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    Dot dab

    Got told I can today from the builders yard but still unsure
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    Dot dab

    Can you stick polystyrene back boards with dry wall adesive?
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    beads

    I spray them on with spray adesive if that helps
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    scrimping on the scrim

    Put some Coving up and tell it's a moving in present
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    new render

    can you dash with hail stones on to it
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    Just out of interest...

    average room 300 plus mats
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    Merry Christmas

    ho ho merry christmas
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    New member

    alright mate
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    crazy bastids

    class
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    pva

    i just roll and go
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    Different levels

    ye just bond the whole wall and derby it in till its nice and flat
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    Dry lining a shipping container.

    poss thistle bond it and then dab it if the paint is sound
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    Curved ceiling in a barn conversion

    always use a joint rule on the coners just cuts them out nice an dsharp
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    awkward

    ye stop bead or you might just get a float bead tucked in under the window
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    finish

    prob the first coat showing through
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    What has caused this?

    could just be down to the weather were havin dried out to soon and the result is
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    auctions

    just got mwb vauxhall movano loads of room
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    trowel

    no good for reskims
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    Time between build and render

    think id give it a week for the mortar to set proper
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    Not True!!!!

    apparently bubbles tried to save him but he was only taught to suck
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    Not True!!!!

    is rolf harriss dead ive just heard the singer that did two little boys has died
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    Dot and dab

    as long as its not coverd in loose dust should be ok till you get paid
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    to those who staple there angle beads!!!!!!!!

    ye somtimes use carpet adesive its in a can just spay and stick in an instant
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    a room

    i usally charge 200 inc mats for wall in a living room
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    Looking to buy a plastering book...

    Plastering by j. b. taylor had mine about 15 years goes through just about everything ;)
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    Should I accept?

    take the beer tokens mate
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    advice on scimming a ceiling

    just follow the curve down to the picture rail but if you havent skimed a cove ceiling before walk away
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    Eggshell finish or Glass

    think the customers that dont know what they are looking for like to see a nice shine
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    overboarding ceilings

    ye i use liquid nail me self
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    Jekyll & Hyde ??

    sounds like he found white finger prints all over his birds knickers to me
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    Paying a Labourer

    you can always go down the mp route and tell them it was a mistake
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    how many plasterers are there in the UK?

    ye how many could actually stand up and call themselfs plasterers
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    I need some render advice...

    they will have nailed the eml (expanding metal lathe) to th ply the render is the sealer so when this goes the water has prob been making its way through sounds like it all needs riping out re ply felt eml and rendered oh and the inside will need to be renewed as well
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    Ceiling advice

    had the same prob about twelve months ago what i did was boared up to the mouldind in 12.5 boared then cut down the edge of a skim bead to just sit on the edge of the boared and then just skim actually looked good when finished the edge of the boared was lower than the moulding but lost no...
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    meeeerrrrr

    got them in woolworths at the mo check em out
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    Bumpy

    also if you give it water to early this could also be the problem young lad who works for me is always flicking water at it onits first trowel and this is always the outcome
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    Uneven walls

    thats how i do it is there any other way ;D ;D
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    refina

    ??? ??? ???
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    cheap tools

    didnt oasis say his van got screwed the other week somone wants to tell him his tools have turned up lol
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    NVQ 2 FOLDER

    have you got his number im after mine doin aswell
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    The Guild

    just cancelled this year after two or three years payin dont think it helped mutch full of promises at the start on how you can bang your rates up and all that but at the end of the day it a competitive market so you can only price what somone is willing to pay also having to pay the fee each...
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    plastering and mobile phones

    just been looking today u get lap tops with them now
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    Confessions of a Plasterer ??

    did you get the job then
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    Confessions of a Plasterer ??

    show us all the picture then shoundnt be aloud to keep it to yourself
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    B&Q Trade Account

    ye but got to buy 10 all the time to get the discount pain somtimes wickes pretty simlar but only have to buy 5
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    tax rebate

    come on boys how mutch you on for ;)
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    plastering and mobile phones

    ye but id be to lazy swaping over every night and end up havin the crap one all the time
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    plastering and mobile phones

    another one bites the dust .. id love one of those shiny touch screen ones but they forever get clogged up with dust screen gets scratched tried most things with a new phone ie sock /cover cleaning but in the end the plaster takes its toll and kills it how long do yours last and any solutions as...
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    being taken to court!!

    well said
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