Here's raw on site footage of how to plaster a ceiling and wall. Part 1 of 4 Enjoy watching and keep yours eyes peeled for more. For all your building material and tool needs pop to. www.tommysyard.com
Nice to see the Proper way to plaster. Not crapy joint filling and sanding like some do. The skill level doing this can only be obtained from endless practice. Its also fair to say its bloody hard work doing a ceiling. Took me a long time to get the hang of this. Puts it puts a lot of strain on elbows and tendons.
I remember the frustration of tying to plaster and after many many attempts I finally cracked it. I think the early problems were trying to get the first coat flat while it was wet. Wasted so much time and energy. Once the surface starts to firm up it becomes much easier to level out imperfections. I eneded up plastering a four bed 3 story house bottom to top. It had a new loft conversion and I had the challenge of plastering the curved ceiling over the stairs. Had serious tennis elbow by the end but was worth it learning a new skill.
Great videos really great demonstration showing some good details here, especially the angle to hold the trowel and direction to plaster on. I'm going to strip the artex of my hallway ceiling next week with XTex and I have a feeling it's going to need to a skim. Done a bit before but not a whole ceiling, deffo going to give a go now of watching both of these vids.
That's a monster trowel my man! I'm not a pro but use a 14" one. Interesting to see how your are doing butted up wet corners in one gauge. I always do opposites as I haven't mastered that yet. Great video!
I'm a plasterer and a bit of advice I can give is always plaster the joints of your plasterboard first. just going over the wall without going over the joints can cause the joints to show.
Great vid - if you use the bead as a gauge aren't you applying 3mm on your first coat? I thought a 'slope' would be fine until you apply your second coat?
I've been plastering since I was 16 so been doing it 16 years now as I'm 32 and this is a well educated video there's always another spread saying your bollocks I can put a whole room on while your on 1 wall still these are the ppl that are gunna burn out by the time there 45 your a top spread I take my time the same as you aswell and still use my 11" marshall town trowel from when I was 17 keep the vids coming diy ppl and spreads alike can learn a thing or 2
Good video all 3 parts. Useful and informative. How ever you have ignored the PPE needed for this operation. When you were plastering the high level box your face was straight below the trowel. Any dropping materials and any splashes easily get in your eyes. I have no doubt you have years of experience. But people wanted to do the DIY looking at your video need more safer options. Thanking you for humorous and jovial and most of all educational video.
+Brittax M You are right Brad should of been wearing safety glasses, his a professional tradesman with many years of experience and does carry eye cleaner with him for the "just in case situations" Thanks for the feedback and please keep watching
Thanks for showing this. Plastering is about the only thing I'm reluctant to try, as it looks like a bit of a black art. I've learned a lot from your video, so might be tempted to have a go at small areas in future.
Good job helps if your tall and your ceilings low I don't do it full time kills my shoulders and hand cramp and I like to do one coat due to me doing the lot on my own best if you have a mixer helping
The smooth gypsum board isn't exactly smooth, it has small like hooks all across it providing a key for the 1st coat. That's why no pva is needed to equalize suction.
I made myself a telescopic bucket scoop for the plaster many years ago so you don't have to get up and down all the time to get the plaster out of the bucket when your working on your own it is much easier and your not wasting time getting up and down all the time better for your body to bud
+David Michael Hi David, not if the plasterboard was put up with the white side facing down, "thats the correct way". If the plasterboard is grey side down then yes a coat of PVA is needed.
+Tommy's Yard Thanks! actually I have pink and blue showing for fire and moisture boards. Interesting how the yanks use filler between joints and then paper tape instead of just using scrim.
Great work as usual. Just out of interest, have you ever thought about using these German plastic trowels that some plasterers swear by? Thanks for your efforts, Ian
hi yard u hv'nt told us r u plastering bathroom wall & ceiling reason I m asking my bathroom ceiling is cracked from side corners I need to change can u suggest me wht type of board i can use thn I can do plaster on it..
Ignoring the trowel lines, do you manage to get an even, flat 2mm coverage when you are laying on the plaster or during the flattening process? If it's during the flattening process how long do you leave it before flattening it?
+BODGE71 When applying the first coat its pretty even to around 2mm, give or take any dips etc in the wall / ceiling I'm plastering. Once I flatten it in the surface is is pretty flat. When the second coat goes on which is around 1mm then this is the time that I will make sure there is no hollows and completely flat with even coverage of approximately 3mm in total.
+Tommy's Yard cheers. Love the videos and am now glued to watching you creating a new opening for some windows. Maybe you should add in the video at the beginning that planning permission may be required before creating a new opening or widening an existing opening and that the new window has to be registered either with your local council or FENSA/CERTASS. When you're fitting your restraint straps on the wall plate I'd personally drill rather than hammer drill for the screws into the blockwork to stop it fracturing.
+BODGE71 Good point on the planning or building control for the window opening. And yep all new windows will be fitted by our registered window lads. Fair point also on the drill rather than hammer drill, in this case the blocks were soft enough that the hammer didn't put any stress on the blocks so the hole we created didn't effect the remaining of the blocks.
I'm a woman decorating my room the old plaster was just crumbling off as I pulled it off the wall any tips for someone like me at home, I've filled some holes but i just want to get a clean finish ready for painting no, I'm hands on pretty easy learner pleaseeeeee!
Can you plaster directly onto brickwork? The skirting board in the living room is in poor condition and needs replacing but there's no plasterboard etc - it's hollow and allows air from outside via the the air bricks to come in. No wonder the house has been feeling fucking cold.
+Tommy's Yard Hardwall in brick work?? 17 years you say you been doing it! 😂😂😂 Mate use bonding coat! Hard Brush any dust off the brickwork & apply a coat of Pva to stop suction!
+Tristy1987 Might be worth checking your facts before you step up to the plate and start slagging people off chap. www.british-gypsum.com/products/thistle-hardwall download the data sheet and you will see that Hardwall plaster IS SUITABLE ON BRICKWORK. Now go away your boring me....
+Tommy's Yard 👍 your right bonding is low impact product where as hardwall is designed for high traffic areas! hardwall on me-density blocks. but not bonding plaster on aircerte blocks or common bricks it's not suitable use browning for aircerte bricks, as bonding will just dry out to rapidly and risk it blowing apart and falkeing off the wall. also never near DPC line or or use bonding on single skin walls/ areas prone to damp or water ingress
I'm a novice diyer here hence the stupid questions. Why would you PVA new plasterboard? I understand why you would PVA a surface that has been covered previously or the plasterboard is very old because it would affect the bonding, but if it's new it shouldn't surely because it's designed to be slightly porous to help develop the bond.
+Tristy1987 o my, I think you have missed the point of this video chap. Quality over speed every time, customers dont pay you to get it done fast, they want it done right
+Tommy's Yard quality over speed? Well when your doing it all the time quality comes first & speed comes later! By looks of this you haven't been doing it long! Whats with the 18" trowel? If this is an educational video a novice wouldn't use a trowel that size! A 14.5" stainless steel with a revena plastic trowel is a better option! You must have loads of waste you can't even get your gaging right for a poxy ceiling lol
+Tristy1987 lol, since i was 13 years old fella, worked on price for years with the old man, trust me when i say you can earn fare more doing domestic that just throwing up m2 all day on site work. Anyway, that's my opinion. As for the 18inch trowel, that's what I use, so why would I use something else ? I never mentioned in the video that this is a must have, but being that its been with me for 17 years, it's worn in and works a treat.
+Tommy's Yard I've been plastering 17+ years mate, I've seen some of the unfair comments toward ya if your happy using 18" trowle then best of luck to you. just because you work a different way to others that doesn't mean your way is wrong! as long as your work is flat smooth with no tiger-stripes, clean angles on corners and ceiling lines then take a day or a week it don't matter really best of luck guys anyone thinking of picking up a trowle go for it. just take your time. and if you get it wrong just start again.. failure is all part of the learning experience!
Guess your working on a day rate, because your that slow you could not earn more the £50 a day... been plastering for 20 years mate speed is the key. your trowel is far to big and for the size of you your reach is tiny.. more over let the professional trades men in....
+nicky magee lol, you funny chap. Keep watching fella you might learn how to be a real man one day. Plastering is like love making, take your time and do it right you house basher
+Tommy's Yard LMHAO most small time skim heads like you say that kinda stuff, been on site once walked off never again, full of know it all's. plastering has been around for thousands of years young man. float n set hardwall board n skim dry linning coving cornice artex. sand n cement EWI colour rend tanking damp proofing screeding the lost goes on. Just to name a few, no doubt you can do them all that's why you have these fantastic Tommy's tip for the world to see. ( this time next year Rodney)