Recent content by rob121

yea moneys s**t, but I do mainly building, not a lot of plastering. yea your right, its a small company who I sub for regularly. Cant winge too much atm, hes booked up till past august and ive got mates who havent got anything. Perhaps a pay rise is needed. Yea I was going to work out travel...

Evening all, I currently work in kent (south east). My boss has asked me if I will go and stay at a job in chelsea with another lad to do some work on a flat. Rip out partion walls, put new ones up, tack and plaster. Also some joinery work, cupboards, window boards etc. Anyone got any ideas...

Sounds like a mixed bad really. Its good to hear that works picked up a bit. Summer always brings peoples wallets out (well normally anyway). i know today that my boss priced 4 jobs and got all 4. Theyre only small building jobs but works work. Hope work picks up for those that are a bit quiet

Evening all, Just thought id see how everyones work is going? Got much on or still quiet? I work for a small company and we lost a lot of our work, but over last few months had quite a few bookings, up till october i think. Although we do Period Property restoration so not just plastering...

should imagine there wasnt a shortage of work then. could do with another world war

haha, tryin to imagine my gran on stilts

NICE..................................................radio. walls arent too bad either ;)

I have nothing to do with the above response, please forward all death threats to him

Recently our house has been suffering from damp in one corner of the house, the strange thing is its upstairs and down. The damp is like a green fungus type stuff. In both rooms its at the bottom of the wall. I was told if its under 1.5m up the wall then its rising, otherwise its direct, any...

i would go and ask other plasterers if you can do an apprentiship with them mate. I did that, 1 day a week at college and 4 days working. Got my plastering NVQ 2 out of it. If they dont want to pay your wages then they can get funding from CITB, cant remember exactly how much they give out but...

yea i spose he could have thought i was using bonding etc. Im sure the people on these DIY programs paint new plaster the next day. I said to them it should be ready in about 3/4 days so theyre happy. Just been asked for a price on a tricky job. Its at a butchers unit, the actual cutting area is...

That was actually my old college tutor. Thats apparently the recommended time. Well fortunately I havent had to start taking on decorating jobs yet, so tbh wouldnt have a clue about how long to leave it. I just slap it up and leave the rest to them.

Ive got a job on monday plastering over artex and re-skimming all the walls. Theyve asked how long it has to wait till they can paint it as its there living room and obviously want to get it completed. I was told 3 weeks by someone but didint think multi would take that long to go off. Its only...

builder, hes a right w**k*r, he got a plasterer who he used to use come in for a job we did the other day an was tellin him how s**t it looks because there was bubbles in it, seen as he pays me labourers money what does he expect. Would like to see him do better

haha hard to pretend when youve got a boss who wont stop bringing it up every 5 minutes. Ok well glad to here its a common problem. Im going to plaster my artex ceiling in my room in the next few weeks, ive had 2 different opinions on how to do it, first is to use bonding then skim it, other is...