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Hello everyone, Im just coming to an end of my level 2 plastering course. any good tips or advice for a a beginner?

Thanks mike
 
Alright mate ? As said try find a gang , or just a sole trader etc , experience actually doing work on site rather than college etc will be invalueble
 
welcome along Mike :RpS_thumbsup: Have a good read through old threads on here using the search bar, there isnt much that hasnt been covered. Get yourself the forum app on your phone, any difficulties mid job you can come on and post a question. A lot of us have a look inbetween sets. best of luck
 
Welcome mate

Get yourself out ther and working with someone with experience...
@Olican - I had to read you post twice... I have been on here too long... thought it read ".... A lot of us have a look inbetween s*x" :RpS_blushing:

There are so many that this statement would work for as well..... PMSL
 
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larky16 said:
Hello everyone, Im just coming to an end of my level 2 plastering course. any good tips or advice for a a beginner?

Thanks mike
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The best tip I can give u mate is don't try and be fast. Take your time. U will here a lot of bullsh1t I can do x amount of rooms a day. Don't be that clown. When skimming just do 3 small sets a day. Let's say 5 to 6 boreds a set.
 
always remember it is called a handboard, do this and people will point at you in the street with the utmost respect, that's him they will say in a hushed tone ,hes got it right its called a handboard, always be alert when meeting firemen/bricklayers/electricians/joiners, these people should be treated with caution, carry your whistle and pepper spray at all times when meeting these people,
 
I was thinking, Why would you call it a hand board it's not made out of wood well maybe the handle usually is, but I'm sure the rest of it used to be back in the dark ages. Now a 'Hawk' yeah that's what we professionals call it, but how did it get that name anyway? I'm pretty sure it was never made from a bird, I don't know of any references that associate aluminum or magnesium with "Hawk". When you're in a precarious position spreading mud, we often use the phrase to a helper "Hawk me some mud kid", it really makes no sense, and I never really gave it much thought I just accepted the use of that name without any question. I guess it's sexier than "Metal plate thingy that holds plaster with a convent handle on the bottom of it tool".
 
Back when I was an early teen I worked for my Dad's plastering company, I remember one of my first experiences as a helper was a "test" by the older plasterers. "Run to the truck and fetch me a 'darby' kid....." I got to the truck and thought WTF is a Darby, I solved that by doing a quick assessment of everything in the truck that wasn't a darby, and then I took a calculated guess that the flat strip of metal with two handles probably was a Darby, passed!
 
stuart23 said:
Welcome along mate, wtf is a hand board? It's a hawk, that's what the pros call it.
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close your eyes and picture the scene, june 1976 I am 16 years old and have just started my apprenticeship with john laing, we are all sitting quiet,nervous,apprehensive, eating our bait from our bait box in the bait cabin, as we listen with some fear as one plasterer has just returned working from the south, so far south it is past London, he is telling us tales of the sites down south where they call the handboards, hawks, a deathly silence breaks out, no it cant be somebody shouts out then he breaks down and sobs quietly, other apprentices are visibly upset , one is in a corner rocking backwards and forwards dribbling from his mouth, why why would they say that I say, it is called a handboard, you lie I shout as the tears start, no he says it is true they call it a hawk, at this point it went very dark outside,birds were falling out of the trees, it was true, we left that bait cabin where we had been having our bait from our bait box, no longer innocents, and all took the vow that none of us would ever go down south, so anyhooooooo iwas surprised and shocked that you are from Ayrshire and not from the south stuart, start afresh tomorrow stuart , a handboard from now on, a handboard,
 
Hahaha that's a bit over dramatic hector! As much as I loved the story it can't change the facts...

















... It's a f_cking hawk!!!
 
have you no conscience stuart, wanabee plasterers are reading this thread now, young men with dreams, and hope and pride, now they will go to work confused/unhappy/bitter, all this time they have only known it as a handboard, and now thanks to you dreams and hope have gone, I hope you are pleased, this will take intensive counselling, calls to the Samaritans, lives will be changed, but there is still time to save them but you must move fast, reply and apologise take it all back,assure everybody that from tomorrow you will call it a handboard, this is there only hope now, look deep into yourself you know its called a handboard, change your ways now and you will be the talk of Ayrshire tomorrow, remember handboard:RpS_wink:
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... It's a f_cking hawk!!![/QUOTE]
 
MANHILLSIDE said:
If it was called a hawk i'd shoot it! It's a handboard ya southern fairies!
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well said manhillside, now perhaps you could have a quiet word with your compatriot from Ayrshire, but this time don't beat around the bush,dont be so tactful tell him straight:RpS_biggrin:
 
Down south we call it .................a machine :RpS_wink: ....wait for it ..wait for it :RpS_crying:
 
For the benefit of Stuart :RpS_thumbup:
new to the game

Hand board!
new to the game

Hawk !!!
Not difficult is it??? :rolleyes)
 
Personally it doesn't matter to me what people call tools the important thing is being able to get it on the wall and finished properly ?? Although I do get annoyed when people call a trowel a float !! Must admit that irks me as does when a customer says they want their roof plastering!!!! Its a bloody ceiling !!! :rolleyes)
 
Marshy said:
Personally it doesn't matter to me what people call tools the important thing is being able to get it on the wall and finished properly ?? Although I do get annoyed when people call a trowel a float !! Must admit that irks me as does when a customer says they want their roof plastering!!!! Its a bloody ceiling !!! :rolleyes)
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I know the names of the tools mate :RpS_thumbsup: it is using them where it all goes tits :RpS_crying:
 
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