Young lads plastering

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KevRM said:
Beleive it or not for i don't care, just saying what My eyes told me :flapper:
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I had a job to do for my mates old man he used to be a spread one of the old mad paddys but he got out the game and made money else's where it was a double extension with two beds upstairs and bathroom on wire and a big kitchen downstairs and i was only 19 i floated upstairs in a day and he came in and said i would have floated downstairs aswell i said you better do it yourself then
 
essexandy said:
Max Quarterman made his money by being the plastering contractor who just happened to be subbing off his old man who was the developer. This obviously was a story that would make good print so was omitted from the story.
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Actually you are wrong he worked for my uncle in the 80's, never had his own plastering company, just a 1+1 gang but fast! and they mixed the finish with a plunger not a drill & whisk lol
 
DannyMac said:
No, is that the grey stuff I see quite often which has huge suction?
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that sounds like sirapite, if i remember correct british gypsum had 2 plants one in kent that produced grey and one in the midland lands that produced pink. here in suffolk it was a pain as we would open a bag and it could be either colour.
 
KevRM said:
I knew him, saw him carry a wheel barrow full of S&C up the stairs in his extended Hod, The spread he worked with John McLintock was fast as f*** floated and set a huge 5 bed house in two days all internal walls S&C
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If you work it out as a rough guide
5 beds at 4x4
Bathroom 3x3
Lounge 5x5
Kitchen 5x4
Estimate of 30 sq M in the stairwell
That's gives you 355 sq M in the Walls float and set and 135 sq M in the lids as a very rough guide. Not taking into account scrimming up, beads, access to ceilings, stairwell etc etc. In 2 days. With the greatest of respect. You're havin a giraffe.
 
NRM2007 said:
If you work it out as a rough guide
5 beds at 4x4
Bathroom 3x3
Lounge 5x5
Kitchen 5x4
Estimate of 30 sq M in the stairwell
That's gives you 355 sq M in the Walls float and set and 135 sq M in the lids as a very rough guide. Not taking into account scrimming up, beads, access to ceilings, stairwell etc etc. In 2 days. With the greatest of respect. You're havin a giraffe.
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Why do you think he is making it up it ain't earning him any kudos it did happen i know a guy called Bernie garret who would float and set 80 m2 a day in hardwall in a day on his own with a lab
 
i have seen a plasterer and a labourer float a small site three bed house in sand and cement in a day doing all the angles freehand. then taking 4 days to skim it out using rules. the reason they used to say that you only needed to put up rules once.
 
80 metres a day float and set over 2 days only gives you 160. That's a good way short of the 355 based on that house without the ceilings.
 
spunky said:
How do you mean Malc?
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it was in the 60s early 70s[ angle beads, at that time where only used for carlite plasterers.]
you would apply the sand and cement floating coat to all walls in the room you could get the lab. to hold a wooden rule up the angle then twisting and lifting it would leave you with a straight angle. you did not bother to float reveal you could just set to any thickness in sirapite. you would fix rules when you set the walls as you could correct anything quite easy in sirapite. ceilings where artex you would be paid about £85 per house the av. man earned about £20 per week
 
When I started in 81 we were still using rules instead of beads on a lot of jobs, although the blokes I worked with floated the revels out with S&C. Nice easy job as the labourer was cleaning all the rules off at the end of the house ready for the next one.
I earned £75 a week when I started and sometimes I'd be running the hod for three spreads.
 
Fkin ell £75 a week when i started in 82 i was on £40 a week,mind you i did work for the family and come sunday i was skint after spending the weekend clubbing.:-0
 
i was always told that max got his nickname from the weelbarra he used as a hod when working for brikies.....there was a few stories of him and his mate being very quick at plastering,but i thought he was just a lab and that he set up a plastering contractors and made a million.
 
spread1970 said:
i was told that clay in the gypsum when quaried determined the colour of bg plaster..:confused:
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Your not far off mate.
Pure gypsum is white but impurities colour it grey brown or pink.
Its Marl that gives the plaster the pink colour.
Marl is a natural impurity in the rock.
And it also gives workability to the plaster.
 
Oh and the grey plaster is mined in the north & pink plaster in the south, but it gets delivered all over the Uk and even to Poland. :-0
 
Nisus said:
Your not far off mate.
Pure gypsum is white but impurities colour it grey brown or pink.
Its Marl that gives the plaster the pink colour.
Marl is a natural impurity in the rock.
And it also gives workability to the plaster.
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Geek :RpS_laugh:
 
Nisus said:
Tough sh1t I'm gonna do it you don't have to read it lol.
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oooooooooooooooooooooo somebody's tired...........:RpS_laugh:. i was quite impressed actually marra .just didnt wanna sound G** by championing your knowledge........................:RpS_blushing:
 
CurrierPlastering said:
Surely thats the point in new products? To make it easyer to do a job and cheaper. Who the hell designs a new system that makes it harder
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Yes I agree , dot and dab is an easier system that's why the flood gates have been opened to allow basic plastering to be a semi skilled job in my opinion . Which has a knock on effect in wages . Which I'm sure were all feeling know
 
yeah....and the polski's.....personaly i blame the irish and the practice of not wearing tights under ya bib n brace:RpS_biggrin:
 
Artisan998 said:
oooooooooooooooooooooo somebody's tired...........:RpS_laugh:. i was quite impressed actually marra .just didnt wanna sound G** by championing your knowledge........................:RpS_blushing:
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iv'e only been on here a few days an everything you say is G**,admit it,you have kissed a boy and liked it:RpS_lol:
 
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