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So you'd just scrape it back into bucket and add a little bit more?

NVQ Qualification structure for Plastering - Solid (Level 2) To gain the NVQ level 2 in plastering you must achieve the following five mandatory units plus 1 optional unit Mandatory Units all required   VR01 Conform to General workplace safety VR02 Conform to efficient work practices...

Hey, as far as I'm aware it can be up to 3 on the job assesments covering all the basics, photographic evidence of you doing various things is the other part of it, I've got a list somewhere.

Thanks Danny, you are a gentleman, I may well take you up on that one day. ;) He's employing me as a plasterer but I'm expecting to do a bit of everything really as he wants to show me the ropes, really looking forward to finding out. The magnet sounds interesting, is it like a piece of jewelry...

If I make up a bucket of plaster and it is too runny, can I just leave it until it has hardened a little?

Hey guys, managed to find a local builder that is willing to take me on, the work starts in a fortnight and the pay is great for me, I'm a little nervous about how profficient he's expecting me to be but am just going to get involved and see what happens, he knows that I'm just a beginner...

So today I finally got started on my first wall after a couple of days of discovering that I didn't have all the tools that I needed, I think I made my first mix a little thick but I got it up as quickly as possible, it was ready to start flattening almost straight away so I did it, for a first...

It's more of a favour than a paid job but it's going to be great practice and hopefully a confidence boost whilst also being the beginning of my portfolio, the 110v was £40 extra for the converter and I'm on a massive budget at the moment so went for the cheaper one as I'm not expecting to be...

Well I'm doing my first job on thursday, a decent sized plasterboarded wall with a wooden beam across the top, should be easy enough. Going to start taking as many photographs as possible, is it a long drawn out process? I have to buy a mixer for thursday too and have managed to find an 1100W...

Thanks for that, I took them back today and got the drywall ones instead, I had a sneaking suspicion that I'd made the wrong choice.. ;)

I've definately started noticing more too but only because my mind has just recently been opened to the plastering world. :)

I went out today to buy internal/ external trowels and found 2 different types, the first ones had handles like a knuckleduster and seemed to be 90 degrees, the second had the long handles and appeared not to be 90 degrees, I think they were for drywall. I bought the first ones but will I need both?

Yea I was planning on an OSAT, what are the other options? I bought a 13x5 finishing trowel and 18x5 finishing trowel today, both pre-worn and Marshalltown, along with a hawk. I wanted to get my tools at the end of the course but have ended up having to get them from here and there as and when I...

Ah yes, I think he's off in the next month or so, they just mentioned the goldtrowel forum at the end of the course actually.  :) I called about the CSCS card today and they said that I should go for an 'Experienced worker' card, this will give me 1 year to complete my NVQ2 and apply for the...

Thanks Danny, yes it was Andy, Chris, Jeff and Dave, do you mean this forum? I can't seem to access the goldtrowel forum at the moment, my computer is being weird.. My first couple of jobs are going to be my parents bathroom ceiling and a wall at a friends warehouse, I should be ready to move...