No wonder the trade is on a downward path with ads like this.What you need is a lacky by the sounds of things,probably on the cheap. I started plastering at 15 thats toffee that you are not strong enough as a teenager. We need to train plasterers not donkeys.
Rigsby offered up a good chance to learn a bit his craft with an honest no nonsense post........ then fannybaws stroppsy tried to rip into it..:rolleyes)Have i missed a thread somewhere......................:RpS_confused:
You know more about renders then most people ,don,t let one **** take away the chance of someone learning your knowledgeTalking from years of experience. Had my time wasted by youth and no! I am not wasting anymore time on them. I offer training in all aspects of rendering and have no time for dreamers. Hence why the previous experience. I find those who need a second chance the better than those who fancy becoming a renderer and then can,t handle the weight and the bad weather and complete waste of my valuable time.
Anyway if this is the kind of response I am going to get I am pulling the ad and **** you prick!
Oh dear . if we are talking about training I have probably trained in excess of 100 real apprentices in 50+ years. I have attained qualifications at all levels of plastering and building including teaching and examining more than 2000. All my apprentices taken straight from school. Not renderers ,finishers etc etc but real plasterers apprentices all City and Guilds or GNVQ qualified.I am sorry if you want to train a plasterer train a plasterer not a renderer or skimmer or any other small part of the trade. Wake up you are killing the trade
A real plasterer would train his apprentice to go forward with confidence in any aspect of the trade. If you want a robot buy one. Is this what plasterers want with their art??????????????/
Well said topstrop I like your way of thinking. the trade is being undermined by so called plasterers, you know the kind skim a wall, buy a white van and guess what I am a plasterer. I to have spent over forty years in the trade from apprentice to programme leader, and I can turn my hand to any aspect of the trade from fibrous repairs,through to putting a floor down in semi dry sand and cement.
And as for the comment cant do it teach, I would like to see them in a workshop running a fluted column, or even a simple panel mould, so my response to that is if you cant teach, or dont have any qualification buy a white van and skim walls
Well said topstrop I like your way of thinking. the trade is being undermined by so called plasterers, you know the kind skim a wall, buy a white van and guess what I am a plasterer. I to have spent over forty years in the trade from apprentice to programme leader, and I can turn my hand to any aspect of the trade from fibrous repairs,through to putting a floor down in semi dry sand and cement.
And as for the comment cant do it teach, I would like to see them in a workshop running a fluted column, or even a simple panel mould, so my response to that is if you cant teach, or dont have any qualification buy a white van and skim walls
That,s all well and good mate ,but you spelled trade wrong :RpS_thumbup:Ok critics
My right to reply. Lets start with my training. 5 years apprenticeship With Alan Milne Plastering, followed by 4 years as a trainee site agent with Bovis then 3 years as supervisor with Telling plasterers. Went into business in 1970 as a plastering company eventually owning there plastering companies.sat on the national wages council and like to feel I helped bring building wages and respect for tradesmen forward from the dark ages. Member of the FDPC for many years Sold out to Haymills builders in 1990. Invited to be an examiner by CITB also asked to teach at a college when they failed to find a lecturer. Since that date have owned a Labour agency and now own a plastering,film and craft supply company Qualifications: First Class City & Guilds intermediate and advanced in plastering. Won every award that was available at the time plus put together world skills with The Plasterers Federation and Joe Sawyer at East Ham school of building.Trained to ONC building with Bovis. Trained to level 4 For all subjects in general building. plastering, dry lining and ceiling fixing.CITB examiner. Judge me how you like I only have 55 years in the trad but for me the only way forward is the youth of this country trained in a proper fashion as in this case plasterers apprentices that learn every aspect of their craft