Advice on buying a corner trowel

[davehugh]

Looking at buying a corner trowel normally do opposite corners but alot of people seem to be using them so want to give it a go. Been looking on marshalltown website and there are stacks of them can't tell which one to get some appear to be just for taping and jointing . Anyone help me out?

 

[essexandy]

If you're working on a decent straight background and you put your skim on nice and tidy then one of the 103 degree marshalltown internal trowels intended for drylining are very good, I use one of these 99 percent of the time. If your going over a dodgy background and or you don't put your skim on neatly then a more rigid internal trowel is better. Hope that helps.

 

[davehugh]

Thanks alot mate will try one of them.

 

[church]

The main thing Dave it will need wearing in so persevere

 

[kane]

Also Dave its a good idea to have 2 get the drylinning type the flexible ones got a ragni one myself but also get the smaller type got a marshall town one where the handle is set into the tool itself, cos you all ways get small
reveals etc which they can get into.

 

[Danny]

also with a corner trowel use one blade at a time... no ridges then and you get a perfect corner everytime (what works for me)

Danny

 

[simplybesty]

get a tyzak twitcher , there a real angle trowel , the drylinning ones are for dry lining, the reason all the 5 day course boys use them is because they cant use a proper angle tool. The tyzak ones are about £15.

https://diytools.com/store/detail.asp?ProductID=50390

 

[essexandy]

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get a tyzak twitcher , there a real angle trowel , the drylinning ones are for dry lining, the reason all the 5 day course boys use them is because they cant use a proper angle tool. The tyzak ones are about £15.

https://diytools.com/store/detail.asp?ProductID=50390

I know my memory isn't as good as it was but I just can't remember doing a five day course ???

 

[kane]

Nice one ;D ;D ;D

 

[spunky]

simply do you mean the old style rigid one or the wider twitcher with the blue handle ?

 

[davehugh]

also with a corner trowel use one blade at a time... no ridges then and you get a perfect corner everytime (what works for me)

Danny

Danny

Can you you explain a bit more do you mean put pressure on 1 wall then the other? When do you use them do you let the plater pickup first say after first or second trowel?

Many thanks

 

[simplybesty]

not the blue sheet steel ones, i was always tought to twitch ceiling lines and hard angles as well and they look much better than just brushed as mny who have worked for me do.

 

[church]

I would have to agree with mr simply the tyzack box section twitcher is around £15

 

[napper83]

i would also agree that it is a real angle trowel

 

[Gibbo]

its an angle iron not twitcher

 

[essexandy]

It's always been known as a twitcher in Essex Grand

 

[simplybesty]

i was always taught it was a twitcher but things change, i have never heard of a devil float before i saw it called that on a forum,its the same as mr lord calling a hawk a handboard. at the end of the day there the real angle tool and not the dry linning ones which everyone uses who cant use a twitcher . ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

 

[essexandy]

I was taught by my old man and he always used a twitcher, some years later my uncle showed me the internal trowel he was using at the time ( drylining style ) and said he would never go back to a twitcher, so I thought I'd give one a try and guess what I can't remember the last time I even took a twitcher out of the unit let alone used one even though (having counted today) I've got 2 steel and 3 stainless ones just sitting there. I use a drylining internal because I think I get just as good a finish using one in less time than using a twitcher.
Oh and even though he's just retired my dad also used the drylining style for the last ten years he worked and he really wasn't one for change.

 

[simplybesty]

ooooooooooo betty ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

 

[s.p.t plastering]

I always use them as i prefer to do wet angles, get nice crisp clean angles then..

 

[Peg]

Twitchers rock, wet all the way.

Does take a bit of getting used to.