Sponge Float plastering in 2026

[BigBruvOfEnglandUK]

103 percent? You are 103% bellend.

103° as in degrees, Smudger m8.

 

[BigBruvOfEnglandUK]

Not enough info Andy, more specific - type; shag, loop, pile... material; wool, nylon, polyester... brand; X mimister or a budget brand?

*boner. m8s.

 

[Topspread16]

Up until not that long ago we were getting most of our work finished with just two trowels.
That's not a flatten and two trowels, just the two. Now, never less than three and occasionally four! Pisses me right off.
As for the poxy stuff shrinking!
Any thickness anywhere, down a bead or a frame and the shite shrinks back loads. It's got to the stage where we're three coating down a lot of the beads.
I honestly don't think the product is fit for purpose anymore.

Couldn’t agree more, I pva the dry edges before beading up. That helps stop it. I think I just need a new career.

 

[Monkey Boy]

Couldn’t agree more, I pva the dry edges before beading up. That helps stop it. I think I just need a new career.

I thought only I did that, I’m too embarrassed to confess about all the fart arsing around.

 

[essexandy]

Couldn’t agree more, I pva the dry edges before beading up. That helps stop it. I think I just need a new career.

We do almost all of the boarding we work on and it is rare for us not to have a bound edge to work over.
Little job we're on at the moment is an exception to that rule and there are cut edges everywhere. I nearly cried.

 

[Topspread16]

We do almost all of the boarding we work on and it is rare for us not to have a bound edge to work over.
Little job we're on at the moment is an exception to that rule and there are cut edges everywhere. I nearly cried.

 

[Smudger1]

103 percent? You are 103% bellend.

103° as in degrees, Smudger m8.

 

[Rossi46]

Couldn’t agree more, I pva the dry edges before beading up. That helps stop it. I think I just need a new career.

There’s no escape

 

[Topspread16]

There’s no escape

I think I just need to do a couple of days with John, it might make me appreciate the jobs I do.

 

[essexandy]

I think I just need to do a couple of days with John, it might make me appreciate the jobs I do.

If you haven't topped yourself by snap on the first day

 

[Topspread16]

If you haven't topped yourself by snap on the first day

John would still eat mine.

 

[paulf]

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Mmm familiar

 

[essexandy]

Mmm familiar
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Stevie Hill

 

[paulf]

Stevie Hill

Desperate knobhead

 

[FreeD]

I hardly use my trowel now literally only for laying on. I can't believe for so many 15 years I worked so hard...get it right with the sponge and it's too easy. Got to be careful though...too much water and over sponging weakens the plaster and more likely to get hairline cracking especially on ceilings.