redid this at a loss but couldn't sort the flatness only the depths really.
I have had decent results on some too large and small but lack enough knowledge to be consistent .
@owls Your spot on fella there is a way and means and I think this is as good as any and since your from my county I reckon your the man to knock the clown out of me. Congratulations. C u next Tuesday .
@Rigsby the upcoming jobs are a garage to prep with rend aid and top coat unspecified yet. About 50m and bottom 2.5m round a house again will prob need a rend aid or like wise and bead top and bottom, this one about 100m2 or so.
The only prob with getting advice on forum is there's more than one way to f**k a donkey, and it becomes a mashup of a dozen bits off different advice from people that have varying skill levels.
Cheers for all responses.
mik8hx
Member
Your probe right and with the larger of the two jobs I mentioned I may do that, not sure there's much point on the smaller one
Arti
Well-Known Member
my 1st mono job was below a bay window, 3m2............since i got the ritmo im smashing 10 baggers all day long
mik8hx
Member
I'm up against it trying to get back up to date since I only got back off holiday last week. But cheers for the offer and would happily come as an extra pair of hands when diary is a little less crammed. Defoe not from the south and won't be fishing in your pond at any time.
Cheers
Orangemachineman
Well-Known Member
You won't get a better offer
Back to chancing it on your own
Back to chancing it on your own
theclemo
Private Member
Take John up on the offer. He has helped me out with my ritmo. He knows his modern renders.
Jimbob9
Active Member
Funny that, some of us were spreading over entire estates long before machines put it on the wall for you. If we have problems with a machine on site today the tubs and trowels come out and we get a days spread on until we can get back and swop the machine.
Danny
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Yep very funny...
So was I years ago before machines were commonly available. But times moved on and machines are ready available and more cost effective, how can handballing areas on by hand be more effective than spraying it on.
do you still do your invoices on a typewriter ....?
Yep the guys a clown to turn offers away like that.
thebigfella
Active Member
Yeah its daft im thinking of moving out of south Yorkshire just to take up the offer ??? @Rigsby
£35m2 labour and materials Yorkshire way
Jimbob9
Active Member
We can get half a gable on whilst the soft lads are still oinking the machine out the van. Sprays are good if its one man and a labourer, provided it works out the van. 3 quick guys can outpace one though.
But it's the toll it takes on your body hand balling not just a financial thing.
And lugging gear up scaffold madness.
Rigsby
TPF Special Forces
My new lab insists on mixing in tubs right where I am working. Eager to start but he lugs the water barrel up, two big gorilla tubs, electrics, whisk, then loads of bags. No room to move!
My old lab mixes near the ladder and brings buckets of gear up. More room and he is faster on setting up.