Young lads plastering

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Nisus said:
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
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when john lang built the new airport in poland the sent the carlite plaster out there by train
 
was talking to a guy few yrs back and they shiped bg out to gibraltor....for some reason he didn't get on wi the spanish oono stuff supplied:rolleyes)
 
ALL the young lads I know nowadays who call themselves plasterers are just waste of space skimmers.
No disrespect to any of you decent lads on here (I've never met you)

Not one of em even knows the first thing about float and set.
"Why do you 'scratch' it" I got asked by a 26 year old 'spread' a few weeks ago (he saw me using hardwall)

WTF?
 
i used to love float and set worked on warick university for ages doing all the new student apartments in phases when i was learning the one part of it i remember best was on the outside we did a new part of one of the students halls we used this white render i cant remember what it was called but the building was nearly a circle at one end it looked mint when it was all finished cant remember the last time i used any hardwall or browning rubbing up was part of learning you learned that befroe you were let loose on the skim it was like a figure of 8 convention in those rooms:-)
 
no one want to have anything floated nowadays i always try to get clients to go for a nice solid floated wall but nope boards cos thier quick and easy and skill.....less (for want of a better word):RpS_cursing:
 
jrplastering said:
no one want to have anything floated nowadays i always try to get clients to go for a nice solid floated wall but nope boards cos thier quick and easy and skill.....less (for want of a better word):RpS_cursing:
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Trouble is clients want to decorate as soon as possible and don't want to wait for floated walls to dry out. Floated walls are far better though.
 
jrplastering said:
no one want to have anything floated nowadays i always try to get clients to go for a nice solid floated wall but nope boards cos thier quick and easy and skill.....less (for want of a better word):RpS_cursing:
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Well I seem to get a fair few clients to change from D&D to F&S with S&C.
 
Gibbo said:
He was a tutor of mine aswell and his brother Martin at lime grove it was their dads firm
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was that lime grove shephards bush...oposite bbc lime grove studio?i went there....we got on kilroy one morning,tutors were real impressed when we all rolled in 2 hrs late:RpS_lol:
 
by the way i still call it devaling up instead of scratchin a floated wall...for one scratching is what you do wi render,and devaling is a phrase that the youngsters have never heard:RpS_thumbup:
 
spunky said:
Do you use waterproofer inside Andy?
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We use a tiny amount more as a plasticiser than a waterproofer Dave. I wouldn't want to kill the suction unless I was floating over really low suction blocks where you'll get a fierce suction when setting.
 
spread1970 said:
by the way i still call it devaling up instead of scratchin a floated wall...for one scratching is what you do wi render,and devaling is a phrase that the youngsters have never heard:RpS_thumbup:
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To be fair I thought I was the only one....that's why I didn't say it...I was gonna say I got asked "Whats a devils float?" too but didn't want to get shot down in flames like saying "handboard"...:RpS_lol:
 
i was there upto 89-90....we used to play 5-aside against the brickies on the all weather pitches at white city:RpS_thumbup:

remember aston?cant remember tutors names tho...3 of 'em.
 
CeeVee said:
To be fair I thought I was the only one....that's why I didn't say it...I was gonna say I got asked "Whats a devils float?" too but didn't want to get shot down in flames like saying "handboard"...:RpS_lol:
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it's probably a regional thing again....sounds way more impresive than scratching tho....:RpS_thumbup:
 
spread1970 said:
remember aston?
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Young lads plastering



Did he really show you how to go on?


That explains a lot I suppose! :rolleyes)
 
spread1970 said:
i was there upto 89-90....we used to play 5-aside against the brickies on the all weather pitches at white city:RpS_thumbup:

remember aston?cant remember tutors names tho...3 of 'em.
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i was there from 83 to 87 Ron masters was one of the fibrous tutors and Martin conlon one of the solid was Aston the black lab
 
yeah aston was the lab...Mr T was a pussy compared to aston.remember steve the technician....?
thgink i can place martin...was he bald,glasses?he was second in command to will hewit think his name was...big rugby fan.
 
one of the guys i was mates from college with was called herman...lol,6mnths or more after we got our papers i parked my car on his estate,just to the rear of the college.when i got back that evening it had been turned to face the opposite direction,no extra millage on...with a big fat spliff waiting in the ash tray...bless him,this went on for a week!!:cool:
 
spread1970 said:
yeah aston was the lab...Mr T was a pussy compared to aston.remember steve the technician....?
thgink i can place martin...was he bald,glasses?he was second in command to will hewit think his name was...big rugby fan.
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hewitt was a c**t jock w**k*r yeah i remember Steve qpr fan and Martin conlon was a great tutor showed us a lot of sand and cement running was doug the fibrous tech still there
 
it was mainly martin and hewitt,and i agree he was a c*nt...everytime i saw steve i wanted to shout Haroollldd...he was the only tech,we had a part-time tutor,think he was irish...was a great bloke,hated hewitt and let us float walls without setting screeds up as he said it was more realistic as we were all working on sites...
 
The part time tech was john conlon great spread did you ever go to the pub on the gold hawk road with them we went in the swakeley arms most times
 
always called it devil float, most other blokes on site havent got a clue what you mean when they hear you say it though.
 
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