Dot and dab

[Bluebirds1978]

Can any help?, got a job to do dabbing a window wall which consists of two windows. Do I dab the head and reveals first, or the actual wall. If head and reveals do i overhang the plasterboard and how much?.

 

[John j]

Board ceiling first

 

[Bluebirds1978]

Ceiling just needs skimming

 

[Cockney]

Board ceiling first

 

[Topspread16]

Ceiling just needs skimming

Less talk more work, mix up and slap it on.

 

[BryanJ]

Can any help?, got a job to do dabbing a window wall which consists of two windows. Do I dab the head and reveals first, or the actual wall. If head and reveals do i overhang the plasterboard and how much?.

I know a man that can help.

 

[Stewie03]

Don’t worry about it the windows are probably on the piss anyway

 

[JessThePlasterer]

I like to put reveals on first. Find highest point. Cut all reveals to that.

 

[Spudknit]

I like to put reveals on first. Find highest point. Cut all reveals to that.

Don't tell him mans a helmet.possibly smoother

 

[Bluebirds1978]

I like to put reveals on first. Find highest point. Cut all reveals to that.

Thank you for the advice

 

[Topspread16]

Thank you for the advice

Can’t believe he fell for that @JessThePlasterer you sure pulled the wool over his eyes.

 

[essexandy]

I like to put reveals on first. Find highest point. Cut all reveals to that.

So the way the windows are fitted dictates how you do a wall? Do you do the same when float and setting?

 

[Topspread16]

So the way the windows are fitted dictates how you do a wall? Do you do the same when float and setting?

Do you stick reveals last also?

 

[essexandy]

Do you stick reveals last also?

Yes mate, the correct way.

 

[Topspread16]

Yes mate, the correct way.

I felt like that guy walking opposite way round on midnight express till today. Nobody I know does it this way.

 

[Monkey Boy]

I do - now that is worrying for you

 

[essexandy]

I felt like that guy walking opposite way round on midnight express till today. Nobody I know does it this way.

We check the wall for plumb and then ping a chalk line on the ceiling. This is the process whether doing one wall or a massive detached property.
Windows are fitted to look right (?) with the outside brick/blockwork, and as we both know full well are often pissed, why let them dictate our work?
Nice to know we're not alone.

 

[Stewie03]

I also do reveals last had some stick over the years about it but horses for courses and all that

 

[Gilbert75]

We check the wall for plumb and then ping a chalk line on the ceiling. This is the process whether doing one wall or a massive detached property.
Windows are fitted to look right (?) with the outside brick/blockwork, and as we both know full well are often pissed, why let them dictate our work?
Nice to know we're not alone.

If the frame is pissed do you plumb your reveal so the margin on the frame looks terrable, although your work is correct?

 

[essexandy]

If the frame is pissed do you plumb your reveal so the margin on the frame looks terrable, although your work is correct?

Yes I do. I keep the margin the same at the top of every revel in the property (I often use my angle gauge from the days of float and set) and then set them plumb. The board on the face of the wall that sails onto the cill will be plumb and set at the right margin, the revel board sits inside it.
I think that makes sense?

 

[superspread]

If the frame is pissed do you plumb your reveal so the margin on the frame looks terrable, although your work is correct?

I always margin off the frame , I very rarely do dot and dab a doo but when I float always margin off the frame, I always ask the client too which they prefer but usually guide them to margin it

 

[Gilbert75]

I always margin off the frame , I very rarely do dot and dab a doo but when I float always margin off the frame, I always ask the client too which they prefer but usually guide them to margin it

Yes, i keep the margin the same. Looks dreadful overwise, but dont have much problem with frames being much out anyway..

 

[superspread]

Yes, i keep the margin the same. Looks dreadful overwise, but dont have much problem with frames being much out anyway..

Especially in a bathroom if it’s being tiled

 

[Spudknit]

Some people take this job way too f**k**g seriously

 

[superspread]

Some people take this job way too f**k**g seriously

It’s the only way ain’t it?

 

[Spudknit]

It’s the only way ain’t it?

Get a life aswell.who fcking cares its plastering you've got numbnuts chatting shite on here all day who havnt got any work as they on here all day ffs.by the way I aint referring to you I mean just in general

 

[JessThePlasterer]

Well I like to do reveals first. Meh

 

[JessThePlasterer]

@essexandy …….. there’s going to be a potato coming your way!

 

[essexandy]

@essexandy …….. there’s going to be a potato coming your way!

Yum yum

 

[paulf]

Yum yum

I think you might get some mancunian compost in the shape of a potato, faked potato.

 

[Cockney]

Yum yum

 

[Bartholomew]

Reveals first to run with the frame (it's OK being right but it makes it look dog s**t) leave em proud, board around, cut off the excess

 

[Bartholomew]

And if the walls out of plumb I tell the customer to go with it because a reveal 190mm at the bottom and 210mm at the top also looks dog s**t

 

[Monkey Boy]

I remember an old boss telling me 2 wrongs don’t make a right….
Well he was a thick head and what I was doing was right and made the wrong right aswell
You got to scribe stuff in sometimes to go up against wonkey work to make it right