Plastering

[floydyboy]

Tiler burden is corect plastering is a highly skilled job and no fast track course will get you any where near being a plasterer.i have been a plasterer for 20 years and there is too much to know and learn . there is no way they can teach you the trade in 1,2 or 3 weeks it is impossible.i have an apprentice with me and is on is 3rd year and still can not dash properly [and he is a good 1]IF THE PLASTERING IS NOT RIGHT U GOT PROBLEMS. as most of us will know.:mad2:

 

[bigdaz]

I did a 5 day course and then plastered friends and family's walls for free to build up experience. Once I was happy with my progress I started to advertise and got quite a few jobs in.
the first attempt after the course was a 12x7' wall which took me 12 hours and looked rough. a few months later I could skim an average size room in 8 hours doing my own mixing and I was getting recommendations so guess I cant be too bad. Ceilings can be hard work but not much call for them if you want to plaster as part of your tiling

I have used backing plaster, dot & dab and of course topcoat but never sand and cement although thats what we used on the course so i know the basics of it.

only downside I can see is as well as paying for a new course you'll have to invest hundreds in a new set of tools too

 

[tysfoot]

you all seem really negative about the plastering. thought i might have got different opionions.

Im gonna do it even thought it takes years at least ill have a understnding

Like i said im only gonna use it for tiling so if i can learn dot and dab and putting up plasterboards its something worth doing.

 

[james]

end of the day its only your view that matters.
its a good skill but might be a while till your happy to tile your own plastering.

 

[tysfoot]

like i said im only goin to use the course to plasterboard and dot and dab, surely that doesent take years to master.

 

[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