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pobourne1985

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Happy New Year lads a ladies! Could do with a bit of help and draw on the immense knowledge base of some pros.

I've got a development I'm managing in Brum, new builds, fairly straight forward. I've had 2 separate plasterers in, both have been sh1te. Both promised the world and neither delivered, spent about 3 weeks having to sand the b*ll***s out of corners and easyfill massive divets, sweeps and scrapes out of the walls to get a decent finish for the decorator. It had bobbled and had a really rough finish to it as opposed to it being all shiny and nice.

The entire ground floor is more or less open plan, approx 5m x 9m room @2.4m high. Now, I have no experience plastering, it's a skill I've never tried or wish to to be honest but I've seen plenty of great work done and know roughly whats going on.

My questions are:

A) How much spread/coverage in a guage?
B) How much should you be putting on at a time?
C) Can 1 man do 50sqm ceiling on his own in one hit without it looking shite?

(Using board finish on BG boards FYI)

I can only guess the reason my two muppets have messed up so badly is that they tried to do too much too quickly. They both were on their own and managed to knock out the house in 3/4 days. 1 of them somehow managed to use half the plaster as the other even though they were identical houses. They were roughly 330sqm total.

Any advice would be amazing, also if anyone knows a decent spread around Brum, I've got a bit of work going.

Cheers
 
Bit further than I'd travel normally but I'd do it for £15 a metre, any over 2.4m would be £30 a metre labour only.
 
Do yourself a favour and ask one of the proper spreads that is on here- plenty of experience on here, pay them what the rate they want and have the job done properly, no easi fill, no stress
 
Tbf does sound like a dire place to work
One time last year I paid a guy I was working for so I could leave the site
Just got totally depressed with the site every time I walked in there
No offence intended
 
Vincey said:
Tbf does sound like a dire place to work
One time last year I paid a guy I was working for so I could leave the site
Just got totally depressed with the site every time I walked in there
No offence intended
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Why would you pay someone to leave just go and say that's me I'm done your all nobheads! Too nice you :ROFLMAO:
 
A 50sqm ceiling on your own is some graft for a plasterer on his own,but yes there are plasterers that can do that hit and some who can't and would get an extra spread in to help out
 
Your managing a development and you haven’t a clue what a plasterer can do can he do this can he do that, it’s not all shiny and nice pay peanuts get monkeys it’s obviously what the lad that hired you did ,it’s bonkers there’s more and more lads coming on here who haven’t a clue fishing for information and it’s always the same it’s the plasterers fault
 
pobourne1985 said:
Happy New Year lads a ladies! Could do with a bit of help and draw on the immense knowledge base of some pros.

I've got a development I'm managing in Brum, new builds, fairly straight forward. I've had 2 separate plasterers in, both have been sh1te. Both promised the world and neither delivered, spent about 3 weeks having to sand the b*ll***s out of corners and easyfill massive divets, sweeps and scrapes out of the walls to get a decent finish for the decorator. It had bobbled and had a really rough finish to it as opposed to it being all shiny and nice.

The entire ground floor is more or less open plan, approx 5m x 9m room @2.4m high. Now, I have no experience plastering, it's a skill I've never tried or wish to to be honest but I've seen plenty of great work done and know roughly whats going on.

My questions are:

A) How much spread/coverage in a guage?
B) How much should you be putting on at a time?
C) Can 1 man do 50sqm ceiling on his own in one hit without it looking shite?

(Using board finish on BG boards FYI)

I can only guess the reason my two muppets have messed up so badly is that they tried to do too much too quickly. They both were on their own and managed to knock out the house in 3/4 days. 1 of them somehow managed to use half the plaster as the other even though they were identical houses. They were roughly 330sqm total.

Any advice would be amazing, also if anyone knows a decent spread around Brum, I've got a bit of work going.

Cheers
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Thats about a 3 bag first mix, bag and abit 2nd. It's doable, wouldn't fancy it on a warm day though!
Although 9x5 is only 45sqm and you said more or less open plan so I'm guessing there's a downstairs loo and maybe a built in cupboard or something so getting more like 40sqm which any decent plasterer should be able to do.

I'd allow 6 or 7 days for that but then I'm a domestic spread and can't be arsed with big sets day in day out
 
Nath80 said:
Thats about a 3 bag first mix, bag and abit 2nd. It's doable, wouldn't fancy it on a warm day though!
Although 9x5 is only 45sqm and you said more or less open plan so I'm guessing there's a downstairs loo and maybe a built in cupboard or something so getting more like 40sqm which any decent plasterer should be able to do.

I'd allow 6 or 7 days for that but then I'm a domestic spread and can't be arsed with big sets day in day out
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(To the original poster) Don’t listen to this w**k*r! He doesn’t know his arse from his elbow.
 
Rossi46 said:
(To the original poster) Don’t listen to this w**k*r! He doesn’t know his arse from his elbow.
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Can't remember you ever seeing my plastering, but cheers for the input. Feel free to point to the incorrect parts of my comment if you wish.
 
There's no excuse for rough work as if the rate was that bad i wouldn't do it.
But how much a metre were you paying
 
Nath80 said:
Thats about a 3 bag first mix, bag and abit 2nd. It's doable, wouldn't fancy it on a warm day though!
Although 9x5 is only 45sqm and you said more or less open plan so I'm guessing there's a downstairs loo and maybe a built in cupboard or something so getting more like 40sqm which any decent plasterer should be able to do.

I'd allow 6 or 7 days for that but then I'm a domestic spread and can't be arsed with big sets day in day out
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How do you work that out out its roughly 5 bags to scratch a 50m on then 2.5 bags to lay in?
 
Rossi46 said:
I don’t ever remember you offering any decent info on plastering or rendering. Just being a massive arrogant dick on anything but plaster.
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So because you don't agree with my views on politics that discredits my view on plastering. Got ya, cheers
 
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