beads

[kirk johnstone]

sometimes it isnt worth using them when you can just build out to wood

 

[User___removed]

kirk,i think you just sit at home thinking of a subject to talk about.

 

[kirk johnstone]

haha you are right mate i do just spend most of my time thinking, am a sad git me ;D but if nobody thought about things to talk about then there wouldnt be a forum would there? oh and to the other post, no mate i dont feel threatend by times changing etc etc. to be honest mate i have done a fair bit of site work and used to fly through houses using modern techniques, BUT i do recommend that newbis learn the proper way of plastering (the old fashond way) then you can cut corners on the old techniques once you know what you are doing. i know i bang on about running cornice and stuff but i just love it, float and skim / board and skim just gets boring. also if i am going to call myself a plasterer then i would like to think that i can do any aspect of plastering.

also it was not ment to be a question i was just starting a topic mate, allot of guys use beads for everything and dont know any other way, so i was trying to help by offering up new (old) ways. the more ways you know then the easier the job

 

[southernmonkey]

we have to do hard angles using timber .....drives me mad ...... beads are just so much easier and quicker and certainly a lot stronger on corners then a hard angle , everytime we do hard angles most of them end up damaged before we even leave site ....

 

[theblones]

sometimes though you can have a bead sitting on a birds nest of material and even a mouses dying breath would move it out of plumb. It takes flipping ages to do and i just think maybe its best to dub out to the battern and stick a neat bead on in a minute for the finishing.

If thats what you were getting at

 

[User___removed]

when i worked in oz 10 years ago,they done all there corner by hand.labour holds edge up then use a bullnose external corner tool to finish.looks cock on but takes longer.also corner tends to get chipped off

 

[samtelfer]

If they made every thing to last and not get damaged we'd be ouut a job just remember that.
we all love muppet plumbers that cant fit upstairs showers properly ching ching £££

 

[kirk johnstone]

now thats a dam good point mate