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    1st coat dried like lightning on me..

    I'm southern indeed. South Wales Hector. I'll say here and now.. we definitely have the brains on site ( I promise lol ) Physically. Your trade is harder. Other than heavy industrial work where we may be pulling in huge armoured cables or installing large containment. But domestic work...
  2. L

    1st coat dried like lightning on me..

    Hope you read it in the jestful manner it was meant cockney. I'm not out to offend mate haha
  3. L

    1st coat dried like lightning on me..

    I had a hawk and trowel in my hands. :inocente: I'm not averse to a bit of sweeping up. But thats a labours job is it not haha
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    1st coat dried like lightning on me..

    Stick to safe zones.. Label everything.. Use a cable drum reel.. Stick a separate 4mm radial in for the kitchen power.. 10mm in for hob/cooker Go for neutrals at switches rather than fittings Allows for smart home systems later on.. Don't twist earths Simple stuff. Enough there for ya...
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    1st coat dried like lightning on me..

    Bag was in date and bucket was clean, wall was prepped well and pvad up as usual.. so quite why the gear went in minutes I don't know.. Grabbed a few new bags from.wickes tonight as have a few other walls to get on with , but will re do that wall in question. As for what trade I am. Sorry to...
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    1st coat dried like lightning on me..

    Genuinely between me starting the wall and the gear going to playdough was 10 mins or so.. couldn't believe it! Was bg multi. New bag. Think its from b&q.
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    1st coat dried like lightning on me..

    Not my first wall. By far But it is the first time I've had to hit panic stations Doing a small wall.with a few windows in, before I could get the first coat on I could feel the mix reeeeeally firm up. Struggled like hell to get the whole wall coated And managed to flatten it in Panic over...
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