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anyone got a rough idea on supply and fix gyproc prices on site per meter ....also i charge approx £70 for domestic job 12x12 supply+fix is this about right.... cheers
 
The last time I spoke to a mate who is a full time cover he told me £2.50m was a good price to get, although that was some months ago and it could be a fair bit lower by now.
 
ta lads ... i dont think iam to far out with me prices then ,its mainly the odd self build and domestic extensions .work in east norfolk/suffolk seems to be getting tighter ...might have to move back to sunny essex ;)
 
tex it all said:
ta lads ... i dont think iam to far out with me prices then ,its mainly the odd self build and domestic extensions .work in east norfolk/suffolk seems to be getting tighter ...might have to move back to sunny essex ;)
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I wouldn't bother there's not exactly loads going on down here and you do live in a nicer part of the country.
I've done some of the BG swan neck coving recently on private work and got just over £5m, mind you I needed it.
 
yeah some of the countrysides nice but it dont pay the bills, thinking of putting cove price in me adverts in local rag to try to drum up extra ,dont know if it might backfire thou .i see someones put ad in essex chronicle skim ceiling £80 wall £50 based on 8 sqmeters :o
 
From what I've heard this ad is to them in the front door then all the excuses about the job not being straight forward come out "you need this doing and you need that doing".
 
simplybesty said:
think i am over charging my builders. we charge £2.25m2 labour only. ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Get what you can mate. Some barstewards are only paying £2.20 s&f.
 
dont fill guilty tony, i love coving but they get a good job done, never do stright joints and all that crap, had some lads do some houses for me a while back and i told them, no straight but joints and every joint was stright butted and you could every one.
 
simplybesty said:
dont fill guilty tony, i love coving but they get a good job done, never do stright joints and all that crap, had some lads do some houses for me a while back and i told them, no straight but joints and every joint was stright butted and you could every one.
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I always mitre my mid wall joints too. Used to be able to do 140-160 mtrs a day. Don't know about that now though. If I do 100mtrs i'm happy enough.
 
The cover I mentioned earlier said that fewer and fewer sites are coving houses nowadays, are you finding this?
Poor bloke used to do Artexing & coving, then Artex died now he says coving is doing the same, no wonder he kept coming in for a chat and to watch how to plaster, trying to learn how to skim ceilings just by watching. ???
 
Andy ive got a fella in my town who same as your man used to do artexing and coving...was trying to tell me a while back that artex have brought out their version of a smooth it product for ceilings as all he was now doing was coving.......ive seen his finish with this smooth artex stuff.....lol.....flat it aint......quicker...erm no...cheaper....not that either......thin k his old trade as youve said is getting fairly extinct
 
phippsy333 said:
Andy ive got a fella in my town who same as your man used to do artexing and coving...was trying to tell me a while back that artex have brought out their version of a smooth it product for ceilings as all he was now doing was coving.......ive seen his finish with this smooth artex stuff.....lol.....flat it aint......quicker...erm no...cheaper....not that either......thin k his old trade as youve said is getting fairly extinct
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Trouble is Phippsy all these Artexers seem to think they can just buy the tools and join us, I've got a guy a mile down the road who for years had a van saying "Artex specialist" then over night it reads "plastering specialist", now I don't like private jobs but I can't help thinking that every job this guy gets means one job less for a proper plasterer >:(
 
some artexers or ex artexers[myself included will find skimming and most internal plastering fairly easy to pick up] before you shoot me down understand a old school one will be able to tape caulk out tapes, fix plasterboard fix cove and cornice skim ceilings using artex over existing artex then reapply new pattern ,also being able to skim ceilings as required in order to to fix plaster mouldings had to be learnt as you went along. not all of us used to slap it on with a broom .having been on tools for a fair old while now i tackle and complete most type of internal plaster work .but i dont call myself a plasterer and i find it amusing coming across some plasterers work.i think its a trade where we need a lot of natrual talent once you have the plastering basics and in my case the evolve with the times ;D
 
I hear what your saying Tex, a lot of the early Artexers were ex- plasterers weren't they, it's the way some and this is not just Artexers switch trades overnight and pull the wool over customers eyes and get the trade a worse name than it already has. Mind you are right some the work of some spreads does take some believing.
I used to do a fair bit of Artexing years ago, finishing a nice comb ceiling used to give me the same satisfaction as an external render does.
 
tex it all said:
some artexers or ex artexers[myself included will find skimming and most internal plastering fairly easy to pick up] before you shoot me down understand a old school one will be able to tape caulk out tapes, fix plasterboard fix cove and cornice skim ceilings using artex over existing artex then reapply new pattern ,also being able to skim ceilings as required in order to to fix plaster mouldings had to be learnt as you went along. not all of us used to slap it on with a broom .having been on tools for a fair old while now i tackle and complete most type of internal plaster work .but i dont call myself a plasterer and i find it amusing coming across some plasterers work.i think its a trade where we need a lot of natrual talent once you have the plastering basics and in my case the evolve with the times ;D
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Ive seen some really beautiful work from an old boy in my village.....some of his comb work is a bit special.....really was a shame to cover them....theres a proper skill in it ..
 
did a dental clinic years ago in barium plaster and they had a guy do some amazing patterns in artex on the ceilings
 
kebab king said:
Some of the atrexers i know do it with multi, sounds weird but looks ok when painted.
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Used to get asked to do quite a few of these on integral garages by builders, it gave the fire resistance of a plaster ceiling yet because there was no troweling up they got it cheaper. That's how I got into doing Artexing in the first place.
 
essexandy said:
kebab king said:
Some of the atrexers i know do it with multi, sounds weird but looks ok when painted.
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Used to get asked to do quite a few of these on integral garages by builders, it gave the fire resistance of a plaster ceiling yet because there was no troweling up they got it cheaper. That's how I got into doing Artexing in the first place.
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same as as garage ceilings to start with then people started likeing the pattern?? i dont mind i got paid for them ;D ;D ;D
 
hate artex the smell makes me want to throw my ring up used to paint it on with a sweeping brush stick the stipple pad in a bag and hey presto broken leather and a pile of spew on the floor
 
Apparently it's fish in it that gives it that smell, and I can well believe it as I've been doing jobs, turned round to get some more out of the bucket and found a cat or dog with their head in the bucket lapping it up. They use fish in the manufacture of some glues so that's probably what gives Artex it's stickiness.
 
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