first day on the Speedskim, warts and all review
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windy
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Have to agree the lad who came up with the final design sold to Refina was selling them from home for years to spreads in liverpool long before the forum
North_East_spread
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Hi guys,
Here is my follow up after over I year of using speedskim
Still love them, and would not be without them, I have the medium and small, medium for walls, and small is mostly used on ceilings with the pole,I would say the smaller one is most useful for me as I do a lot of ceilings, only used on skimming until now, on average used about twice a week,kept the box the medium came in and that does the job to keep it in good nick in the van,
Working in a counsel house, the client wanted hallway/staircase and landing floated/set with browning, after the old plaster was taking back to the brick ( the word browning brings back nightmares as I had over 20 years of browning/skim on new work) it was all awkward work with backmolds left, on pipes running down walls, walls a mile out,sockets everywhere, dusty, getting on for 40 meters, it must be nearly 20 years since I have used that stuff, my derby was long gone, so thought I would give my speedskim a go using it instead of a derby.
The walls were bone dry, so brushed the dust off, soaked the walls with water, then a weak unibond seemed to do the the trick,
Mixed 2 bags of browning up, put @ 2 meters on then tried straightening up with speedskim to my surprise it was doddle to use,as the walls were held back nicely, seemed much easier to use and better than the derby,as I remember
I was doing the job alone and found the floating came back to me after 20 years as though it was last week, but the mixing, cleaning out, and generally keeping the place tidy was a nightmare and hardwork, after the first day I was shattered not with the plastering, but with the labouring and my body new about it the next day
The finished job, was as good as I would of done it 20/30/40 years ago, probably took me a day longer, I only used the speedskim to straighten the floating up which like I said was a doddle, I found skimming the walls was much harder than I could remember, as 1 bag of multi seemed to go nowhere, started floating 8.30, started skimming @ 11.00, the walls seemed ready to skim, yet when applied sucked straight in
back in the day 99% of my work was new work, and float/set, and I would never be caught out with dry walls, question to you guys is what could I have done different if anything, not to have this problem, soak the floating with water= much mess, unibond surely not, after all the walls were rubbed up at the right time, and I skimmed them as soon as they had set, any idea's?
Here is my follow up after over I year of using speedskim
Still love them, and would not be without them, I have the medium and small, medium for walls, and small is mostly used on ceilings with the pole,I would say the smaller one is most useful for me as I do a lot of ceilings, only used on skimming until now, on average used about twice a week,kept the box the medium came in and that does the job to keep it in good nick in the van,
Working in a counsel house, the client wanted hallway/staircase and landing floated/set with browning, after the old plaster was taking back to the brick ( the word browning brings back nightmares as I had over 20 years of browning/skim on new work) it was all awkward work with backmolds left, on pipes running down walls, walls a mile out,sockets everywhere, dusty, getting on for 40 meters, it must be nearly 20 years since I have used that stuff, my derby was long gone, so thought I would give my speedskim a go using it instead of a derby.
The walls were bone dry, so brushed the dust off, soaked the walls with water, then a weak unibond seemed to do the the trick,
Mixed 2 bags of browning up, put @ 2 meters on then tried straightening up with speedskim to my surprise it was doddle to use,as the walls were held back nicely, seemed much easier to use and better than the derby,as I remember
I was doing the job alone and found the floating came back to me after 20 years as though it was last week, but the mixing, cleaning out, and generally keeping the place tidy was a nightmare and hardwork, after the first day I was shattered not with the plastering, but with the labouring and my body new about it the next day
The finished job, was as good as I would of done it 20/30/40 years ago, probably took me a day longer, I only used the speedskim to straighten the floating up which like I said was a doddle, I found skimming the walls was much harder than I could remember, as 1 bag of multi seemed to go nowhere, started floating 8.30, started skimming @ 11.00, the walls seemed ready to skim, yet when applied sucked straight in
back in the day 99% of my work was new work, and float/set, and I would never be caught out with dry walls, question to you guys is what could I have done different if anything, not to have this problem, soak the floating with water= much mess, unibond surely not, after all the walls were rubbed up at the right time, and I skimmed them as soon as they had set, any idea's?
Take off jacket/jumper place on speedskim in corner of room. Mix plaster. Transfer plaster from bucket to hand board, transfer plaster from handboard to wall. Trowel up a couple of times and finish with a plassy if preffered,clean up. Remove jacket/jumper from speed skim and place on body. Say goodbye and get in van positioning yourself at 90 degrees to the steering wheel and then fuckoff.
North_East_spread
Member
Lol mashman I take it your a massive fan of speedskim, but really come on, it does make life a lot easier would you not agree?
hail hail
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Ive skimmed over floated walls and uses speedskim and didn't find it bad! What are you talking about ceevee
CeeVee
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Always tucks in real fast on freshly floated walls so speedskim just drags.
Love it on board work.