When did everyone start out?

[cooper.s]

Bit of a random question I know but im only 20 but im regreting not deciding to go into plastering straight from school so im just wondering how old everyone was when they first started..

 

[church]

i started at 17 ,working for a couple of spreads father and son team ,

 

[Gibbo]

16 knocking up for two headcases

 

[warriorupnorth]

47 :RpS_blushing:

 

[owls]

last week,after i fininshed my day course on the friday.

 

[Danny]

lol owls.... did you get that 2x2 ceiling finished today?

I started with 2 spreads a bit like you pretty late on... and they were bonkers and grumpy old tossers but they taught me a lot... a course chucked in there also helped... yoiu have to really want it though

Danny

 

[theblones]

13 during hollidays and sats working for my dad who was a plasterer

 

[broonster]

september 5th 1977 A young 16 year old

 

[beddy]

15

 

[henry]

July 1972 for me mate

 

[Pug]

7yrs ago, but was a lab for just about every trade since I was 18.

 

[beddy]

you still are a lab...dont bite now pug :RpS_laugh:

 

[Pug]

Lol! I'm not a lab, I'm a c**t!

 

[superspread]

i was 17 taught by my old man who had been doing it for 45yrs

 

[spark2010]

Was always told a plasterer was a glorified labourer

what u think lads?

 

[beddy]

i'd say that was spot on, we wave at walls all day. nothing else.

 

[gipser]

1984, knocking up skim with a podger and browning in an old galv. bath....the joys

 

[merlin]

same as gipser think thats why ive had probs with back alot, knocking up floating by hand , was fit as f@ck tho

 

[bubbles65]

Aye...........same here, bent over the bath for too long helped to f*ck my back up - started in 1981 at 16, fukkin scary how quick it's gone by!

 

[irish_spread]

as above, well not the benddy stuff

 

[Render Systems]

1974 when i was 18... tried plumbing first but hated it... the plasterers on the same site hated my plumber boss and took me on to p isss him off

 

[s.p.t plastering]

Started when i was 14/15 on weekends with uncle and brother, mixing up with a baten for the skimming and bath on blocks with a rake and shovel for the dabbing gear or the browning, i actually loved it, kept me well fit and warm in the winter....

Worked with some old guy who still made me do that evan if there was a whisk to be used there, akward prick....Would always get me to bang on all the cuboards and crap bits with the stiff stuff.....

 

[Scrim88]

started out when i was 16, had done a bit before when i was 15, did my 3 years apprentiship on the one site, something like 200 houses. never really laboured for the guy i was straight on the tools, there was 14 of us at one stage. boarded, rendered, and skimmed a 3 story appartment in 5 days :RpS_lol:. on the last day we all had one wall to skim each

 

[martinemj]

13 during hollidays and sats working for my dad who was a plasterer

same here ----

 

[Gibbo]

i remember running sand and cement up the stairs with a fcuking hod on xmas eve at 6,oclock the cnuts never wanted to go home

 

[skimmin2day]

15 when i left school now im 37 now.

 

[Sandy Thompson]

same as render 1974 mixing with plunger and bath 1st day rendering stil enjoy but sore and stiff now

 

[mistersmooth]

i was 18-£30 a day-40 now and still not making much!

 

[MrSpoon]

just over 3 years ago, hadn't a clue what a plasterer was! gave it a try on a friends whimm/recommendation and never looked back, somehow wangled myself onto an apprenticeship and its all going great all i want now is to get my friend who first suggested to train up and learn a trade, to pluck up the courage, take a risk and learn something new and become a part of the building trade himself.