Evenin' all,
Had a weird one today.
Following on from my disaster job post yesterday, I duly returned this morning to finish the job.
Big ceiling and two walls left.
Ceiling went up fine. Mixed up what I had left in an open bag and did the first hit on one of the walls. No problems. Opened a new bag, mixed it up and second coated the wall. Well bu99er me, it was gritty as hell as I layed the second coat on, ripping little lines out of the first coat all over the place. I'm sure you've all had it happen to you but usually only when you lay it on too thin.
So, stuck that bag to one side and opened another. Same s0dd1ng thing happened.
Water was clean, buckets and tools were clean - everything.
In the end I just had to take it a bit slower and pick the bits out as and when I spotted them (or as and when they dragged lines out as the case may be). The same thing happened on the second wall, only even more of a pain in the bum due to the forst coat being gritty too.
I checked the first bags I used and they had a use by date of Nov 5th. The dodgy bags had a date of Nov 14th. So, I'm left with 5 bags of Multi which I suspect will have the same characteristics as the 3 I used today.
Off to buy some more in the morning - I don't want the same thing happening tomorrow.
Anyone else had this problem (as in a dodgy gritty batch rather than laying it on too thin)?
Regards
Fred
Had a weird one today.
Following on from my disaster job post yesterday, I duly returned this morning to finish the job.
Big ceiling and two walls left.
Ceiling went up fine. Mixed up what I had left in an open bag and did the first hit on one of the walls. No problems. Opened a new bag, mixed it up and second coated the wall. Well bu99er me, it was gritty as hell as I layed the second coat on, ripping little lines out of the first coat all over the place. I'm sure you've all had it happen to you but usually only when you lay it on too thin.
So, stuck that bag to one side and opened another. Same s0dd1ng thing happened.
Water was clean, buckets and tools were clean - everything.
In the end I just had to take it a bit slower and pick the bits out as and when I spotted them (or as and when they dragged lines out as the case may be). The same thing happened on the second wall, only even more of a pain in the bum due to the forst coat being gritty too.
I checked the first bags I used and they had a use by date of Nov 5th. The dodgy bags had a date of Nov 14th. So, I'm left with 5 bags of Multi which I suspect will have the same characteristics as the 3 I used today.
Off to buy some more in the morning - I don't want the same thing happening tomorrow.
Anyone else had this problem (as in a dodgy gritty batch rather than laying it on too thin)?
Regards
Fred