North_East_spread
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best tips in order
1 one coat your ceiling slightly thicker than normal, then speedskim it, and no need to second coat or lay in if your good enough. straight on to trowelling up with a flexi 2 times max
2 use a flexi trowel and water will be old school, all you need to trowel up is a sach brush to wet your trowel
3 buy one of those dead men for boarding ceilings @£23 screwfix
4 forget about 8x4 ceiling boards and use 6x3 much,much easier
5 if you want to impress with a perfect job, 1st coat your ceiling as normal with steel, then use plastic to lay in, will need only 1 handboard full of gear to cover@7m, this will give the perfect base before trowelling up twice with a flexi and when finished using this method, it will be very hard to see a better job done anywhere
6 always carry 3 inches or so of sludge from cleaning skimming buckets out, add 3 inches of water, and keep this bucket at all times in the van, and you can time your bonding/skimming, to go off within 5/10 minutes if needed, this is ideal when patching,
7 always carry 2x1 wood for patching larger holes in plasterboard's or ceilings saves cutting back to joists just drill drywall screws to timber straight over hole and board,
using this method with number 5 it is possible to patch lets say a 12 inch hole, board it, float it, skim it, perfect job in 30/40 mins, in fact if you had 5 holes it is possible to be done within the hour
8 and this could easily be the most important of all, get your derby, break it up, and pray you will never need to float up ever again
1 one coat your ceiling slightly thicker than normal, then speedskim it, and no need to second coat or lay in if your good enough. straight on to trowelling up with a flexi 2 times max
2 use a flexi trowel and water will be old school, all you need to trowel up is a sach brush to wet your trowel
3 buy one of those dead men for boarding ceilings @£23 screwfix
4 forget about 8x4 ceiling boards and use 6x3 much,much easier
5 if you want to impress with a perfect job, 1st coat your ceiling as normal with steel, then use plastic to lay in, will need only 1 handboard full of gear to cover@7m, this will give the perfect base before trowelling up twice with a flexi and when finished using this method, it will be very hard to see a better job done anywhere
6 always carry 3 inches or so of sludge from cleaning skimming buckets out, add 3 inches of water, and keep this bucket at all times in the van, and you can time your bonding/skimming, to go off within 5/10 minutes if needed, this is ideal when patching,
7 always carry 2x1 wood for patching larger holes in plasterboard's or ceilings saves cutting back to joists just drill drywall screws to timber straight over hole and board,
using this method with number 5 it is possible to patch lets say a 12 inch hole, board it, float it, skim it, perfect job in 30/40 mins, in fact if you had 5 holes it is possible to be done within the hour
8 and this could easily be the most important of all, get your derby, break it up, and pray you will never need to float up ever again
