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Personnally i would of charged £100 +materials which would of been 1-2 bags of bonding and a bag of multi and allow for some unibond so about another £30

But next time make sure the job is ready for the trade you have booked :wink: I hate going to jobs that have been booked up for ages and its not ready when i get there :evil:

Either go with the mesh idea or you could try painting the beam with unibond and a sand mix which should give a course finish when dried and then skim with a one coat plaster Thats what i would do anyway

How many coats of finish did you do ?

Has anyone got a manual for a hoover crystaljet D821 dishwasher as i want to replace the seals but i cant seem to get the door off .Or does anyone know how to remove the door ? i would rather be given some idea as i tend to break things like this when i get annoyed at not being able to do what i...

I fail to see how you can be good at rendering and rubbish at skimming as rendering is the harder of the two

Thats what i use

I know its old but even i have learnt something ,i have the old box angle trowel and was always wondering why no one did a stainless one and got fed up of forever cleaning it when it got rusty so i now use a marshaltown dry lining angle trowl

Yep i always put 2 coats on and always do a fresh mix for each coat ,the only time i ever did 2 coats from the same bucket was either a very small wall or if i ran out on the first coat and just needed a hawk full to finish the wall .

Yes dont use Wickes finishing coat :lol: ,i would use multifinish after first sealing the wall with pva and then the next day repaint with pva and then when tacky apply the plaster

Im afraid i was always taught to do 2 mixes and that 1 coat was done by amateurs so that is how i have always worked . I look at it like this : on a large wall it will take longer to go over the first coat filling in etc than it does to mix another guage and lay it on and the finish will be...

Or you can use your finger on the end of your trowel

Yes im with you there as well boys but the finish is only as good as the plasterer :lol:

If someone asked me to do this i would refuse and tell them to look in the yellow pages for someone else

Does the plaster in the bag feel nice and powdery or is it more gritty with small lumps and when on the spot does it have a bit of a shine ?

Yes you would if its causing the corner to break away ,just make sure its well seated and you have an even amount the whole length of the bead and dont leave any protruding through the bead or when it goes off it will knock the bead off when you try and remove it

Neat pva left overnight works too :wink:

Knock it all off and start again

I would say about £380 inc materials for a good job and i ALWAYS do 2 coats only ever do 1 coat if its just to tidy a wall up before tiling Go for the cheapest quote at your peril ,ive lost count the number of people who have asked me to quote for a job and said they can get it done a lot...

Noseall is pretty much there with the answers but i would just add that you need to make sure anything that is remotely loose or sounds hollow you need to get off and then any repairs you do will not be in vain You also really need to have a bit of a play around with the mix of the tyroelene...