Bonding Colour

[Seasider53]

Hello,

Why are some pink & some gray for bonding coat plaster? It comes in the purple bags so assume all the same but for me the pink stuff is easier to apply.

Am I missing something?

Matt

 

[joe-90]

It depends where the gypsum is mined.

 

[Richard C]

It depends where the gypsum is mined.

Spot on. No it doesn’t matter, either works just as well; or it should anyway

 

[roughcaster]

It depends where the gypsum is mined.

Joe is absolutely right. I enquired about this to British Gypsum 2 or 3 years ago, and that is what they said,, it was a different coloured gypsum, but the quality of the plaster is no different. I use the pink most of the time, and i find it goes off quicker too. Good stuff, whether pink or grey.
Read this link from 2007.
//www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=695234#695234

 

[Micilin]

Finish comes the same -

Sometimes we used to first coat with grey and lay down with pink, to see if we could get an all - pink wall ie the bottom coat properly flat .

Some jobs we'd mix varying amounts of pink and grey together to have different shades, just to mess with the agent's head.

Sad.................. but you knew that already

 

[NickB_99]

Some jobs we'd mix varying amounts of pink and grey together to have different shades, just to mess with the agent's head.

Nice

 

[Richard C]

Some jobs we'd mix varying amounts of pink and grey together to have different shades, just to mess with the agent's head.

Sad.................. but you knew that already

That's just the sort of site prank I like & have done similar many times in a previous incarnation. Unfortunately, I've never had such an opportunity (in this game anyway) but I have had a mixed batch on a couple of occasions so, I suppose, I could always tease myself with it but no point really; it sounds a bit like; errm

 

[roughcaster]

Finish comes the same -

Sometimes we used to first coat with grey and lay down with pink, to see if we could get an all - pink wall ie the bottom coat properly flat .

Some jobs we'd mix varying amounts of pink and grey together to have different shades, just to mess with the agent's head.

A sort of "grinky" colour.

 

[Micilin]

We once had an agent accuse us of doping the stuff with cement, as he had never seen grey finish before. Why you would need to dope an entire room I don't know, but anyway it took a call to the BG rep to convince him.

 

[Micilin]

A sort of "grinky" colour.

That's one word for it

 

[marshman]

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Some jobs we'd mix varying amounts of pink and grey together to have different shades, just to mess with the agent's head.

love it, wish I'd had the two colours to play with but I've never seen grey
finish.

 

[Micilin]

love it, wish I'd had the two colours to play with but I've never seen grey
finish.

When I used to work down that London , we used to get it a lot - apparently from somewhere 'South of the River'

 

[NickB_99]

A sort of "grinky" colour.

Personally, when I'm armed trowel-in-hand, "Pray" is more the order of the day

 

[Micilin]

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Personally, when I'm armed trowel-in-hand, "Pray" is more the order of the day

For some of the work we've seen done on here lately by others, perhaps 'prey' would be more appropriate