Shortage of plasterers
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xyzplasterer
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I agree, there is definitely a shortage of plasterers who can render in my area.
User___removed
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That's good.more work for us tradesmen!!
raytheplasterer
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I've seen some shocking rendering.
johniosaif
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Sorry, I am trying, did no 67, now hacking off 69 to do that, 3inch thick it was today,they had gone over the wet dash, the neighbour across the road wants a price now, all white City London.. Not really what I want to do but of course we can do it well..
plaster man
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of course
plaster man
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lots of plasters in donegal i think theres a factory up there that makes them
johniosaif
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Like mayo men, they dream of flat walls
Finn
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I was conceived there, does that count?
Sand and cement rendering is that harder than skimming ?on a par id say its all well good saying skimming is easy 30 degrees last week mixing on your own dont think so .chasing your tail all day nah thats why its a no from me!
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xyzplasterer
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Personally I prefer rendering to skimming. The weather is the problem!
I've not really touched much on the outside stuff at all. Don't know much about it. Is it just normal outside rendering you are doing or EWI? I know the guy who runs my college course was saying EWI is good (if hard) work, fairly good demand and well paid but you have to go on a bloody expensive certification course or somesuch?
Luisportillo
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Hi lads
my first post, wondering if you could help me. I render and dash a lot of gable ends on the loft conversions, and they come out fine. My only prob is the colour, I look at the houses along the rd, and they seem to be a nice browny colour, but mine is grey, now I know sand gives it most of the colour, but plastering sand comes up quite dark in bags from Travis, someone has said use half building sand to lighten it? Look forward to your replies
cheers
my first post, wondering if you could help me. I render and dash a lot of gable ends on the loft conversions, and they come out fine. My only prob is the colour, I look at the houses along the rd, and they seem to be a nice browny colour, but mine is grey, now I know sand gives it most of the colour, but plastering sand comes up quite dark in bags from Travis, someone has said use half building sand to lighten it? Look forward to your replies
cheers
stuart23
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Use a pre bagged dash receiver and you can have any colour you like.
raytheplasterer
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that'll be dirt build up making it darker probably.
User___removed
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Lol.plastering is easy.rendering is a lot harder.be interesting to do a poll on here and ask how many so called plasterers carry out rendering works.
user__removed
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There are plasterers and there are skimmers imo, and its a big difference between the two.
nothing easy about skimming large sets on your own mate whilst maintaining high standard which if its your bread and butter work is constant hard coller and relentless.
But agree that to skim a wall or so at a time is easy, but you cant feed a family on that for very long, so I would actually disagree. Different skill set but both easy and hard in different ways at different times.
User___removed
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My apprentice could skim after 3 months
spreadylonglegs
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Nice doing outsides in summer when you have good lads with you. Thing is mostly foreigners doing that now too. All gangs doing mono on site these days are eastern. I personally rather do an outside than skim a house on my own. Far more enjoyable.
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