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Just down the road from here did walls surrounding a skimming pool in a monocouche type render about 1990, the apartments finished with a product called snowcem, great product to make dough on. Sent from my HUAWEI G6-L11 using Tapatalk

Might be different on very large builds, over here you tend to do both all the time with very few specialist, what I have noticed is the fall of in colored render since the boom years, much of it looks s**t five years on and I don't have any confidence in its suitability to our wet cloudy...

Board edging bead, very handy kit. Sent from my HUAWEI G6-L11 using Tapatalk

Outside on a tight price middle of December, napping, prob some young lad about to get educated.... Sent from my HUAWEI G6-L11 using Tapatalk

If a guy takes on a contract , he needs to have the dough in place to pay his men, subbies and suppliers. If he hasn't the resources he shouldn't be in the game. Money talks , bullshit...........* Sent from my HUAWEI G6-L11 using Tapatalk

I got involved in a fire equipment business, running fire safety courses, selling/installing equip. Annually certifying prrmises. You think plastering is a pain on the hole till you try getting paid for stuff people don't even no want. Sent from my HUAWEI G6-L11 using Tapatalk

Have you any links to the flooring you used, am pricing this evening , second time flooded timberframe, pricing to cement board and tank ground floor, client might be interested in plastic flooring boards. Sent from my HUAWEI G6-L11 using Tapatalk

What I've done in my own place was to screw tape and joint stop bead on its edge to the window itself and just dap corner, this prevents any bridge and ensures reveal is parallel, a bead of silicon under it while applying gives good airtightness. Sent from my HUAWEI G6-L11 using Tapatalk

Ah why not, most I've worked for want it done yesterday, scaffold is pricey summer or winter. Sent from my HUAWEI G6-L11 using Tapatalk

Next build I do , will go with a 200mm cavity,pumped and loads of South facing glass. Oh yeah, S+C the whole thing internal, ceilings apart. Sent from my HUAWEI G6-L11 using Tapatalk

You'd be surprised at the price of tripple glazing man, I got 19 plus a front and back door for seven grand back in 2010, Munster Joinery but so far so good, we are heating 2,500sqft for about 200euros per annum in oil, plus about a bag and half of coal a week in winter, Solar heating H20 in...

Unless there is a reason why you can not Insulate board internal and pump cavity, you would be mad to go down the ewi route, put the money you have saved into tripple glazing if flush. Sent from my HUAWEI G6-L11 using Tapatalk

@zombie, you've that arseways man, all work is essentially price work, if the only thing a bloke has ever done is dab and skim he is not a site plasterer he is a dab n skimmer, mostly come in two varieties , dog rough and dog roughs older rougher alcoholic sister. Sent from my HUAWEI G6-L11...

That's the thing about skills..........they're easy carried..... Sent from my HUAWEI G6-L11 using Tapatalk

Thing is Carl, every plasterer needs to be a pretty hot labourer also, after all he needs to understand all the mixing process Int and ext, scaffolding and most of all cleaning and preparing, if you don't know how these are done proper and fast how can ever train your own labourer, labouring is...

Had a conversation with a local builder recently, told me he was getting loads of insurance jobs being put his way and having a problem finding guys who could guarantee a good clean job with no come backs, said no problem I could guarantee same and could supply and fix anywhere in Munster fully...

Is the plaster hollow sounding around the crack, if so its the pva, take all the boast sounding plaster of and patch. If sounds solid most likely structural. Sent from my HUAWEI G6-L11 using Tapatalk

About five/six years ago was finishing a set of corner stones on a a big self build house local to me here, a van pulled in and two lads ambled up to ask who was plastering the inside of the house, quite taken aback I asked what the foook they were on about , they explained they were specialist...

Did a few huge continuous gauges in UCG galway, had a s**t hot apprentice with me , we washed out every five bags, should have got another spread though, young and stupid. Sent from my HUAWEI G6-L11 using Tapatalk

He'd got a point Carl , plus no matter how good a job you do nobody is ever going to have you back five years on to do the hall and sitting room again. Sent from my HUAWEI G6-L11 using Tapatalk

At your age best way to get experience is in a 1+1 gang, mixing for a spread and then catching your own small areas as well as trowelling beading cleaning etc. Working for free is a no go as far as I am concerned. Always concentrate on giving your employer value for money goes much better in my...

This might also sound thick but all the footage I've seen using these spatz/edges the guys are flattening in or maybe first trowelling, as it picks up do you give it a splash of h2o to prevent lifting or is it unnecessary, looks great for big ceilings and panels can you bring up a top class...

I straighten like that internally, ceiling angle first then corners and last skiting and up through, darbying with the edge to finish, what I described earlier was for external S&C ,I find the lath much better outside as leaves it more open , the sawing action of lath really cuts through the...

How are you ruling it K? With S&C I give it loads of lath preferably a good straight 1x1.5 maybe 4ft long, first up and down and then lightly across always with a light sawing action of lath. I find concreting doesn't get them how I like, also if you find too smooth pull them across the edge of...

Dairygold co-op Mogeely Co Cork. But have seen on line. They are harder than the gypsum ones and last a good bit longer, though with that take a bit longer to break in. The small ones are great for second floating break in much quicker than mahogany which are lovely also. Sent from my HUAWEI...

Emir green big and emir small hard for second float. Sent from my HUAWEI G6-L11 using Tapatalk

You can always just add a couple of fist fulls to each bucket, you will only notice when you go to flatten it in as it will close better. Not as nice to float though as gets a bit sticky. Sent from my HUAWEI G6-L11 using Tapatalk

Have done a few times where beads heavy, flatten it in nice after edging, lay it down, two trowells a flat rub and way for spuds. Sent from my HUAWEI G6-L11 using Tapatalk

Hardly , but it could be because they suffer from depression, alcoholism and most likely very low self esteem, or a cocktail of all three. Sent from my HUAWEI G6-L11 using Tapatalk

You never stop learning dude, just takes four years to realize you know feck all. Sent from my HUAWEI G6-L11 using Tapatalk

No you can't, there is a four year apprenticeship which gets you to a point where you can start learning to be a spread. Sent from my HUAWEI G6-L11 using Tapatalk

You will find it warmer once damp is removed, bathrooms can be tricky to Insulate internally as ware ,plumbing etc , might require refitting and replumbing , expensive .....if you intend new white ware tilling etc. that would be a good opportunity to perhaps go with insulated linning to...

Mechanical ventilation is essential at any condensation point, is there a rad in bathroom? Any reason so cold other than damp. Sent from my HUAWEI G6-L11 using Tapatalk

Your just gona wreck your head putting a critical light on it , if you can't live with it get a small bucket of sheetrock , profin or other premixed jointing finish put a light tight coat over any misses, holes, trowell lines etc. and sand back to smooth when completely dry with p120 sand...

One thing for sure, not many who spend their lives attached to one make the ton. Sent from my HUAWEI G6-L11 using Tapatalk

Read a post other evening about mixing browning in a bath with rake, swear to god brought it all back, came out in a cold sweat. Sent from my HUAWEI G6-L11 using Tapatalk

Tanking or membrane same difference, in both the symptoms are addressed not the causes, the example of swimming pool only relevant if you tank outside of building to prevent ingress, which would work very well if that were the source of damp. Sent from my HUAWEI G6-L11 using Tapatalk

Have to take in context though, this was pre beads. This was the era of hession skrim, hard arasses and corking joints and plungers made of chain wheels brings a tear to the eye..................torture.. Sent from my HUAWEI G6-L11 using Tapatalk

Yeah , hardwall was generic for any type of skim coat , board finish. thistle. etc..think the quicklime served to slow things up a bit .. Sent from my HUAWEI G6-L11 using Tapatalk

I remember back in early eighties going to work Sat with my old man, the labourer had a bucket of quicklime beside him and would dip plunger in and add to hardwall during mixing , think it served same purpose , anyone remember? Sent from my HUAWEI G6-L11 using Tapatalk

That's a contrary little space, unless the bottom angle is done hard the hips will look shite, By time you've got yourself up there and preped it would be lunch, two handy days myself and labourer ,600 Euro. Sent from my HUAWEI G6-L11 using Tapatalk

Fine idea , Sent from my HUAWEI G6-L11 using Tapatalk

Not to bad man, am living in East Cork with 13/14 yrs , all private houses builders are a disaster. Sent from my HUAWEI G6-L11 using Tapatalk

Dead right Imago. Re doing is only a proper bxxxxxx when somebody else is telling you to do it, Sent from my HUAWEI G6-L11 using Tapatalk

Nice job hail hail, where in Mayo are you, made near Kiltimagh myself. Sent from my HUAWEI G6-L11 using Tapatalk

Get back on the horse lad, as soon as you sense it has you beat flatten it off touch up your angles wash out your bucket and go again, ceilings after walls is always a bit slower but. Sent from my HUAWEI G6-L11 using Tapatalk

I reckon anyone caught stealing and moving on lads tools are well deserving of a leg breaking, scum.... Sent from my HUAWEI G6-L11 using Tapatalk

Wouldn't like to be drawing stone to him anyways. Sent from my HUAWEI G6-L11 using Tapatalk

Depends on how square and parallel the reveals are, as you can only correct the bead in one plane with staple, easily at least. Sent from my HUAWEI G6-L11 using Tapatalk

10mm is not a big deal, I'd be sweetening my tiler with a bottle of whisky and have him feather them out free hand, tricky/slow but much handier and cheaper/faster than hacking,bonding will eventually blow . Sent from my HUAWEI G6-L11 using Tapatalk