External Rendering Assignment for college (Please Help)

[jbonding]

everyone who doesnt use them says there ****, they are a god send.

 

[legs-akimbo]

I have worked with lads on stilts....i use 8x4 sheets on battens and crates,very crude and basic but I put on half as much again, a far better finish, polished up ahead of them and have done the mixing for the both of us. Not the sort of thing you can carry with you for the odd small job but all my work is one off new builds so cart my whole kit up in one transit and trailer load.
There is no way in the world I could put on as many metres in one gauge with stilts than boarding out four rooms in under half an hour.

 

[jbonding]

I have worked with lads on stilts....i use 8x4 sheets on battens and crates,very crude and basic but I put on half as much again, a far better finish, polished up ahead of them and have done the mixing for the both of us. Not the sort of thing you can carry with you for the odd small job but all my work is one off new builds so cart my whole kit up in one transit and trailer load.
There is no way in the world I could put on as many metres in one gauge with stilts than boarding out four rooms in under half an hour.

believe me legs you would be twice as fast on stilts and less stuff to carry and less chance of causing damage to decor. all i can say is you must be working with some slow plasterers if your mixing and finishing quicker.

 

[dougalhouse]

Personally I like using them (on my small mediocre jobs), yes it may be slower (thats up for debate and depends on the spread) but the chicks love em!!

(they don't have to kneel down )

 

[legs-akimbo]

J Bonding, what would be quicker....plastering a ceiling if you were seven foot five inches and didnt need any thing at all. Or being five foot five and needing stilts.
Clearly the former! therefor working off a sheeted platform is akin to being that 7ft plasterer its just as if you are working from the deck. What do you do everytime you need to knock up a gauge, theres no way you can mix a bag and a half in a large bucket and lift it onto the spot while wearing stilts.
I have scaffold, A two bag diesel Benford mixer, hoses, barrells, all manner of tools, lights and generator etc etc to load onto each job so a few 8x4 sheets are no real bother. Have tried the stilts and they are for me, a wate of time money and effort.

 

[jbonding]

J Bonding, what would be quicker....plastering a ceiling if you were seven foot five inches and didnt need any thing at all. Or being five foot five and needing stilts.
Clearly the former! therefor working off a sheeted platform is akin to being that 7ft plasterer its just as if you are working from the deck. What do you do everytime you need to knock up a gauge, theres no way you can mix a bag and a half in a large bucket and lift it onto the spot while wearing stilts.
I have scaffold, A two bag diesel Benford mixer, hoses, barrells, all manner of tools, lights and generator etc etc to load onto each job so a few 8x4 sheets are no real bother. Have tried the stilts and they are for me, a wate of time money and effort.

what would be quicker....plastering a ceiling if you were seven foot five inches and didnt need any thing at all. Or being five foot five and needing stilts, its the same, thats what stilts do.this is quicker than setting up planks and boards and you get off the stilts to mix and put it on your spot board or your labourer does it its not rocket science. i dont know how you can say carrying 8*4 sheets every where and moving them can be quicker than strapping on stilts, its like taking your boots on and off.what do you use for mixing plaster,and dont say a podger