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Thats why I use ripped up cardboard from the tile boxes as spacers. Also levelling systems with cheap large tiles and porcelain a must...some wickes cheap tiles are 2/3 mm different in size.

Was just gonna say that....back buttering is to aid adhesion on heavy or large tiles. Simply not required on small format tiles

If tiles not perfect go by eye or laser on floor use spacers made from cardboard from the tile box for walls as these can be made to suit different width requirements

Already on the fb one. Tiling can be technical like plastering with all the different products, adhesives and grouts etc.....

Back butter large format tiles say 600mm or heavy tiles for floors and walls. Rest of the time notch the wall only

Mate of mine is a joiner. Worked on a council estate as an apprentice years back and fitted 100s of windows on said estate with just foam .....no screws

That was about 20 yrs ago mind ..but yes guilty as charged

Meanwhile original poster has scarpered armed with his info...until the next cock up....

But on the same course there was a lad fitting boilers at weekends and getting his mate to sign it off ...no checks or building regs compliance and we went even on a gas course. Go figure

You can but it dosent mean us middle aged guys need to accept it without a fight. I came into the game late. Evening college course at 27, goldtrowel few months .later then started destroying my own home and a few of my rentals to learn lol. Done the same with my plumbing. Been to college to...

Don't understand this place. I helped him by suggesting he work with a spread. Some People on here giving answers. So John Wayne will be coming to a town near you now undercutting you all...armed with his grit

You've encountered a wall consisting of multiple substrates with numerous suction levels no doubt. Wall has set on you too quick hence the cracking. These are easy fixes for an experienced plasterer to guide you on and this proves that you need your hand holding by an experienced hand...my...

Read his autobiography years back Made his real money in property/ care homes

5 pints every nite and a line ...not my experience lol. For a few maybe but not the many.

I've said before £250 / day day in day out ain't gonna happen in the northwest.

Thinks its the trades in general. Everyone's on at least a grand a week. When it comes to plasterers a few will be and this will show up with their home, postcode,lifestyle etc Makes me laff when youngish lads claim the same and they live in their mums back bedroom and get the bus to work or...

Maybe but you never knew that when you threw the other spread under the bus lol

The above statement confirms why prices should not be discussed on public forum.

Been on it 2 years won about £30 but spent £240 ....hence the fools tax analogy

I do do postcode lottery. Smaller winnings but I suppose more likely to win. So I guess I'm a hypocrite lol.

Wouldn't happen on a plumbers forum ....would be all roughly in agreement on a price to fit a boiler and not many would deviate from the price .. its called unison and helps protect rates

Why did you blow your fellow spread out the window on a public forum to a customer !!! Prob cost him the job now Why oh why

As above fools tax Woman on TV was a statistician..when they increased the ball pool years back she explained that you where something like 45milkion % more likely to be struck by lighting waiting in the queue than to win. Never bought a ticket since

Link Removed Maybe this ??

If you use a scaffold do you really need one. The whole idea is you flatten off from the floor ???

So why isn't said spread sorting it

I thought this was diy . If your the spread then summits not right is it

Heating pipes are skirt mounted on the pics

Hack off old plaster and either board and skim or float and set Be carefull with skirting board depth

Ha clever that.

Sad but true technology and the virus will cause a reset of how we live. I do like to try on clothes tho and I do like a wa der around the shops...i would buy less clothes online but I'm.prob in the minority...tools etc are always cheaper online

Potential ankle breakers ??

Not if he's been warned and took the cheaper option. No guarantees offered

As above,grease, nicotine, fail to pva ,excess movement.. you can't polish a turd .. needs overboarding

Everyone's thoughts are with you x

Its an aesthetics clinic being run by a doctor within a grade 1 listed barn/ cottage she has had the listed consent people out and ran though everything with them for approval. Even had to retain the existing door knobs etc. So ye multi in a few areas was fine / approved.

Ha no genuine wasnt me. She had builder project manage cos of the listed status and he had his own spread

Hi friend of mine had some plasterwork done in a grade 1 listed building. Spread has skimmed few walls and left the odd splash mark of multi on the sandstone face. Any ideas how to remove. Ps was only plastered today ..its the marks on 2nd pic where multi meets sandstone

I assume you checked the dates on the bags?? Maybe keep a sponge handy for these type of situations...

Agreed great service.

And there my friend is your red card from me. Gobshite

Blimey thats so sad

I agree Will take tears to organise free vaccines the sub 60 Yr olds on nhs Let me guess vaccines available for all at chemist down the road £60 each. Wonder whose on the board of directors for the drug companies. Prob a shot of tap water as well.

Seemed a good idea at the time

Its bizzare that some have been unaffected,some on paper are better off and others have been completely wiped out by the virus and bizzarely it has nothing to do with skill set.

Don't take it then lol

Just been announced back to 80% for next 3 months. Rishi just announced

Think once this is settled there will be whistle-blowers from the ranks of doctors and nurses

And when they re open prices will miraculously increase again. After a period of scarcity

I'll trial one