First plastering job you did by yourself

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Just wondering what peoples first job on there own was like and how it ended up. Everyones had to go to a first customer trading on there own, how well do you think you did
 
one of the plasterers that i had done my apprenticeship under was offered a large contact , labour only , paid cash every thursday, that is how work was done in the late 60s as most people did not even have a bank account. a 3bed site house £4,000 you could earn that in about 18 months. it has been downhill ever since!
 
malc said:
one of the plasterers that i had done my apprenticeship under was offered a large contact , labour only , paid cash every thursday, that is how work was done in the late 60s as most people did not even have a bank account. a 3bed site house £4,000 you could earn that in about 18 months. it has been downhill ever since!
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I'm not complaining
 
I had a smallish bedroom to skim, ceiling and walls! Took me bloody ages as wanted to get it a perfect. If I was still that slow I'd never earn anything haha! Turned out well though and got a more work from the customer a year later - so must have done something right. :)
 
Thanks for the replies i know a few lads that once they went solo had a few mishaps on there first few jobs mainly due to panicking or over thinking
 
Rendering the inside of a small house (casita) ceiling included as this was the normal finish for all places here in spain at the time 1984.
There is an unmistakable sound to muck peeling off a ceiling and slapping the floor or your back , i slept little over those five days to complete something i had never done.
Luckily somehow (the gods took pity on me) the job turned out ok and i was paid the agreed sum, was able to rest up and then feed myself again for a while.
Life was good back then at 265 pesetas to a pound and a bottle of san miguel costing 25 pesetas for example my evenings were lively:):birras:
 
I reskimmed my girlfriends mum and dads bedroom as a homer after only plastering for about 6 months. Thought I was the big man and put it all on in two gauges. First gauge was horrific, never mixed pva up properly and it was far too weak, it pulled in like f*ck and I spent the next few hours chasing it, i'm sure there was a tear in my eye at one point. I thought it turned out alright at the time, but looking back it was s**t! Next gauge I pretty much put the pva on neat, that was fine and even to this day I probably still have pva a little on the strong side because of it!
 
Kitchy said:
Coming out of the shitter
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First plastering job you did by yourself
 
theplasterman said:
Under stairs cupboard couldn't see a thing in there.probably why I was put in there.
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aye............harry potter cupboard for me as well.............boiler cupboards now a days for the youngins..........wet angles.
Its be enough to see off a few apprentices.........................fags........................:endesacuerdo:
 
PlasterCraftDundee said:
I reskimmed my girlfriends mum and dads bedroom as a homer after only plastering for about 6 months. Thought I was the big man and put it all on in two gauges. First gauge was horrific, never mixed pva up properly and it was far too weak, it pulled in like f*ck and I spent the next few hours chasing it, i'm sure there was a tear in my eye at one point. I thought it turned out alright at the time, but looking back it was s**t! Next gauge I pretty much put the pva on neat, that was fine and even to this day I probably still have pva a little on the strong side because of it!
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Lmbo. I'm plastering years and f**k*d up just a few months ago. I had to skim over painted plaster on chimney breast. Soaked it or so I thought. It dried up like a whores c**t and I was fighting like fcuk with it. I told the clients it must be something to do with the wall and could they go get a new bag of skim to redo it. I scraped it all off and pvad the ballix out of the wall then done it properly. In saying all that thou, all the plaster that was already on the wall was boased so something wasn't right lol. O and they had a fire blazing on other side of the chimney breast. At it years and another lesson learned ;)
 
I can't remember my first.

One of my earliest memories was being left on a domestic job with a guy who was 2/3 years in front of me with training, he was about 26 at the time me 18/19

I trained with a gang of 5/6

Anyhow this job me and this prick who thought he was great was on, he always looked down his nose at me and told me I'd never be a plasterer and I was s**t, nearly everyday, had a merc on tick and a flat and thought he'd made it in life

The domestic customer banged the heating on full whack while he was putting on and he lost the set he was doing (only a shitty wall in the hallway)

He looked at me pouring with sweat and f**k**g begged me to help him trowel up.

I just stood there and said, "nah, I'm not ready yet ainsley"

What a fooking nobend that guy was.

Probably my best and earliest memory
 
I d&d a conservatory wall...then skimmed it, went off really fast almost caught me out...and did a curved ceiling over thick Artex, scrapped the f**ker back, s**t everywhere, pvaed it, skimmed it and didn't finish it in time, had to come back the next day pva again and got it right second time round :)
 
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