Booked on at a Plastering Course monday

[tysfoot]

Just booked onto a plastering course on monday. Thought id take advantage of the quiet period im having to expand my knowledge of different trades.
Nice thing is y dad has nicely said he will pay for it as he wants e to plaster his front room when i'm finished.

A not gonna take plastering as a full tie occupation as i know its takes years of practice and a lot of hard work. I'm just gonna use it to aid me to understand more about how to apply plasterboards use dot and dab and other techniques prior to tiling.

I also need to do a few rooms in my house so am sure a gonna get something from this.
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Just to those who tile on here i heard they give you a rubbish toolkit to use on the course. What tools shall i buy to get me started. shall i just buy a marshaltown trowel

 

[grumpygrouter]

Just booked onto a plastering course on monday. Thought id take advantage of the quiet period im having to expand my knowledge of different trades.
Nice thing is y dad has nicely said he will pay for it as he wants e to plaster his front room when i'm finished.

A not gonna take plastering as a full tie occupation as i know its takes years of practice and a lot of hard work. I'm just gonna use it to aid me to understand more about how to apply plasterboards use dot and dab and other techniques prior to tiling.

I also need to do a few rooms in my house so am sure a gonna get something from this.
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Just to those who tile on here i heard they give you a rubbish toolkit to use on the course. What tools shall i buy to get me started. shall i just buy a marshaltown trowel

Good luck with course Tysfoot.

grumpy

 

[brian c]

dont think you should be buying any tools yet tysfoot until the course is complete....but yes marshalltown are a good make of trowel.

 

[devonmark]

good luck with the course Tys...Marshal are the best..all mine are marshal...Tyzak are also worth a go..Mark.

By the way..where are you doing your course ?

 

[K.M.D dan]

good luck with the course, I did one a while ago def worth doing saved a fortune on my house and saves me getting plasterers in on the bathroom fitting.
Yes Marshaltown is the one to get, Pre-worn !! about £36 screwfix, I am sure they will tell you wot you need when you do the course.

 

[DHTiling]

good luck tysfoot mate...this will be the best add on to tiling you can do........

 

[DEN]

Good luck on your course tysfoot,always worth having another "string to your bow" as they say..

 

[tysfoot]

cheers fellas. just been to B&Q to price up the plastering tools. Ive been told of a guy who did this course that the tools are crap especially the trowels so i bought a Ragni 14 inch trowel. not the cheapest but not marshaltown either. The course is in prestwich, manchester.
There website is www.tesop.co.uk

 

[enduro]

A plastered tiler, that sounds dangerous, we are bad enough sober :8:

 

[tysfoot]

haha, good one. I should call me business name that.
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Is there anyone on the foru who has done a plastering course that could give me some advice on the course and the tools they gove you. is it worth buying anything optional before i start to make it easier for me

 

[mz30]

I can't give you any advice on tool's but i would like to ask a question if that's ok.

Do you have to pay for this course?
The reason i ask is i know of about five (so called )tiler's who are now teaching and the reason they have the job is because they could never earn money as a real tiler ,so am just assuming that if you pay for someone to teach you plastering or boarding(dot and dab),then these people are also not able to make money in the real world (and god now's there's not many great plasterers out there to start with).
Now before anyone say's anything am not saying all teacher's are inadequete but the bulk of the one's i have come across are(How many people do you know who spread the back of the tile instead of the wall and call them self teacher's?)

 

[tysfoot]

yes a paid for the course, i know a lad who did this course at the place and he said it was good. to be honest i dont really care about what they do or have done, if i can learn what i paid for, its up to me to put the effort in and make money out of it.
The tiling course i did was a load of crap, but i knew i liked it and i tought myself everything i needed to know.
I just use it as basics or a kick up the backside to get on instead of working in a dead end job

 

[james]

tysfoot is the trowel stainless id take it back if it wasn't. a set of small margin trowels will be handy for you and use them for tiling as well.

 

[tysfoot]

it doesnt say stainless steal but its looks good quality, made in italy, high qulaity german carbon steel etc. what exactly is a margin trowel and how can you use one in tiling and plastering

 

[bigdaz]

I did a 5 day course 3 years ago and with a bit of practice for free on friends and familiy I started advertising and did a fair bit of domestic work around my full time job. the course I went on didnt give us any tools to take home, had to buy the lot which I take to every plastering job, including;

marshall town 11" trowel (stainless, broken in)
marshall town 17" trowel (stainless, broken in)
cheap trowel cut down to about 5" (invaluable for tight spaces)
pipe trowel (long bladed flexible trowel to get behind pipes)
a few plastic trowels from 1" wide to 4" wide
2" paintbrush to neaten internal corners (forget corner trowels)
4" paintbrush to smooth where the trowel cant get
6" wide, long bristle paintbrush to splash water onto skim when smoothing out
bucket trowel
aluminium hawk
3 or 4 gorilla buckets for mixing
bucket for rubbish and dried plaster
bucket for clean water only
5 gallon bucket for water to clean tools
cleaning brush
electric drill used as mixer
mixing paddle
6' spirit level
feather edge 6' + a 6' feather edge cut into a 4' and a 2'
roller and painters rectangular bucket for pva/water mix
something sturdy to stand on - crate, hop up and step ladder
several dust sheets and polythane sheets
mastic gun
lath hammer
stanley knife
tape measure
pencil