Recent content by smudge505

Yeah so did the cladding installers at Grenfell.......

I'm just cleaning the wand, my trowel and that's me for the weekend now. Lay back and take it easy

Had a ball breaker of a day today, just one job, skimmed the ceiling and 4 walls in the morning then in the PM put the floorscreed down in the same room, knackered now and enjoying a pint. What have you lads been upto today?

So British Gypsum, a billion pound company, with shareholders are only interested in making money?!? Wow who would of thought, I thought they were a charity .........

Time to retire I think

So what happens if there's a problem and you put it in say multi and the plaster cracks or shells?? Do BG still come out and sort it?

I guess the whole point of producing plaster that has a prescribed set time is if there's problems you can blame the manufacturer, when we throw cement in we are taking the law into our own hands, all come backs on us

Already do a longer set, if you hand apply spray finish it has 2.5/3hr set on it

There's no recycled board in plaster

You want to make sure your fixing in to the joists so you need a screw which will go the rough the board, Insulation, Plywood and then penetrate 25mm in to the joists, so you're looking at least a 100mm screw

Wh y don't you just go eBay, you can buy magnetite on there and it's not that expensive

The original spec was a German one coat plaster so I've gone with Universal OneCoat plaster from BG, the block work is horrendous in one run of 5m in one panel was 25mm out! Blocks a bit dry but with a bit of water I was away with it, couldn't belive what a good finish you could get with onecoat

Suction is easily controlled with water so I'm Not bothering with a pva, grit or gyprime

Yeah they are

Got a job which is specified plaster, the background is porotherm blocks. Which plaster do you think I should be using, I've already decided but just wanna see if the majority agree or not.