tilers slang short hand

[fatboy]

i can give you some plasterers one
up north thay call a hawk a hand board
corner trowel/twicher
floating walls/ roughing
plastering/ skiming
pva and plaster /glue and set
beading up/ trimming out
sticking boards/dot and dabing
building out walls/dubing out

and soo on any you guys have short hand for tiling /mats terms

 

[Andy Allen]

custard.........customer...:smilewinkgrin:

 

[Alan.P]

adhesive = sticky

 

[Ian]

There are a few for adhesive; sticky, glue, gear, addy. My favourite sland phrase has to be, 'spot fixing'!

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Snap Alan!

 

[Andy Allen]

tubbed adhesive..........crap

 

[Diggy]

Adhesive - Snot

 

[Alan.P]

Adhesive - Snot

Really lol never heard it called that lol

 

[fatboy]

SPF single part flexi

 

[DHTiling]

Hammer = Knocking stick

 

[Bubblecraft]

Tile - Duke = Duke of Argyle
Tubbed Adhesive - Sticky
Saw - He Haw
Hammer - Persuader
Step Ladder - Danny (Personal Joke)
Radio - The box
Crowbar - Jemmy
Circular saw - Rip Snorter

 

[bugs183]

****: Architect.

 

[Peter]

Adhesive - muck
Washboy - grout bath

 

[Dougs Third Go]

a "doofer"...it can mean almost anything up north...."can you pass me my doofer please", mind it's just us old gits that are going a bit senile and can't remember what the tools called, so it gets "doofer"

 

[Bubblecraft]

a "doofer"...it can mean almost anything up north...."can you pass me my doofer please", mind it's just us old gits that are going a bit senile and can't remember what the tools called, so it gets "doofer"

I call it a "hingy" lol

 

[Dougs Third Go]

I call it a "hingy" lol

have you got a lithp Guth lol! (if it's not a "doofer", it's a "thingy")

 

[Bubblecraft]

have you got a lithp Guth lol! (if it's not a "doofer", it's a "thingy")

No, just Glasgow slang lol

 

[Dougs Third Go]

No, just Glasgow slang lol

when I get up to work at aberfeldy i work with 2 weegies and a scooooone, Jaysus, I need a translator for every sentence:lol:

 

[DHTiling]

I worked in Glasgow back in the day for 2 weeks ... Jeeeeez it was like EH!!!! what did you say.. :lol:

 

[Dougs Third Go]

I worked in Glasgow back in the day for 2 weeks ... Jeeeeez it was like EH!!!! what did you say.. :lol:

Scoones are even harder to get Dave,,,everything ends in "ken?"...never met this Ken guy all times I've been there:juggle:

 

[DHTiling]

I never ever met anyone like a glasgie ,, it was like double dutch :lol:

 

[John Benton]

Yer ken wot arm sayin

 

[Bubblecraft]

Yer ken wot arm sayin

Glad I don't talk like that. That's further east. Who is this Ken guy anyway? Lol

 

[DHTiling]

yokin a jokin wotin i am sayin sassinak :lol:

 

[John Benton]

Can somebody put subtitles on here pls.

 

[Bubblecraft]

Wish a' kid John. Dinnae no if a can like, ken?