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Danny

Danny

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Would you use it if you could get it?

Dont think about the cost... @BritishGypsum

There is a bad vibe due to the version but the is good... well its still on the walls and its been a couple of weeks :-)
 
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what ive seen of it on videos , no i wouldnt , dont look right and never seen a video of it painted up . Its just not worth the risk
 
church said:
what ive seen of it on videos , no i wouldnt , dont look right and never seen a video of it painted up . Its just not worth the risk
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She paints up ok... I have just miss coated a couple of walls in my place :-)

It trowels up a bit greasier than normal but its as damn near Multi as it can get I think...
 
Danny said:
She paints up ok... I have just miss coated a couple of walls in my place :-)

It trowels up a bit greasier than normal but its as damn near Multi as it can get I think...
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Sorry Dan , but i dont see the advantage in using it over multi
 
church said:
Sorry Dan , but i dont see the advantage in using it over multi
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I have a scenario that I think it will be ideal...

Saturday morning job where you have a bedroom that has been painted in the past... just walk in sheet out and bosh the set on...

I must admit skimming over shitty walls without PVA felt like I was shagging my best mates wife... but it was good and came out good.. I dont think it will ever replace Multi and I am not sure if that is the intention but I think it has a place somewhere...

These are my thoughts and my thoughts only :D
 
Like I've said in other posts, ive been using it for over a week now and getting on with it fine, went back to a job I did with it today as I was driving past so called in, it's all painted up and looks spot on. It's still not fell off lol.got a jub booked in a week on Monday fir a re skim over artex on a bedroom ceiling. That will be a tester!
 
i see what you are saying , but its got to move off the shelves with travis and a like , with a shelve like product , if it dont sell ....... time will sell mate lol .
 
I won't be using it even if it's free I just don't get the benefits and yeh your senario might sound good, but your putting your reputation on BG getting it right. In my opinion they have too many get outs on this gear which my customers will not want to hear about or even believe for that matter. It is more expensive even when you compare against pre gritting or Pva aswell as multie I dont see the point of it, it might work On Certain backgrounds but multie works on them all, I just don't get it they should of scrapped the idea and the money wasted could of reduced the price of the magnetic plaster, which I think is their best idea yet. sounds to me like they are paying a load of empty heads to come up with stupid ideas and the good ones they have come up with they are paying more empty heads to **** it up by not promoting or showing it to it's full potential. I would need a week at BG Headquarters to turn round the magnetic they just don't see the big picture watch this space I will make the magnetic a market leader :) @BritishGypsum
 
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You have to consider the price Danny because it isn't going to be free. The main reason I wouldn't use it is the cost. The second reason is I think its extremely Unprofessional and embarrassing that they released it first time round without fully testing it which will play on your mind when you take the customers. Money and leave. And thirdly I hate giving bg money when they STILL can't Make a decent paper bag. They're reinventing the wheel when they should be reinventing a paper bag.
 
Would like to try it, i can see a place for it with scenarios like @Danny mentioned,I haven't seen any of our local merchants selling this product though, no doubt it will be in stock soon :RpS_thumbsup:
 
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You have to consider the price Danny because it isn't going to be free. The main reason I wouldn't use it is the cost. The second reason is I think its extremely Unprofessional and embarrassing that they released it first time round without fully testing it which will play on your mind when you take the customers. Money and leave. And thirdly I hate giving bg money when they STILL can't Make a decent paper bag. They're reinventing the wheel when they should be reinventing a paper bag.
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To be fair I've not seen a ripped bag in a while and they are not sticking together
 
It's been along time but I got to Av a say Danny got it right its not for the meterage boys its for the artex ceiling overskim when u don't want to mess about..its for the wall or walls that have abit of every thing on and you don't want to wait around for the painted surface to dry it's been spread on absolutely every type of surface that is in the whole of the u.k for over a year and it not fell off any its mark 2 not mark 1...its design to give us choice on a job and it does dry quick on high suction backgrounds but it does trowel up nice if you not pushed yourself to far and it paints up as good as anything else ...loads of guys have used it and had no problems new school plasterers and the old school my old boss who has 40years in the game has even started to like it and the last bit of good news about it is sometimes you even get time to have another cup of tea
 
beddy said:
You have to consider the price Danny because it isn't going to be free. The main reason I wouldn't use it is the cost. The second reason is I think its extremely Unprofessional and embarrassing that they released it first time round without fully testing it which will play on your mind when you take the customers. Money and leave. And thirdly I hate giving bg money when they STILL can't Make a decent paper bag. They're reinventing the wheel when they should be reinventing a paper bag.
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if there is such a thing , beddys spot on with this post , shame no one from bg will read it
 
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It's been along time but I got to Av a say Danny got it right its not for the meterage boys its for the artex ceiling overskim when u don't want to mess about..its for the wall or walls that have abit of every thing on and you don't want to wait around for the painted surface to dry it's been spread on absolutely every type of surface that is in the whole of the u.k for over a year and it not fell off any its mark 2 not mark 1...its design to give us choice on a job and it does dry quick on high suction backgrounds but it does trowel up nice if you not pushed yourself to far and it paints up as good as anything else ...loads of guys have used it and had no problems new school plasterers and the old school my old boss who has 40years in the game has even started to like it and the last bit of good news about it is sometimes you even get time to have another cup of tea
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thanks for that... I am not going totally nuts then...lol
 
heres another real life scenario for ya... on tuesday drove to my job and the dude said he was getting the materials delivered for the day before monday...when i got there at 7am after 25 minute drive looked around outside there was no gear...asked him wheres the gear ...he said its coming first drop i knew that meant sometime on tuesday he didn't care and was not going to pay me to sit there all day waiting for materials so i did a ceiling with multi and thought if the gears not here at 10am i off home less money for the day on my way back i phoned another job that was an empty terraced i been doing bits on and off i asked the dude if it ok to to do the artex over skim in kitchen he wanted done he says fine so i went there had a bag of unifinish in the van got in mixed up put ceiling on laid in another half bag trowel off got the dosh went home made my days money every body happy.....unifinish saved my day and i got home before the mrs did and had a nice cup of tea
 
So in theory you could rough on with the unifinish and lay down with multie? :) there you go saved you a few quid...........wait a minute...............wow that was quick just got a text of BG, it doesn't work :(
 
Danny said:
I have a scenario that I think it will be ideal...

Saturday morning job where you have a bedroom that has been painted in the past... just walk in sheet out and bosh the set on...

I must admit skimming over shitty walls without PVA felt like I was shagging my best mates wife... but it was good and came out good.. I dont think it will ever replace Multi and I am not sure if that is the intention but I think it has a place somewhere...

These are my thoughts and my thoughts only :D
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.... Or maybe;

Knock on Mrs Jones door on a Saturday morning. run up the stairs in yer clean booties with a bucket of PVA/SBR, splosh adhesive product around bathroom, sheet up, set up, knock up and bosh on ... crazy I know! :RpS_biggrin:
 
They know exactly what the issue is with the bags but once you buy it they have your fiver and they don't care
 
DMA said:
.... Or maybe;

Knock on Mrs Jones door on a Saturday morning. run up the stairs in yer clean booties with a bucket of PVA/SBR, splosh adhesive product around bathroom, sheet up, set up, knock up and bosh on ... crazy I know! :RpS_biggrin:
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I tend to sheet up FIRST before i commence with any plastering, pva sploshing.
Crazy i know! :-)
 
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