To all the plasterers!

[Woody123]

Im thinking of doing a short course in plastering and was wondering if you guys think it would be worth it? Its £600 and you attend for 8 consecutive weekends. Do you think you can become any good at it over this amount of time? If nothing else i suppose it would help immesly in my tiling so i wouldn't have to get plasterer's in to sort the walls out n stuff.
Would be good to know your thoughts...........

 

[White Room]

Dos'nt sound a bad price, equals to 16 days or nearly three weeks, Go for it, more money in your pocket

 

[devonmark]

yes it is possible, you would just have to apply yourself and practice

Mark.

 

[floydyboy]

you should be ok after that amount of time but i don't think you will earn a lot of money from it as plastering is very similar to tiling you need to lay metreage on to earn the bucks but iot will all come in time

 

[basshunter]

do you know any plasterers locally?

I asked a plasterer on a job if i could come along for a few days to learn as i had no work..ended up being really good-learned loads,dot and dabbing,skimming etc

i did about 2 weeks in total.i can board rooms out now,skim reasonably well when i can get the gear of the hawk...
eneded up getting work from the plasterer so it was well worth it.
If you cant get a shot like i did then i would do a course.

 

[Turkish]

Go for it mate! I did a weeks course then went out with a mate of mine who`s a plasterer and helped him out on a few jobs, learnt loads and you`re technique will improve quite quickly. I`ve done a couple of tiling jobs recently where i`ve done some plastering as well, also ended up plastering someone`s utility room too so it`s another useful string to your bow

Turkish

 

[enduro]

They make it look so easy...never tried it but could be good thing to learn.

 

[Woody123]

I had someone in to do my plastering not so long ago and he is kinda a friend of a friend so this could be a possibility of going out with him and practising. Think i will save me pennies and do it later in the year like you's all say it's always another string to the bow n all!
Cheers for the advice everyone.

 

[pjtiler]

plastering / rendering is easy
the hard bit is mastering trowel skills and the only way to do that is with practice

 

[LM Ceramics]

totally agree with pj tiler once you can plaster well then its like wipin your *** you ll never forget it when i served my apprenticeship in tiling i did plastering also i wasnt brilliant at it then but i went on a 4 day course plastering now im pretty good and better than some of the so called pro plasters out there