Recent content by ExSpread

I was a Plasterer for seventeen years and toward the end I got really despondent with it all. With architects and builders wanting lightweight pr-mixed plasters and using very high suction blocks, you need to float and set the same day, unlike before when High Suction Browning could be set the...

C`mon guys, it`s not that difficult to figure out. If you know how the building trade works you`ll know that consecutive trades historically go hell for leather to spoil the previous trades work. It`s what makes the construction trade tick. It helps to maintain a certain `love hate` relationship...

Thermo....I rest my case for plumbers.

I had to work over Easter Bank Holiday in order to finish jointing the show house ready for the decorators. Well, on the Saturday I was happily working away when a woman aged around 40 wandered in and surprised to see me, said that she was just being nosey. She was wearing a short leather mini...

Estate agents.....jacking up the valuations to line their own grubby pockets. Get several of them to value your property an they`ll all be different....no rule of thumb when it comes to consistency. Hope they catch a cold when it all goes t*ts up !!!

£ 150 quid a day ? Wouldn`t get me out of bed for that ! Enough said. Right then, Plumbers....here`s the train of thought. He`s got to put a lenght of 1/2" pipe through a stud wall. Erm`, it looks like it`s been plastered or jointed ready for decoration but hey-ho, I`m going to boot a hole...

Decorators ? Can`t remember the last time I saw a Decorator on site....all I ever come across are whineging `brushes hands`.We need light....we need heat...we can`t fill these holes.....blah blah blah. Get a proper Job !!!

Evening all....heard about DIY.NOT from a pal, so I thought I`d be nosey and see what`s occuring. I was a Plasterer for seventeen years, but I saw the light......Jointing !!!! Easier,cleaner ,quicker, far fewer tools...and twice as much money !!!!!