scrim or no scrim

[nsm1982]

hi all just a quicky do you scrim over all your screw holes or just the ones on the edge of the boards ??? ??? ???

 

[kirk johnstone]

all mate, unless you are on a building site because you dont get paid for it so just do the joints. private work, skrim everything!!!! its your rep

 

[nsm1982]

i scrim them all anyway just the builder asks why i just say i do to stop the heads popping off when the kids are jumping on the floor upstairs he now knows why

 

[beddy]

f**k scrimming the screw holes.

 

[big ali]

i always scrim all screw holes, for sake of ten mins and a quids worth of scrim, i've seen a few jobs where the screw heads have popped thru the ceiling, usually on loft conversions on the ceiling.

 

[flynnyman]

waste of time and money concentrate on your screwing.

 

[big ali]

oo-err mrs. thought this was a plastering site, and heres someone telling us all to concentrate on our screwing

 

[kirk johnstone]

still better to do than not to do

 

[beddy]

do you run a strip of scrim all the way down or do every single one. f**k doing that.

 

[big ali]

either way lol i know some will say waste of time but its just how i work.

 

[oasis]

how will scrim stop a screw from pushing out?

 

[spunky]

its cause he's missed the joists in the past and hasnt bothered taking them back out

 

[PhilPlaster]

Waste of time.

 

[spunky]

grrrrrrrr im going green

 

[bodplasterer]

Why would you scrim screw holes? sounds mental to me its not normal practice.

 

[pwi]

Tape aint going to stop screws popping you will be using hpx and mesh next bunch of nutters

 

[ziggy2]

No skrim over screws.

 

[big ali]

the screws themselves dont pop out but i seen the plaster blow in perfect little circles where screws are. its not happened to me but i seen it when ive looked at jobs where other spread has been before me.

 

[PhilPlaster]

the screws themselves dont pop out but i seen the plaster blow in perfect little circles where screws are. its not happened to me but i seen it when ive looked at jobs where other spread has been before me.

Its from puttin the gear on too thin aint it?

 

[beddy]

they've probably missed the timbers and not been arsed to take the screw back out.

 

[big ali]

could well be, but if its only acouple of mm thick anyway any movement in ceiling joist etc (due to fat kids jumping around) would surely show up at the weakest point.

 

[iain_flanagan]

waste of time, no to scrim on screws

 

[big ali]

people do things differently ,it would be a boring place if we were all the same. doesn't mean one is right and the other is wrong.

 

[The Apprentice]

WHen we are talking about screws or nails popping it is caused by the fact that the boards are not solid to the joists. In other words when vibration happens above from kids running round or when the ceiling is being painted the board moves but the nails or screws don't. No need to scrim and even if you do and the boards aint fixed right they will still pop. If your asked to sort nail pops out push up the boards to the joists and tighten screws or give the nails a smack or two.

 

[McPlaster]

I'm with The Apprentice.

 

[essexandy]

WHen we are talking about screws or nails popping it is caused by the fact that the boards are not solid to the joists. In other words when vibration happens above from kids running round or when the ceiling is being painted the board moves but the nails or screws don't. No need to scrim and even if you do and the boards aint fixed right they will still pop. If your asked to sort nail pops out push up the boards to the joists and tighten screws or give the nails a smack or two.

Spot on.

 

[nickelarse]

why the f**k would u scrim the screw holes?

it would take bout a roll every 5 boards!!

if its for a builder and they did the boards then f**k it, its there problem, they were too lazy to push the boards up hard enough.

if its private over old stuff, u should already be able to see em, just push the board hard, see where it is, then give it a whack or screw it in a bit more

scrim wont stop a board moving u dohnuts!!

 

[oldschool]

Sounds crazy..You've got to know when to draw the line on this one.

 

[Philby45]

i have never scrimmed screw or nail heads, especially when we used to use dute scrim. Crazzzzy.

 

[Journeyman]

This post is the first I've ever heard of scrimming screw holes????

 

[nickelarse]

sometimes i scrim the whole board just to make sure

 

[barryed]

I would not be scrimming over screws. You would be there forever

 

[georgemealy75]

hi all just a quicky do you scrim over all your screw holes or just the ones on the edge of the boards ??? ??? ???

no way if a scew pops not my prob if i tacked it and i new i had a couple of misses then yeah

 

[PhilPlaster]

Why does the plaster come away from screws sometimes. Not talkin about missin a stud and takin the screw out altogether i mean when a screws in and the plaster comes off but the screws not popped the board.

 

[The Apprentice]

The boards not tight up to the stud so the board moves but the screw doesn't causing the plaster to come pop off.