who uses spot boards

[scott]

just wondering who uses spotboards a personally just take my mix straight from the bucket with a bucket trowel cos a think there a waste of time n take space up

 

[dpbeds]

Depends on the job. If I'm on stilts or don't have room I use a bucket but if there's space I prefer a board.

 

[daveparkinson]

i'll use a spot for bigger stuff i just find it so much quicker one swipe off the spot rather than putting your trowel in your hawk hand and taking 2 scoops out the bucket.Cleaner as well the bucket trowel handle always end up covered in plaster.

 

[bigsegs]

there is a bit of an art to it, i usually keep one corner of the hawk clean and sit the trowel handle on it, blade across hawk, bucket trowel hooked/balanced on side of bucket...nothin worse for me than trowel handles full of plaster, it gets all over the hand then i cant control the trowel proper yuck...
thing is, a board stops you havin to bend down every time, so to combat that what ive started doin, seein as i got a bad back is to sit the bucket on a crate or a hop up...
now im on my knees doin skirtin level upwards, sort of shufflin along, theyre gonna be the next to go then ill need a bloody skateboard!!

 

[oasis]

spot bord every time!!...sept small jobs

 

[Gary_B]

Spotboard everytimits possible, even got 2 different sizes to suit job or space. Getting your stuff out of a buckets surely got to be a slower job than just tipping it on the board in the 1st place.

 

[Danny]

I us espot board every time

Pain in the ass out the bucket!!

Trowel handles that are wet annoy me.. I carry a towel now that I tuck in my belt to use.

Danny

 

[chris16]

I've always used a bucket but was thinking of trying a spot board, but was wondering do you need to make the mix a bit thicker to stop it sloping off the board and does it dry out quicker

 

[daveparkinson]

no knock it up the same it will go off quicker in a bucket than it will on a spot

 

[Wilson]

Yeah basically it depends on the size of the job but spot boards whenever possible, mixes always seem to go off way too quickly in buckets for my liking!

 

[chris16]

Thanks

I've got a nice small bedroom next week i think i'll give it a go

 

[murplastering]

spot board everytime

 

[bodplasterer]

Use spot for roughing and sand and cement and straight out the bucket with skimming found it alot easier that way since we started doing 5 to 6 bag sets harder to lift onto a spot board and easier to scoop straight out with bucket trowel

 

[Pug]

spot board for render and 2 bag mix, otherwise bucket

 

[jaspla]

yeh, spotboard everytime other than in small areas

 

[trowledover]

spot board when space permits

 

[justone]

i got two spot boards a large one for when im doing whole rooms and a smaller one for tight spaces such as landings made this from one of them cheap workmates u get for bout £7 then screwed bit of ply on top works gr8 and folds up as well