New to the forum. Good place, been lurking for a while but that damn post viewing limit got me in the end so I signed up.
I am relatively new to plastering. Got into it when I went around to the grandparents to redecorate, pulled a bit of paper off the wall and the entire wall came with it. Admittedly we hadn't really paid attention and the grandfather was a bodge it merchant, anything needed fixing whack a bit of bodge in it (or bitumen if he had any to hand!). Not only did the walls come off, the floors had woodworm and there was damp front and back. Replaced the floors, doors, window frames (mostly because they were old and crap in the window frames case), pulled off polystyrene ceiling tiles and the ceiling went too! And on and on and on...good job I'd been made redundant a few weeks before. Never been so busy being unemployed.
Got a friend in helping us and he plastered the walls...without fixing the damp. You know what happened next? Course you do.
And so began my love affair with plastering. Started studying, learnt very quickly to investigate the problem. Needed pointing front and back, used dryzone to install a damp course, found out that dodgy guttering people had just had water pooling at the foundations so we fixed the guttering and repointed the lower floors where the mortar was rotten after sucking up all that water.
And here I am, going onto level 2 diploma in plastering (2.5 days a week for a year). I know it is a tough industry and it seems like it is barely recovered but as a family we'll be buying and selling a few properties as time goes on and renting out a few if we find good ones (got a couple going already, plastering will definitely come in handy if we get more dodgy tenants laying a hammer out around the living room like last year). Strange thing was before this house I couldn't put a wall plug in, you learn fast when you have too I guess.
Already learned distressingly that I basically can't touch that wall I've tanked for probably 4-10 months after plastering? Ouch. But good to know, the forum has come in very handy.
I am relatively new to plastering. Got into it when I went around to the grandparents to redecorate, pulled a bit of paper off the wall and the entire wall came with it. Admittedly we hadn't really paid attention and the grandfather was a bodge it merchant, anything needed fixing whack a bit of bodge in it (or bitumen if he had any to hand!). Not only did the walls come off, the floors had woodworm and there was damp front and back. Replaced the floors, doors, window frames (mostly because they were old and crap in the window frames case), pulled off polystyrene ceiling tiles and the ceiling went too! And on and on and on...good job I'd been made redundant a few weeks before. Never been so busy being unemployed.
Got a friend in helping us and he plastered the walls...without fixing the damp. You know what happened next? Course you do.
And so began my love affair with plastering. Started studying, learnt very quickly to investigate the problem. Needed pointing front and back, used dryzone to install a damp course, found out that dodgy guttering people had just had water pooling at the foundations so we fixed the guttering and repointed the lower floors where the mortar was rotten after sucking up all that water.
And here I am, going onto level 2 diploma in plastering (2.5 days a week for a year). I know it is a tough industry and it seems like it is barely recovered but as a family we'll be buying and selling a few properties as time goes on and renting out a few if we find good ones (got a couple going already, plastering will definitely come in handy if we get more dodgy tenants laying a hammer out around the living room like last year). Strange thing was before this house I couldn't put a wall plug in, you learn fast when you have too I guess.
Already learned distressingly that I basically can't touch that wall I've tanked for probably 4-10 months after plastering? Ouch. But good to know, the forum has come in very handy.
