I plastered a wall behind my stove and then for several years now I have been throwing my fire wood behind the stove and I can't believe how well it has stood up to the test of time. Often I have deliberately let the wood hit the wall on purpose just to amaze myself on how tough the plaster is.
Having just removed the old plaster/lath ceiling from my kitchen, extending the top of the existing plaster walls to the ceiling, drywalling and then base coating with structo-lite, I can say you are a bona fide beast. Amazing work!
I use to mix plaster, at times for 8 or ten plasterers. When I was mixing for that many plasterers all I had to do is mix Three bags of base coat plaster and shovel it into buckets and the other tenders would lug it to where the plasterers wanted it and dump it onto a plaster table with a peace of tar paper on the table top. While they were doing that I would run outside and wash the mixing barrel, shovel and drill. Then I would mix another batch without being told to. THEY told me to keep it coming until they told me to stop. Then I would do the same with the finish plaster. We would swirl the ceilings of a large apartment building in one day they used to like to do that on Saturdays some Saturdays we would finish the walls and ceilings. Of a large two story house. The other five days of the week I usually tended one plasterer then I had to keep his tools clean as a whistle. And a lot of other things. I think color difference you mentioned was due to the plaster changing color while it was setting up. We called it green plaster. After it dried the color would be uniform.
Thanks, I’ve been unable to get to editing videos lately, but the project is moving along. I’m hoping to restart making videos at the end of the summer, maybe a little sooner.
@@picoranchdesignbuild7052 I feel that. It’s really hard to make videos of bigger, more interesting jobs, I’ve found, so my channel gets filled up with smaller things where I’ve got time. Nice plaster work.
Great job, I love that detail around the doorway.I don't know about in the states but Australia we can get 6.5 mm flexible board, you can bend it into a 250 mm concave curve if necessary, if you do anymore curved surfaces it might be worth looking into.
Hello fellow plasterer! The first section of plaster looked extra white probably because you ended up with topcoat instead of structolite, even though the sack didn't show it. All somebody had to do was load the wrong bags into the filling machine.
Looks great! Why not forego the drywall completely and do the classic 3 coat plaster wall over wire mesh lath? I use structo lite for both scratch coats and then uni kal for the finish coat, water troweling it to glass finish. I really like to avoid drywall since it has cardboard which is not resilient to moisture, unlike true plaster wall.
The main reason was the price of lumber. I would have had to add a lot more layers of structure to get a stiff enough lath. Maybe next time, I'd love to give that a shot, definitely a superior process.
I plastered a wall behind my stove and then for several years now I have been throwing my fire wood behind the stove and I can't believe how well it has stood up to the test of time. Often I have deliberately let the wood hit the wall on purpose just to amaze myself on how tough the plaster is.
Having just removed the old plaster/lath ceiling from my kitchen, extending the top of the existing plaster walls to the ceiling, drywalling and then base coating with structo-lite, I can say you are a bona fide beast. Amazing work!
Thanks!
I use to mix plaster, at times for 8 or ten plasterers. When I was mixing for that many plasterers all I had to do is mix Three bags of base coat plaster and shovel it into buckets and the other tenders would lug it to where the plasterers wanted it and dump it onto a plaster table with a peace of tar paper on the table top. While they were doing that I would run outside and wash the mixing barrel, shovel and drill. Then I would mix another batch without being told to. THEY told me to keep it coming until they told me to stop. Then I would do the same with the finish plaster. We would swirl the ceilings of a large apartment building in one day they used to like to do that on Saturdays some Saturdays we would finish the walls and ceilings. Of a large two story house. The other five days of the week I usually tended one plasterer then I had to keep his tools clean as a whistle. And a lot of other things. I think color difference you mentioned was due to the plaster changing color while it was setting up. We called it green plaster. After it dried the color would be uniform.
Really cool room you’re building here. Love a curved ceiling. Great channel! Hope to see more on those trim finishes soon ✌️
Thanks, I’ve been unable to get to editing videos lately, but the project is moving along. I’m hoping to restart making videos at the end of the summer, maybe a little sooner.
@@picoranchdesignbuild7052 I feel that. It’s really hard to make videos of bigger, more interesting jobs, I’ve found, so my channel gets filled up with smaller things where I’ve got time. Nice plaster work.
Thanks, ye it’s a lot it turns out. The finish plaster was a lot more complicated, looking forward to making that video. Lots of failures.
Great job, I love that detail around the doorway.I don't know about in the states but Australia we can get 6.5 mm flexible board, you can bend it into a 250 mm concave curve if necessary, if you do anymore curved surfaces it might be worth looking into.
Thanks, ye I wasn’t able to source bendable sheet rock out here. “Next time” I’ll probably just kerf it and use the plaster to even out the curve.
Great Teaching Video
Thank you, more to come.
Hello fellow plasterer! The first section of plaster looked extra white probably because you ended up with topcoat instead of structolite, even though the sack didn't show it. All somebody had to do was load the wrong bags into the filling machine.
Looks great! Why not forego the drywall completely and do the classic 3 coat plaster wall over wire mesh lath? I use structo lite for both scratch coats and then uni kal for the finish coat, water troweling it to glass finish. I really like to avoid drywall since it has cardboard which is not resilient to moisture, unlike true plaster wall.
The main reason was the price of lumber. I would have had to add a lot more layers of structure to get a stiff enough lath. Maybe next time, I'd love to give that a shot, definitely a superior process.
I was looking for videos on the best way to paint my coved/curved ceilings and found these videos. Absolutely amazing. How did it finish?
You could use a green float with water next time helps with the trowel lines u see at 7:31
Structolite comes that way from the different veins where it’s mines
I suspected that. Thanks for the tip. I’ll keep an eye out next time I use it. Didn’t end up showing through so it’s all good.
Was there a difference in bags I've never seen brown struco lite before was it also 50lbs bags?
Looking great brother. What overalls are those?
Carhartt
When will you be uploading the finish
I’m not sure, I’m trying to get as much done on the house this summer.
Might be aliens
Way superior to typical drywall finishing
Agreed
You could plaster basecoat directly onto the drywall if you hang it with the back side facing out. You don’t need the mesh over the whole surface.
Guy has absolutely no idea what he's doing
No doubt