Plastering painters!

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in principle a sound idea but I bet scores of decorating teams have had their fingers burned with it though. anybody used the spats with handles? could be scope to use them in normal skimming
 
The cheapest new spray plant that has enough power to spray the material is about £2.5k. Ideally you want a more powerful one which is about £4k.
 
my friend works on site painting new houses day in day out same story.. iv always fort why dont he invest in a spray paint thing? are they that hard to get the nack of? a lil investment but he will smash out a house with a spray machine?
 
it says "Many plasterers keep the plaster in the machine for a whole season." whats the plastering season then??
s**t am i plastering out of season?
 
Any one used it then? looks O.K. to me apart from the price of the machine.Not sure about a spat on finish though they are using one there i only use them on one coat.
Lucius.
 
oasis said:
my friend works on site painting new houses day in day out same story.. iv always fort why dont he invest in a spray paint thing? are they that hard to get the nack of? a lil investment but he will smash out a house with a spray machine?
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Maybe because by the time he's masked a whole house up windows etc., sprayed it, cleaned spray equipment out & then demasked house, he could have rollered it all out with his 18" roller.

Plus most new build are White ceilings & maggy Walls so not worth spraying unless all the same colour really.
 
Nisus said:
oasis said:
my friend works on site painting new houses day in day out same story.. iv always fort why dont he invest in a spray paint thing? are they that hard to get the nack of? a lil investment but he will smash out a house with a spray machine?
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there is my answer, mind you a £ 50 lab would come in handy! he gets like £700-900 a house does one every 4-5 days

Maybe because by the time he's masked a whole house up windows etc., sprayed it, cleaned spray equipment out & then demasked house, he could have rollered it all out with his 18" roller.

Plus most new build are White ceilings & maggy Walls so not worth spraying unless all the same colour really.
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To be honest, there's not a lot of masking needed. You can almost cut in with the spray gun it's that accurate. A couple of years ago, we had jointed 6x 2 bed flats and a long corridor totalling 1100m2. The painter turned up on his own with an airless spray plant and painted the ceilings twice and the walls one coat and was loading up his van at 2.30pm. Work that out at at least £1.00 a metre.
 
havnt checked the link yet is it alltec? if so ive had a go there were lads on the site earnin decent money but it wasnt for me
 
a gang of dry liners were using this on a school we were doing a while back. we were plastering one area, and they were using wet premixed white stuff in bags. i think it was altek.

i thought it was crap, they had to stick or screw the boards, tape and joint them, spray them with this stuff and flatten with a spatula, then once dry a day or 2 later, machine sand it all down as you cant get it very flat, specially if ur not a spread.

then they sprayed a white sealer type coat which they left as it was. and after all that, the finish was still crap, and u could still see the board joins. plus u cant fill out anything with it. so unless the wall is perfect before spraying, it shows.

needless to say, we finished the rest of the job
 
It's crap, can only be used in warm weather,theres loads of prep,takes ages to go off,mind you ,you can put on large areas,but at least with finish you know when it's done it's DONE.. 8)
 
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