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Wonder what the forum would have been like years ago?
Regional dialogue, prices of everything etc. P.S. don,t say we did,nt have computers then! :)
 
well we would all be using tyzak trowels about a foot (12 inches) long ,yes twice the size of your old-man boy's, we would all love surafite plaster for skimming S&C !! we would all be taking sandwiches & flasks for our lunch/dinner break's, and petrol stations only sold petrol and sweets , there's a start lads ,lol..... you don't know your born !! oh and no F mobile phones to keep texting /talking on just flatt-out work Pussies ..
 
NO but i got mentioned on radio 1 by steve wright & jacky brambles lol, and a bloke came to tell -me the wife was going to have our first child just as me Ted & smugger started skimming a big ceiling we had a wooden low-level scaffold up and it looked like santa's grotto with all the hessian scrim cut to length and pushed in between the plasterboard sheets, i got out of that days work lol!!!........ ted was Gutted
 
gooner59 said:
well we would all be using tyzak trowels about a foot (12 inches) long ,yes twice the size of your old-man boy's, we would all love surafite plaster for skimming S&C !! we would all be taking sandwiches & flasks for our lunch/dinner break's, and petrol stations only sold petrol and sweets , there's a start lads ,lol..... you don't know your born !! oh and no F mobile phones to keep texting /talking on just flatt-out work Pussies ..
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That could be me now, lol
 
not quite 40 years ago but 36 years ago ,the comments on the forum would be plasterers asking why nobody has invented an alternative to jute hessian scrimcloth, something thats sticky/self adhesive on a roll, complaining about the price of plaster as it hits 1.50 a bag, wish somebody would design a bucket that you just leave the stuff in and knock it out when it has set ,say something in yellow for example, do we really need that labourer they would be saying if only there was a drill/mixer on the market we could mix our own, tired of carrying these big heavy rubber buckets about ,could do with something lighter, saying to the apprentice go down the road try and find a phone box thats not been vandalised and ring the builders merchants and see when delivery is coming, you could imagine them all standing laughing there heads off and pointing at some poor apprentice who has just said one day we will all have a phone in our pocket, hoping that every body in the country will call there handboard a handboard, carlite browning on the go ,no wickes,bandq, and everybody has a bait bag with them and a flask and complaining about the price of a pint going up to 30p, now it seems everybody has a van not then, as for health and safety different world, oh and there was always plenty of work about
 
hector said:
not quite 40 years ago but 36 years ago ,the comments on the forum would be plasterers asking why nobody has invented an alternative to jute hessian scrimcloth, something thats sticky/self adhesive on a roll, complaining about the price of plaster as it hits 1.50 a bag, wish somebody would design a bucket that you just leave the stuff in and knock it out when it has set ,say something in yellow for example, do we really need that labourer they would be saying if only there was a drill/mixer on the market we could mix our own, tired of carrying these big heavy rubber buckets about ,could do with something lighter, saying to the apprentice go down the road try and find a phone box thats not been vandalised and ring the builders merchants and see when delivery is coming, you could imagine them all standing laughing there heads off and pointing at some poor apprentice who has just said one day we will all have a phone in our pocket, hoping that every body in the country will call there handboard a handboard, carlite browning on the go ,no wickes,bandq, and everybody has a bait bag with them and a flask and complaining about the price of a pint going up to 30p, now it seems everybody has a van not then, as for health and safety different world, oh and there was always plenty of work about
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I have stolen this quote and posted it to facebook :) priceless
 
hector said:
not quite 40 years ago but 36 years ago ,the comments on the forum would be plasterers asking why nobody has invented an alternative to jute hessian scrimcloth, something thats sticky/self adhesive on a roll, complaining about the price of plaster as it hits 1.50 a bag, wish somebody would design a bucket that you just leave the stuff in and knock it out when it has set ,say something in yellow for example, do we really need that labourer they would be saying if only there was a drill/mixer on the market we could mix our own, tired of carrying these big heavy rubber buckets about ,could do with something lighter, saying to the apprentice go down the road try and find a phone box thats not been vandalised and ring the builders merchants and see when delivery is coming, you could imagine them all standing laughing there heads off and pointing at some poor apprentice who has just said one day we will all have a phone in our pocket, hoping that every body in the country will call there handboard a handboard, carlite browning on the go ,no wickes,bandq, and everybody has a bait bag with them and a flask and complaining about the price of a pint going up to 30p, now it seems everybody has a van not then, as for health and safety different world, oh and there was always plenty of work about
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Nice one Hector :RpS_thumbup:
 
40 years ago,1973. at that time there was a building boom with estates of huge sizes under construction.we would be working on frinton homelands and brightlingsea manor estates both estates have about 1,000 properties each.
sand and cement with a sirapite wall finsh, ceilings would be artex.
standard angle would now been used on sand and cement, as it previously only used on carlite.
our prices, a 2 bed bunglow walls £65 ,a 4 bed house £120.
but most important, paid every thursday, in cash, no stoppages . the pay clerk came on to site, you gave the plot numbers that you had completed and you would be paid out.
we also rented a cement mixer now so no more knocking up by hand !
 
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malc said:
40 years ago,1973. at that time there was a building boom with estates of huge sizes under construction.we would be working on frinton homelands and brightlingsea manor estates both estates have about 1,000 properties each.
sand and cement with a sirapite wall finsh, ceilings would be artex.
standard angle would now been used on sand and cement, as it previously only used on carlite.
our prices, a 2 bed bunglow walls £65 ,a 4 bed house £120.
but most important, paid every thursday, in cash, no stoppages . the pay clerk came on to site, you gave the plot numbers that you had completed and you would be paid out.
we also rented a cement mixer now so no more knocking up by hand !
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Yea typical labour government bought out the 715 tax certificate around this time,
 
When did pva start to be first used by the spreads? I can remember the 40kilo bags going down to 25 and the introduction of fibre tape.
 
malc said:
40 years ago,1973. at that time there was a building boom with estates of huge sizes under construction.we would be working on frinton homelands and brightlingsea manor estates both estates have about 1,000 properties each.
sand and cement with a sirapite wall finsh, ceilings would be artex.
standard angle would now been used on sand and cement, as it previously only used on carlite.
our prices, a 2 bed bunglow walls £65 ,a 4 bed house £120.
but most important, paid every thursday, in cash, no stoppages . the pay clerk came on to site, you gave the plot numbers that you had completed and you would be paid out.
we also rented a cement mixer now so no more knocking up by hand !
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I love this Thread ,i could read these stories all day , and if the weather does not warm up ,i may have to ,so keep posting :RpS_thumbup:
 
jamesthefirst said:
When did pva start to be first used by the spreads? I can remember the 40kilo bags going down to 25 and the introduction of fibre tape.
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were the bags originally 50kg then 40kg? fib tape is a great help, I remember telling my uncle it saves time and you can easily bang on three hits a day,even dry wall screws took a while for people to accept,too expensive they cried, I said you can board in the evening nice and quietly without upsetting the neighbours..
 
Remember when we taped with the dry liners tape,taped the room and then banged on a hit, bit of a knack in it but it took less coverage than the jute did. oh the cold mornings when jute came off the ceiling and wrapped around you neck. or was it just happening to me.. people using bonding for out side reveals, bonding was the solution to everything for some, God bless them
 
Flasks was for the rich! It was a enamel tea caddy and loose tea only the well off had the luxury of tea bags. I had a stick holding several of these tea caddy's and it was my job to go door knocking asking someone to put the kettle on.

50kg bags of Carlite with browning mixed in a tin bath with a shovel and finish mixed in a bucket with a piece of 2x1 pse.

Buses everywhere. We had subsidised buses at 10p anywhere in South Yorkshire. Even car owners bussed it. No good having a phone at home, pointless who could you ring? No one had them but handy for 999. If you did have a phone then all the neighbours would be knocking on the door asking to use it. I got my first landline in 1981 when I set up but it was of course a shared line. That meant you could not make a call if someone else was on the line.

Tyzack ruled of course but only 11" then. Tools cost an absolute mint. Still a good trowel until the yanks came in the 80's. Straight edge was a piece of 4 x 1 pse wood.

Pva was in use in 1972 so was probably on the market in the 60's. That hessian scrim was so thick and the bandage scrim was useless.
 
haha i read hectors post on face book after danny put it up except it doesnt say on face book that hector posted it.......yet as soon as i read it i knew it could only be hector misery guts that could have posted it haha
 
jrplastering said:
haha i read hectors post on face book after danny put it up except it doesnt say on face book that hector posted it.......yet as soon as i read it i knew it could only be hector misery guts that could have posted it haha
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ha ha brilliant jr, nice to know my writing is recognised:RpS_thumbsup:
 
jamesthefirst said:
When did pva start to be first used by the spreads? I can remember the 40kilo bags going down to 25 and the introduction of fibre tape.
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i started plastering in 1963, pva was in use by this time, although they did not want to purchase it . sbr was a lot later
 
superspread said:
Yea typical labour government bought out the 715 tax certificate around this time,
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715 certificate that was about 35% tax stoppages. that was unworkable. we stopped site work at that time and built a domestic plastering business
 
I also think there were much more lads following dad into the trade then (40 years ago) as i know three spreads i have worked with that none of there son,s have gone anywhere near the building game.
 
jamesthefirst said:
I also think there were much more lads following dad into the trade then (40 years ago) as i know three spreads i have worked with that none of there son,s have gone anywhere near the building game.
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yes i agreewith you james, my entire family uncles grandfather were all plasterers, apart from one uncle who went over to the dark side and became a bricklayer,
 
My old gaffers brother dad uncles grandfather and great grand father were all plasterers. I dont know of one father and son combo now
 
malc said:
715 certificate that was about 35% tax stoppages. that was unworkable. we stopped site work at that time and built a domestic plastering business
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yes i remember that 35% and we are moaning about 20% now !!! i liked the 715 though !and any problems with the tax office and you just went down there and told a few porkys and blamed them and you were off the hook lo,l not anymore they have tracked us all down now, and they have reversed the blame on to us to prove we are right
 
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Cant actualy remember PVA coming in but remember spreads with a bucket of water and a cup pouring water from the top of the wall to dampen down,
 
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