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Seabream95

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Hi all just after abit of advice on how to improve. I do a bit of plastering here and there have been working at a family members house plastered some walls thought I had got them dead flat but ive been round and shone a head torch on high beam down my walls to see the quality and ime really annoyed with my self and just feel demoralized as I want things perfect. I don't know what ime doing wrong I use a marshall town steel all the way through with a speed skim to help flatten and then at the very end go over with a plazi flex I've gone and shone light down other walls in other places and they have the same effect some worse some better I am yet to find a wall with no undulations marks and ripples on is it s**t plastering is it normal ive tried all different techniques all come out looking flat and polished but when it's painted and light shone across it same result doing my head in have attached a photo to show walls that I have plastered and then after been painted u can't see any of the marks unless the torch is flush to the surface but it's annoying because I know there there thanks for any input
 

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Dollar said:
No plasterer visited that property .
It is that simple



Wakey wakey
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Thanks I just wanted to know on how to avoid this I've watched a lot of youtube videos ime doing exactly the same as everyone else does no one shows lights shone down there work though so I can't tell if there all like this have u ever shone a light down u're work to see the quality.
 
And when I say I've shon lights down other walls I mean other walls that have been plastered buy someone else at different houses and they have the same effect going on so it can't just be me
 
Seabream95 said:
Hi all just after abit of advice on how to improve. I do a bit of plastering here and there have been working at a family members house plastered some walls thought I had got them dead flat but ive been round and shone a head torch on high beam down my walls to see the quality and ime really annoyed with my self and just feel demoralized as I want things perfect. I don't know what ime doing wrong I use a marshall town steel all the way through with a speed skim to help flatten and then at the very end go over with a plazi flex I've gone and shone light down other walls in other places and they have the same effect some worse some better I am yet to find a wall with no undulations marks and ripples on is it s**t plastering is it normal ive tried all different techniques all come out looking flat and polished but when it's painted and light shone across it same result doing my head in have attached a photo to show walls that I have plastered and then after been painted u can't see any of the marks unless the torch is flush to the surface but it's annoying because I know there there thanks for any input
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Bin the plastic spastic.

More elbow grease required with the steel.
 
Cockney said:
Bin the plastic spastic.

More elbow grease required with the steel.
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Totally agree, all these new trowels/tools that are around these day's seem to end up with some new convoluted way to do something that was sorted long before any of us were even born.
The materials change but the basics remain the same, it's like all those razors with a daft amount of blades, they only exist to extract money from the pockets of the gullible.
However
www.CHD.com/New-for-2025/Trowels/Campaigns/Get-Sexy-With-The-Flexy
 
paulf said:
Totally agree, all these new trowels/tools that are around these day's seem to end up with some new convoluted way to do something that was sorted long before any of us were even born.
The materials change but the basics remain the same, it's like all those razors with a daft amount of blades, they only exist to extract money from the pockets of the gullible.
However
www.CHD.com/New-for-2025/Trowels/Campaigns/Get-Sexy-With-The-Flexy
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All these links are rubbish. They don't point to the Chrispy House Diary at all, you Irish git.
 
Seabream95 said:
Hi all just after abit of advice on how to improve. I do a bit of plastering here and there have been working at a family members house plastered some walls thought I had got them dead flat but ive been round and shone a head torch on high beam down my walls to see the quality and ime really annoyed with my self and just feel demoralized as I want things perfect. I don't know what ime doing wrong I use a marshall town steel all the way through with a speed skim to help flatten and then at the very end go over with a plazi flex I've gone and shone light down other walls in other places and they have the same effect some worse some better I am yet to find a wall with no undulations marks and ripples on is it s**t plastering is it normal ive tried all different techniques all come out looking flat and polished but when it's painted and light shone across it same result doing my head in have attached a photo to show walls that I have plastered and then after been painted u can't see any of the marks unless the torch is flush to the surface but it's annoying because I know there there thanks for any input
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You ain't done anything wrong m8 you can't shine lights on plasterwork
 
Thanks for the input I only use the plaziflex right at the very end I lay on with the steel then flatten with the speed skim and then go threw the stages of leaving it and flattening cross trowel etc all with the steel and repeat for the second coat ime not sure if maybe I should be applying more pressure with the trowel Ill give it another bash without the plaziflex thanks
 
The Hobo said:
You ain't done anything wrong m8 you can't shine lights on plasterwork
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Thanks ime not a plasterer buy trade just do a bit here and there and did a bit at college but it's something I would like to get really good at and do more of have watched a lot of videos on YouTube for example a guy called Alex Morley and Kirk jonstone I can't see what I am doing different to them the walls look perfect and flat even when the sun hits them it's just with the light shone down them were it shows I just trying to see weather its just normal or weather it can be perfectly flat I take my torch with me when ime out and about and when I see some walls give them a test and they do have the same problem ime yet to find one that's perfect.
 
Seabream95 said:
Thanks I just wanted to know on how to avoid this I've watched a lot of youtube videos ime doing exactly the same as everyone else does no one shows lights shone down there work though so I can't tell if there all like this have u ever shone a light down u're work to see the quality.
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I think your f**k**g on with it too much, and your timings are out.

Work with an experienced plasterer, I bet he'll tell you to leave it alone between trowels, (clean your edges, prep other walls, bead up it's called "Concurrent Activity")
●Listern
●Watch
●Learn
● Mimic/ Practice

Unless you are doing it regularly then don't expect it to change as there's other variables to take into account such as;
●Backgrounds/substrate
● Temperature
● Humidity
These will alter timings and Unless your experienced You'll carry on Tiger stripes etc.
 
I started in the late 80s was always told the finish should be like an egg shell nowadays people cross trowel the s**t out of it with the flexible trowels as in the first photo .when u do that any imperfections humps or hollows will show up especially on hall walls with the sun beaming in the door .smooth and shiny might look good don’t mean it’s done right ,as for shining lights on it if god himself did a wall a light will show imperfections
 
Stevieo said:
It tells you his friends think he's a fukcing lunatic..

Wandering around their houses with a head torch and his nose pressed against their walls.
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@lurpak
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Thread 'Opinion needed.'

Our general contractor hired plasterers for our new addition. Found imperfections which I fixed. When painted and wall sconces placed, these were the results. Is this poor quality plastering work or am I being unreasonable?
 
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