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i know weve prob heard this before but i switched trowels the other day 11mt just for skimming an it felt quite comfy to use normally use a 14 but doesent feel much as a strain on the elbow does anyone else use this size cheers
 
sometimes switch about depends on the job really get a nice kitchen re spray with the units in ::) cant do better than an 11 inch trowel imo
 
bleedin plumbers fix all the china off in the bathroom before we get there on our job...
fix the hand basins back to the BRICK! then we gotta bond round it and try and get something like a finish behind the pedestals..
bogs the same....
thing is, theyre screwing the basins back with some sort of angled cordless so i cant even get em off the wall to refix when im done ::)

my fave tools at the minute are the leaf and square and the margin trowel...
 
Have always used an 11 inch trowel now my elbows have started to ache at the age of 45 and its the one i hold the andboard in.Guess i will have to get a smaller andboard,
 
Any size that feels best for you is the best size. My preference is for a 14" for putting it on and flattening off then down to a 11" for the last trowel. Just feel that I can get a better finish because I can get more pressure on with the little 'un' also I've had bad wrist, elbow and shoulder which aint helped with the larger trowels. Oh the joys of being old LOL
 
i put the skim on with 14inch and just started to flatten my walls of with a spatular like the ones for mp75. then trowel up with 11inch for the last 2 cross trowels. I cant believe how flat the spat gets the skim if you hit it just b4 it starts to tighten up then 2 cross trowels to finnish. And it gets it quicker aswell so i normaly spat , cross, clean and brush my angles and get the next set on whilst waiting for the hard trowel at the end. normaly do this just b4 i spat the nxt set. lovely finish
 
plastic and i got mine from refina. but my mates is wooden handle and he had his bout 15 years for the mp75. think he got his from germany. plasterer discount .com do them to.
 
I always finish with an 11" trowel sometimes i will lay on this way too, less strain on your body and no noticeable loss of speed what so ever!!
No need for big trowel's really,makes no diffenrence to finish whatso ever.
 
thats the way i was taught an loads of spreads do the same stops the first coat heavy lines pushing through or have i been doing it wrong all these years
 
a few spreads i know do it, i personally dont. i see it as a waste of time. its 1 step of the job im cutting out.
 
wiganlad said:
Why would you flatten the first coat
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same reason you supposed to give it two coats...
why bother giving it 2 coats if you dont flatten the first one?
why not just give it one thick coat and flatten that?
i dont care anymore anyway.... it only gets 2 coats if once ive flattened the first one i dont think its gonna come up acceptable....
and the second coat is the first coat of the next spread...
hit the worst bits first and leave the easy bits till last...
that way you can usually get away with one coat on the easy bits...
finding new methods every week at the minute...
whatever suits the job innit....
 
No I would never say sum1 is doin it wrong. Just never heard ov it that's all. And if you been doin it all these years then it wrks. Might give it a go :-)
 
to me you get a better overall appearance nice uniformed finish and not flattening the first coat can show up when its painted
 
doesnt take much to flatten in anyway, just run from side to side down the wall, 2 minutes literally, doesnt have to be 100 percent perfect, just have the lines out..
you can then top it thinner and if youve mixed up fresh for it you get ages with the set....
i just find if i dont flatten it first, theres not really much point topping it cos i end up draggin em both together anyway? so one coat and let it pull a bit more before flattening it?
just depends on how f'cked i am to start with, what the final finish standard has to meet, what the background is, how much time ive got before i need to be gone and how much beer ive had the night before.. (that should have been first on the list actually ;D)
 
jord218 said:
I find a belt sander is good for a flat finish :D
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specially if you explain to the customer that the walls are that bad to start with that they might need a belt sander before they paint it and ffs dont tell anyone... ;D
 
wigan lad ill flatten the first coat on board not on hardwall its a waste of time itll just tear and it stays a bit spongey on hardwall ........try it mate if its a small set no need though
 
Argh F oo k ! I forgot! Tbh I never got a chance any way, gear went off that quick today I couldnt have used it if Id wanted to. Next time
 
wiganlad said:
How's the joddy anyway mate
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progress is slow mate ;D............its getting a consistent mix were struggling with, we were running it at 7-8 and it was spraedable and seemed to come through the gate a bit easier i dont know if i might have a bit of a blockage does 7-8 seem a bit high?
 
Seems a bit high. Run the powder empty and then unpluhg it. Lift the cone up in the back and get ur hands into the bottom check for paper n s**t and get inside the holes . If there is nothing there take ur bblades out the top and pull the centre out which brings ythe powder up there maybe a block in there
 
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