Hello people,
Nice site Danny, top stuff. Two fingers to the screwfix (or is that a swearword here?) forums for not having a plasterers only forum hey. Had a read of the forum over the last couple of days and been well impressed with the attitude and willingness of you guys to help others out.
Decided to dive in and do a bit of plastering on my Victorian Terrace, plenty of work to do as you can imagine, and always wanted to have a crack at it. Been tackling bits on my stairwell and upstairs hallway, big respect to you spreads.
Anyways, here's what I've done so far. External corner at the top of the stairs, beaded and then skimmed and feathered in to about a metre in from the bead. This came out a treat but anthing I've done since has been OK'ish but nowhere near as good. Skimmed a whole wall that was very rough and not worth filling. All looked good until it dried out to reveal a couple of waves that Keanue Reevs could have jumped on top of. Where did I go wrong? When I went at it after laying it on all looked fine, certainly wasn't obvious that I had these waves. Here's what I did:
Area approx 3mx4m (PVA'd twice) Layed on first coat, took about 15mins (don't laugh). Came back and trowelled this off but wasn't overly fussy, just got the lines out (was this where I went wrong?, should I have got this perfect?) best I could. Then mixed up about half as much again and laid on again. Same 15mins give or take. Then trowelled this off twice, the second time with the plaster being like plastercine in consistency. I did realise some slight bumps and the trowelling was difficult, but the waves I describe were on a part of the wall that I thought was pretty much spot on. I then gave it a wet trowel with plenty of pressure and that was all I did. Reasonably pleased with the results but will be needing to fill or sand to get rid of Keaneu.
Anyway, if you got this far, thanks for reading.
John
p.s. Gonna post my top don'ts list in a couple of days: First item will be:
1) Don't let the back edge of the trowel get too close to the plaster, DOH! :-[
Nice site Danny, top stuff. Two fingers to the screwfix (or is that a swearword here?) forums for not having a plasterers only forum hey. Had a read of the forum over the last couple of days and been well impressed with the attitude and willingness of you guys to help others out.
Decided to dive in and do a bit of plastering on my Victorian Terrace, plenty of work to do as you can imagine, and always wanted to have a crack at it. Been tackling bits on my stairwell and upstairs hallway, big respect to you spreads.
Anyways, here's what I've done so far. External corner at the top of the stairs, beaded and then skimmed and feathered in to about a metre in from the bead. This came out a treat but anthing I've done since has been OK'ish but nowhere near as good. Skimmed a whole wall that was very rough and not worth filling. All looked good until it dried out to reveal a couple of waves that Keanue Reevs could have jumped on top of. Where did I go wrong? When I went at it after laying it on all looked fine, certainly wasn't obvious that I had these waves. Here's what I did:
Area approx 3mx4m (PVA'd twice) Layed on first coat, took about 15mins (don't laugh). Came back and trowelled this off but wasn't overly fussy, just got the lines out (was this where I went wrong?, should I have got this perfect?) best I could. Then mixed up about half as much again and laid on again. Same 15mins give or take. Then trowelled this off twice, the second time with the plaster being like plastercine in consistency. I did realise some slight bumps and the trowelling was difficult, but the waves I describe were on a part of the wall that I thought was pretty much spot on. I then gave it a wet trowel with plenty of pressure and that was all I did. Reasonably pleased with the results but will be needing to fill or sand to get rid of Keaneu.
Anyway, if you got this far, thanks for reading.
John
p.s. Gonna post my top don'ts list in a couple of days: First item will be:
1) Don't let the back edge of the trowel get too close to the plaster, DOH! :-[