Thistle board-finish.

[kane]

Alright Lads,Just a quick one,when talking about thistle board-finish is just calling it thistle right and every spread would know you're talking about board-finish! ???

 

[spunky]

ask a few speads about board finish and youd get a few looks lately ;D

 

[essexandy]

Yeah Spunky's right in the old days it was either Sirphite, Carlite Finish or Thistle boardfinish. Now everything is Thistle this and Thistle that so it's only us olduns that think of Thistle as meaning boardfinish.

 

[kane]

Nice one,Cheers for that lads ;D

 

[Liam Murray]

In the old days there was a thistle wall finish as well. [ now i'm showing my age] board finish was a white/green bag, wall finish was a red/white bag , there was also a plaster called statite.
Liam

 

[spunky]

if thistles thistle........what the f**k was carlite

 

[flynnyman]

carlite is carlite dope ;~)

 

[spunky]

yeh but what is thistle and what is carlite?

 

[kebab king]

Plaster, thats what it is.

 

[pftmonojetman]

yeh but what is thistle and what is carlite?

Basicly The Carlite plasters were for backing and thistle were for board work

 

[murplastering]

carlite finish for browning and board finish for board work obviously we used board finish for sand and cement and still do if im buying

 

[steve1976]

Carlite is just another brand who make plaster we have it over here in Northern Ireland it comes in bonding and finish.

 

[murplastering]

yes but carlite used to baged up as carlite finish or carlite board finish then came multi and the rest is etc

 

[skimmin2day]

It all comes from the ground and is basicaly calcium in what ever form they heat it and treat it.
That carlite was dusty smelly sh it though.

 

[pftmonojetman]

Lesson time, Carlite plaster is so called because it was once called "Carlisle light weight plaster"
and Thistle was Mcgees plaster from Scotland Hence the name thistle, I belive Bg bought them out and so became Carlite and Thistle plasters.

 

[simplybesty]

carlite is thistle bonding, i still go into merchants and ask for carlite bonding.

 

[kane]

Was their pink-sirphite as well as the grey-sirphite ???

 

[bodplasterer]

You still get grey now we have just had a batch of grey bonding but i have also used grey carlite finish (years ago) but i think its where they source the gypsum is why it changes colour.

 

[napper83]

over our way bonding an hardwall is mainly grey, all depends where the rock was mined

 

[essexandy]

Was their pink-sirphite as well as the grey-sirphite ???

Yes

When I started there was Siraphite for sand & cement work Thistle boardfinish for board and Carlite finish for Bonding and Browning, after a while they did away with Siraphite and bought out Siraphite B which didn't last to long before they replaced it with Multi-finish which could be used on all backing coats. I remember talking to a BG rep back when I'd just started and he said that they weren't supposed to be used on different back grounds to the one they were made for. I know loads of people have done masses of work using boardfinish on sand & cement without any problems, but if there was a problem for whatever reason then using the "wrong" plaster would get the blame.