Losing a Lounge Ceiling | How to handle the situation 

who else plasters all week then comes home and watches other people plastering on youtube lol, we must love it

Love the positivity Kirk, lost a day and still smiling!

Cheers Kirk, your a smooth operator and some great advice there. Thanks and much appreciated.

Love the coolness when that ceiling picked up too fast. Great advice. It's happened to me and I was definitely one of those headless chickens you were talking about. Will know for next time. Great stuff Kirk.

Oh my God a new Kirk vid finally!! Hope you are much better pal. I know what I’ll be watching the hell out of tonight at work!

What a brilliant video mate love your honesty and work ethic, indeed keep your cool even if things go wrong! You don't always have everything under control, but experience is important and especially pass it on to the newcomers in the job

Good video as usual. Had this happen just a month ago to a kitchen ceiling two coats of unibond still pulled through. Had to 3 coat then third coat took ages to go off what a pain was nearly late to pub. Made my mind up after that all ceilings are to be overboarded.

Great video. This has happened to me a few times for different reasons on reskims and I have always found that leaving it and topping it with an extra 3rd tight coat works well I have ever really worked out why, you explained it very well

What a brilliant video mate love your honesty and work ethic I had a bad one in summer, a flat felt roof and red hot bedroom I think I put about 4 coats of sbr on

Love the advice you recently gave a chap on your Q&A video He was asking you for advice on how to get faster at skimming and you simply replied " just slow down" Brilliant! Love your calmness though you'd probably be a bit more stressed teaching young students at college lol.

Perfect advice mate. I used to panic and trowel like mad. All it does is give you tiger stripes and wears out your shoulders and stresses you out. Fair play to you mate

Top video mate this happened to me last month. I was gonna panic but I’ve learned it dose not get you nowhere. And the job come out nice. Appreciate the video and advice. 🙏🏾👌🏾

Great video Kirk. Cool as a cucumber and always positive. Thank you.

i dont vn know how your channel came on my radar but i an very happy it did .....couple of my pals are top builders i would b lost with out them ......people like u are vital to th building game !!!!!

Easily the best and most accurate advice on how to deal with Plaster that's gone off too quick

Dont panic is the best advice you can give.

Always a pleasure to watch mate, Love the clout nail tale 😅

This video dropped just in time. I took on my lounge ceiling today (Over Artex). Everything was prepped properly so was good to go. Got the first coat on and noticed the plaster was drying really fast and started to crack. Anyway after watching this video I kept my shit together and finished the 1st coat, Opened a a couple of windows to cool the room down and cracked the 2nd coat on. As I sit on the sofa totally knackered, it seems fine. So glad I kept my head - All down to watching this video last night LOL

Brilliant as always Kirk. 👍like to see you doing the rest of the job

Just watched this vid as im a builder i do a lot of plastering myself and found the tip to be a good one as im sure all spreads have had this issue one time or another, Cheers for the vid and have subed to your channel

regarding spray bottles, save up household cleaning product bottles and reuse them. Much lighter and a better mist than a pump sprayer. I find the clean water from a bottle gives a nicer look to the finish. Great video 👍

Brilliant info 👍👍👍 Wish I’d known this two weeks ago when my plaster was going off like a rocket and I ran down to my shed in a panic to get my sponge 🤦‍♂️😆😆

Like an 18st ballerina on that hop up when ya polishing that ceiling

Brilliant mate ! I started as a chippy many years ago and collected trades along the way ! Plastering being my last city and guilds. One day perhaps over a pint I will go over the story but short version is I avoided it for a long time after getting caught out a few times being cocky. But after bitting the bullet and booking time off to do the course I got there ! Now the don't panic part was awesome as I always work like that stay calm and I think it comes from my first boss when doing carpentry he used to always say " Haste makes waste!" Proper old school craftsman I was privileged to learn from him ! Any how I'm now about 16 years into plastering and a lot of what you explain I already know but would never be able to teach it or explain it, your a star mate keep it up !

That's whT I have learnt .just chill and ur work will become better . Just stand back and have a think

I totally agree,with u nick,recommendations are key cowboy plastering companies would definitely rush and screw up job.

Nice to see you back captin hope all is good your end

The Clout nail story made me laugh Kirk. We were on a Stately Home. Same senario, different gangs of spreads all having banter. Then you'd hear shouting and screaming. Turned out our labourer was dropping Maltesers in the competitions mixes🤣🤣🤣. Made more enemies than friends on than job🤪

Hi Kirk if you keep some extra time in your van you can add some to your water bucket or spray bottle this helps bring the finish back to life Good work mate

Brilliant mate 👏 👌 👍🏻

Man, not a plasterer at all, but is a pleasure to watch you 👏👌💚

Great guy thanks for info.

I always panic and fiddle with it. But im a bricklayer that " does a bit" when my plasterer can't get there. Can't hold a candle to a decent plasterer. Good job mate.

I you do shave your beard kirk, make sure you recored your boys reaction... Mine was priceless he didn't know who I was 😂 top vid as always 👌

The first thing to remember when things don't go to plan is, don't panic. When you panic, things get even harder.

Nice good to show the good and the bad great video.

Great video mate

Great videos as always. Do you ever use flexi trowels or plastic trowels

Correct. If you don't let whatever primer set you get problems. I like to sponge then give last coat to act similar to a roughing key 😉

In Australia they use salt instead of half time. Im not sure what the ratio is but its very cost effective compared to sachets.

Get them safety glasses on while laying your ceiling on i dont recommend skim in your eyes its very painful 😂 . Great video though.👍

Sound this one Kirk really helped this if this happened on a wall ad of went to the sponge float little harder on a ceiling to use but ad of used it there I will be doing this now in future 😉🤝

So is it best to close the windows and doors if a breeze is going through and a hotter kinda day?

Great video. I am an amateur but I have already discovered that not panicking when plastering is so important. I have been surprised how things can turn around if you just stay calm and keep going 😀

well done mate .

Class act.

True tricks of the trade ❤

Better go back in a few weeks to check the ceiling hasn't dropped off and flattened the person who sleeps in the bedroom 😂😂😂

I was really quick when in my twentys. I came across a ceiling. 46 square metres. I was young and naive and thought yeah, no problem. I did it exhaustingly. I'll never do that again

As a spark that’s been a rewire and they drilled underneath the coving to save it, we get customers asking us not to damage it

This just happened to me today. I now have arms like popeye flattening it out. I wish I'd watched this first. Thanks pal.

Do you put your sbr on neat or do you water it down? If so what ratio? Thanks and great vids

😅 nails in the mix was a savage move, Kirk 😂 👏

Kirk the ice cool cumber makes watching this a pleasure rather than a stress!! I’ve got a question, if you wouldn’t mind! Condensation/damp/mould in the top corners of interior plaster on 1970s ex council houses, is it a cold bridging fault, or a ventilation/circulation issue in your experience?

Basically the same principle as going over artex??

Hi mate mint vid as per is that sbr better than pva

Proper the finish was more important than the money to ya that’s a conscientious worker for u fair play

Been doing it for 55 years I like to see where I am going wrong.

I wish the plasterer I worked for fave me as much information, perhaps too busy? Also using a plunger was a lot harder than an electric whisk☺️

Would you be able to liven the second coat up with a sponge and then flattened it in without giving it a 3rd coat ?

Top Man 👊🏽👳🏽‍♂️

Finally got around to this Kirk as I've had a hell of a two weeks, working 6 nights, dogsitting a giant Alaskan Malamute too... never felt so tired in my life. Anyway, thanks for finally pointing out that fat. So it's fine to move the plaster around on the wet trowel and push it all in, but any left on your trowel must go and if there's any hollows that haven't been filled at this point, you're buggered!

Surely u should. Have sealed it a bit better I've done ceiling after ceiling that we I'll probably fall of

You make it look so easy, I would be running around like. A headless chicken😂😂😂 I got two big ceiling to do both plaster boarded, any tip would be great, do I do it Half's??

Was always taught never let it beat you 😂

Never put 3 coats on. I have my own method. I see how fast the pva is pulling in. If it's fast then I'll put the 1st coat on thicker at about 2.5 mm, flatten off then stick my 2nd coat on straight away. A thick first coat buys you an extra 15-20 mins.

I'm the same skills x

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If ceiling's too big we just put a join in it and do it in two halves

Couldn’t u av just let your first coat pull in like ur second coat n give it a nice 2nd coat?

Love the videos mate just wondering if you have ever plastered over asbestos boards and if you have any advice

nice and flat perfection

Sorry for the question on this old video. Do you remember the size of this room . 10x12 ?

I learnt of Dave Williams mate use r the 2 top dogs from the port I hear

How much u charge to come to Colorado ?

Hate it when skim starts fire cracking due to suction.

Why not use multifinish. Surley it's better on that surface than board finish.

Your dad must be brilliant.

Thsi happened to me, but I chose option A, run around like a headless chicken...

Yeh I've been their lol

is your labourer your son kirk , im a bricklayer m8 so new to channel , so forgive me if , youve said about your son before and what not ..... , mint channel 👊🏻👍🏻

Hi Kurt, is there a page we can donate money mate? I always watch your videos 👍and I’d like to buy an extension lead for you, so you don’t have to borrow of your tv mate. Your better off with 110v if you’ve got a transformer mate, a transformer take the electric vaults from 240 to 110v, thanks for the excellent content btw buddy

Don't panic! :)

Does your boy not fill your board and hand it up to you pay the boy a days wage to put on a few mixes

Thats a rewire, better than destroying the coving

As much as you don't want to you just need to mix another mix and lash it it on

Board finish on a re skim?? No wonder it went off like a rocket!

You remind me of Brian Shaw

I dont advocate sponge floating , I think a spread worth his salt should be able to 2 coat and finish a gauge with 2 coats and 2 trowels to finish , but if my walls ceiling suck in like fuck I will give it a sponge. Easy peasy .

Haha yes

You win some you lose some.

Day mare...

As in let it settle down before going at it again!

Love the clout nail story we use to put holes in there water buckets 🪣 so when they got in , in the morning all there buckets were empty 😂

Sbr kills suction??

Sponge and done

Sound like Eddie Hall

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Why don't you get the young lad on the trowel give him the opportunity of a life time giving him the chance to be a Tradesman and learn to plaster Especially with there being a Major shortage of tradesman in the country and save having to bring in the polish and others as there's no trades left

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