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Had a 20odd m2 a while back that was giving me the run around if you actually let the pva fully dry out and cure it holds it back much better then say same day. I do dilute it down 3-4:1 for things that are high suction but you do need to give it another coat of something stronger after. And...

God help me then, think I'll leave it to the real spreads.

150m2 for 1 person, 1 days work? Glad I'm just a domestic monkey.

So how did you find out the hard way? Secondly why call company up if you know you used something out of date? If you do things outside of guidelines then blame will fall on you everytime. I suspect that's most overskims for me as I use pva lol. Used lots of out of date stuff over my life...

Good luck keeping hold of your money, trying all these different trowels is addictive. Best all round is my MT xtralite (carbon) 14x4 3/4 Love the Mediflex when chasing skim. Love the nelaflex 2 for final trowel on skim. Speedskim to flatten. Any sand and cement work is still wearing in the MT atm

Talking of hookers I would go but I'm on a flight to Amsterdam at 0700 the next morning

Whatever you do make sure It's not going to be your problem (Though there won't be a problem) if it goes pear shaped

I was up there yesterday.... bottled it Monday but even yesterday it like a sauna up there and cos velux was electric I couldn't open it. That and its been going off odd for me in this week is why i been moaning. Still rather summer then winter :)

Back on the original subject. Why have a pay day loan when you can get interest free finance off a tradesman... pretty sure thats what happens (in there head) usually get paid when you apply pressure. I don't mean violently either, but nobody wants to be harassed for money.

As much as we all don't like it, that is business. Can usually score some up front for materials. Or bigger jobs part payments are a good way to keep risk down. But it's like s**t you buy from shops they have to buy it first too.

Yeah go round. Asap. They probably will pay you eventually but probably run out of money. Is this the job off my builder and did you quote in writing? If so at least you have grounds for court action...... but if you push these people it will not come to that. Hope it all smooth out quickly. Job...

As Si said. Test it and see. How comes it's out of date?

That's me everyday..... gonna get there early...... come morning... oh another 5 mins in bed please

But you got the name right lol available in Travis Perkins

Nor do I generally but window plus door with massive breeze the other day defiantly dried it too much. It peeled even using a nelaflex2

No your probably right to be fair but then what's the point of the fan?

Or helix fibrefix

I'd imagine that's a recipe for disaster. Had doors and windows open the other day and it dried it out too quick. It was peeling on the last trowel. Today I was meant to be on a tower doing a velux window opening (size of some box rooms) and decided I might just take today off lol

Yeah never seen these double sided ones before.... look stable though

Yeah think we've all been there lol

Woohoo a mug for a mug, never won anything before..... Not that there was many pics to choose from lol

+1 couldn't be arsed today.

Stand side on...... like prey?

I've fallen off mine twice. Once stood on a bit of plasterboard and it tipped me over and once caught up in dust sheets and landed in a bin. Up high I s**t myself regularly lol

I bought second hand dura stilts 10+ years ago for £50 - 80 can't remember now but they where like new and sounds like that was a bargain. I didn't know that though as I had never seen stilts before......... Just wish I knew where they was now.

Any one tried them MT ones that look different to all the rest?

As you can see I love breaking them in. Esp as there isn't as much floating as there used to be lol

Think mine are the foxhunter ones too. Ceiling I did today had stilts at full height and still a bit short....... But I'm not going higher ...... no way ..... them ceilings are usually through builders anyway so they can board it out or whatever not higher on stilts lol

If i only had 1 trowel it would be my MT xtra lite, carbon think (it rusts)..... well made and just a nice trowel all round.

Hi all, as much as I don't like stilts they seem to be a big part of my life this year. Had a pair of Durastilts 10ish years ago (18" - 36") and they were pretty good until later years and then one day they just went missing. Brought a pair of el cheapo ones from the bay (18" - 36") as wasnt...

Nah it's all about the blade for me. Flexi trowels seem to have to be held at more of closed angle to stop drag and chatter which works but seems to make it liable to digging in when changing direction and steelies..... oh I hate new blades. Chatter chatter drag drag.... (Not the "pre worn" ones...

Just sit at home with ya trowel and some wet and dry lol

Or break one lol

Thought we was already on mk2

Think I have the same trowel, had to break it in so been grateful for any sand and cement work. Not really looked after it but it is slowly becoming a nice all round trowel

What Chris said sounds ok, I got LTP Mattstone sealer for tiles, that would prob work too and stay matt. Not sure how it would take paint after as it's white spirit based

I really wish that there wasn't an election. Think Tories should of finished what was started. Until brexit has happened it will be too divided

What model?

I want to like it because I appreciate the work involved in that, but it looks like a f**k up. What's with the shapes?

I didn't think you was, but I do take photos and never show them to anyone...... they have never won me any jobs but maybe win me a mug lol

Hahaha. Well I took the photos and never show them to anyone, I'm done now though that's all I got on the phone :)

Wow what a world we live in lol

1 day of hard work doesn't make up for the rest of the time taking selfies and making videos lol

Ok last one, done this earlier in the year but was working on extension other side of house so thought I would take some pics. Large garden room, wall floated (sand and cement) and skimmed. It was first time I had to float for years but you really don't ever forget how, but climbing up and down...

Another strange one, done around 2010ish Customer had extension and had a area under stairs built to fit in a fridge he had..... fridge fitted but he hadn't allowed for the door to open. I cut a V in the wall and curved it round the length of the door... voila Same customer, same job got me...

Thanks, shame it not my house though lol. Every timber got masked up because they wanted to keep the wood golden, with no labourer it was pain staking lol

What i would of done for one of these over the years.... spinning them hand ones round and round and round and round and round ...... bored thinking about it.

Rendered this house 10 years ago in mono all on my jub, followed by skimming the entire inside and tiling the downstairs in travatine. Lost the old pics but this is what it looks like nearly 10 years on

Look closer the slope got pulled 're boarded and skimmed but the ceiling it joins is woodchip lol

People want some weird things