Advice from Builders, Joiners & Plasterers

Plastering is like Tig welding you have to keep doing all the time ore you forget the nak. Pay someone. Knocking big walls down is for pros too but at a push it's not hard to do just physical and dirty steel beams can pinch your fingers and the slate cuts go black and look like crap tattoos for a few weeks.
Safety first

 

When we moved in this place the walls needed replastering badly.
I couldn’t afford to get someone in and knew if I tried to plaster it myself
It would have been a hell of a lot of work to undo it.

So I approached it in the mind of using a skill set I already have.

I approached the walls the way you would vehicle body work
I filled the cracks and holes
Then flatted the whole wall back
Then skimmed the whole wall in ready mixed white skimming plaster you buy in tubs
Then when dry I flatted the whole wall back going through two grades of paper

It took forever and would have driven most people insane

But I got there in the end and the house looks so much better for it

 

Yup ..there's more than one way to skin a cat...








(Many cats were harmed during this process)

 

My mate Terry is the one to watch, he was apprenticed as a lad back in the stone age. Not only does he dona nice job, he never repeat never ever drops any plaster from his spot or his hawk or his trowels. He don’t even get a bit on himself and I can’t quite work out how he does it, he never seems to get jammed in a spot where your it’s tight and you’re hawk is touching your tum.

Ozziedog,,,,,,,,, always someone worsererer and someone betterererer

 

Plasterer booked

 

I agree - I did our bedroom when I moved in. It went on a bit rustic, but using a decent sized sander gave a great finish!! It's not the right way, but it looks spot on now.

 

Didn't make the Christmas Day deadline I set myself but we moved in between Christmas and new year . Happy days.

Wall knocked down
New wall up
Electric fittings with new fuse box
Water tank removed from loft
Plastered
Fully decoratated
New coving
Two carpets fitted
Wooden flooring laid hall & lounge
Alarm fitted
Cupboards built
Bath and Shower fitted
Sky Installed
New skirtings fitted


all in the two weeks running up to Christmas.

Result!

 

That's very tidy, Para. Good work!

 

Pics to follow once the new internal doors are up and the dust settles

 

No worries, I did as much as I could myself and got the professionals in to do things whilst I was at work to save me time.

Kitchen extension next