Everyones a plasterer

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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.
 
he has got a point though bud always worth putting a trowels worth down your board joints at the beginning of the set it does help!

especialy if you 1coat like me!!! lol:RpS_thumbsup:
 
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 you should mate! working on a house about 5 years ago and the joiner set all the studs out on the old imperial measure,i pulled him about it and he says you should have used imperial boards..... the ******* dope!
 
Im going to wait for the movie version. It'll be like the good the bad and the ugly by the sounds of it.
 
i also have another story, but its a bit more long winded, and dont want to bore you all....ill try and shorten it down next time.
 
he has got a point though bud always worth putting a trowels worth down your board joints at the beginning of the set it does help!

especialy if you 1coat like me!!! lol:RpS_thumbsup:

i know it does, but he said it before id even put anything on the wall, but i wasnt having him tell me how to do it. Ive come across plenty of problems over the years, which could have been saved by letting proper people board it. He boarded the walls, with my friend ( who just does what he is told ) but it'd taken 20 minutes? for him to plane of the bow in the crown ( every single one )...but he thought he would leave the joints bulging out...and as the painter said, he always does it. anyone got anything good i can do to him when i return? Sabotage wise?
 
When he started telling you how or what to do you should of just offered him your trowel for him to do it .... soon shuts em up :RpS_thumbup:
 
I've just been to look at a render job 20 sq meters and quite a bit of making good around windows first off when I got out of van customer says how come you have no can in your hand ? I was a bit taken back and said can of what ? They replied beer ! The plasterer who had quoted them turned up drinking a can whilst quoting ! So I gave them my quote straight away said too dear so I asked what he had been quoted 140 all in haha I said that's why he hasn't turned up mate and drove off ffs waste of time even the local piss heads are spreads now!


It's really all the same just a different name
 
I've just been to look at a render job 20 sq meters and quite a bit of making good around windows first off when I got out of van customer says how come you have no can in your hand ? I was a bit taken back and said can of what ? They replied beer ! The plasterer who had quoted them turned up drinking a can whilst quoting ! So I gave them my quote straight away said too dear so I asked what he had been quoted 140 all in haha I said that's why he hasn't turned up mate and drove off ffs waste of time even the local piss heads are spreads now!

Ahmed or nisus perchance ?
 
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