Polishing and Trowelling?

[seanreay1986]

Am i right in thinking that Polishing and trowelling are the same thing?

Cheers

 

[bigsegs]

um...er...well u polish with a trowel, but you dont trowel with a polish..you use a trowel...??? :-?

 

[seanreay1986]

Thanks lol,

What i meant was

Some people call it polishing and some people call it trowelling, is it the same thing,

Just when you splash a little water on the plaster then smooth it over?

 

[bigsegs]

well i call 'trowelling up' anything after ive flattened the second coat...i call polishing nipping back to it when its got loads of dark spots and just wipping over with a dry trowel, or maybe a light mist off the squirty bottle just to give the customer something to stroke!...
to be honest i tend not to polish too much anyway, ill try and get it right 2nd trowel after flatten, all about the timing...

 

[bodplasterer]

One thing you dont want to do is polish too much unless you want to piss off the painters ;D Done a job a while ago and it was onto limelite. Well it seems to hold realy wet on limelite and it was pimpling a bit so had to wait until it was brown before it would flatten right out as a consequents it was realy polished and shiny well the painter put a coat of emulsion on to it and it basically didnt take and it all flaked off its still like it now and the painter has put a coat of pva onto it for the paint to take i have never heard of this but he's an old guy and seemed to know what he's doing.

 

[bigsegs]

eggshell...thats what a painter once told me he was after...thing is, try tellin that to a private customer... :-/
i try and go for ' silky smooth to the touch when set (brown), which dries to a fine eggshell' in a perfect world...