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I've just finished re-skmming my first wall and it didn't turn out quite as well as I was hoping. I'm not too disheartend by it not being brilliant because it was first time and I was reletively slow doing it, I know next time I need to be quicker. What I want to know is, do I pva over what i've done and put up another 2 coats or will 1 coat be enough to cover the imperfections of my original attempt?
 
Yes one coat over PVA will be fine, why are you asking questions like this on a Sat night you should be drinking and before you ask i am just to tired to go out,
 
I ask because I plan on having another go at it tomorrow, plan being the key word there. And I'm not out drinkng because I have an extremely short supply of babysitters. and I'm watching the darts.
 
wastedenergyuk said:
I've just finished re-skmming my first wall and it didn't turn out quite as well as I was hoping. I'm not too disheartend by it not being brilliant because it was first time and I was reletively slow doing it, I know next time I need to be quicker. What I want to know is, do I pva over what i've done and put up another 2 coats or will 1 coat be enough to cover the imperfections of my original attempt?
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I would give it two coats as if you were starting again which is pretty much what your doing also the suction is gonna be more than it was previously coz its fresh plaster.
 
Ok mate, i'll go with the 2 coats. I could do with the practice anyway especially for the speed and getting the consistency of my mix right, I think my first coat had gone off in patches whilst I was putting on the second coat. But I guess thats the joys of learning how to plaster.
 
i find it strange if thats the word that in my younger days i had 4 years of low pay as an apprentice 2 become a plasterer but now a week and ur there is it anywonder every tom dick and harry are doing it now and doing it cheeper not as good but duz anyone care .
 
i think the distinction between courses (of which i did 5 yrs ago) and the proper 20 yrs on the job lads is the jobs ye get. If i had a £2m pound house i wanted rendering i would get render systems bloke of here to do it or someone like that. But if its a bathroom reskim then yeah im up for that. I think some plasters stay still in their skill set. ie how many lads come on here and say ive been plastering 30 yrs but how do u use k rend or i dont do any external work??

Problem is that is does not take yrs to learn to skim to a decent standard. So if thats all u been doing for 30 yrs then the competition will eat u. Lads who have undertaken 30 yrs of consantant improvement and education will always float to the top of the best paid jobs.
 
courses are a good idea for those who only want to go and skim on site, but if you wanna learn evrything else you need to hook onto a good plasterer to learn from. We've had lads come to work at our place who have only been on site and when you ask them to float a wall, dash or render they look at you like your an alien.
 
Domestic work site work err builders work .......plasterers are plasterers some do both domestic and site some just site some just domestic whatever floats their boat some are good some are s**t some are go-getters others are lazy coonts .....as for the courses they don't teach you how to skim they don't teach you **** all they show you an insight as to what's expected but they won't turn you into a plasterer not even a skimmer if it wasn't for the Internet the coursers would still be in the same room scratching their heads because they wouldn't know what to do next.......
 
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Domestic work site work err builders work .......plasterers are plasterers some do both domestic and site some just site some just domestic whatever floats their boat some are good some are s**t some are go-getters others are lazy coonts .....as for the courses they don't teach you how to skim they don't teach you **** all they show you an insight as to what's expected but they won't turn you into a plasterer not even a skimmer if it wasn't for the Internet the coursers would still be in the same room scratching their heads because they wouldn't know what to do next.......
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You make me larrrf Spunk, trouble is no one will listen to us
 
Plasteers do not render any more and it's simple because any dafr t**t can stick boards on a wall not everyone can render because it's not done on new builds. If you can render then you can use any type of pre bag renders K rend etc On this job am doing at the moment the guy use to use a chancer but he dont like rendering or more like cannot render his lost my gain
on my terms.
 
some do henry or we'd be a bit ****** lol ......the last job i was on we were running our fingers down the angles and giving it 2 trowels and a polish if it needed it the work was that s**t and noone cared lol
 
lol-

yeah rendering is the next thing for me to get to grips with. i got two little terrace houses whicj i wud love to give some "street appeal" with k rend.
 
In all fairness all the modern render finishes are a lot easier than traditional when it comes to skill factor all you gotta do with mono is lay it on and scratch it back it pretty much gets it self flat on the scratching process as with traditional there is a lot more skill involved to getting it flat that you only learn when taught right, even the likes of k-rend and webber do a 1 day course showing how to do it.
 
all you do on the 1 day krend course is colour in pictures of trowels with crayons, waste of time.
there is a bit more to it, ie getting your scratching times right but i agree if you can render to agood standard with s/c monocouche rendering comes fairly easy
 
K Rend is certainly easier to apply than sand and cement, but it has its own issues especially when applying by hand on refurb jobs. Getting the mix and thickness right is important.
 
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