The Plasterers Strike Again

[hmtiling]

I don't know why 'Tilers' complain so much about the state of walls!
If it's a floor we jump with joy that we can earn a few bob more for levelling.
If you've learnt your trade you should be able to make a professional job of the finished tiling but then again if it was easy everyone would do it themselves - after all tiling is just a DIY job to most!

I think i'd be complaining too if someone has been paid to plaster like that. I'd certainly be charging extra to rectify it.

 

[Spud]

I dont moan about it I just show the client/ builder how rough they are and explain that his plasterer has just cost him an extra few hundred pounds and he will need to ring the follow on trades and explain there will be a delay to the job, it never goes down well and if they get too funny about it I just pack up my gear and say just call me when you decide who is straightening the walls me or the guy you already paid to do it

 

[Time's Ran Out]

Gary - that's the way to do it!

 

[widler]

there are plasterers and then there are skimmers, plasterers can plaster, skimmers can just about use a trowel , give a skimmer a bath a rake and a feather edge he would look at you like a 14 year old virgin who had seen his 1st pair of boobies

 

[Time's Ran Out]

Such a way with words.

 

[White Room]

there are plasterers and then there are skimmers, plasterers can plaster, skimmers can just about use a trowel , give a skimmer a bath a rake and a feather edge he would look at you like a 14 year old virgin who had seen his 1st pair of boobies

Skimmers, there new breed of plasterer

 

[Aston]

Now when I write this, I haven't got my plastering head on or my tilers head on, I've got my common sense head on!

I always shake my head with bemusement when I read these type of threads because as TJ say's ''competent'' tilers, should possess the ability to deal with floor AND wall preparation. AND if you were capable of doing your own sub prep to a good professional standard, then surely you would see this as an ''OPPORTUNITY'' to make money, rather than an obstacle because you can't do it and as a result the job takes you longer??

So, if you are complaining and you can't do what your trade states you should be able to do, then maybe you need to assess your self before you critisise others with flippancy or ignorance. (its a fair point?)

ps, if a wall has been plastered to that standard, then they are obviously not a professional plasterer but surely you must know that, shouldn't you???

There's good and bad in every trade, but if you are regular working at the bottom end, then there's a good chance you are only going to come across are the bottom end workers??

As my grandad used to say, keep working on yourself son and don't worry about what anybody else is doing.

Oh and my grandmother used to say, never be a ***** or a snitch!! She told me that when I visited her in prison ;0) Just kiddin, just kidding

 

[Kyle Knowles]

This was a man in his 50s not some young up start if he was new to the game I could almost forgive him but 35 years or more experience he should know better

 

[Kyle Knowles]

The old bible saying sumat about him with no sin cast the first stone don't get me wrong I'm not perfect but I would never leave a job in that state

 

[Aston]

It doesn't matter how old he is, that's not the work of a time served professional tradesman, anybody with eyes in their head can see that.

 

[Kyle Knowles]

Nope thats the work of a man over 35 year plastering who can't be assed any more

 

[Kyle Knowles]

another wall this legend boarded and skimmed

 

[Aston]

even more reason to see he isn't a pro.
Thats not down to him not being 'assed' thats down to him not knowing how to float out a wall correctly using screeds or knowing how to line up boards.

I can see why you are fed up tho Kyle but my point is about tilers who can't do their own prep, not the tilers who can.

 

[Kyle Knowles]

Yeah I understand but my gripe is that the guys bin paid for 2 days work and that's what he left behind I'd be ashamed of my self

 

[J Sid]

View attachment 82737 another wall this legend boarded and skimmed

this kind of beading work is to be found on 90% of jobs I go to.
any person who takes money for doing a plastering job is a professional. It's just a shame that plastering profession seams to the worst tradesmen