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Hello everyone, I joined a few days ago to find out everyone's thoughts on the new uni-finish. I had a whole room to do and was going to try it out, but after reading everyone's comments about how rubbish it is I decides to stick with tried and trusted method of pva and multi. Thanks
 
Welcome to the forum Swampthing.

Apart from the obvious, was there a particular reason you wanted to use uni finish? ie are you trying to save time?

I'd prefer to use the difference in price to buy a few beers :RpS_drool:
 
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Hi Minh, no particular reason other than to give it a go. You'd have thought that they'd have done all the tests on multiple backgrounds before trying to sell it. Like I said tho glad I don't use it so yeah more money for beer:RpS_biggrin:
 
I avoided it for the same reason, this site helps us to learn from others mistakes as well as our own, or should I have said misfortune, probably..
 
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Hi Minh, no particular reason other than to give it a go. You'd have thought that they'd have done all the tests on multiple backgrounds before trying to sell it. Like I said tho glad I don't use it so yeah more money for beer:RpS_biggrin:
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On the first day it was released, I tested uni finish out over smooth painted surfaces and it trowelled up just as nice as multi. I gave the plasterboard wall a good bang a few days later and the stuff had adhered solidly. Even after a few months it's still stuck to that wall and shows no sign of coming off.

I also ran a test on a wall that was half bare plaster and half pva-ed bare plaster. The uni finish pulled in almost immediately on the bare plaster. It was absolutely shocking. You'd have to lay it on so quickly otherwise you'd have no chance of laying it down. The second coat livened up the first to a certain degree but if you apply too much pressure when trowelling up it just tears. On the pva-ed section it seemed to be just as solid as on paint.

I didn't get a chance to test it on gloss because I'd only bought one bag. I'd only use uni finish if I was really pressed for time and was skimming over emulsion. For everything else, I'd choose multi. However, no one really knows how uni finish will perform over time. It's still there on my test wall, but there's no guarantee it will stay there.
 
Swampthing said:
Hello everyone, I joined a few days ago to find out everyone's thoughts on the new uni-finish. I had a whole room to do and was going to try it out, but after reading everyone's comments about how rubbish it is I decides to stick with tried and trusted method of pva and multi. Thanks
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Welcome mate, one question, why would you pay twice as much on materials to do a room? In this economic climate it will never take off, it's a luxury(if it works!) that no one can afford.
 
Welcome :-)

I have a meeting with BG soon and this will be coming up so I should have some answers for you :-)

Danny
 
I just wanted to give it a try. Just to see how much time it did save, plus not having pva running down my arm would be a bonus!
 
welcome along mate :RpS_thumbup:

oh and why does everyone seem to use pva and multi.

wheres the pva and board finish cmon i thought this was a plasterers forum, multi is for the novice plasterer sure i read that somewhere lol
 
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welcome along mate :RpS_thumbup:

oh and why does everyone seem to use pva and multi.

wheres the pva and board finish cmon i thought this was a plasterers forum, multi is for the novice plasterer sure i read that somewhere lol
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Hi there, I live in a fairly small town with 2 builders merchants, neither of which stock board finish. When I have used it in the past I didn't there was much difference between multi and board. This was a good few years ago now tho so whether anything has changed, next time I get the chance to use it I'll give it a go again.
 
board finish is faster setting on board work, probably half an hour per set. multi is handy when you are putting on skim on s/c painted walls and board at same time..
 
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