Hey, great video guys, where I'm from we don't coat the entire ceiling just the joints and screws. I learned a few things though! We coat 3 times, the last being a scratch coat or skim to get additional fine scratches or damage! Cheers!
HI TY , Thanks. I will check out your website for the materials. I am so glad I found your website. I will spread the word here in Brussels. Neil Anderson
I really enjoyed the batten and drywall videos and of course the plastering. I have an unfinished garage, can I simply plaster the inside walls (building block) ? Many thanks... Neil Anderson
+Donald Neil Anderson Yes you can, first of all you will need to apply an undercoat plaster "hardwall" or "sand and cement" to the block work first, allow to dry and then apply the finish coats of plaster afterwards "multi finish"
Hi lads, great videos. I want to re skim a bathroom wall that was tiled. I have removed tiles and adhesive and wall is clean. Do I PVA the old plaster first? I also want to do the ceiling which is painted do I PVA this as well? Cheers
Ollyop65 you will need to PVA the old plaster first as it removes dirt/dust and creates a adhesive bond for the plaster. It the wall is anyway not even I would apply bonding before plastering. Can only imagine you are re doing the ceiling because of cracks or its stippled. If it's cracked you will need to solve the reason it cracked in the first place, e.g loose ceiling joists or slabs not correctly put up first day. If it is stippled remove the slabs, put up new slabs and plaster. Remember to plaster ceiling first and then walls. All the best.
i'm not a plasterer, but i plastered every room in my house before i rented it ( i'm good with a float ) its ok not professional but it did the job, i only used one coat !!!! but if my one coat went from mini mesh to mini mesh i cant put a second coat on ??? anyway good video
hey i have skimmed my ceiling but run out of multifinish cant get any until tomorrow so my first coat will be dry....what should i do...as the first coat is pretty rough
+bobsy bobsy you should flatten it in as best as possible and then you will need to re apply a coat of PVA glue and then start again. There isnt any short cuts to a nice finish
+Tommy's Yard omg ...all i can say is ...you plasterers have it a lot harder than i could imagine....its tough work..thems your plasterers...ha ah thanks mate just gonna have to face the music ...and get to it...
A mil and a millimetre are definitely the same thing, UK adopted the metric system years ago, mil might be an old imperial measurement but in UK trades, mil is an abbreviation of millimetre. At least thats how I know it....
There is also a US English specific term, mil but it's not used outside the US and maybe Canada: "A unit of length equal to one thousandth (10-3) of an inch (0.0254 millimeter), used, for example, to specify the diameter of wire or the thickness of materials sold in sheets." But in the UK we use mil as an abbreviation for millimetre, nothing else.
