Gary
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Registered: 22nd Nov 06
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Have you just taken holidays from work to train then?
At least you have another trade if you get bored of boats
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RichR
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Location: Waterhouses, Staffordshire
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its Saturdays and Sundays and done a couple of evenings as well. They've let us go up after hours to practice in our bays. We shouldn't be doing our assessment for 2/3 weeks yet but we've all done quite well on the course bar one guy who just can't seem to get it at all!!
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Tom J
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Registered: 8th Sep 03
Location: Bridgend
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Just seen the pics in the other thread, i've never seen anything like it. I did 1000% Times better than that on my first ever plastering attempt. why the heck did they caulk the corners? can't get my head around the logic
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AK
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Registered: 5th Jul 00
Location: Aberdeen City
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because they didnt get a smooth crisp corner through plastering. Caulk hides it... but they cant even caulk neatly 
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RichR
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Registered: 17th Oct 01
Location: Waterhouses, Staffordshire
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Their reasoning was that the plaster would crack at the ceiling/wall joint so it needed caulking. The fact they were skimming (in parts) over existing plaster which hadn't cracked since 1966 when the house was built didn't seem to matter. Some bollocks about 5" joists not 6" blah blah blah.
Apparently, that was the best job we could ever have expected - despite the fact it started cracking and peeling off the walls within 2 days!!
That's why I'm doing this course, two of the tutors at the college came to assess the job for me for my case should it have gone to court
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RichR
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they didn't only caulk, some of the corners were radiused with plaster too; big 1"+ radii.
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RichR
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Registered: 17th Oct 01
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oh and it wasn't even about getting a smooth crisp corner, they finished the plaster short of the corner by 1-1.5" both from the ceiling and wall so the corners hadn't been skimmed at all
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Nismo
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I removed all my dado rails at the weekend, pulled some of the plasterboard away, so gonna be plastering the walls, was going to do the whole walls and repaint, but i think this will be so much work as i want to skim the artex too, so might just re-patch the missing bits then paper the hallway and stairs, also removed the skirting as I want to replace that.
bought the tools at the weekend, gonna give it all a go myself....... how hard can it be 
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Sam
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Registered: 24th Dec 99
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Mate if I can do it then any fucker can
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Dave
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Registered: 26th Feb 01
Location: Lancs
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If the rest of the wall is okay just patch it up with easi fill and sand smooth.
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Nismo
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Registered: 12th Sep 02
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if i patch it up won't it show through if i decide to paint the walls?
dado rails removed, skirting and architrave
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Daniel_Corsa
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Registered: 21st Apr 04
Location: Wigton, Cumbria
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Might get away with filling that but personally for painting I would skim it.
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Nismo
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Registered: 12th Sep 02
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 well i have the tools and i've watched a few videos so will be giving it a go on saturday!
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baza31
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Registered: 19th Apr 03
Location: yorkshire
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Plastering always seems easy till you actually start , then you wish you had just paid someone to do it. The amount that i waste I could probably pay for it doing
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