Site monkeys/Skimmers vs "proper plasterers"

[The_one_coat_wizard]

Quality is remembered long after the price is forgotten

On domestics I agree

on a site that has to be open in x amount of days and needs x amount plastering they will go for the decent finish but fast vs excellent finish but slow

 

[carys]

On domestics I agree

on a site that has to be open in x amount of days and needs x amount plastering they will go for the decent finish but fast vs excellent finish but slow

Exactly and that y the quality not up to domestic standard

 

[The_one_coat_wizard]

You can always argue the fine lines between speed and quality, bet half you lads and women glass your walls up to death and think your giving a brilliant finish

 

[John j]

No frames to work to or reveals to do I'd guess. I'd didn't use stilts the majority of the time preferring two trestles and a long piece of joist.

Used to prefer ceilings . Kill me now.

 

[hstoke]

So was it 170m2 of one coat

So is he really saying 17 bags in a day that’s mental no wonder he had next day off it must 18 hour shift

 

[McPlaster]

I do site and domestic, tidy at both. Loadsamoney.

 

[Gibbo]

You sound fast mate, interesting that you do more metres on ceilings why do you think that was? I am the opposite

Where did your 170m2 go too

 

[Djr]

Well I'd like to think that I'm one of the old bastards you're trying to get a rise out of @The_one_coat_wizard .
When I was on normal site work I would average 75sqm a day on walls or a tad more on lids.
I'd also average 84sqm of floating will S&C. Both without a labourer and never getting dragged back in with a snagging list.
I knew I was pretty quick, but also meet quicker.
I definitely don't have any sort of axe to grind with the younger lads 'smashing it'. I do however find it sad when I keep hearing about the lowering of standards and corners being cut. Cutting corners and getting more metres done doesn't mean that you're fast though.
I've earned well over the years by covering, what I consider, decent metres, now I earn decent money covering fewer metres. I've enjoyed both.[/QUO

So is he really saying 17 bags in a day that’s mental no wonder he had next day off it must 18 hour shift

That's why he talking utter shite

 

[The_one_coat_wizard]

So is he really saying 17 bags in a day that’s mental no wonder he had next day off it must 18 hour shift

Three lads mixing into a blue barrel rolling gauges all had our own rooms and corridors it sounds mental, it really wasn't.
We started at 7am, finished at 5pm.

 

[Rossi46]

 

[The_one_coat_wizard]

Where did your 170m2 go too

3 - 50/60 metre rooms, no ceiling just walls the fact you think this is somehow impossible is great

 

[McPlaster]

Fair play to you mate, I have never found myself in a situation where I would need to do that.

 

[lurpak]

 

[The_one_coat_wizard]

I'm a machine fellas just tip your hats to me and be done with it, I wake up every morning and i piss excellence

I'm thinking of taking part in the plastering Olympics

 

[McPlaster]

Ah but do you cut your boxes out eh? I do so I must be better.

 

[altoft]

So 170m between 4 of you is 42.5 m each some lads get that on in a batch and it took 4 of you 7-5 and needed the next day off..how has this got 4 pages and why did I read them all I could of had more m on the walls

 

[The_one_coat_wizard]

So 170m between 4 of you is 42.5 m each some lads get that on in a batch and it took 4 of you 7-5 and needed the next day off..how has this got 4 pages and why did I read them all I could of had more m on the walls

Were did I say their was 4 of us and when did I say I only put 42 metres on hahahah
3 of us, each lad doing between 170 and 150

 

[The_one_coat_wizard]

So wait their you know lads who can do 45 metre hits in one go by themselves

Why is it so mad to hear lads doing 50 60 metre hits with rolling gauges between lads, different lad mixes each time till you get your room on

 

[altoft]

Well I think you are going to be my inspiration for next year on how not to work it's worn me out reading this.you should break your back for nobody because they ain't Guna do it for you especially for £200 a day

 

[hstoke]

Three lads mixing into a blue barrel rolling gauges all had our own rooms and corridors it sounds mental, it really wasn't.
We started at 7am, finished at 5pm.

So 3 of u seem to me and others that u threw all that on your own ,17/3 =around 6 bags a piece I’m sure site lads on ere throw that on day n day out

 

[hstoke]

Good luck mate do u live near Lincolnshire there’s a lad I know on ere after work

 

[The_one_coat_wizard]

So 3 of u seem to me and others that u threw all that on your own ,17/3 =around 6 bags a piece I’m sure site lads on ere throw that on day n day out

Some very questionable maths on here

I threw 170m on my own.
I defiantly did not use 17 bags to myself.
We mixed into a blue barrel.
We done rolling gauges 3 times through out the day swapping who mixed each time.
My mates threw 150 and 170 on each.
This is painful to explain over and over.

 

[The_one_coat_wizard]

Bear in mind I've only done this once and each of us don't get close to this on a daily average, it can be done, it's stupid and not wise but it can be done

 

[altoft]

How long ago did you do this?

 

[Topspread16]

Some very questionable maths on here

I threw 170m on my own.
I defiantly did not use 17 bags to myself.
We mixed into a blue barrel.
We done rolling gauges 3 times through out the day swapping who mixed each time.
My mates threw 150 and 170 on each.
This is painful to explain over and over.

That’s nearly 50 bags of skim between you. That’s what’s making it hard to believe.

 

[lurpak]

Some very questionable maths on here

I threw 170m on my own.
I defiantly did not use 17 bags to myself.
We mixed into a blue barrel.
We done rolling gauges 3 times through out the day swapping who mixed each time.
My mates threw 150 and 170 on each.
This is painful to explain over and over.

 

[The_one_coat_wizard]

Can't wait to tell the lads that by the sounds of it we might have broke the plastering m2 per day world record here, cracking stuff

 

[Simon85]

You know it thick as s**t

Do you aork on your own or in a squad? What sort or metres would u normally do a day now mate?

 

[Topspread16]

Can't wait to tell the lads that by the sounds of it we might have broke the plastering m2 per day world record here, cracking stuff

You won’t, @algeeman does it daily in between the school run after a crate of Stella, nipping to the bookies after his 3 course meal

 

[ChrispyUK]

Can't wait to tell the lads that by the sounds of it we might have broke the plastering m2 per day world record here, cracking stuff

 

[algeeman]

You won’t, @algeeman does it daily in between the school run after a crate of Stella, nipping to the bookies after his 3 course meal

Any which way you look at it
I decided a long time ago that it's a shiit life lol.
I'm already looking back at my life and starting to think.... im only here once I'm spending it staring at walls

 

[Topspread16]

Any which way you look at it
I decided a long time ago that it's a shiit life lol.
I'm already looking back at my life and starting to think.... im only here once I'm spending it staring at walls

Where else would you want to be. No signs of the boy yet?

 

[algeeman]

Where else would you want to be. No signs of the boy yet?

Was due on Thursday mate.....any day now.
Everytime she moves the kids run up stairs hiding lol

 

[Ritch]

Another reason prices are crap, is because its all over the Internet forums roughly how much people are paying, contractors and customers already have a good idea what they should pay us because of stuff like this

I'll tell you the prices I get on here and every Tom dick and Harry can see it and thinks oh ill try and get it done for less than that

R u some kind of cannt tel us what u get and how much you get on in a day on your own or in gang

 

[megamix]

I can remember years ago I knew two spreads and a lad . They used to skim out a 3 storey 4 bed in a day . One continuous rolling gauge . You’d walk in there and it would be steaming . They never cleaned any beads or round windows . There was always some snagging to do . But hey still take my hat off to them . They shifted some gear