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one problem, some hammers are longer than others !!!

If you've got more work to do else where then leave this job, but if you've not much else to do then stay. BUT tell him or her that if you turn up after being told the jobs ready and when you get there its not ready then they pay you for the full day and if they tell you the jobs ready and you...

you try to help people and in the process you end up being called rough, thanks spunky. i suppose this is what they call it when you've been "spunked!". cheeres mate :RpS_wink:

no no no!!! i do from time to time still do work for the builder and if there was a problem he would tell me ( bubbles65, raggles, spunky). i dont know what he used for glue but still as far as he knows the boards are fine and as i only skimmed them i dont care. so should they fall apart i'd...

post your number chrisb1357 as i live in derbyshire near notts but will not put the estimate on the post so need your number.

what you could do is if your b and q has 12mm 2400x1200, plaster boards and polystyrene insulation sheets then glue the poly on to the boards. i never done this but i have skimmed a house out where the builder did this to save money and to this day it worked, well i've never been asked to go...

if theres enough room for a free standing stud frame of 2x2 timber you could also insulate it and plaster board over the top and keep the stone work incase whom ever owns the property some years later to look after as should you knock off the face of the stone work off its hard to put back. Or...

i worked on a old farm house many years ago and all the old plaster was taken off by the builder, the builder also had taken down some of the old chimneys, walls all covered in soot. Now the old plasterer i was working with said to me to go jump on a dumper and drive down to the next farm and...

hay dont knock it till you've tried it ( i have'nt so i'm not knocking it).

if they told you to render down passed the damp course and to the floor then its their fault and should have known better. If you asked them about this then its still their fault give them a estimate for putting the work right. What i do is bead one brick above the damp course and also bead one...

you could use rapid cement and tyro in normal cement in less than a day.

I use an old ready mix compo tub off a building site i worked on years ago, you can stab it with your shovel and it will not go through, you can wack it with a length of 4x2 it will not split, had it years and never let me down. (yet)

i found a place near to me that for clean hard core i can tip up to 5 ton for a fiver, so thats what i do and still charge the client for skip hire. The bad thing is that at the moment my trucks off the road and theres not much you can get in a wheelbarrow and my feet are tired.

its dead easy, its all in the wrist, i find it very messy so cover anything up thats new ie doors, windows, driveways etc. Also watch your eyes as it goes every where and you end up looking like something out of a horror film so every now and then stop a rub your self down with a clean cloth.

i never start any rendering before April as the weather is to cold even with frost proofer its to risky, but so far i've priced lots of rendering jobs and keep telling them i'll start once the frost and snow have gone, some time around August. i'm priceing lots of rendering but not much...

I went to B and Q the other day to buy two skim beads and went to the checkout slaped my trade point card on the counter and the young lady scand it, see told me how much and i said i'd also like bottle of sunshine and a bag of warm weather aswell please, see looked at me with a blank face and...

did you brush the dust off the brick/block work as maybe some of the dabs may have come loose and may move enough to crack the joints in the boards and it only takes a knock or two to move them.

if i was in this situation i would send my misses round, they'ed soon pay up !!!!. No messing

A big thank you to all who have replied, i have had a chat to my client and they are now waiting for the carbon trust to come round and give advice on what to do, once they have done what they need to do , i'll know more about whats got to be done so for the weber chap i'll give you a call once...

yep its a nice place but i bet its a bugger to keep clean !!!

I've been trying for some time now to talk to someone on Weber's technical advice telephone number and so far nothing no one ever answers the bloody phone, it rings and rings and all i get is put to a receptionist whom keeps telling me to keep trying. NOT good enough !!!. So i'm now asking for...

A scott jack, is the best thing ever for lifting boards to the ceiling about £375.00 inc vat, had mine for some years now and paid for its self many times over. you dont need any help you can use them on your own. tap in scottjack and their web site should come up .

you could try artexing it.

To help you go faster put some cement powder in with the bonding when mixing it. It will go off a lot faster ready for the skimming. It depends on how much cement you put in, the more the faster it will set.

i've got to get one, oh ar one problem i'm not a plumber !.

yep just like Ivor says but if you use it watch your eyes and even more if its windy when rubbing up

take off the render, wire brush brick work, apply acid and jet wash off. Not much else you can do for little money. But sometimes the render is there for a reson like rubbish brickwork or old windows or doors taken out and bricked up so watch out as you may have to have another plan just incase...

thanks all, i've had a good laugh at some of the threads and yes i can not wait till saturday as i've now found a nob expander as well and thats on display next to the butt plug. But a few years ago i was plastering some walls in a shop in a little town in derbyshire, the owner said dont leave...

started a job yesterday, over boarding and setting 5 ceilings, the client said two weeks ago he would move out all of the furniture in time for me to start as he and his wife only live there at weekends and in school holidays. He left the key with the people nextdoor. So i got there yesterday...

If your guys are happy then you go girl and good luck !

I'm sat at home, still on my Christmas hols (they started in November) Its alright for some so dont rub it in.

in the old days to slow down plaster we would put milk in the mix and to speed it up we would p**s in it and you know what they both worked (but the plaster would smell a bit of cheese for the milk one and would smell of you know what for the other). But what you could do is pva the artex first...

i'M with yell.com and so far "nothing" the chap phoned me last year saying with them i could get up to 15 extra jobs a month, now i've been with these buggers before many years ago and nothing came of the advert but this time i said i would go with them for one year and see how it goes. So far...

You need your head examining mate !! Only fools come into the building trade now days mate as there's no work or money about . Keep to what you know!!

Do any of you out there remember mixing plaster by hand and not using a paddle mixer like now days. I've just been looking in the mirror and what did i see, not the man i was 25 years ago. Muscles on my arms, a 6 pack, pecks the lot. I once looked like a watered down version of Arnold Shwarts...

from a traditional renderer i'm glad to see these new renders have problems with them just like sand-cement-lime renders. I think i'll stick to the old stuff as its easy to repair and its also cheaper.

its alright being off work for a short time but at the moment i'm still on Christmas holiday, but the bills keep on coming !!!. Priced for 5 ceilings today hope i get them as Bargin hunts starting to look good and i'm picking up some good tips from it, next thing dickos deals here i come.

Its simple as your render is only as good as what its gone over. so if its coming off now, it will come off just the same when you've gone over the top. So take it back to the brick work and start again. But try to find out why its coming off now and to stop it coming off again.

I've just looked at a few photos i took of a old lead miners cottage in Derbyshire where i've been working and some of them show little round and see through blobs or orbs. As i was working there i could feel i was being watched and tools had moved as never were i'd put them, (i wish whom ever...

I wish i still lived with me mum, No board, No bills and No wife and kids. Happy Days !. Now on a lot more than £60 a day and no bloody work !!. Stay where you are mate and have no worries.

do any of you lot find hardwall a bit smelly ?. last job i did with it the owner thought i'd hit a sewer pipe.

You can use s and c with a water proof additive but also add anti crack fibre in the mix. Always worked well for me. It helps if the stone work is bit rough and stops slumping but dont over do it with the water and yes pva first.

somebody will do it i'm sure . But i did like the part about the pineapple. lol.

for any plasterer thats been in the trade for over 5 years and has no C and G or NVQ try superskills, they say, a two day course, but its more a day and a bit (if that), hour or two talking about plastering and rendering and a little paper work to sign, the next day, float and set work, plaster...

Well looking at the news its time to get your old hornby railway track out and start to learn how to lay track, thats if the goverment gets its way over HS2, WHEN are they going to start giving money to building firms to help us out ! we are the bigest work force in the land (that includes...

hello, and shorter posts please ! i'm a plasterer not and not into life storys, but welcome

Are these speedskim's any good then ? untill the other week i'd never heard of them. Should in lob away my finishing trowels and are they only for new plaster board or can you use them on over skimming old bumpy walls and as sutch, as i'd hate to do a job and have it look like a polished turd...

the fact is theres No money out there, Im sat at home at the moment, the money i've lost from adverts, time wasters and people just seeing if the plasterer thats about to do their job is not over charging them or to make him lower the price. Its simple No money out there and its the wrong time...

hi all doing nothing at the moment so thinking of doing a course on k-render or similar. Whats best ? and is there anywhere to do it near Derby. I keep being asked to price for work in this type of render but never done it or seen it done before and i think i'm missing out, how long are the...

Thanks all you lot made my day seeing all these replies, after the day i've had, so bored sitting around i've done one of my ppi's and today a letter came from the loan comp and it said "NO" , a bad day at the office but thanks lads.