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Kirk.. not content with just training his apprentice to be a great plasterer but also wants his apprentice to be a top class documentary maker too for when his elbows have had enough! haha 😊
Love the way he says why would ya work like a crazy man doing 7am starts…. After he has the house paid off…😂 great videos and a top Man, Master Craftsman 💯
Top tips, end off. Excellent to watch and you Sir are without doubt a character with the patter / banter and a total Plastering Professional approach, dam good to watch.
You are very skilled, I’ve done a bit of tape and joint, but I’m just looking how effortless you move the trowel and spread the multi finish to perfection you can see years of experience and craftsmanship keep up the good work
Yet again another great vid Kirk . I had a sagging problem few months ago on a curved ceiling fortunately I figured it out seeing you do it how you just did just shows me I did it rite 👌🏻
Hey Kirk great videos mate , I’ve been a general builder for the last 26 years and do my fair share of plastering but because I’m not doing it everyday I’m not the quickest and I can’t do wet angles to save my life , any chance of a good video on this .. 53 years old and still keen to learn . Cheers man keep up the good work .. Paul , North Devon .
Assume you have an internal trowl mate? If so run it in one motion, if leaving a mark wait until the second trowl so you won’t leave lines… push progressively harder keeping the internal wet. If you need to fill put the plaster at the tip of the internal place in the hole and run again
Loving your videos Kirk, tip of the day so you still have the energy to play with your son when you get home buy more of them adjustable hop-ups, I have the same ones as you they are great and don't squeak like the cheaper ones, I line them up the length of the room for longer rooms just add a scaffold board in between them, it saves all that up and down and because the hop ups are wide the plastering bucket fits on them so that saves more up and downs, and when trowling up you can trowel the full length of the room, if Kieiren is not busy on his phone sorting out his nightlife :) he might even move them forward and back in front of you, i have to move my own lol but as long as i have my radio and tea i am happy, keep smiling and making hard work look easy Kirk 🍺🍵
Hi Kirk watched quite few of your vids now I honestly say you are a top bloke & exceptionally skilled at your trade wish you was close to cleethorpes I would book you for couple of jobs because quality job done and great fella
Great videos. I have watched the majority of your videos which have helped me no end! I have a problem with a boarded ceiling which I skimmed during the hot weather 😢 with a window open It has crazed all over. Can I sbr and reskim on a cooler day? Could I
Hi Kirk, another great vid. Can you advise please. I have artex ceilings in my house which was built in 1983 ish. The ceilings themselves are in good nick and solid. I have been advised by a plasterer that all my downstairs ceilings need re-boarding before plastering to stop them from cracking when someone walks upstairs. Seems like BS to me?
Hi Kirk, i think they put to many chemicals with these presant day powder form plaster they do the same with febmix not the same as it used to be if its not broke leave it alone thats my motto
Old school I’m the same with my son every thing clean when skimming hate back of trowels full shit makes it heavy 😂😂 to use and your walls will be better no fat marks 👍👍👍
I find multi when it's old goes sorr of like perished and dead slippy .horrible to use when it's like that .do like it when it's got plenty of months left on the bag tho
'I've never met him, but i like him' that statement is a real truth when following other tradesmen/diyers work, i have had many moments of appreciating the consideration of the people preparing work for me, and you dont want to know the way i describe the people who leave a nightmare for me follow on from, LOL
Hi looking for some help please. I plastered my bathroom ceiling today and the plaster dried out well to quick I couldn't keep up so in the end I gave up. Should I leave it to dry out before attemping again or can I try again tomorrow? Also will I need to SBR again if so? Thank you
kirk ive just come across a patch of limewash on stairwell wall what do you stabilise it with?? does that go with distemper aswel? i thought i had to sugar soap it scrape it then stabilize then sbr
Absolutely stunning work as always Kirk. A true master. Another new tip with the taking the plaster off the back corner of the hawk. Sorry I haven't been able to watch as many of your vids lately. Been so busy working on my garden outside of my job 😆 And the more skimming vids the merrier. I'll never complain about how many you make. Just wish I could lend you my GoPro and chest mount so you could record your point of view in 4K for true extreme close up of how it's done!
How long have you had that carbon steel trowel looks well used budd, just bought one myself looking forward to using it All the best liam plasterer South Wales
Hey Kirk spark here we live not a million miles away. Never experienced a plasterer cleaning out any socket or switch. Would like to share some of my knowledge with you to share to the diy plasterers and socket, switch, lights. Some tips and tricks, ... Turning off power to lights when having a crack at a ceiling, sockets on walls. Cheap easy ways to prevent damage to cables. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure and all that. Most issues are pretty obvious that said wouldn't want to be the one paying hundreds of hours to find problem. A tiny amount of damage cost many thousands of ££££.
i tried the one coat route after people telling me how good their results were, unfortunately i just left some jobs that i was less than happy with, especially when going over old walls with alot of deviation, i imagine if your cracking out metres of plasterboard on site, it makes alot of sense but in domestic conditions the walls are all mostly in need of 2 coats from historical DIY etc.
