Thistle pro finish.
- Thread starter Casper
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Retired Spread
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u must be fkin desperate working today wee baldy
Casper
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It’s a Friday in Scotland ya silly old man.
Topspread16
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And snowing
paulf
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Raining and it wasn't hot.
You should of added extra time to the mix?
Did same to me tbf...its not the time as such more that it flashes in about 5mins from normal to set with no warning
John j
Mono Don
Casper
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Ssshhhh ffs
paulf
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That's beyond your skills.
seanmc1970
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We did the training in Kirby-Thore on Tuesday. Must say I loved the FastSet finish. Just right for a quick one wall, maybe for evening or Saturday morning job
Casper
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You’ve got to flatten it soon as it on. Or it all goes tits up. I did a small ceiling 1/2 bag. Turned out perfect. 1 hour.
Casper
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I had some small areas to block out. I added a sachet of half time to half a bag of bonding. Carried the bucket through to next room and it was solid! Lol
John j
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I did 4 boards yesterday . Went over it with same mix as its behind kitchen
Having halftime bags on the van seems to make more sense, at least you can just store multi and adjust how much additive to put in dependant how quick you need it to go off. I’ve found it a great addition to the tool kit. The bonding speed up sachets are a whole other beast, as Casper says solid bucket isn’t uncommon lol
jamesthefirst
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Used around ten bags now and not sure about two coats with same mix, better on boards but not on grit. Good consistent setting times, be interesting to see how it goes in winter.
John j
Mono Don
Be interesting to see if it's still on walls by winter lol
Casper
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It’ll still go off like a 2 Bob rocket
Monkey Boy
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Thistle premature finish lol
Casper
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Just need a couple of sachets of extra time and ya sorted
The Apprentice
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Are you flattening off between coats?
themucky1
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Fcukin evening?????
Cockney
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jamesthefirst
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Yes, not mixing too wet as i want to fill out beads and scrim. When i used unifinish which i think this is similar i could knock up any left over mix in bucket and it would second coat perfect. Obviously we cant with this stuff, im happy to mix a second fresh batch and its still gonna be faster setting than board or multi.
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Great on couple of bimoards didnt like pva i found
jamesthefirst
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Not tried it with pva, was your pva dried or tacky when apllied?
The Apprentice
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If you do use a fresh mix for the 2nd coat, make sure the 1st is really flat. Any trowel lines will grin through to the 2nd and you can’t trowel them out. Also you’ve got to be sharp and make sure the 1st doesn’t set before you get the 2nd on
The Apprentice
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It was tested on approximately 8 types of pva and none of the tester’s had any issues on tacky pva
jamesthefirst
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Are there any ingredients from unifinish in the fast set?
raytheplasterer
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could you list the 8 types of pva ?
The Apprentice
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No, it’s got polymers in to make sure it adheres properly to the substrates when they found out the additives didn‘t
The Apprentice
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My memories not that good. I chose own brands as well as more expensive ones to get a good cross section and the ones on the trial brought the ones in they normally use as well.
Monkey Boy
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