thistle bond it
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S a plastering
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any it dont matter
irish_spread
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im bollixed an prob a bit sad reading this sh1t but me bird wont
go down on me. No happy
go down on me. No happy
Roofer2plasterer
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Just used bond it last week on a huge ceiling. we used multi and it looked the mutts nuts. took ages to firm up though!
kirk johnstone
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i use multi on everything, b&q sellit and if you buy 5 or more it works out £3 something a bag also i find it much nicer to use, when i was on site board finish was good because we just wanted to get three big hits done as fast as poss. but i will always choose multi over board if we are talking about which is nicer to use 
Chris W
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it depends on what background im on as to what finish i use...
boardy for bonding agents or anything i think i can get away with pvaing even though its been painted with something unidentifiable but isnt gloss..
multi for just about everything else...
i tend to use multi on new board cos i seem to be able to get more on and a bit thinner so it doesnt seem to tear as much...
one thing i hate is when I didnt really pay much attention to the surface on survey and when i turn up with 5 bags of multi its had some shiny paint underneath, there's f'ck all suction and the multi behaves like youve got half a gallon of sbr in the mix... just grins at you for an hour and a half, then the chemical set kicks in and it goes off all at once; you end up trying to flatten 3mm of plaster off in one pass and you gotta be real handy to stop it looking like the sea...
one thing about using multi over bonding agents, and the only good thing i can think of is it allows you to stick sh'tloads on, like twice what you normally would and then some. It wont slide about like multi would on a shiny surface on wet pva cos of the grit but youve just got to be careful you catch it when it does go off, put it on thin though or you end up with the wave effect...
for this reason i use boardy, its just loverly to use - like multi on new board, you can still stick a fair old bit on but it still dries from the back as it should and the trowelling up process is exactly as it should be, no real effort required...
boardy for bonding agents or anything i think i can get away with pvaing even though its been painted with something unidentifiable but isnt gloss..
multi for just about everything else...
i tend to use multi on new board cos i seem to be able to get more on and a bit thinner so it doesnt seem to tear as much...
one thing i hate is when I didnt really pay much attention to the surface on survey and when i turn up with 5 bags of multi its had some shiny paint underneath, there's f'ck all suction and the multi behaves like youve got half a gallon of sbr in the mix... just grins at you for an hour and a half, then the chemical set kicks in and it goes off all at once; you end up trying to flatten 3mm of plaster off in one pass and you gotta be real handy to stop it looking like the sea...
one thing about using multi over bonding agents, and the only good thing i can think of is it allows you to stick sh'tloads on, like twice what you normally would and then some. It wont slide about like multi would on a shiny surface on wet pva cos of the grit but youve just got to be careful you catch it when it does go off, put it on thin though or you end up with the wave effect...
for this reason i use boardy, its just loverly to use - like multi on new board, you can still stick a fair old bit on but it still dries from the back as it should and the trowelling up process is exactly as it should be, no real effort required...
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