Does a plasterer get your walls flat or do you do it yourself?

[millerforever]

Was wondering how many tilers prep their own walls or do they use a plasterer?

 

[Bubblecraft]

Both mate. I'll do patch & repairs & all drylining etc or skimming fresh plasterboard but if I'm on a timescale or I want to turn a heavy bellied wall or artexed wall into a sheet of glass, I've got just the man to do it.

 

[Martino]

I prefer to do it myself, that way I dont have no one to blame if its not right ....I do the same for most of my work!....although i dont do any electric's or major plumbing myself i get my old man to do it

 

[Dougs Third Go]

As a time served plasterer that's quite pedantic about walls being flat and straight, I do them myself

 

[DHTiling]

I tend to prep my own if i can..

 

[Andy Allen]

most new plaster ive seen latley seems to have been thrown on with a shovel ...

if you cant do it yourself, find a decent plasterer and hang on to him, thats what i do..

 

[Bubblecraft]

I've seen many bad plastering work over the years. My plasterer is a really good friend of mine. I've never seen plastering as good as his.

 

[Dougs Third Go]

I meant to take my camera to work today to post pics of what we've been dry-lining and skimming, back on thursday so will get some pics then, with straight edge at every tangent to show how I think it should be done , although some of the walls are 30' high so might need a plumb bob :8:

 

[Diamond Pool Finishers]

well i always render my own wall's if i can, but sometimes i do have to work on other plasterers wall's, which can be interesting ! some are great and some are atrocious but yes i prefer to do my own !!...

 

[Bubblecraft]

My plasterer is working on a house doing sound insulation. Sticky membrane background & heavy insulation boards. Don't know much about the stuff but I know the customer paid about £1500 to do 4 walls upstairs & downstairs against the neighbours wall. Was hoping to jump along & see it today but never got a chance. He sent me some pics though (not the best)

Bought from here - http://www.acoustic-supplies.com/

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

I prefare to do my own prep work, be it plaster, render, S/L compound, or my favorite sand and cement screed. Can't moan about anyone doing a bad job then.

 

[fatboy]

I do all my own prep skimming render floor screed render OCR board work wood/metal stud work sound proofing water proofing ect I can go on lol

 

[millerforever]

Seems like most do it themselves which is what I thought, my boss doesn't do any of it. Even small little patch repairs which I think is not only time consuming but costing him a nice few pennies.

 

[kilty55]

prep my own most of the time

 

[charlie1]

Have yet to find a plasterer who knows what flat and plumb mean, the current bathroom im tiling was preped by a 'plasterer' after short inspection with my 1.8 level i noticed 1 wall had belly of over an inch and another wall wass kicking out at top and sides by 1 cm... unacceptable!! I removed plaster and fixed! Most plasterers i have found up my way think because they can skim then they are plasterers so i try to do all my own prep using either plasterboard or cement. You get all the prep work right then the actuat tiling is a dodle, i cant emphisise this enough! ;-)

 

[White Room]

I do all my own prep due to the fact plastering has been a big part of my working life......

 

[charlie1]

I bet you don't have to double mark your tiles for the internal cuts whitebeam. I understand your a very experienced plasterer

 

[White Room]

I've done the rounds charlie, rendered for tilers before on a job for London Underground and everything had to be spot on in the shower areas....all showers had to be exactly the same size and all walls plumb.

In domestics your up against it all the time, they just think the tiles will make the wall flat bugger the prep work.

 

[Perry]

i didn't know plasters could do the job :lol:

 

[merit]

i tend to do all the prep myself but usually find im either taking it back to brick n dot n dab or removing and re boarding exsting plaster board walls,although some peeps seem to think that a 2mm coat of multi has miracle properties that suddenly turn walls flat and plumb,i get alot of ceilings to over skim in bathrooms which all adds to the job and gives a bit of variety

 

[charlie1]

Know what you mean about the 2 mm multi finish. Job in on the now, i had to redo most of the work that the plasterer left me, money down the drain for the customer really!!

 

[charlie1]

i didn't know plasters could do the job :lol:

Interesting, Iimo a good plasterer has a very good advantage on the prep side obviously but i think this is where the real skill in basic tiling is, having spoken to a plasterer from liverpool recently who deos a bit of tiling but not regard himself as a tiler, he knew more about tiling than 90% of all the other tilers ive met in real life.

 

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

Interesting, Iimo a good plasterer has a very good advantage on the prep side obviously but i think this is where the real skill in basic tiling is, having spoken to a plasterer from liverpool recently who deos a bit of tiling but not regard himself as a tiler, he knew more about tiling than 90% of all the other tilers ive met in real life.

Ed is a top man Mark.

 

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[charlie1]

Ed is a top man Mark.

Ye phill, we had a good long conversation about plumb dots and screed dots. He knows his stuff and taught me a thing or in the short time i met him!