cavity closures

[terry]

cavity closures.I,ve always hardwall scratch let it go of then hardwall float.The builder I'm working for wants me to eml them first which i dont mind just wondering how you guys do them.I no this has been discussed in the past but the old memory is going a bit.Thanks for any feedback

 

[bodplasterer]

We been dabbing our reveals and heads for a while now.

 

[pwi]

we dont have this problem in scotland most of our windows are fitted in the cavity but when we do come across them just dab them even if we are throwing hard wall on etc still dab

 

[napper83]

finished a job a couple of months back and just straight floated the hardwall over them

 

[claw75]

We been dabbing our reveals and heads for a while now.

I'm glad you posted that. i thought i was cheating doing this way. hell of alot easier..

 

[claw75]

cavity closures.I,ve always hardwall scratch let it go of then hardwall float.The builder I'm working for wants me to eml them first which i dont mind just wondering how you guys do them.I no this has been discussed in the past but the old memory is going a bit.Thanks for any feedback

any reason he asked for this. had problems in the past. if so i always think that the closures haven't been fitted properly. not fixed then there could be movement and then prone to cracking.. just a thought..i've not had any come backs whether its been s+c floated or hardwalled.. seems a bit excessive.

 

[FreeD]

dab mine as well

 

[essexandy]

I priced a house recently which had some closers with a phone number on them, so gave the firm a ring to ask what they recommended. They said on reveals that a door would close against to set some mesh into the muck and on all other reveals just plaster as normal, which is what I'd been doing anyway. And yes boarding them is cheating

 

[patcher]

dab - no joint to crack out.

 

[nelly]

Dab them!

The majority of cavity closers are plss poor, made worse by half arsed fitting.

 

[Chris W]

agreed, plus theres no suction on a cavity closer and most of em (all of em ive never seen one that aint plastic) are uPVC, with an expansion co-efficient of something silly, its like hardwalling over timber, or pvc panelling, if you get away with it, fine but the people that manufacture closers know absolutely jack about plastering and suction..
i dab them so that any movement goes on underneath where its not going to get noticed...
and its a damn site easier... ;D
sppose you could gypbond em first but that might make it worse...?