This wall will NEVER BE FLAT...So now What?? 

Something really satisfying about watching an expert plasterer at work.

Been following this channel for a while now and love it. Finally plucked up the courage to give it a try and did my first wall and can honestly say your advice, help and tips were invaluable. From a complete novice I managed to do it! And more importantly the wall is flat. Thank you for taking the time to educate people like me

Masterful work again mate. I love vids like this where you make battered old walls into works of art!

A master at work, no idea how you make it look so effortless. Well done !

Found this one really useful as a beginner. Top man you Blaine, cheers 👍

I call it "cottage finish". Old houses and old walls aren't always meant to be perfectly straight, so you make the best of it and call it character. See also "pub finish" which is rough as aresholes.

Great job mate

Amazing what a bit of effort and a good plastering job can do ,looks a million times better Blaine 👏

Beautiful job . Thanks for the tips 👌

Lovly job .every wall i do is like that .😱👍👍

Like it well explained and 10/10 post. I highly recommend. No 1 TEACHER 😮💯👍🏽

Nice job. I once plastered a whole room with a butter knife. It was perfectly flat and smooth, but I couldn't have my jam on toast that day.

another great lesson. ive got a chinmey breast to do tomorrow where the damp course guy has plastered a section without tapering it off so its got a very proud vertical lip going upwards about 1.5 meters. ive since had to remove the fire place so ill need to square it all up but ive tried sanding the lip off to get it flat but no joy. im stumped as to what to do i guess ill have to knock some of his work out to make way for a clean finish coat. seems a bit drastic though. enjoying the dope beats again on this channel!

Perfect timing, I'm about to have a go at my 'problem wall' that is all over the place

You dont half take on some rough old jobs. Fair play to you for keeping it real.

Nice video

You're the only plasterer I've seen who's on par with my old man... Coming from a plasterer lol

Lovely job bud IL be doing it tomorrow 😂

Nice work...

Lovely job considering what you had to work with :)

Was on a kitchen a few weeks ago, similar situation walls were no where near what they needed to be, loads of bonding was required haha good job mate 👍

Good to see a plasterer devil key there bonding.....Ive been using make good bonding the last few years i find it way better than british gypsum. Top job.

High Blain, when you are bonding out the bottom of the wall is the pva still tacky as the bonding goes on. Same with the skim. I was always taught to seal the walls with a 5/1 pva then just before applying your first coat put a 3/1 pva coat on let it go tacky then apply the plaster. Would appreciate your advice 👍

i learned to plaster from this guys videos....and did most walls on a 2 bed flat ..oh and a ceiling.... by the time i was done...i noticed a remarkable improvement in my plastering with both application, and finish... i gained confidence and a little skill in both areas...some of my finish was like marble.... and it got better as i imroved and got faster..slapped it on rather than being meticulous ..which i was when i started and ended up throwing buckets of drying out plaster or bonding out....oh and i improved some walls with hardcore on bare brickwork...after watching his vids....i was initially going to bonding coat them...but he taught me to use hardcore...i think thats the name...something like that and its good stuff.

Hello blain, I have a question referring to your video 4 years ago about breaking in a flexi trowel, I have lightly sanded my new Marshalltown flexi trowel like the video showed, but I am laying on plaster with a 18” carbon marshalltown trowel and some occasion my plaster looks good but in certain light I seem to get a tiger stripe effect on my plaster, any ideas what this could be ? I only do diy bits and some times smaller jobs for my friends but have done a fair bit now was just curious, hoping to improve 😃

When you “come back over yourself “ are you angling the trowel on the way down? Looks like you’re skip troweling almost. I guess it’s the quick hands. Thx! I watch all your stuff!

Speed skim and a flexi trowel are a godsend on walls like these. Nightmare to trowel up with a stiff towel

Hi blaine, any tips/avoid for doing a 240 Yr old house built in 1880. Cheers mate 👍

Hi Blaine I like watching your videos as a spread myself I'm always looking for new tricks or tools to help me out, the reason I'm commenting is I cannot fathom why you don't use a roller for applying pva? It's much quicker and easier than a brush!

What video shows your most recent kit list? I'm interested in swappi g the MT for the carbon nela I think you are currently using

I've got a plastered and painted (eggshell) wall, which because of an extension, there's now a new level of 10 mm with a bead to sort. They dont want boards over the wall, so can it still be floated with bonding over the top?

Your level is out because the strip running across the centre of the wall is proud. A lot of old houses have this as it is because of the removal of an old feature. If you would of just hacked that section out you would have used much less bonding and not had to create an illusion of a flat wall it would of genuinely been flat and left more space to get neat around the skirts as if you leave the skim short of your skirts on your first coat as you did with the bonding it makes for a much cleaner neater job .

Great work. I would of took skirting board off, pulled it out and put it back on.

Blaine do you ever come across bonding blisters and how do you deal with them ?

Quick question, those rubber buckets you're using there, whats the best way to clean them? Marketing says let the plaster dry and break it off but it doesn't work out like that...

Been watching loads of your videos recently.Think your ace and an amazing plasterer! I've been plastering for two years now and am getting really good at it.Only thing is though I've been taught by one guy who is also an amazing plasterer too but as we know there are many ways to skin a cat!That's why I've been digging through your videos.I have a couple of questions.... 1)do you always scratch up your bonding coat?2)Do you wet it up before plastering over it(if so with just water or with PVA in it?).3. Do you aim to skim the wall the same day as you bonded it?Think I heard you mention you aim to do so in another video?.Hope to get a response from yoal.Chris.

As always great job.👍 One question only because it’s what I would have done. Wouldn’t it be easier to remove skirtings so you could straighten walls?

If I were the owners I'd just remove the skirting. Its painted, it can easily be replaced afterwards at not much cost and the wall would be flatter

So are you not watering the evo stick pva down?

Recently I’ve had to look at the corner of a room which we had to use insulating paper on (old cold house, solid brick wall) but have found some of the plaster has come away and in some parts the holes have gone back to the brick. Would it be better to just get rid of all the dusty parts to the brick entirely (a brush and it just dusts off) or is it better to seal with few layers of pva?

Just concentrate on eye level.😜

My new house has the same problem in every wall, should i just rip all the old plaster off or dot&dab a new plasterboard on top of them?

Why do u use a brush for pva is it not faster with a roller

Have you seen the green grits primer have you used it before?

Why did you key the areas that had bonding when the other areas were smooth anyway? Also were the other areas pva’d but you just skimmed other the bonded areas without pva because it was still wet?

Did u ever use thistle bond instead of PVA it's great for walls like that

Crazy question... Never tried it on plaster but could you use an angle grinder to flatten some of it out, would the plaster just fall off the wall? Would it be too much dust?

How much would u charge for a job like this. ?

Hi Blaine, could you get it flat if customer pulled off skirting and coving?

One coat is the plaster to do that job. But most plasterers can’t get to grips with it.

Blaine you tried this Glam rend yet?

Would or have u ever used sbr ?

working on one like this, a nightmare, i've managed to straighten it quite a bit but there's always small bits that don't get quite flat enough

That looks old enough for there may be no DPC or a compromised slate DPC. The plasterboard at ground level may be part of a damp treatment. Gypsum does not handle damp, so you may have dogged a bullet by not removing the whole lot.

Surely removing skirting and refitting after would half the work in trying to match in

I'd take of the skirt off hardwall the bottom section then multi the lot

Will you ever get that wall straight?

Dot dab some boards ontop of that and be done with it . Client probably thinks he knows best/more . Why they never listen is beyond me

Mate maybe no put “plastering for BEGINNERS “ on the merch ? Try slogans like “Plaster master “ and ur page and link at bottom ??? No one wants to walk onto a site with “beginner “ on jumper mate . Excellent channel

Wouldn't they let you remove the skirting the re-affix after ?? .... Only a five minute job - but would have made life a lot easier ........