ChrisA
Member
Hey all,
Cheers again for the warm welcome
So this is just to make you pros smile and a reminder that what you do is bloody difficult.
Started with a knackered wall in my new gaff (about 12-14 sq. m.), took 2 layers of wall paper off hiding a mess of a wall. tapped it and it was loose in a 4 sq m area, so hacked off (came off easy). behind was a wall that had not been repaired properly and someone had just used polysterene blocks as bricks! Removed them and put some real bricks in there with lime cement, all nice and solid and done.
plastered that area to bring it a few mm flush of rest of plaster, that went alright ish.
well i finally did the whole wall today - to me at least lol. about 12-14 sq m. Doing the 2nd coat I got to that swearing bit then 'i just cannot do this' bit. Then I got the 'i'm not clever enough for this' bit.
But I ploughed thru leaving a few bad marks (dunno what youd call them, cat faces or something). wrong or right i used a brush with water, cleaning trowel regular and eventually did what I thought was an alright job. over and over again I kept finding areas I'd done badly and had to fix them.
wife came home and said I did a good job, didn't see that coming, but then she aint a plasterer or even in construction! I'm going to see it tomorrow, just hope it doesnt look too bad. I would take a pic if it werent for the shame lol!
Even though I said all this, I really wanna do more. I have a mate whos hard up and saw the wall I did and said I could do his as a practice and he will pay for materials. I said I would do it but he cannot watch (or hear) me lol!
I few bits of me hurt, but thats probably from my shattered hip, pelvis and leg (8 years back), but may be I just need to do more and it will strengthen me up a bit. also got a bad back as well which don't help, think I picked up my disabled dad off the floor wrong the other day and tweaked it badly. He was a decent plasterer but as he was mainly a brick layer, was never pleased with his plastering and quickly wanted it painted or wallpapered!
Anyway, hope that made you all laugh....didn't make me bloody laugh!
all the best
chris
ps and I got really p'ssed off with myself when I stuck the bloody hawk in the wall, the other me shouted very loudly at the me that did it. I'd have punched him if I didn't suffer for it lol
Cheers again for the warm welcome
So this is just to make you pros smile and a reminder that what you do is bloody difficult.
Started with a knackered wall in my new gaff (about 12-14 sq. m.), took 2 layers of wall paper off hiding a mess of a wall. tapped it and it was loose in a 4 sq m area, so hacked off (came off easy). behind was a wall that had not been repaired properly and someone had just used polysterene blocks as bricks! Removed them and put some real bricks in there with lime cement, all nice and solid and done.
plastered that area to bring it a few mm flush of rest of plaster, that went alright ish.
well i finally did the whole wall today - to me at least lol. about 12-14 sq m. Doing the 2nd coat I got to that swearing bit then 'i just cannot do this' bit. Then I got the 'i'm not clever enough for this' bit.
But I ploughed thru leaving a few bad marks (dunno what youd call them, cat faces or something). wrong or right i used a brush with water, cleaning trowel regular and eventually did what I thought was an alright job. over and over again I kept finding areas I'd done badly and had to fix them.
wife came home and said I did a good job, didn't see that coming, but then she aint a plasterer or even in construction! I'm going to see it tomorrow, just hope it doesnt look too bad. I would take a pic if it werent for the shame lol!
Even though I said all this, I really wanna do more. I have a mate whos hard up and saw the wall I did and said I could do his as a practice and he will pay for materials. I said I would do it but he cannot watch (or hear) me lol!
I few bits of me hurt, but thats probably from my shattered hip, pelvis and leg (8 years back), but may be I just need to do more and it will strengthen me up a bit. also got a bad back as well which don't help, think I picked up my disabled dad off the floor wrong the other day and tweaked it badly. He was a decent plasterer but as he was mainly a brick layer, was never pleased with his plastering and quickly wanted it painted or wallpapered!
Anyway, hope that made you all laugh....didn't make me bloody laugh!
all the best
chris
ps and I got really p'ssed off with myself when I stuck the bloody hawk in the wall, the other me shouted very loudly at the me that did it. I'd have punched him if I didn't suffer for it lol