mowed lawn effect finish

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Evening all..can someone please tell me how some plasterers get that nice consistent mowed lawn type effect finish, I've tried more water, less water, no water, getting on it sooner..later, still dries the same..I know it paints the same but I think it looks better to the customer...thanks for any clues!
 
It's from troweling one way then the other along the wall on your final trowel I prefer to call it the barcode effect ;)
 
You mean when you cross trowel it on the final trowel one way and it goes all stripey then go the other way it's ok? I hate it, looks s*it in my opinion
 
lelope said:
Evening all..can someone please tell me how some plasterers get that nice consistent mowed lawn type effect finish, I've tried more water, less water, no water, getting on it sooner..later, still dries the same..I know it paints the same but I think it looks better to the customer...thanks for any clues!
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Welcome mate if you want a consistent finish buy a s*p*r*lex.
 
Olican said:
I second that :RpS_thumbsup:

5:35 Scottie....did you oversleep?
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I was just eating my porridge oli, now stuck in an horrendous traffic jam near Newmarket.
Probably cause by some bellend in an m3 driving at warp speed using the force to navigate through the fog.
 
Not as much piss taking as I expected haha! Yrah cross trowel but stull doesn't look like ive done that if you can work out what I mean ��
 
lelope said:
Evening all..can someone please tell me how some plasterers get that nice consistent mowed lawn type effect finish, I've tried more water, less water, no water, getting on it sooner..later, still dries the same..I know it paints the same but I think it looks better to the customer...thanks for any clues!
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Feed n weed With a little bit of miracle grow.
 
Yeah thats it..been cross trowelling it like that but still not looking like that dry, not sure where I'm getting it wrong, tried wetting trowel and dry trowel �
 
it is just done by crossing it one way then the other, i used to leave this finish myself though not by design i was just too lazy to walk back to the other end of the wall and start again after every cross trowel..:RpS_blushing:

and if you are doing that and nothing is happening its because the walls already gone, try getting on it that bit sooner
 
lelope said:
Evening all..can someone please tell me how some plasterers get that nice consistent mowed lawn type effect finish, I've tried more water, less water, no water, getting on it sooner..later, still dries the same..I know it paints the same but I think it looks better to the customer...thanks for any clues!
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Just get it troweled up n stop Fukin about with it n get on with your life!!! Jeeesusss
 
Only about 3 years, ceiling fixer before that...bloke I work with has been doing it 30yrs..but I saw some other work that I thought looked better, joined this site and tried a few different things lately..maybe if it aint broke dont fix it and all that!
 
People can go to mad with over polishing walls it's your eye that counts your the plasterer if your confident in what you do and how much your capable of putting on u won't go far wrong (stick to your means) :RpS_thumbup:
 
Back when I was an apprentice I used to wonder about how it would come out if a person loaded up a few batches of stucco finish with grass seed. Never tried it though.
 
lelope said:
Evening all..can someone please tell me how some plasterers get that nice consistent mowed lawn type effect finish, I've tried more water, less water, no water, getting on it sooner..later, still dries the same..I know it paints the same but I think it looks better to the customer...thanks for any clues!
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Here ya go this threads got a pic of a wall done with a wembley trowel by flat boy skim
half way down :rolleyes)

https://www.plasterersforum.com/gen...st-room-post749867.html?highlight=#post749867
 
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