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thanks for the quick response guys, what is a mister spray????

i have been plastering on the side now for about 18 months. i have plastered many different walls and ceiling but funnily enough i have not yet patched a ceiling. i have a customer who had a leak in his ceiling so he got it sorted and but a piece of plasterboard over the hole. he wants the...

try and send some pics mate. :wink:

thanks for the replies guys, i really dont get any crack normally but on my last job i had a large wall that needed bonding out in the middle of the wall all the across. this was not a problem and i skimmed the wall the next day. all was well until a couple of days after when the...

just a quick one, do you pro plasterers still get the occasional hairline crack in your work or is it just us amateurs who suffer this on rare occassions??? :lol:

been reading through some of the posts on rendering and thinking of having a go. i have been plastering for 4 years now and am now at a standard where i am charging people for my work. i can do most internal plastering including bonding/hardwall plus boarding and skimming and have tackled a...

thank you so much for the great advise guys i really appreciate it i find it amazing how you pros can do a days graft and still find time to answer us novices questions. bloody fantastic i have another job this weekend so will try harder to get things right. cheers guys :D

well what an eye opener. :shock: i done the job ok but it took me 9 hours on saturday and 5 hours on sunday, i only quoted the job on a days work so i lost out big time. everything was going against me, first my beads wouldnt fix to the walls, i always use clout nails to fix the beads...

one more thing she had a daido rail half way up the wall, is this difficult to plaster around? only needs a thin skim so should be ok

thanks for the great advise guys roy c im from tile cross sheldon birmingham mackadown lane dont know if you know it. i will try and convince the customer to let me take the rad off, i agree it will look turd!! cheers guys will let you know how i get on

thanks for the advise jr the main reason i dont like mixing indoors is it causes to much dust but you make a good point with moving all your gear indoors from outside pain in the back side. cheers jr

got the job :lol: doing it saturday, nice little job only problem the customer wants the radiator left on so i have to plaster around it. :oops: quoted £130 all in mats come to about £40 should take about 6 hours i think if no problems occur, bit of a strange question but i will be...

never heard of the tartar sauce with multi finish before. please explain would be very helpful :?: :D

thanks for the fast response guys, dont know if the ceiling is included yet until i see the job tomorrow. £100 was just a ballpark figure but if i think i can do it in less than a day i will of course adjust the cost. i dont know where londonderry is but £100 a day for an experienced...

hi guys, i am quoting tomorrow for a small job , it is to skim a downstairs hallway, havent seen the job yet but am wondering what a fair labour cost would be, say if it takes me all day saturday. she has seen my work from my sisters house and didnt hesitate to ask me to quote her. i havent...

how do you mean wet then dry. you didnt pva the boards did you. fresh boards dont need pva. if the boards are tight with no flex then i see no reason why they should crack. did you use two coats of multi? next time if in dought double scrim the joins mate to make sure :)

how much of a gap did you leave when butting your boards together, if you have left a big gap then scrim tape alone might not hold and crack. are your boards fixed properly (no flexing). i plastered a room not so long ago and they stuck the boards up and there was flex in a lot of places. i...

hi there, is there anything in your loft that is putting to much weight on your ceiling boards? how big is the crack? post a pic if possible

sorry to sound stupid guys never done a curve before. you use a plastic carrier bag? how ? dont you use a sponge float or something? like i said never done it so dont have a clue. :oops:

if there are noggins in there then i would definately put some screws in or the board will probably flex in the middle. always better to be safe than sorry. the gaps shouldn't be a problem. you should have left about a 1inch gap from the floor though. if you get it skimmed then you will have a...