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hey all, am thinking about getting some stilts good idea or not,got some high ceilings to do and my step up is not high enough.cheers :-?
 
ive only used stilts on 2.5 metre ceilings, and its alot easier than using a hop up. i would definately get a pair, mast :D
 
dust sheets where youre working are an absolute pain in the arse...they attract plaster like flys to flypaper, its a nightmare to get off, you get feet/hopup/whisk paddle wrapped up in em...water soaks straight through em (plastering is a 'wet' trade..yes that IS a technical term)
if i ever need to sheet anything down its a tarpaulin...least theyre waterproof....or disposable protection sheet for kitchens...
i always get em to roll the carpet up and scrape the floor afterwards...
that said ive got 3 900mm wide sheets that i put on the stairs/landings in fact ive even stretched em over block paving etc from the vehicle to the front door...
 
lol good point, usually cos its easier to say to the customer 'preferable for you to roll the carpet back than risk water stains' besides, its just easier to kick the hop up round the floor...
and the other reason is that rooms are reallt unco-operative in that they tend to be 2 feet longer than a standard tarp...
i always try and get these little details sorted before i give em my price, it also helps to judge the customers reactions so that i have an idea of what im lettin myself in for...
u know the type...some expect you to move all their furniture, curtains etc and put em back steam cleaned...maybe they dont realise theyre gonna have to paint it afterwards where they'd also find it a lot easier with the carpet out of the way...and 90 percent of the time its dead easy to just roll it back to one end of the room..if its been down a while its gonna go back in exactly the same place...i usually tell em to roll it out and leave it an hour to flatten itself before finally fixin the edges be they grippers or foam back/adhesive fixed...
nothing wrong with offerin to do it for em, just add it on to the price...most people 'know someone' willing to do the little bits...the reason your there is to do the alchemy/artistic/cake icing bit...not hump furniture around...
 
ive got marshallton 2's absolutely hate them >:(, if you do buy a pair mate get some cheapys theyll still last yonks, if you needed to hire a tower for a few days they should pay for themselves ;)
 
Well cheers all,have ordered a set and should be here 2mor, should give some time to pratice on before i do a ceiling on friday ,if i dont fall of the feckers that is lol ;D
 
i got skywalker 2.0 i ant tryed um since i went mad and spent over £200 on um.

cant find the time 2 get used 2 um and dnt wanna risk um ona job!
 
hey all, well received my stilts wednesday,they were delivered just before i left for wrk,had a quick look,thought mmm have to put together yourself, anyway got home from wrk at 11.30 pm,opened a bottle of red wine and poured myself a glass of wine, sat on sofa and took stilts out of box,by this time i was on my second glass of wine,read instructions (could of been chinese instructions).an hour passed ,on 4th glass of wine and stilts neally put togeather, and also my vision was going a bit lol.finaly stilts put together and looking good.well as i never been on stilts ever so i thought i would put them on while i sat on the sofa, got them on alright but der could'nt get up lol just stuck there like a lemon,mmm ok try a chair put them on,still could'nd get up,by this time the bottle of wine was gone and so was i so i pissed off to bed.the next day tryed the stilts again, but this time i stood up and put them on, all went fine till i started walking and feck me they are going to take some getting use too.so the moral of this story is if you get stilts and have to put them together dont have a bottle of wine. the end ;D
 
;D least you didnt stagger about in the road trying to get used to them, could have got arrested for being drunk and dissorderly, tho on the plus side of things you may appear on one of those police camera shows 8-)
 
lol good point, usually cos its easier to say to the customer 'preferable for you to roll the carpet back than risk water stains' besides, its just easier to kick the hop up round the floor...
and the other reason is that rooms are reallt unco-operative in that they tend to be 2 feet longer than a standard tarp...
i always try and get these little details sorted before i give em my price, it also helps to judge the customers reactions so that i have an idea of what im lettin myself in for...
u know the type...some expect you to move all their furniture, curtains etc and put em back steam cleaned...maybe they dont realise theyre gonna have to paint it afterwards where they'd also find it a lot easier with the carpet out of the way...and 90 percent of the time its dead easy to just roll it back to one end of the room..if its been down a while its gonna go back in exactly the same place...i usually tell em to roll it out and leave it an hour to flatten itself before finally fixin the edges be they grippers or foam back/adhesive fixed...
nothing wrong with offerin to do it for em, just add it on to the price...most people 'know someone' willing to do the little bits...the reason your there is to do the alchemy/artistic/cake icing bit...not hump furniture around...
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what about carpets that are tacked down shurley thats an arse on puttin it back down bloke a was workin with just used to put dust sheets down on carpets n like you say dirty water went through to the carpet but he didnt give a foook dont know how he got the work half the time sayin that he used to get most of his work from a joiner
 
i know what you mean mate but the truth is, once a carpets been down a while its already stretched, it doesnt take much to land it back in the same place on the runners, i always let the customer sort it anyway (once theyve painted ;)) but any carpet, if you lay it out flat in the room, even a new one, for an hour it sort of flattens itself out and is much easier to fix, and if you do one side then shuffle it accross to the other side you aint gonna be far off, then a builders bolster to just tuck the edge down...shouldnt need a knee kicker on an old carpet...
cant say ive come accross many carpets that have actually been 'nailed down' with carpet tacks for a few years, well none that arent destined for the skip anyway.. ;D
 
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