weber 1 day course

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fire10 said:
Reading everything on here Im really glad I stumbled across the site.
You all seem spot on and willing to help people which goes a long way nowadays.
If anyone has a monocouche job going down in the south and would help me gain a bit of experience please let me know,
Cheers guys and keep up all the great advice :)
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Gibbo is doing a demonstration next week. Get your work clothes on and get stuck in..
 
Cheers for the replies guys, do you think he would mind?
Any ideas when and where he is doing it and what I'd need, any help greatly appreciated!
Thanks again for the heads up mate.
 
LOL no worries, if anyone had got a mono job or demo down south for me to gain some experience let me know.
Cheers guys :)
 
He's only joking mate I'm sure gibbo would love you to make an appearance film it and it it on you tube
 
what blones is on about is im doing some mono in halstead in essex end of this week and ive got someone coming along who might want to buy my machine and whose new to mono you wanna come along then your welcome simps is working in evesham might be nearer as your on the south coast
 
yeah but Gibbo is doing a demonstration next week, get your overalls on everyone can have a try ! I'm Going maybe i will see you there.
 
Shite havent checked the forum in a couple of days, missed the posts!!
Anyone still got some on or have I missed it all,
:)
 
God damn thats pissed me of lmao, oh well if you get another please let me know.
Enjoy the sun guys, wont last long LOL
 
Just a quick question for you guys, whats best to fix bead weber accelerator with dot dab monocouche or thistle dot n dab (hardwall)
Cheers guys
 
Well am taking bookings now for gibbo , on dates for his next demo ,these will appear shortly on this thread with details of his home address so we can all set of together in the mini buss this time. Oh forget to say mrs gibbo will making us a pack lunch, when we have the question and answer section. So book your seat early this time for a great day out with gibbo better known as grand wizard of the pft mini jet.
 
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Hi guys,I'm after learning to do krend and Webber,been in plastering trade 10 year but not really clued up to charge customers for it I'm in southtynside any help would be appreciated to work for free and pick your brains thanks in advance
 
Malgordon1972 said:
Hi guys,I'm after learning to do krend and Webber,been in plastering trade 10 year but not really clued up to charge customers for it I'm in southtynside any help would be appreciated to work for free and pick your brains thanks in advance
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If your plastering you can probably earn more doing that is my advice. You do alot more work for the same sometimes less money if your on price work and kill your body twice as fast hand balling and normally you need to love rendering to get the satisfaction.

Take this week for instance 3men to cover 4 days of rain. But I love it when its right.
 
Malgordon1972 said:
Hi guys,I'm after learning to do krend and Webber,been in plastering trade 10 year but not really clued up to charge customers for it I'm in southtynside any help would be appreciated to work for free and pick your brains thanks in advance
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If you want to learn rendering I'd try and get on with someone for at least 3/6 months, that's what I had to do, and the money was sh1te, but I learnt the basics of mono, EWI and other aspects.

I started taking small rendering jobs on hand applying, which is fooking hard graft, I also started going on courses with weber, JUB etc etc and like has been said picked the brains of the course instructors.

It is very hard work and stressful but the money can be good if your organised and willing to put the hours in.

This week we stripped a property Monday, labourer fooked machine up Tuesday, sprayed the property we stripped Monday on Wednesday and went to another job to strip the back of a terrace and bead it, went back Wednesday about 5pm to scratch first job, Thursday sprayed back of property we stripped day before, went back to the first job to tidy up, then back to second job to scratch, Friday went to second job to seal and tidy up.

Wednesday and Thursday we started at 6:30am and I got in at 8pm, but like everything you get out what you put in, I used to handball it but it got too heavy, it's worth investing in the proper tools.

There are no half measures with the rendering side of things, no room for error, you have to be 100% committed and focused on the job or it will fook you over.

Get in touch with some (not too local) rendering firms and ask about a bit of labouring.

Believe me, I was traveling Rotherham-Huddersfield-Liverpool and back, on the tools for the grand old wage of £9 per hour just to get some knowledge.

Good luck with it
 
Regarding the weber course, I did the EWI one as I was told they wouldn't sell EWI materials to people who hadn't done it, it turned out to be a nice little refresher course but they do spend too much time on the small details which I found to be a bit of scaremongering to buy everything from weber.

Weber are an expensive material, especially the EWI systems and they will want you to buy everything from them.

I'm not sure on the mono course, but if you go, try not to get bogged down with the Jack the lads on the course, when I went there was a kid who just talked absolute bollox asking the dumbest questions (thought he could save on mesh by meshing horizontally rather than vertically) which ended up in a 30 minute lesson in how not to be a stupid c**t for the lad.

It's worth it for a step in but the real experience comes on jobs.
 
Has render systems got a machine yet?
Surely after all these years you need to move with the times.every firm now owns a machine??!!
 
It is surprising how many plasterers who not so long ago would not touch rendering are now monocouche render specialists.

Not so many with a machine though? I saw a builders van yesterday and the left side of the side panel was listing all the things they do like kitchens, lofts etc and the right side was dedicated to monocouche rendering. No other rendering just monocouche.

I suppose it is if you can slap enough on fast enough then you have more time when it is green to get it right with an I section as to getting it right when wet.

I saw some have a go's near me do a front of a house recently. They was mixing K rend up in a 16ltr Jub bucket with a whisk at 2.30pm and wasn't even halfway down the wall. I went past at 8.15 pm and they was scratching it back.

Next day misses galore and if the sun is out at 1.30pm it is obvious they have never used an I section on it.
 
Malgordon1972 said:
Cheers for advice,all I can do is ring a few firms to offer free or cheap labour and pick there brains
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I have had so many of these requests. Local spreads ringing me saying they will work for me for free for a day if I will show them how to machin render or more usually do monocouche. Cheeky bleeders!

So let me get this right? I am well established and the local plasterers want to get into the rendering market, so they want me to teach them how to do the job so then they can be my competition or work for the local competition? And as a favour they will do me an honour of teaching them without me paying them to learn?

More like they should pay me for getting in the bloody way!

I went out of my area and observed rather than hands on and in some cases rewarded my forum friends. Then on my early jobs employed experienced labour to give me a hand.
 
Rigsby said:
It is surprising how many plasterers who not so long ago would not touch rendering are now monocouche render specialists.

Not so many with a machine though? I saw a builders van yesterday and the left side of the side panel was listing all the things they do like kitchens, lofts etc and the right side was dedicated to monocouche rendering. No other rendering just monocouche.

I suppose it is if you can slap enough on fast enough then you have more time when it is green to get it right with an I section as to getting it right when wet.

I saw some have a go's near me do a front of a house recently. They was mixing K rend up in a 16ltr Jub bucket with a whisk at 2.30pm and wasn't even halfway down the wall. I went past at 8.15 pm and they was scratching it back.

Next day misses galore and if the sun is out at 1.30pm it is obvious they have never used an I section on it.
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You should have stopped and said hello John
 
I would pay to learn,nothing wrong with trying to expand your knowledge in the industry and certainly not trying to get anything for free there's no courses of this kind in my area
 
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