Plastering high ceilings

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Before I've decked rooms out with boards and trestles, but these are nightmare to transport, I've used a wide podium, with wheels which the lab pushed me around on, this was good but expensive to buy/store.

What does everyone else use?

I'm 5'11 so I'm guessing stilts would be no good for me as it would still be a stretch on a 3.2m high ceiling.
 
If its too high for stilts. mate then boards and trestles etc it is! How are they a nightmare to transport ? Part and parcel of the Job:rolleyes)
 
just finished a series of flats that got taller as you came down last one was 3.1 high i just used stilts on the lids
 
So whats the highest you can reach comfortably off stilts? I don't wanted stretch, already f**ked my arm up once overdoing it (plastering that is).
 
From my calculations i'm 5'11 if I had 40 inch stilts I could comfortably reach 3 metres, possibly upto 3.2 but anything over will be a stretch correct?
 
i would always use trestles and boards on a REALY high ceiling,i was taught that way and feel safer working on a secure leval platform.
 
We use a fold up 6x2 mini tower scaff, cheap to hire and pp it on the roof rack, get ya lad to shove you round! quick setup time easy to move around.....
 
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Trestles are bulky and those stupid legs get in the way
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It's a hard life eh, you can get trestles with foldin legs freeD, don't like using a wheeled scaffold! If it's a big lid your labs pushin you all over the place back and forward! Feck that,board it out proper and you can walk around and get a good sweep from one side to the other,and yer lab can do something more productive, like mixin, cleaning, fetchin, etc:RpS_thumbup:
 
I'm currently working on a place where the ceilings are at 3.25m. I got a price from a scaffold firm to fully deck each of the three biggest rooms in turn, the rooms are 76m2, 65m2 and 55m2. The price came in at £1000, so we bought a rolling tower which is 2.8m X 1.45m. It cost us just shy of £500 and it works a treat, apart from the fact I have to work out of a bucket rather than a board and stand. We've done the 76 and 55m2 ceilings with no problems and the beauty is we'll still have the tower for other jobs going forward, in fact we've already got an outside lined up where we can use it.
 
Nice one Andy wouldn't it be nice to have a powered one with a little gear stick so you could whizz round the room! Why you working off a board thought you had a machine?
 
FreeD said:
Nice one Andy wouldn't it be nice to have a powered one with a little gear stick so you could whizz round the room! Why you working off a board thought you had a machine?
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FreeD, this. could be the very thing?its got a little gear stick to wizz around too, not too bad to transport either? Just tow it.:RpS_thumbup:

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I can only dream of being 5ft 9in Arti and I'm fooked if I'd want to do big high ceilings off those ladders/trestle things.
 
essexandy said:
I can only dream of being 5ft 9in Arti and I'm fooked if I'd want to do big high ceilings off those ladders/trestle things.
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how tall are yee like ??.they are good solid platforms and lightweight for moving around.whats not to like
 
They don't look solid to me :RpS_scared:

Crates n planks or trestles n planks, occasionally water-barrels n planks, pallets, t-bars, bags of gear..................
 
That's what I thought before I used them but they are surprisingly sturdy,strong. When their laid out like a platform they're ideal for resting battens on,They fold up and don't take up too much room in the van:RpS_thumbup: they can take up to 150 kg... So I just make the weight limit:RpS_lol:
 
Artisan998 said:
how tall are yee like ??.they are good solid platforms and lightweight for moving around.whats not to like
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I'm a border line midget at just 5ft 71/2in (and yes that half inch is important).
IMO when you are doing any large ceiling, say 30m2 per spread, then you need to be able to move around quickly. On lower ceilings this would mean stilts or a full scaffold but on a high ceiling, 2.8m and above stilts are out for me and I don't want a system that requires dismantling for every area, hence either a full scaffold or good size rolling tower.
 
ahh see the ones ive just done there was only one decent sized ceilin and that was about 32m2 at 3.1 high, i think my stilts was on the highest setting and i could reach it comfortably but it was a bit daunting being that high up to start with soon got used to it.
any others that are higher ive had a rolling platform, biggest i did was 70m2 but that was standard hight so i just used me stilts
 
I'm just short of 6 ft and I'm comfortable on my stilts to a certain hight,I dont feel to safe on them and tends to slow me down if its any more than say 2.8 and if its a large area trestles and youngman boards for me..:RpS_thumbup:

..but not like this lol
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Fatarm said:
I'm just short of 6 ft and I'm comfortable on my stilts to a certain hight,I dont feel to safe on them and tends to slow me down if its any more than say 2.8 and if its a large area trestles then a youngmans bumhole is for me..:RpS_thumbup

..but not like this lol
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Plastering high ceilings
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Youngmans bottom.........easy tiger
 
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essexandy said:
I'm a border line midget at just 5ft 71/2in (and yes that half inch is important).
IMO when you are doing any large ceiling, say 30m2 per spread, then you need to be able to move around quickly. On lower ceilings this would mean stilts or a full scaffold but on a high ceiling, 2.8m and above stilts are out for me and I don't want a system that requires dismantling for every area, hence either a full scaffold or good size rolling tower.
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An extra half inch is iimportant. so my wife keeps tellin. me..:RpS_blushing:
 
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