Booked on at a Plastering Course monday

[tiler burden]

tysfoot

take the ragni back mate, they are crap mate!!

get a marshalltown as mark devon says. preworn stainless steel. if you are only dot and dabbing and skimming ceilings in bathrooms and floating out bathrooms, then an 11 inch will be better for you till you get the hang of it.

the basic starter
tools you'll need are:
13x13 handboard (hawk)
11 or 13 in marshall town trowel
gauging trowel
6ft alliminium feather edge
6 inch brush, 4 inch brush , 1in ch brush
65 litre bucket or gorrilla bucket
6ft level
3ft level
3 builders buckets
set of tin snips (for cutting angle beads)
small tool
couple of cheap margin trowels
mixing drill (refina are the best)
roller and tray for pva or bondit etc
stanley knife & tape

again, if you go to goldtrowels site, they have a comprehensive plasterers tool section, they have everything you'll need and they deliver next day ;0)

ed

 

[tysfoot]

cheers, like you said am only gonna use it to aid me in tiling, am only gonna plasterboard and dot and dab

 

[howard]

tys

clear some of your messages ive tried to send you a private message but its to full so it wont except it

howard

 

[james]

margin trowels are small trowels used to get into awkward places and you can use them to mix your grout.

 

[tysfoot]

are the the main tools i should buy before i go on the course as i know the tools they supply are russbish and used by everyone. i dont have uch money to spend but just the main tools to make it easier for me on the course. Thanks

 

[Raja]

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

I am the same mate on a course at diamond training in 8 weeks time another basic skill under the wing

Knowledge is the way forward

 

[tysfoot]

cant wait to do mine on monday, am hoping i can take most of it in and use it the best i can. i want to eventually get into property so being able to tiler and plaster will be well worth it

 

[Dan]

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

Where's the course mate?

 

[tysfoot]

manchester my course is at
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what are the main tools i need for dab and dab and plasterboarding
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You say about the paintbrush, has this got to be stiff brissels or soft, Gonna get my self a marshltown trowel and a gauging trwel, hopfully the course will provide me with the other bits and bobs

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

 

[tiler burden]

basic tools for dot and dabbing......

you can use your bucket trowel to apply dabs (or trowel and hawk)
stanley knife £3
pad saw for cutting out shapes in the board ie sockets etc £7
old hand saw for cutting out sections £5
screw bit for your cordless drill £4
6ft level to level and bed boards (also u can use this a a straight edge) £25 -£65
3ft level for reveals etc £15 upwards
stick and buckets to mix adhesive £2-3 per bucket
lathe hammer £10
piece of ply to make a corner square (or pythagorus therum if you did maths at school!)

for everything else theres mastercard lol

thats about as cheap and as basic as you can make it tysfoot.

 

[Fekin]

Hey tysfoot, I did my tiling course where your doing the plastering course "it's only a small industrial unit, tiling bays as you walk in, plastering bays behind them", but I hope the plastering teachers know more about plastering than the tiling teachers did, as the amount of things I was taught about tiling were so wrong it was beyond understanding really, but the tutors are friendly, if not knowledgeable.

Good luck

 

[jacko]

I own a fair few M/town and Regini's both great bits of kit you tend to accumalate them for different jobs,and applications but got me favs!

 

[White Room]

Tyzack trowels for me, I like the carbon steel one's

 

[monty]

Good luck with your course mate.Monty

 

[tysfoot]

Cheers guys and cheers burden for that list. so far ive heard bad reviews about this course so at least i know what to expect so anything better is a bonus. Just out of interest did you do your course on two weekends or in the weekday.
A only saying that because i did my tiling course at weekend and they were lazy and hungover. Who really wantes to work on a sunday so im hoping there gonna be fresh and lively for tomos. Fingers crossed. Ill take something good from it i know as i can do all the practice in my own houes after the course
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Just bought myself a 12 inch marshaltown trowel (£30, wow thats expensive but i know it will last) and a margin trowel. i know they will supply the rest but i wanted a good trowel as i know you need one to see the differece in quality