Which plaster do you use?

[mikeadams1985]

Just curious as to which plaster the fibrous lads use?
We use to use @BritishGypsum herculite no.2 and fine casting / plus


But switched to lafarge prestia casting and prestia creation a few years back. Got a bag of fine casting the other day to finish a job off and can honestly say it's absolute horse **** compared to lafarges stuff.

Use the lafarge ca120 adhesive aswell. Much better than fibrefix aswell.

A lot cheaper too!

What do u guys use?

 

[FrankNewman275]

We are using British gypsum e-cast at present ,
I think it's made especially for the Irish market , it's like the BG casting but sets quicker , we used Lafarge prestia 23 no1 for many years ,in the boom , but no longer easily available as they have cut back on supply here fibre fix for fixing , although the lads prefer the CA120 but same problem with availability

 

[FrankNewman275]

Well the general consensus among the casters was in favour of Lafarge , but seem to be used to BG now , it took a while , as they don't like change . Poor things

 

[mikeadams1985]

Try afarge Ryan. Give south western industrial a call. Tell them you use another supplier and British gypsum but tempted to change to them depending on price.

 

[mikeadams1985]

You can tell them I recommended them. No it's payment up front.

 

[CTPlastering]

You can tell them I recommended them. No it's payment up front.

A few freebies :RpS_thumbsup:

 

[superspread]

BG fine casting and fibrefix

 

[flynnyman]

Don't use anything else now I tried ca120 goes a lot further and plenty of time with it.

 

[superspread]

So your BG fan ?

Yea Ryan more for availability as much as anything else

 

[kernowspread]

Lafarge casting and ca120.. Not keen on the pinky tinge of BG.

 

[kernowspread]

SWIP usually.

 

[puddove]

hi guys

we mainly use BG casting, at college, but in the past I've used BG casting, super fine, heculite stone, herculite, fibre fix and dental plaster

 

[superspread]

And cyrstacal.

 

[Skyshed]

I have a cornice to run at the top of a stairwell, a simple Georgian Scottish style, about 7" by 7", comprising of a relatively simple rail on wall and ceiling, with typical concave curve.
It's been a long time since I ran a cornice, only ever did a few with my old journeyman and have run one or two on my own.
Was thinking of building out from the corner in a timber board covered in expamet to save core work/time, running the horse with a baffle, to build up in thistle bonding within a few mm of face, then simply use multi-finish gauged with lime cut faster setting to run in finished face..
Could this work out can anyone recommend what plaster I should use?
Any advice appreciated!

 

[flynnyman]

I would scratch the core and PVA coz the multie will pull in quick I don't normally add lime.

 

[Skyshed]

The plan is to multi it soon as the bonding is set, no need to pva in that case as I think the bonding will shrug off the pva/ pva wrong adhere when bonding is still green in my experience but def will scratch it, was thinking of cutting teeth into the muffle ( baffle up here) explicitly for that purpose

 

[Industrial Plasters Ltd]

Whereabouts are you with this, Skyshed? We could recommend a nearby pro for this sort of thing, perhaps!?

 

[mud]

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was thinking of cutting teeth into the muffle ( baffle up here) explicitly for that purpose

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I most always sawtooth my mufflers Sky.

in this case the blade is to produce the beginnings of a crown....
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lime and USG HydroCal White here in Texas.
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