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    "Moaning" Painters

    Moaning painters? dah! Its the other f***in way round chaps. Customers give us a shed load of grief cos they think they can do the job themselves.They wouldnt tell a spark how to rewire a house or a plumber where to put pipes but everyone THINKS they know how to decorate.
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    blending brush and roller

    question for Kevin. One wall looked ok but a whole room looked bad. mmmmm Had your cutting in edges dried in the room before you done the rolling? Try completing one wall at a time.Cut in your tops along the ceiling then your bottoms....then roll.That way the whole wall is wet at the...
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    fed up with cleaning rollers?

    I just wash them out in water.Its no "biggy" But i cant be bothered to wash out one or 2.Its hardly worth the effort. so usually stick them into a bag and wait till Ive got a few roller sleeves mounting up then spend half an hour washing out 6 or so. I gotta get the missus to take most of...
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    Prince Harry

    Not a massive fan of the Royals but my bro in-law was posted alongside Harry in Cyprus and says hes actually a decent bloke. As someone already pointed out....What a bullet magnet tho. I wouldnt fancy standing beside him in Basra or anywhere else anyways.Especially with that spiky ginger...
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    Fair costing of a plastering job

    I back up "what Fred said" :lol: I mean...why not pay a plasterer £20 an hour to dig up the back garden,babysit or wash the windows as well? :roll: Theres no great skill to taking woodchip off.Just scratch off all the chips of wood then ....soak...soak...soak and strip.It aint brain...
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    Lining paper and joint filling

    Hi there.First post here so.....lets see how this goes. :D Im a painter/decorator myself and must have cross lined hundreds of rooms.Ive never needed to polyfilla any joints in the paper.If the walls are prepared properly and the lining paper is hung to a decent standard leaving a gap...
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