Preparing joins in plasterboard
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nicksey1401
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just out of interest mate why did you take pics of the join before it was skimmed?
I've seen this done loads and all I think it is from the pic's is that the plasters not been applied thick enough and or not allowed to pull in enough before 2nd coating or flattening off.
I was not implying that you had gone for the cheapest quote but what people do not think about is the fact that the majority of us have lost work because somebody has given a cheaper quote in the 1st place. This tends to lead us in to a belief that we have got to be the cheapest to get the job and therefore leave us chasing our backsides trying to get the job done quickly, which in turn leads us in to making mistakes. By having a chat before a quote is given and explaining what quality of work you expect and also by basing your decision who to employ for the job not purely on price but by phoning up previous customers and what the plasterer says to you should help.
PS another way to minimise this problem is to use tapered boards.
I was not implying that you had gone for the cheapest quote but what people do not think about is the fact that the majority of us have lost work because somebody has given a cheaper quote in the 1st place. This tends to lead us in to a belief that we have got to be the cheapest to get the job and therefore leave us chasing our backsides trying to get the job done quickly, which in turn leads us in to making mistakes. By having a chat before a quote is given and explaining what quality of work you expect and also by basing your decision who to employ for the job not purely on price but by phoning up previous customers and what the plasterer says to you should help.
PS another way to minimise this problem is to use tapered boards.
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nicksey1401
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really .........hmmmmmmmmm the plot thickens ......hmmmmmn
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..hmmm no why would.....hmmmmmmmm....hmmm.................
Having looked at the photo's there are a couple of things that puzzle me (1) why have you battened the walls in the first place, and not just float and set them?
(2) have you go some sort of membrane on the battens before the plasterboard? any way looks like a poor plastering job to me a good plasterer would have dealt with the joints as he went , meaning that as the plasterer starts to set , laying the joint in with the front of his trowel, i can also see other defects like screw holes and misses, the joint on the board directly in front of you looks like he may have caught the scrim with his trowel and pulled it away at some stage of the set and done a poor job of trying to repair it, i also think it has been skimped one coated plaster or to thin, and all that dose is cause you grief when you get little problems like joints showing through. there are two options to remedy the problem (1) is to get a decorator to caulk out the walls (2) get your plasterer back to do a re skim but properly this time.
(2) have you go some sort of membrane on the battens before the plasterboard? any way looks like a poor plastering job to me a good plasterer would have dealt with the joints as he went , meaning that as the plasterer starts to set , laying the joint in with the front of his trowel, i can also see other defects like screw holes and misses, the joint on the board directly in front of you looks like he may have caught the scrim with his trowel and pulled it away at some stage of the set and done a poor job of trying to repair it, i also think it has been skimped one coated plaster or to thin, and all that dose is cause you grief when you get little problems like joints showing through. there are two options to remedy the problem (1) is to get a decorator to caulk out the walls (2) get your plasterer back to do a re skim but properly this time.
I'm getting in on this discussion quite late but it look to me like its only been single coated, the joints in the photos did'nt look that bad and if they were i would of leveled them off with Bonding before the skim. Have skimed much worse than this with multi andd its been spot on (double coating of course)!
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