Plastering

[floydyboy]

you might be better off if you done a dry lining courseit covers all plasering and it might be cheaper.

 

[tysfoot]

is that what dry lining is (dot and dab and plasterboard)

 

[LM Ceramics]

what floydy said about you cant learn plastering in the 3 weeks i would disagree with that i did a 4 day course at lancashire school of plastering and the tutor told me my plastering was sh*t hot

its just the same with the tiling people go on these 4 day courses and go self employed wheres as i learned tiling as an apprentice.

most of my jobs this year have been plastering and all went very well at the end of the day its down to you i think plastering is one of those trades like tiling
you ve either got it or you havent
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trust me tysfoot go for the course u ll be suprised what you can learn

 

[tiler burden]

hi tysfoot

if thats all you want to learn then it wont take long.

i'll try and put a time limit on what your looking for..

the drylining will be so easy you'll laugh to you self. i have done a post on it on here somewhere, were i went through it step by step. but if you can tile then you wont have any issues. if you were doing it for say 1 week all day, then you would have all the little tips picked up for doing average size rooms in that period. its all about organisation plastering because you are dealing with the setting times so you have to know what to do and when to do it. theres alot of pressure on because when a wall starts to go off and you are losing it, then theres not much you can do. at least you can scrape the addy off the wall when tiling and go and have a break!!

skimming. i would say it will take 2-3 months to get to a very good standard. and when i say a very good standard, i mean a faultless wall because thats what you should have mate. no cats faces, no water marks just a flat solid smooth wall, so even if you consider yourself good, then 2 months is realistic.

add another 2 months for floating out walls using screeds if you want the walls perfect.

floor screeds in sand and cement, say 1 months practice after you've learned the above and then thats it, you have all you need.

so there you go, i am being positive for you mate. do your course, learn as much as you can practice practice practice and ask me or any of the lads on here who plaster and we'll all try and get you there as fast as possible ;0)

 

[tysfoot]

cheers burden what a good post

 

[billy123]

hiya mate the more you can do the more money you will make.i find that you can do plastering jobs to supplement your tiling jobs. people refer the one stop shop these days,you go for it best of luck mate

 

[tysfoot]

cheers mate, like i said my dad is paying for the course so its not costing me anything and im only doing for better knowledge of getting walls level. not gonna take plastering as a carear

 

[james]

just avoid large areas to plaster to start.

 

[brummie tiler]

Ive tried my hand at plastering now and again. I made the mistake of thinking 'Iam an experianced tiler using a trowel all day, how hard can it be' Not as easy as i had imagined at all!!I dont mind doing it before tiling but wouldnt trust myself to achieve a nice paintable finish.

 

[tiler burden]

knowing what i know,

then i would learn some aspects of plastering because it will compliment your tiling.

my dad was what you call a real old style time served tiler and he could float out walls and swimming pools perfectly in sand and cement. he also was a taught to do floor screeds, to falls, etc. he learned to skim in no time at all. he was a terrazzo layer and served a 7 year apprenticeship in italy. he did stone work, restoration work in turin, naples and rome. there wasnt one aspect of tiling he didnt cover and he was as good a plasterer as you will find due to his tiling trade.
he claimed that if you where a tiler, then you would have far greater appreciation to why a floor or wall needs to be totally flat, therefore it made you a better plasterer than a plasterer, if you know what i mean!!!

unfortunately for me, my dad liked tiling more than kids so i didnt see him much lol

i dont always think its best to too many things because you end up slower than a pro and your real money will come from what you are good at, which on this forum is tiling. yes, be in position to floor screed and flatten/level a wall or maybe skim a bathroom ceiling but, for the rest, sub out and put some money on top and put your real skills into the meterage and quality of laying tiles ;0)