Thanks unifinish For costing me

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Thanks unifinish For costing me
 
stuart23 said:
I think it's better going onto dry pva personally
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That's interesting. Ive only gone on tacky because of what I was shown at the start.
On the PVA tubs I'm sure it says tacky also?
If for example you had a reskim on a painted wall, would you still go on dry PVA?
 
Lastlaff said:
That's interesting. Ive only gone on tacky because of what I was shown at the start.
On the PVA tubs I'm sure it says tacky also?
If for example you had a reskim on a painted wall, would you still go on dry PVA?
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Depends what the suctions like, if first coat of pva pulls in quick I'll go on while tacky/wet but if there's not much suction it's far better going on dry. Never much suction on artex ceilings hence the reason I prefer dry on them.
 
Despite all the negative comments on uni I think the idea behind it is a good one, shame nowhere near me sells it. I mentioned on another thread about uni that the nearest place that sells it is over 20 miles away and I just wanted to try it out a couple of bags perhaps. In their wisdom British gypsum got in touch with me and said I could order it from my local travis Perkins. Sadly it's a minimum of a whole pallet I'd need to order. Bless them they tried to help.
 
Lastlaff said:
In the interest of customer service, why didnt BG arrange for a couple of bags to be delivered to Travis for you too try for free @Cornelius
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Exactly I thought they would get a couple of complimentary bags sent out, I was wrong. In fact they kind of patronised me in a way of course I've got the intelligence to order a full pallet from a merchants if I wanted a full pallet. I don't need some office based worker to tell me that. I'm in the trade I understand how to order materials. Never mind.
 
Lastlaff said:
That's interesting. Ive only gone on tacky because of what I was shown at the start.
On the PVA tubs I'm sure it says tacky also?
If for example you had a reskim on a painted wall, would you still go on dry PVA?
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I have not plastered over tacky pva since about 2006....
 
Dumb asses...that's 99% of Joe Publi...IMO
Thanks unifinish For costing me
Cornelius said:
Exactly I thought they would get a couple of complimentary bags sent out, I was wrong. In fact they kind of patronised me in a way of course I've got the intelligence to order a full pallet from a merchants if I wanted a full pallet. I don't need some office based worker to tell me that. I'm in the trade I understand how to order materials. Never mind.
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Cornelius said:
Despite all the negative comments on uni I think the idea behind it is a good one, shame nowhere near me sells it. I mentioned on another thread about uni that the nearest place that sells it is over 20 miles away and I just wanted to try it out a couple of bags perhaps. In their wisdom British gypsum got in touch with me and said I could order it from my local travis Perkins. Sadly it's a minimum of a whole pallet I'd need to order. Bless them they tried to help.
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Its not a minimum of a whole pallet... same with magnetic... if you want a few bags travis or Jewson will order it in for you its just you will have to wait for the next scheduled delivery @BritishGypsum correct me if I am wrong please :D
 
Cornelius said:
Exactly I thought they would get a couple of complimentary bags sent out, I was wrong. In fact they kind of patronised me in a way of course I've got the intelligence to order a full pallet from a merchants if I wanted a full pallet. I don't need some office based worker to tell me that. I'm in the trade I understand how to order materials. Never mind.
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I have tagged bg in this thread so they will hopefully respond
 
Vincey said:
I don't make the skim and look forward to bg response , not to long ago I sure I saw a thread by Arti saying he had a pva failure with multi but don't recollect you chipping in on that thread.
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To be honest pva is a thing of the past for me
The microgobetis type of products I prefer now
Never had one fail mind



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Danny said:
Its not a minimum of a whole pallet... same with magnetic... if you want a few bags travis or Jewson will order it in for you its just you will have to wait for the next scheduled delivery @BritishGypsum correct me if I am wrong please :D
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The Neanderthals in most travis Perkins will say it's a pallet or it's tough
 
theclemo said:
I had mono skim bonding sand and cement and other materials fail. It can happen ffs. If you all hate bg so much start using kanuf. It's as simple as that
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Not had one (that I'm aware of) pva and multi/board finish fail in my 20 years.
I've had issues with distemper usually as I'm skimming it though lol
 
I'm wondering what the failure rate actually is? I've seen several of@vincey's posts showing this and that using unifinish,and the there's the YouTube stuff...but no disasters such as this.
My point is really that the boffins at bg must have done tests etc .....nothing is 100% perfect, so what is the expected/allowed failure rate?
If you spend good money on say, a spirit level...it says "accurate to blah blah + or - so many mm over so many metres"... you pay yer money and take your chance. Is there such info on uni? Is it in the white book?

In any case I expect the client will want it re-done. And if it were me I'd go for multi over glue.
 
theclemo said:
I had mono skim bonding sand and cement and other materials fail. It can happen ffs. If you all hate bg so much start using kanuf. It's as simple as that
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I hate all the stuff I stick on walls apart from Venetian , maybe I"ll stick with that excuse the pun :)
I'm gonna try do less and less infact as works shoite n boring.
 
gps said:
Not had one (that I'm aware of) pva and multi/board finish fail in my 20 years.
I've had issues with distemper usually as I'm skimming it though lol
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I pva 2 ceilings b4 skimmed them went home. Went back to render the back of the job. Walked in to the house and the skim was on the floor lol
 
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