Plastering a summer room ☀️ - In winter 🥶 skimming on sound block plaster boards (a long day!!)
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- Опубликовано: 23 авг 2024
- Hi again guys, and welcome to this little vlog on a job I had before Christmas. I had a few little fiddly bits of tacking to do before I could crack on with the skimming in the little summer room/garden office.
Over the years blue sound block plasterboards have usually dried fairly quick, not this time 😅
The cooler wether made the sets last slightly longer than usual, at around 3 1/2 to 4 hours. Due to this I brought in my little fan heater for the following day and finished the plastering in one hit.
Hope you enjoyed and please feel free to ask any questions!
Have a good week
Ash
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This is my favourite plastering channel 😍
😅 why thank you! Im glad you enjoyed 👌🏼
@WildBeare Mines too
I'm 37, just learning how to plaster after a lifetime of Groundworks. Back to college at my age 😅 Anyway enough about me. I like your channel, mate. You give some good tips 👍
Would be 10/10 from me, but I've got to deduct 2 points because you fancy yourself too much 8/10
I’m 40 now and could think of anything worse than learning a new trade now, so fair play to ya! 🙌🏻 8/10… I’ll take that! 😅 and someone has to love me lol 😂 thanks for watching mate, and good luck with the plastering
Ash
Nice steady work mate. I like it.👌👌
Subscribed buddy.
Thank you mate! And thank you for watching
Ash
Hi Ash, is plastering something you can reliably do on your own for a long time or do you need to work in a team?
That all depends on what jobs you take on. I mainly have smaller domestic work which is fine alone. I sometimes take on larger projects that I have some friends come and help me with, but for sure you can keep going alone if you wish, it’s a bit of a harder graft so maybe not forever for me
Made nice job there mate 👍 no sure on the sponge but each to there own where you based
Hello mate! Thanks… you know what, I go through spells, at the moment im loving using them, other times I feel like why am I adding another process to the day! 😆
Im based in mid Bedfordshire
Thanks for the watch mate 👍🏼
Yes I have used them but i only really use them if it all goes to quick 😂 I no Bedfordshire have being Milton Keynes before hope your busy work has slowed down in South London for me run a two man team plastering 15 year never been so quiet well good luck with the channel
@@blainemolyneux4067 ohhh thats not good if it’s quiet in London… im ticking over. Christmas time my phone is usually non stop, hardly had any calls the last one. Lets hope it all picks up feb/March 🤞🏼
Yes im sure it will be ok normally flat out have outside rendering but weathers a joke at the moment good luck 👍
Don't understand the Bias 'against' sponge floats 🤔..... Back in the day we used wooden Cross-grain floats to get a perfectly FLAT finish to ceilings and walls .... {But we also used to do a Three-Coat Finish - Steel-Wood-Steel} ... The Sponge Float seems to leave as good a job as the Cross-Grain - as long as the finish coat is FLAT! ......🤠
I've been trying for a long time to find out some more details on this method. Would you be willing to share some of your knowledge please🙏
Well it was fairly simple really. The wooden cross-grain float is as it sounds, a wooden float with the grain going 'across' the flat face rather than 'along'. The handle is dovetailed into the back to give it strength and to keep it perfectly flat (it can't warp).
You'd soak the float for half an hour at least before use so that it 'glided' over your work when used.
You would put the first coat on as normal with your steel float, keeping it pretty tight. Then you'd put on a second coat with a 'normal' wooden float which kept everything as flat as possible. Just as it started to tighten you would give it a splash of water and set about it with the cross-grain using a circular 'figure-of-eight' like you would do with your 'devil-float' on render/base coat.
At the edges and ceiling/floor lines you would go up-down and back and forth keeping the cross-grain as flat as possible inti the internals. Any imperfections will show up and you can correct those at this stage. You will be left with a perfectly flat base to put your third coat on with a steel float, which should be pretty tight. At the point it's ready to trowel up, you repeat the action you did on the second coat with the cross-grain. Much like you do now with a sponge float. Then continue to fish with the steel as normal - safe in the knowledge you'll have a finish as flat and good-looking as marble - OH - And keep your cross-grain in the soaking bucket throughout the day - It loves water .... Good luck :-)
@@petemoring67 you are an absolute diamond. Thankyou so much. I've never been able to find anyone willing to share.
A question sorry if its a stupid one, do you lay your second coat on with the wooden float? Or just use the float for the flattening processes after applying with steel.
@@neilmuir2752 We always had a 2nd 'ordinary' wooden float to LAY the 2nd coat on with - The Cross-grain is purely for flattening & filling if necessary .... Steel trowels tend to follow the contours, whereas Wooden Floats seek out the 'flattest' route ....
Thankyou for your help. I am going to give it a try when I have the right job to give a go on.
Much appreciated. 👌
Nice plastering
I've done some on my channel
Getting slaughtered for it lol
Thank you mate! Im sure it was all good with yours in the end?
Thanks for watching again
Ash
Hi Ash, just came across your channel and subscribed. Lots of plasterers on RUclips, But you do explain things really well and I’m hoping to learn a lot from you.
So I have a question. I have started working with a plasterer recently and he absolutely insists that I put on both coats with the same mix. Being still quite new to the game I’m just not as fast as a seasoned spread. I’m putting on two average sized walls at a time, so by the time I put on my second coat (with the same mix) the plaster has stiffened up quite a bit and it just makes my job that much harder.
But the guy I’m working with insists on this and the two seperate mix method apparently isn’t the proper way it should be done. What are your thoughts on this?
And my second question is what kind of speed do I need to be at and how long does it take to be up to speed if I was plastering every other day?
I look forward to your response and insight.
Bee
Hi Bee! Thanks so much, appreciate the support. Well to be honest it’s all about personal preference. For me it all depends on the size of the hit I have on. For example a 30m set would need around 3 bags, mixing all at once and using it all wouldn’t be possible so it do two bags, flatten that off and then use the 3rd bag to lay it in.
However with a bag or two it’s fine to use the same mix for both coats. If it’s stiffened up a little then just water its down slightly for the laying in coat. Hope that makes sense
Regarding how fast you need to be, I’d just concentrate on neatness 1st and the speed will come with time. Hopefully your boss will be understanding that it’s not all going to come together overnight and it will take time. If you’re working on site, your speed will soon improve. It’s not the best working environment but it does give you valuable experience.
Hope this helps a little, and best of luck
Ash
@@AshThePlasterer thank you for the valuable advise Ash. So would adding water when the plaster starts stiffening up accelerate the setting time of of the plaster?
So for example I’ve mixed up enough for two coats, I put on my first coat, then when it comes to my second coat I add a little clean water and give it a mix with the whisk. Would that accelerate the speed of the setting time? Cause I actually tried doing that at work to soften the plaster up a bit for my second coat and my boss told me it will increase how quickly the plaster sets. I don’t really believe him as he’ll tell a fib here and there just so he can get his way.
I can’t ask him anything, all he’s concerned about is getting the job done.
@@bee8583 it wouldn’t accelerate it as such but it will still be going off, it will simply make that much easier to use, making the application easier for you
@@AshThePlasterer thank you mate, I knew my boss was telling me fibs. And by the way I loved your dry lining video and those tips, I’m putting them into action on my next boarding job.
@@AshThePlasterer thank you for the clarity Ash. I do have another question, so im bonding out a room tomorrow, and again unlike all other plasterers my boss insists that bonding is only one coat, no levelling with a straight edge, but I have to trowel it out to get it flat just like we do when skimming, and add a flick and water here and there to soften it up wherever required. Does that sound right to you and you familiar with the process?
Cheers
Great video you make it look too easy. I hope I can get that good some day you looking for an apprentice.
Hey mate!! Stick at it and you’ll get there, it is literally a case of practice!
Thanks for watching David
Ash
This room makes you appear to be 7 feet tall!
😅 its nice to do ceilings with no stilts 😄
Mustard bit off work 🙏🏾
Thanks Jay! 🙌🏻