Plastering

[CJ]

Well my first attempt at skimming a ceiling.............and I must say.

Oh FFS wot a pig of a job........first coat up, and just scrapping excess from my plaster covered bod.

Quick coffee........and then 2nd coat.

I will never slag plaster monkeys again...........well. Not today anyway.

[CDS]

I sympathise CJ - Just finished plastering my study and now starting a chimmney brest in the bedroom.... have got far more plaster on floor than on the walls....and covered myself from head to foot in the process!!!!

It is a pig of a job and don't think I'll be adding it to my list of services to customers for the future - quite enjoying it though and results so far looking surprisingly good!!

[whitebeam]

Just practise guys, your'll get there in the end

[CJ]

Well it looks the dogs dangly bits to me.

More to the point............I never covered tooo much else, including me

Coat of paint........bit of polyfiller, it'll be fine

[Fred]

AND in your own home...............

[cornish_crofter]

This is some very good advice, courtesy of Contractor and reproduced by me IIRC.

I've still got the print out after having done my bathroom. I do plastering for other people, but only as part of other work.

http://www.tilersforums.co.uk/other-...-techique.html

CJ, in your case you probably need to post a warning to your neighbours that you're doing something different