Is it just me?!

madmonk said:
Cant believe spreads are arguing over 7:50 a fukin bag does it really fukin matter what covers what get fuked
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Lol, does matter on a plasterers forum how to spread a bit of pink s**t on a plaster board, does it not..
7.5 bags for 50m..???
 
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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See what you've started...ha ha
 
Is it just me?!
 
Technically there's abit of truth to what @madmonk is saying one bag covers 10sqm at 2mm thickness that's pretty much standard for a first coat, then 1mm for the second coat,these are just guidelines from British gypsum and if followed your looking at 7.5 bags personally a bag at 2mm thick will cover 10sqm, it's the second coat where you can extend your coverage as the second coat goes further as you have a nice bed to lay your second coat into also depends on what surface your laying on but personally if it was a 50sqm plasterboarded ceiling I would say 6-6.5 bags would be enough
 
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