huddsspread
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Few weeks back, my part time labourer got some work with a chippie plasterboarding a big 5 bed house....anyway he rings me and asks if i could get a load of plasterers in to do it...so i go and look and it is split in 2, upstairs and down...it didnt need more than 2 spreads, and it will take about 7 days. Loads of poxy akward vaulted angled ceilings.....SO we started scrimming up, and noticed the board joins pushed out slightly..( found out later its coz the crowns of the studs are bow'ed out. ) So at the end of the day, the chippie comes up to me and says, you can see bits of your scrim in some places....i then explained, plasterboard pushes out, then at the end of the set, i "may" reveal small parts of scrim, unless you want rounded bumps on your new stud walls. He then said yes i know why its doing it....and walked off......
So i decided that i would go round at the end of everyday and if there was any bits of scrim sticking through where the walls bow out, id lob a tiny thin bit of joint cement over, then rub it the next day, and he was happy.......so all good...
THEN one day he walks in just as we'ed knocked up...and said, "why dont you cover your scrims first?" ...."then you wont have any showing at the end"....i then tried to explain, that this was the proccess in the olden days when scrim wasn't sticky...but he wasnt having it, " no i was always taught to do your scrim first"...now i had had enough, and told him i would slash him with my trowel if he didnt leave....and he did luckily...
Jobs now finished, and on about 40 bags worth of board finish, there was 6 tiny pieces showing, where he had built **** walls...so 10 minutes work, and they were gone.....painter walks in and starts looking around...and shouted down to the chippie, wheres all the scrim marks?
i asked him what he meant, and he told me that this bloke always builds crap walls and they push out at the plasterboard joins, and he normally has to fill loads of scrim marks, that the plasterers couldn't get over....and all plasterers hate him...
Cant wait to go back and do the downstairs, im gonna tear his woodwork apart.
So i decided that i would go round at the end of everyday and if there was any bits of scrim sticking through where the walls bow out, id lob a tiny thin bit of joint cement over, then rub it the next day, and he was happy.......so all good...
THEN one day he walks in just as we'ed knocked up...and said, "why dont you cover your scrims first?" ...."then you wont have any showing at the end"....i then tried to explain, that this was the proccess in the olden days when scrim wasn't sticky...but he wasnt having it, " no i was always taught to do your scrim first"...now i had had enough, and told him i would slash him with my trowel if he didnt leave....and he did luckily...
Jobs now finished, and on about 40 bags worth of board finish, there was 6 tiny pieces showing, where he had built **** walls...so 10 minutes work, and they were gone.....painter walks in and starts looking around...and shouted down to the chippie, wheres all the scrim marks?
i asked him what he meant, and he told me that this bloke always builds crap walls and they push out at the plasterboard joins, and he normally has to fill loads of scrim marks, that the plasterers couldn't get over....and all plasterers hate him...
Cant wait to go back and do the downstairs, im gonna tear his woodwork apart.