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mikeadams1985

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Just got an email asking to look at a job, now thats great, mix of run in situ cornice and some bullnose reveals and stuff on windows by the looks of the drawing..

but wait...there using another firm to do half the work and want me to look at the rest...


sounds like getting one guy in to skim the walls and another to do the ceiling because the first guy cant do the ceilings...


emailed them back for a bit more info, so what happens
 
mikeadams1985 said:
Just got an email asking to look at a job, now thats great, mix of run in situ cornice and some bullnose reveals and stuff on windows by the looks of the drawing..

but wait...there using another firm to do half the work and want me to look at the rest...


sounds like getting one guy in to skim the walls and another to do the ceiling because the first guy cant do the ceilings...


emailed them back for a bit more info, so what happens
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can you plaster?
 
No.
But plastering and fibrous have split totally now.
This is just fibrous that's being split half n half l. If u can cast and run moulds in a workshop you can run in situ.
 
would it happen to be an art gallery, if so i had the same tender request today lol, thought exactly what your thinking @mikeadams1985
you can either run a mould or you cant, you dont need any more resources to run insitu.
 
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Haha that's the one trev.
What really bugged me was the talk of conservation being involved then being told I can cast a core off site. Fit it then run over it. Conservation would.never allow that.
 
The trade has been split up for along time , some are better at one thing then another , always been the same , i hate doing Lids :RpS_wink:
 
mikeadams1985 said:
Haha that's the one trev. What really bugged me was the talk of conservation being involved then being told I can cast a core off site. Fit it then run over it. Conservation would.never allow that.
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No they wouldnt allow that.......... Who in the right mind would want to core out off-site-then fix it up - then set up rules to run over it insitu, then adapt the running mould to suit the rules. Crazy suggestion. Although 200lm to run insitu would make me very rich very quick lol Shame im committed for the next 3 months in Oxford.
 
Ryan . Old school plasterer Floor screeding, Granite. Tacking. Wall and ceiling plastering in sand ,lime and sand lime cement. Heated ceilings in Sand, Lime and Plaster of Paris. Carlite, Siraphite, Cretestone and Paristone.Slaking Lime. Sand and cement renders and running in situ externally. Tanking, Dry lining , Suspended ceiling fixing. Fibrous shop work including setting out, mould making and casting. Site fixing. All for £1 per week and £1.50 fares.
5 years later you were a plasterer
 
mikeadams1985 said:
No.
But plastering and fibrous have split totally now.
This is just fibrous that's being split half n half l. If u can cast and run moulds in a workshop you can run in situ.
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Oh so they are splitting the skimming of the walls and ceilings? Fibrous was split when I trained 25 years ago, you we're trained in both but went off in either direction.
 
BrummieTrev said:
No they wouldnt allow that.......... Who in the right mind would want to core out off-site-then fix it up - then set up rules to run over it insitu, then adapt the running mould to suit the rules. Crazy suggestion. Although 200lm to run insitu would make me very rich very quick lol Shame im committed for the next 3 months in Oxford.
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Hi Trevor , where are you working in Oxford, I lived there many moons ago,,superb architecture


Irish Fine Art Plasterwork
 
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What's your company called trev?
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Hi Mike, i dont have a company as such, i used to worked for Trumpers in Birmingham for 8 years but they got took out in the recession, shame cos they were established over 100 years, so me and and a few of the lads went self employed, I built my website Heritage Plastering Specialist - Restoration and Conservation a year ago when i was out of work. My best friend did his time just after me so we work as a duo, but for bigger jobs then I can call on the rest of the lads.
 
keithuk said:
The trade has been split up for along time , some are better at one thing then another , always been the same , i hate doing Lids :RpS_wink:
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check you out with the spreading slag..............you'll be down with the kids next @keithuk
 
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I thought a good plasterer could turn his hand - and use most plastering materials accordingly :RpS_laugh: either fibrous or solid like the old school.
 
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FrankNewman275 said:
Hi Trevor , where are you working in Oxford, I lived there many moons ago,,superb architecture

Hi Frank, im working on Bodelian Library, all lime render internal. No mouldings or intracte stuff there unfortunately.

Heritage Plastering Specialist - Restoration and Conservation
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I know it well, nice part if the city , not great for parking , but some nice pubs around, hope it goes well for you


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Chances of a construction worker buying a house then . Impossible. The fares were interesting £1.50 equate that to today's traveling costs Think my dad was paid about £17 as a plastering foreman. I tell you construction workers were regarded as the scum of the earth. I soon cracked the wages thing though used to bench the drains for the bricklayers for a £10 on a Saturday every week on council houses that were being uilt everywhere after 3 years plastering. the big break came when i was 24 and went into film studios and outside when no films. We were paid in cash no deductions on films but PAYE outside. The Inland revenue got p****d off with that and gave us earnings slips, the beginning of the 715.
We were working 7 days a week 12 hours a day and could knock up best part of £200 a week more than some of my mates playing football at Westham. One of the lads was John Lyalls brother so we used to drink with bobby Moore. Bond, Lyall and the crew. Great days those
 
I heard half of the Hammers worked making cornice at JJ's work shop when the season finished, as the footballers played for pride not money!
 
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