Anyone Plastered in the good ol' U S of A?

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AndyW

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Evening fella's - I'm after some info on the prefered plastering methods for our friends across the Pond.

My brother has just come back from the States on a visit, and has put a proposition to me about plastering a couple of rooms in his house - I plaster the two rooms, in return for him paying for the airfare plus a few extras:RpS_biggrin: I'm led to believe it would just be equivalent to a re-skim home here.

I'm just wondering how they work across there? Do they two-coat skim like the majority of work home here? He's in Phoenix Arizona, so it's f**king stupidly hot for about 9 months of the year.

Any info, or advice much appreciated...
 
i lived there for 15 years and there is very little interior plastering 99% tape but you can get skimming all be it slightly different to here .you say its a re skim presumably over painted drylining boards.the best product to have is usg diamond interior finish.you unibond as over here mix mud as here lay first coat on BUT let it hazel over /turn colour /start to harden before even thinking about 2 nd coating.get your brother to look in yellow page see under plastering supplies and call them up see what they have or go to the local home depot.whatever product you use i would use the way ive described.as for heat i lived in florida and they actually had special bags for florida but surely the house has air con.
 
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i lived there for 15 years and there is very little interior plastering 99% tape but you can get skimming all be it slightly different to here .you say its a re skim presumably over painted drylining boards.the best product to have is usg diamond interior finish.you unibond as over here mix mud as here lay first coat on BUT let it hazel over /turn colour /start to harden before even thinking about 2 nd coating.get your brother to look in yellow page see under plastering supplies and call them up see what they have or go to the local home depot.whatever product you use i would use the way ive described.as for heat i lived in florida and they actually had special bags for florida but surely the house has air con.
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Cheers for that. He's going to send me a few photo's of exactly what needs doing, but yeah, a trip to Home Depot will be a definite.

45 degrees in the shade there yesterday :RpS_biggrin: Rest assured his air-con will be set to "freeze-mode" if I'm grafting in those temps!
 
i got off the plane there and it was like walking in front of an oven with the door open:RpS_crying:
 
AndyW said:
Cheers for that. He's going to send me a few photo's of exactly what needs doing, but yeah, a trip to Home Depot will be a definite.

45 degrees in the shade there yesterday :RpS_biggrin: Rest assured his air-con will be set to "freeze-mode" if I'm grafting in those temps!
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one thing to watch out for is if wallpaper has been taken off if the surface paper of board has come with it you end up getting tons of ripples and bubbles you have to patch these first just pput on in affected area s no trowelling etc then when set back trowel/scrape ripplehigh spots out then continue as i said earlier good luck you ll be fine
 
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