Right then!
After that last thread "How many trowels" it would seem that we all seem to do something different during our sets and by our own admissions all seem to think that we produce good results. So I guess either there's a pole apart in our understanding of quality or perhaps just maybe with right application there really is some seemingly shortcuts that don't always effect quality.
To me bad habits rightly or wrongly are
1) Not flattening first coat ( don't care who you are or how good you are there's got to be slight lines or undulations/ridges etc. Which surely if a walls picked up before topping will show or if your able to flatten in/press in with 2nd coat must mean your topping to early???
2) Using the same mix for both coats unless on a real high suction background so it acts like a fresh 2nd or surely its just 1 coating and on a low suction background will make it smudge when you come to trowel up etc???
3) Adding water to mix left from first coat to use for 2nd or even knocking the 2nd coat mix up at the same time as the 1st but in a separate tub but really really wet and leaving it to firm for when you need to 2nd coat to apply as a 2nd coat....surely this flashes???
90% of my work is re-skims and would be curious how often people use these methods on multiple backgrounds?
Zombie
After that last thread "How many trowels" it would seem that we all seem to do something different during our sets and by our own admissions all seem to think that we produce good results. So I guess either there's a pole apart in our understanding of quality or perhaps just maybe with right application there really is some seemingly shortcuts that don't always effect quality.
To me bad habits rightly or wrongly are
1) Not flattening first coat ( don't care who you are or how good you are there's got to be slight lines or undulations/ridges etc. Which surely if a walls picked up before topping will show or if your able to flatten in/press in with 2nd coat must mean your topping to early???
2) Using the same mix for both coats unless on a real high suction background so it acts like a fresh 2nd or surely its just 1 coating and on a low suction background will make it smudge when you come to trowel up etc???
3) Adding water to mix left from first coat to use for 2nd or even knocking the 2nd coat mix up at the same time as the 1st but in a separate tub but really really wet and leaving it to firm for when you need to 2nd coat to apply as a 2nd coat....surely this flashes???
90% of my work is re-skims and would be curious how often people use these methods on multiple backgrounds?
Zombie
