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    Timber or direct dab

    Morning and happy new year chaps! Customer has decided he now wants insulated plasterboard on the external facing walls over the existing plaster. Never dabbed it directly which I know you can do. Just concerned about trapping moisture. What have you guys done previously? I was thinking of...
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    Mono experience

    evening chaps Anyone got any Krend, Weber etc jobs coming up? Laying up base coats - scratching up etc Keen to get some hands on - will obviously help out/get in the way for a day for nowt! I’m based in Wigan if anyone can assist? Cheers Dan
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    Anybody interested in a few days in leeds

    Hi guys Looking at starting a job mid to late April in Morley Anyone local intersted in some days? It's all internal domestic, board work and overskim in a semi Cheers Dan
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    anyone doing krend Northwest?

    Hi guys Gonna be doing my extension (block work) in krend when its ready, I've no experience in it - has anyone got any jobs coming up north west area I could jump on? Happy to mix up, do what ever maybe get hands on. Obviously wouldn't want paying. I looked into the courses run by krend in...
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    Rendering a single storey extension advice please

    Hi guys!! Not been on for ages Just wanted a bit of advice/clarification please Near enough all of my work is internal and I've not had much hands on external rendering s & c or krend etc other than the odd patch up. I'm really keen to get hands on and I've got a single storey bathroom...
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    multi finish be OK on this job?

    Hi guys, Bit of advice please, Looked at a job for a friend the other night, its an old traditional terraced house. 2 rooms - bedroom and a downstairs lounge. In the lounge there has been some damp work and it looks like maybe s&c the rest of the walls upstairs and downstairs are bare plaster...
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    Damaged trowel

    Hi guys, made the mistake of following a shite boarder the other day who barely sunk any screws, I caught one laying on 1st coat - didn't think it had done out but on troweling up it now leaves a tiny line from a tiny dent on my 14inch marshalltown, you can barely see the dent. Anyone had this...
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    Rendering advice please guys

    Hi everyone - not posted in a while! I've not done much external stuff but I'm keen to pick it up - only done the odd repair, anyway I've got some jobs I'll be doing on my own house I'd like some advice on. firstly the pebble dashing on the bay between my front and bottom bay windows has shot...
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    k rend advice - anyone willing to let me work with them, for free of course!!

    Hi guys, A friend wants me to do some K Rend at his house, I am really keen to do it and learn it as I am getting asked to do it quite a bit. Any body offer some advice on it please? A how to guide? I've heard of K Rend running a course - but I have also heard its pretty simple to pick up? I...
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    Pricing

    Afternoon guys! what do you think is a fair price for skimming over artex on 2 ceilings 10 x 11ft and 14 x 11ft? i didn't get the job as it goes and wondered if somebody is doing it for peanuts? This seems common to me!! cheers dan northwest by the way
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    bonding coat - darby/feathered edge or none

    just wondered what you guys thought/do? got a large artexed wall to cover, needs patching in places first, bonding coat then skimmed. i've always put bonding on free hand without using a darby or feathered edge - and ive always been really happy with the end result once skimmed. just wondered...
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    Friends rates

    Hi guys, advice please - I've been asked by a friend to board out and skim out his extension, quite a lot of work. I know he'll of budgeted for the works but with it being a friend I'm unsure of what day rate to say as he wants a day rate. I don't want to kill myself for next to nowt but I also...
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    Hello everyone!!

    Hi guys, signed up today - saying hello before I start posting!!! cheers dan
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