tapes

[S a plastering]

on plasterboard when skimming who does there tapes first then 2 coats is this nessecery on squaredge boards normally i just lay on then another coat just wondered what everyone else does

 

[richardbrown]

if its a big ceiling or the boarding is bad, I always go over the joints first then 2 coats. If the board work is good then fireaway as normal.

rich

 

[Nisus]

Go over the tapes then one coat ;D

Nah two coats over the lot

 

[napper83]

if tapered edge boards i fill em up if its square edge then just fire it on

 

[nelly]

Dont you just f*ckin love it when you get up a step ladder, take some gear off your handboard and just about to start skimming and spot you missed tapeing a joint!

 

[Nisus]

;D ;D

 

[PhilPlaster]

if tapered edge boards i fill em up if its square edge then just fire it on

Same as

 

[napper83]

Dont you just f*ckin love it when you get up a step ladder, take some gear off your handboard and just about to start skimming and spot you missed tapeing a joint!

just pretend you didnt notice ;D

 

[S a plastering]

Dont you just f*ckin love it when you get up a step ladder, take some gear off your handboard and just about to start skimming and spot you missed tapeing a joint!

too right i always ask the labourer are you sure youve caught everythin with the scrim and with him stood there with his hands down the front of his pants yeah corse i have then like nelly said get up the ladder an there is s h i t loads missin lol

 

[beddy]

what the f**k is a handboard?!!! don't be a tart its a hawk!!

 

[spunky]

i cover all the joints on ceilings and the top third on walls so they dont flick off when you lay accross them

 

[beddy]

its annoying when that happens. and then you try unfolding it with the corner of your trowel because you dont want to ge your hands dirty!

 

[nelly]

what the (french word) is a handboard?!!! don't be a tart its a hawk!!

I dont use hawks, mate.

I used to but they kept getting feathers in the mix.

 

[carlos]

what the (french word) is a handboard?!!! don't be a tart its a hawk!!

;D ;D ;D

 

[rockhardsolidplastering]

i cover all the joints on ceilings and the top third on walls so they dont flick off when you lay accross them

hate to agree with a tw at but correct

 

[kirk johnstone]

i used to two coat nearly everything on site work and never filled out joints unless i was one coating

 

[essexandy]

if tapered edge boards i fill em up if its square edge then just fire it on

Same as

Me to, this is one of the main advantages of sticky scrim, no pre-plastering required.
Some of us old gits will remember having to stick the scrim up in advance, what a pain in the arse.

 

[Chris W]

i cover all the joints on ceilings and the top third on walls so they dont flick off when you lay accross them

hate to agree with a tw at but correct

i dont lay across them, well not on walls anyway, i usually board vertically though..
on ceilings its a good idea to run a trowelful down the scrim as you get to it but i dont run round the ceiling covering all the scrim then start laying the bulk on? but im a lazy b'stard... i dont use a spot, i dont use stilts, ive got 1 trowel (not including the twitch, bucket trowels, midget etc) 2 buckets a whisk a hop up and a paintbrush. o, and a stanley knife and a tape measure...
did i miss anything out ???

 

[morterman]

Flask

 

[beddy]

THE most important tool a plasterer has. radio.

 

[Chris W]

that reminds me... i need a new radio...
i blew the last one up when i'd got it on the end of a genny off a pigtail...
genny wasnt man enough to run the mixer well enough so i bugger off outside and fiddle with the carb a bit and up its revs...
came back inside and the f'ckin radio's on fire ;D ;D ;D

 

[beddy]

i want the bosch. its the most expensive but ive got bosch drills so it can use/charge them.