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Hi everyone, I am new to the forum so bare with me please,

I have been on a large job with another spread, we have completed or so I thought. The forman has pulled us off his other job due to the fact that the walls have rippled, the ceilings are fine but every single wall that we have both done looks terrible when the painter shines a hali light sideways along the walls.
They have a verticle ripple every 60 cm about 2 foot high.

When we were on the build there was no heating in the building at all and the walls were taking over a week to dry, some are still drying and they were skimmed 10 days ago, all surfaces are straight onto plaster boards.
Is it bad working procedure that 2 spreads can get it so wrong, we have done another job for him since then with heating and everything is perfect.
The temp is not getting over 2, i used easyfill 20 tontry to get somemout and it took 40 min to dry!
What can i do to stop this in the future, i have recently started using a sprayer instead of a brush and my old mixer pavked up so i hot a wickes one, does this over work the plaster?
I am confused so any help will do.
Thank you for your input.

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malc dnt bother ive explained in another thread the reason for the ripples and it obviously hassnt gone in
 
Nt just change after its set so was it ok when u were doing it ? Did the boarder's for sum reason put ful boards with cuttings at the skirtings ? Can't seem to think it wud happen after it has set . . . .
 
haha dnt lead him on keith you know aswell as i do there tiger stripes they all go the same direction with roughly the same spacing.
he has said it was cold and we all know that plaster hangs in the cold......sooo they proberly got fed up waiting for it and troweld it at the normal timings they would, which in this case was too early and thus tiger stripes
 
Euan, As I explained before, those so called ripples were caused by your workmanship. It has nothing to do with you using a spray bottle. Remember that a bad workman blames his tools.
 
I use a spray bottle and get fantastic results. You're holding the fooking trowel too open causing tiger stripes. Close the trowel in and you wont get them. By holding the trowel too open and perhaps troweling too early you are causing the plaster to drag instead of flattening it.
 
Come on how many tiger stripe questions.... Plasterers are also problem solvers and should have a sharp eye if you see you wall dragging and stripes coming stand back and think to what you can do differently.

For instance flat trowel so your closing up and not scraping this should like slightly more of a matt finish after the first trowel.

Second trowel should bring it back to light shine with the only evidence of how you trowelled being each stroke shown under looking down your wall with either natural or artificial light.

Then cross trowel to the perfect finish if you see stripes at this stage and you shouldnt dont worry as lots of pressure will bring them down if that doesnt iron them with your trowel flat on the surface leave 5 mins then cross again
 
Thanks for the advise, I had not read any threads on the ripples, I also wasnt blaming my tools!.
Thanks again.
 
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