sponge floats and spats

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started 2 new lads today ..... I walked into the room they were skimming and they were sponge floating and using the refina finishing spats.

when they left today I checked their room out and it was perfect in every detail, no brush marks, all the edges were sharp.

an excellent job !!!
 
richardbrown said:
started 2 new lads today ..... I walked into the room they were skimming and they were sponge floating and using the refina finishing spats.

when they left today I checked their room out and it was perfect in every detail, no brush marks, all the edges were sharp.


an excellent job !!!
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whats the method.. never seen it done.. assuming its on thick coat finish sponge and finish with spats.? any quicker to do it this way?
 
well it didnt seem any quicker but the finish was top notch.

Lay on first coat and flatten with spat.
lay on second coat and flatten with spat

leave till its nice and firm
sponge float
spat
hard cross spat lol

It was a perfect job

rich
 
richardbrown said:
started 2 new lads today ..... I walked into the room they were skimming and they were sponge floating and using the refina finishing spats.

when they left today I checked their room out and it was perfect in every detail, no brush marks, all the edges were sharp.

an excellent job !!!
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funny how no brush marks when thay were using a spong lol
 
flat boy skim said:
richardbrown said:
started 2 new lads today ..... I walked into the room they were skimming and they were sponge floating and using the refina finishing spats.

when they left today I checked their room out and it was perfect in every detail, no brush marks, all the edges were sharp.

an excellent job !!!
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funny how no brush marks when thay were using a spong lol
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when compared to traditional methods smart ass
 
phippsy333 said:
but if they finished in roughly same time...whats the advantage rich?
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They say they can lay on much larger sets when using this method and using the spat on the pole is ideal on big ceilings.

It looked much more relaxed they were just plodding about drinking tea
 
fair enough......but i think ill keep to trowel way....although you have made me think about that superflexy spat ...i think i want one
 
ivee seen plenty using spats...just cant get me head round it tho.......might need one on a job in a couple of weeks 50m on artex...gonna be fun...not
 
anyway...kebab king u need to burn more calories not take it any easier.......you should be laying on ceilings with a friggin midget trowel not a spat u great big galaar
 
The eu's use this quite a bit, it does actually work after laying in to close in and slow down
setting times. Howevever the EU's dont trowel AFTERWARDS lol
 
which spats were they using rich, i seen some refina for like 20quid then i have heard people talking about 120/150 quid.

i have a couple of large lids to do soon and quite fancy having a little practice with this method.

Any pics or youtube on it.
 
rich take a quick film on your phone tomorrow mate, i've been tempted to get one of those spats for a while. would be interesting to see someone using them who knows what they are doing
 
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