any1 ever put over 100m2 of skim on in a day

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yes iveput almost 200 in a day was doing it most days on worcester hospital masive 40-50 mtr walls well it was 2 of us working together but we were putting 80-100 mtrs on per spread
 
Its quite achievable on your own as well wack 3 bags on mix up 1 and half to second in do the same again you have just done 9 bags you should be well into 100m2 by 9 bags i know it says 10m2 a bag, but on board it goes alot further, well if the boarding it tidy enough.
 
napper83 said:
it always easier when there is loads of reveals aswell spunky :D
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i know mate you think youve done well then have to drop back for a week picking them up ;D
 
yep most days wen we wus house bashin. b4 this recession. now it just been float and set for the last 18mnth
 
Yep theres some crazy buggers out there i used to work for a company a few years ago and the main dude was a looney and would do 8-10 bag sets on his own the bloke used to do rowing and was a fitness freak and was well competitive.
 
trouble is the prices never go up while theres wallys like that , you've got to use your noodle please
 
Commercial work has always been the same church the prices now are the same if not worse than 10-15 years ago they are gonna fluctuate up and down all the time so if you can get away with it (and get paid the most important thing) then i say fair play
 
I agree Bod and nothing will change , it hasn't since ive been in the game , i just wonder we seem the only trade that work like that ? years back when i was labouring we turned up at a big site being built buy a french firm , it was to one coat and devil float for tiling big long walls ,when we got on site there was a 1+1 gang british lad really going for it ,steam was pooring off the bloke he had a great big trowel and didn't have time to stop and chat , on the over side of the area there was a gang of french blokes (about six ) flicking muck on with a bucket trowel working at snails pace , the spread i was with told me to put the tools back in the van as we were not staying , that was back in the boom of the late 80s , that said it all to me .
 
Thats the thing with our trade though church if you work your danglies off it pays off my old man always told me get your quality up together before you start banging it on, he always said speed will come with experiance.
 
i cant remember the last time i had 2 breaks and sat down and ate lunch ....bring out the violins ;D.......... other trades can stop when they want they dont have to spend an hour a day ( 90% of the time after 4) cleaning up, personally i dont think plasterers are v high on the popularity list people expect miracles and theres more and more drylining going on .........shame really i bet other trades wish they could do it but it is a mugs game getting covered in s**t and having a 10 hour panic attack on price
 
I know spreads that reckon they do 200 m2 a day, and i have seen one do it, bareing in mind it was a big school we where doing, and he was basicly just flatening it in and leaveing it..

Me and my bro use to do roughly about 150 to 170...200 on a good day between us, and he is quite slow..

I reckon i could do 100 m2 on my own, on site, i usually do 3 bag mixes or 3 buckets, do that in 3 sets that's a fair bit..no labouer....I use 2 mix 2 buckets staright up and bang them on the spot, get all that on, then mix up one final bucket..and that is fairly easy on my own...So with a labouer
 
200mtrs is hard goin day in day out and is always 4 spreads when ive done it its easier if you use the sponge to draw the water out gets your set done in in 2 hours then ;)
 
i can do about 70, 80m2 on my own and thought it was hard going. most i'v done is about 90 and it nearly killed me. i work with 1 other spread he's not the fastest i have seen but gets a good finish, we hit about 150 on a good day.
i have heard people say they can bang 150 m2 in a day but never saw it and thought they were just talkin s***.
couple of years ago we had 1 guy say he was a speed plasterer he put 1 walls on so we could see how good he was then we let him go for it and he made a b0ll0x of his next gauge 5 walls at about 35m2.
 
If you set yourself up right, it's alright, never do it every day i don't reckon though, u would be f**k*d, u need to though, to earn good money.... You need to be laying on by 7:30 though, and make sure you get yourself set up at end of the day again, and not comeing in to a dead start.
 
I have worked with a spread that starts at 6 and finish'es at 6 doing 4 sets and just mental for the work but what i also heard his wife left him :o
 
i know a bloke like that starts at 4.30 in the summer..........he'll do 70 odd metres of h/wall and set on his tod ....same thing his missus left him ;D........got a nice van though the bastid >:(
 
not really a case of can it be done. todays pricework rates mean you have to really, thats what people dont understand. plasterers are usually killin themselves to earn a decent crust my mate is on his third cortizone injection and doc says it has to be his last for some reason as his elbow is on its way out??? no pension no savings just his cut price pricework, thats why i try to do all types of work instead of skim on price week in week out
 
plasterjfe said:
not really a case of can it be done. todays pricework rates mean you have to really, thats what people dont understand. plasterers are usually killin themselves to earn a decent crust my mate is on his third cortizone injection and doc says it has to be his last for some reason as his elbow is on its way out??? no pension no savings just his cut price pricework, thats why i try to do all types of work instead of skim on price week in week out
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pretty sure you can only have three ive had one so will have the spread them out :)
 
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