Banker??
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I know a few "W**kers" in plastering
Richard C wrote,
Hiiiii, here's another plastering Winker too Rich'd
Roughcaster.
Hiiiii, here's another plastering Winker too Rich'd
Roughcaster.
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Sorry,I've never heard of that expression before. In what way did you hear "banker"used in relation to plastering?
Roughcaster.
Roughcaster.
Neither have I; I also checked several glossary of plastering terminology in case I was missing something but couldn't find any reference to "banker"; do reveal in what context you heard it
Well there you go. That's a new one to me Marshy.
Roughcaster.
Roughcaster.
a banker is a large mixing board. innit.
That'll be the same as my 8x4 sheet of ply then. Never heard it called a "banker" before though..... Although when I worked with Tarmac, we made a box out of a sheet of ply, fixed 2 sides and 2 ends on it to make a box, and then mixed the Carlite Browning plaster up in it using a rake. That was when plaster came in one hundredweight bags. (50 kg's) in todays money.
Roughcaster.
Roughcaster.
that box is what a banker was / it is not just a board, before cement mixers all lime mortar was mixed in a banker,
the lime came raw as lumps and was tip into a pit then flooded with water, this was left to bubble away as raw lime heats
with water added, after some time (which I can't remember how long) but I think it was some weeks the lime was then called slaked,
this is then mixed with sand in the banker with the hair being teased in for plastering and no hair added for the brickwork mortar,
the mortar was stored in bulk and covered with a tarp',
the mortar was then taken from the heap and remixed or knock up again as the brickies or plasterers needed it.
the lime pit was one of the first jobs to be dug on site do to the time it took to slake the lime.
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