How Plasterers Make £600 In 4.5 Hours
2023 ж. 26 Қыр.
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Nice to see a person thinking of the next man. Cleaning out the electric boxes. Bottom of the plaster. Cleaning up. A true tradesman
That was good to see :) I always wondered how the cables got covered in plaster 1:00 when stripping them back
He only did it because he knows the sparkles will go looking for their boxes with a hammer
As an office monkey for the past 20 years, I have the utmost respect for skilled tradesman👍
Do you , I think most of them are robbing bastards.
Yes, me too!
You might want to look again mate
They're glorified labourers
Try respect yourself
I plastered 18 yrs, great great money, reputation beats ads, stay clean , mind you I’m 57 now and my shoulders are shot. Well done
Im a cabinetmaker and I’d employ you any day of the week. First class work and liked how you stayed calm - too many plasterers are stressed out and racing - creates a stressful worksite. Lovely work.
Calm and smooth is fast
Plastering for nearly 40 years nice to see nice neat clean job with the sockets cleaned out I used to fix thinbead with gripfill adhesive it saves lots of problems just push bead on small brush to blend, oh and marshmallows corner trowel a godsend.
Its fantastic to see your attention to detail. Your videos are great and do reflect the real world
Even though I've been skimming for 17 years I still love watching another spread in action 👏🏻
My old dad found plastering quite taxing on his body in the last 10 years of his work life, so he tried to specialise in doing the small jobs that no other plasterers really wanted. He had ties with electricians, window fitters and plumbers and basically went around filling chases and small voids after the workmen and snagging. He said in the last years of working he made the most money ever for the least amount of work. If he didn't opt to do this sort of work, he is convinced his body would be a wreck in his old age.
Great advice cheers bro food for thought been offered this type of work many time and turned it down
This
Brilliant
They were a different Breed back then. I have x4 Brothers. We all all Spreads. My old man is a spread. He was 76 Last week. And still got a trowel in his hand. He's slowed down now. Only smaller jobs. But up until 4/⁵ yrs ago. He would still be plastering Chimneys off roof ladders. Bringing down Gable ends on his own with a labourer 💪👊👏
God bless the TRADESMEN who WORK with their HANDS. GOD MADE A WAY WITH THESE HANDS AND MINDS👍🏼 GIVE GOD THE PRAISE🙏🏼. YOUR WORK IS BEAUTIFUL
Mate just the fact your looking out for us joiners by running the trowel across the bottom, legend
F**king winds me up that does!
Great video thank you as a Diy renovation my house learning from you,tried plastering many times i can do around sockets,small holes and a 12 inch square patching up is my limit,would give anything to have your amazing skills and patience,keep up the great work and fantastic channel ❤
Most honest scouser i seen, hope customers still got his car alloys and stereo! Only joking. Top work , top man!😊
Stokie not a scouser
@@Jack-lo1uc ellesmere port 💪🙌
Scousers hate that joke about them being thieves and I’m not surprised.
Wrong side of the river to be a scouser- just. (although to a geordie/cockney you'd be a scouser lol) I can't win, get called Welsh from scousers,get called scouser from Welsh, hard when ya stuck in the middle lol
Probably one if the best plastering videos i have watched on KZhead. He is straight down the line very informative and points out the finest of details on what NOT to do and why. As another person mentioned it was very good to see him working along the bottom with the trowel making the job easier for the joiners and also to see him fill a hole in the wall which he did Not have to do, what a genuine and caring bloke top man, thanks for showing us your amazing work and giving newbies like me a better crack of the whip and making it easy to understand without waffling. Thanks very much Bristol Lad 😊👍💪
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Well done on a nice tidy job, cleaning out the sockets and taking the lip off the bottom for the skirting and cleaning up is what made the job.
I'm a chippy by trade and i was on site with the plastering guy one time and i said let me have a go it will be a doddle. Got the trowel about 30cm up and thought i best stick to woodwork. Lesson learnt! Plastering is an art and not for the DIY novice
Currently have a plaster in my house right now... chippy as well. I did all the plasterboard and bead work .. could never get the skim off the hawk 😅😅😅 so that's why he's in
A art really ??? Don’t be stupid and flat pack isnt carpentry
Great video's kirk. I've been plastering 35 years and you explain all aspects of plastering so well. 😊
Howdo kirk, i watch a lot of the plasterers on here, i can plaster, render and everything else to a good standard, but i still like to see how others do it to see if i can learn anything from anyone else. I noticed when you turned up and started saying about flexi trowels, all the others who post plastering vids changed their tune, lol, you are the most real of all of them, i have picked up a few things from you, nobody knows it all ! Keep up the good work.
As an Electrician I have never seen my socket boxes cleaned out of plaster. So this was a first and it's easy to do when wet.
Chinese can do the same job at half price and 2 hrs
That's because as a spread we don't get time to clean em. I worked on site for 40yrs as a plasterer and using sand/cement backing with carlite finish or lime. The speed went up over the years as new plasters came out, like toughcoat/hardwall and so on. With speed came cutbacks, socket boxes, ceiling rose holes and so forth were left as-is because trowelling over 80 metres in one go gave no time to stop, let alone clean boxes out. I have cleaned boxes out in households which I have not done many, as most of my work was on large stuff; schools, warehouses, gyms and hospitals.
If when you clean the boxes out sparks always broke the plaster.
Clean you boxed out between trowels standard procedure
Put your wires in the box they get cleaned out if you don't then they don't get cleaned it's that simple
This is great, some real life advice. Man, you make it look so easy!
True artist! Bravo..Specially for plastering where the worktops go..Something only 1% of tradesmen would do and it's such a criterion of professionalism.
As a chippy its nice to see a plasterer do the bottom right and not sticking out top job mate 😎
Best plastering channel by far mate be great to see some floating vids and tips keep up the good work 👏
Great job Kirk. Your video quality is on the next level!
I'm trying to get better mate
Great video tanx for the upload,if ever you decide to come of the tools you could open up a plastering school,you have a great in depth way of explaining things👍👌
Some great advice nowt like watching an expert plasterer at work, nice job mate
Great work Kirk I’ve just found your channel through suggestions on other videos and I’ve got to say your not one of these one skim Jim’s you see going viral doing ridiculous sets on board work. It’s nice to see normal tradesmen taking jobs seriously and getting a good finish even on a late start👍🏻 Im a joiner by trade but also a plasterer nailing timber together is a very hard job indeed 😉😂😂
Love the videos! Especially the extra bits you do for the following tradesman.. as a decorator a lot of the time I see things left for the decorator to do. So nice touch on that. Keep up the good videos 👊
As I approach my 65th birthday I have to say that these jobs are few and far between,,you simply cannot get them all the time,BUT this fella is a tradesman,clean work and is trying to help people so rock on and keep the videos coming
Always a pleasure watching your work! Worth every penny for that graft. 👍🏽💪🏽
There are many worthy skills, plasterers sit on the pinnacle of them all. 🙌🏻
Ive been plastering for years but I love your videos and I also play mind games when doing reveals etc.
Another very informative great vid. Thanks for taking the time to share your knowledge.
Very good. It's a pity that there are so few tradesmen like this.
Why do you say this? How do you know?
If you put a handful of cement in the bonding, it’ll send the bonding off quicker. The more cement you add the quicker it goes off 👌🏾
This is exactly what I did before starting to use bonding half time. 100% it’s easier to gauge how fast you want it to go off with cement. The darker the mix is the quicker it goes off 👌🏼
The 60minute bonding is good
And it will not shrink and crack .
Doping it my old boss would say
Cement and dirty water 😂😂🏃♂️
I love watching people who have integrity 🙏
Subd after this fist video, im not in the trade but very interesting and great description /knowledge of the job . 👍🏽
I use lime to set the bond off quicker always keep a small amount in an old 10L paint bucket with lid on or 20min easy fill for the finish plaster 😁👊
As a plasterer with 25 of experience use to do kitchen, bathroom and wc for councils for over 8 years and i used to do all in the same day, including the ceilings ceilings
Great content BTW. 👍. The mark of a good plasterer, making sure the skirting line is flat so that we Joiners can put the wood flat on the wall. 👍👍👍
It’s nice when you get a decent wedge. You get paid properly, you do the job properly. Everyone’s happy.
Well done mate 👏 👍 excellent work
Brilliant channel. Great watch. You are a credit to your trade. 😊
I've just signed up for a home DIY course having recently bought a project of a house. I've never plastered before and it's a little bit daunting but I'm really looking forward to having a go. These videos are brilliant. Thank you💪
Those courses are a waste of time and money they will only teach you what the guy in video will teach you for free. Just skimming is easy enough as long as you have sealed the wall properly you will have plenty of time to fanny around with it just start with a small wall like a chimney breast
@@colhughes3892agreed. Be careful Neil, the people who put out these courses are massive con men.
@@colhughes3892That's not the best advice! Some People have never never touched a tool in their lives let alone put a mix on! If they get shown how to knock up a proper mix and load and hold a towel properly that's worth its weight in gold! I've been to plenty of people's houses who have just "watched" a KZhead video and it's ended up costing them thousands for me to put things right!
Never learn anything from those courses, I did a 4 year apprenticeship in plastering that taught me the basics and all the rest was just on the job, but the biggest tip is practice,practice,practice and don't use dirty water in a mix otherwise you end up wearing it as my mentor was a old school veteran from the days when they used to wear a shirt and tie to work lol
The most important method to take from this video is to apply two coats, 2nd coat little milker than the first make sure the skim coat does not have any little hard lumps in the bag when mixing 2nd coat, smooth first coat before you put on 2nd .
Hey Kirk, do you never add scrim to the corners? i was always told to scrim the corners! was someone pulling my leg or what!
Good job. 👍 Every aspect considered. ⭐ My apparent award winning plasterer moaned about every room, took matters into his own hands after being given specific instructions, complained about and argued with other trades on site, set bent beads, stopped 3-5 inches from the floor, left gaps between the wall and ceiling, and covered all floors, cables, pipes, and windows in plaster and then left without cleaning. Just earned himself a new award from me... #1 worst plasterer ever. 🏆
Why did he seem to be an award winner? Did he make this claim? Plasterers are bound by codes and regulations to follow certain standards. It is not the plasterer's prerogative to leave a job incomplete or to spread plaster where it does not belong. If I were you, then I would seek recourse.
@@satchelsatchel Yes... he and others did make this "award winning" claim, and it was published online. The main issue I had by the end is that he just wasn't as good as he thought he was. Maybe winning an award had gone to his head? All I know is, the contractor who recommended him haven't used him again since his performance on my project. I had too much on my plate to seek recourse, so I just settled his bill to get rid of him. My time was worth more to me than any amount I would have looked for in compensation.
Good professional work ethic my son AND nice ‘quiet’ hands on the trowel for a big guy 👏💪👍 If the customer doesn’t like the price for quality work - then let the ‘rough’ squad in!!
Thanks for the nice comment mate
Do you scrim cloth over a re-skim if no cracks visible?
This was me other day haha kitchen after first job. When your driving there your thinking of the plan. SBR straight on then prep and off you go. I can relate
Nice job mate. I was wondering do you also trowel the corners with a corner trowel or just brush them in?
Great to see a professional looking after other trades like me painter
Painter & decorator 38yrs & i know a good one when i see one, my trade i follow the plasterer & a good plasterer is gold dust, it's hard bloody work I've tried it but im useless 👍 masks on fella when mixing as that shit is no good to breath in , im speaking from exp old skool tradesman who are affected by it 👍
Love it, but Reveals last, it’s thicker and takes to the bead better. Then some nice wet butter with first flat
O my what a price nice, was quoted £600 a wall, 4 walls to a room, all ready and prepped just waiting plaster. Nice one good man 💪👍🦾
Brave skimming around live light switches, do you not cut the power to those circuits before you start ?
I gave a lot of work to plasterer in greater Manchester area… I had to clean up all the time because they didn’t use masking tape , I was told they didn’t want to spend the money, so I started to tape everything of myself
you sir are the G.O.A.T of plastering👌
A plasterer that clears the back boxes... that's as rare as hens teeth. Most of them don't bother and leave them full of gear.
I did a one-year's plastering course at college in 2014 and got a certificate so i skimmed my own living room walls and i felt so proud of myself because it looked pretty smooth i was showing pictures to my tutor he said well done but then it got a lick of emulsion paint and then all of the indentations started to appear so it put me off and i never picked up a trowel since
Always just put Matt on it as silk shows every thing up
Plastering is just about the only thing I can’t do to save my life. Love watching you guys do that as it looks so easy. Only one question is it normal to put two coats of finish plaster ? Cleaning out the socket boxes you are giving plasterers a bad name. I thought the idea was to hide them so we need to get the metal detector out
Port lads killing it 💪 Hard work pays, well in Kirk
I stumbled across this & im not into diy or anything but I well enjoyed that. Therapeutic guy!
Great work what make of sbr do you use please.
great video , I live in the north west and am looking to learn how to plaster, is there a reputable course nearby you could recommend? thanks.
How many nails do you put in ur standard 2.4 bead?
Do you know if you add a couple of handfuls of cement with bonding it sets pretty quick
Top notch lads 👍
A plasterer who cuts out the boxes and fills in-between the doubles 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Now then, DIY plasterer here. I've got a house full of rooms with gloss paint on that doesn't seem very well bonded to the substrate. Do I need to scrape it all off (nightmare...) or can I just bang some bluegrit on it and plaster on top? I'm worried that the bond between the gloss paint and the wall underneath will fail with the added weight of the plaster causing the whole job to go tits up a few months later, but I'm lazy so it's a catch 22
Use SBR if you want ripples and lumps in your finished skim where it’s not gripped, I’m not a fan of it personally, £600 for an afternoons work I don’t know any spreads round my way who are getting those prices.
Was thinking exactly the same thing £600 wow only used three bags of board finish there is no way in a million years I would like to see inside that envelope
@@user-tw9is4it8e Only ways he gets a price like that the clients been let down and they have no choice but to accept his price, they’re stupid and can’t count or they are generally used to having their pants pulled down when they pay for work. Round my way at the moment there’s a real shortage of work even sites have cut back on building houses and privately there isn’t a lot and what there is everyone’s chasing it and under cutting. There are too many bullshitters out there and not enough guys telling the truth.
@user-tw9is4it8e click the link in the description, I'll show you how to earn alot more than that every day mate 😀👍
@@Onthetrowel on them type of rates you must be close to being a millionaire 😂😂😂
@@user-tw9is4it8ehe did have a 35 k tax bill last year I think 😢
Hi mate, I laboured for a plasterer for a couple of months and he never worked with wet corners noticed you did. Does it make a difference or not? Cheers boy
Hey kirk if them lazy sparks didnt tuck them cables in we didnt clean out the boxs, but if they cut and tucked the cables in, then fair enough we cleaned them out, most of them didnt
Had some lad I worked with years ago got so annoyed with sparks not leaving cables in boxes he’d cut the cables all same length and add an extra cable screwed to the stud so it would fuck them up😂😂 site manager was fuming with him though😂😂😂😂
I love how you consider the next tradesman's job and make sure you don't make it hard for them. Nobody seems to do that nowadays, they are just in and out as fast as possible doing the bare minimum they can get away with.
Solid content pal... New sub earned.
Chuck some cement in the water before you add the bonding and don’t mix it to thick,takes a bit of practice but goes off quick and doesn’t shrink and we pva the Chanel’s .Why didn’t you pva the walls instead of sbr?
You're good at you're work brother u and a guy called baine r my favourite to watch proper good keep up you're quality work 👍🏻
Blaine 😊
@@OGDadAverage that's the other guys name i spelt wrong sorry
As my job was a tiler for many years, not all plasters care about the tiler coming in after them. Yes they plaster and cover the walls, but how many plasters, make sure that the plastering they have done is straight and flat for the tiler ,answer none ,they don't care as long as they have their money. This guy is a nice guy, he got 600 pounds to plaster this kitchen, then the unites draws and everything else is fitted, that will cost around between 1,500 to 2000 pounds, then the tiler goes in and prices his jobs ,and the number of times ,i had people say how much, when i was asking around 200 to 250 pounds to tiler it. well you have to explain most of the time that ,the plaster has covered the wall ,but it is not straight, so it is not a case of just throwing them up. I bet thee is a lot of tilers out there who will tell you the same. But saying that in the end i went on a 6 week course ,and did the plastering as well myself and the walls were straight.
Mate it's a massive issue for tilers for sure.
Nice video kirk. I like those jobs a few bags of finish and you earn a decent amount of money. Hows kireran getting on learning when do you think he be ready to whack a set on unattended 👍
Skimming hangs longer on sbr, thats why that gauge took longer than 3 hours. Should of put pva/sbr on walls before bonding chases then you wouldn't have had problem with sbr mixing in with skimming.
First thing for me is always get the walls primed. Then Bonding with a dash of cement. Skimming in half the time
True @@stayspicy9456
Fair play cracking job fair price and extremely considerate of other trades not many around like this .
Brilliant vid😊
The SBR is still tacky because the painted parts are vinyl silk and slower the pull it in I’ve got much different things I rather do but another thing and not green grit but similar and hardly any cost at all and give you the advantage of some suction always a big plus when skimming 👍👍best wishes to you all and every plasterer
No plaster would start a job in the afternoon!!! !!!! You need to learn the word mañana ……. Great work love you r enthusiasm ,
I'm a plasterer with 25 years of experience and I can tell you that I can start skimming iven at 3 o clock in the morning 😂if good payment
Ever thought of using a speed skim to flatten out first 👍
alot of panels in one set, respect.
Watch out for filling in chases in old terraced properties with bonding the bottom 1mtr because of rising damp!
Brilliant video.
Any decent sparkie will use the correct back boxes and joining lugs so you dont have to worry about the space between the boxes.
This is the world we live in my mate
I've been a sparks for 25 years, I was trained to always think of the next man...etc etc...
Oh man. I was a plasterer for 10yrs. It was torture 😂 earnt 1k a week site plastering. But I lost my mind. Retrained as a bricklayer. Similar earnings. Wasn't as hard...I mean...hard but not as testing as plastering. Now...I'm a construction project manager. University as a mature student was difficult. But it was worth it. More money less work...physically of course.
Fair play getting off the tools 👍🏼 work smart not hard
What product/bond did you use for filling the chasers and holes? What kind of mix was it? Thanks a mill unreal channel
It's just bonding coat mate
Never plaster over PVA etc if it is still wet, it needs to be tacky.
One question,do u need experience or any qualifications to do plastering?
Wow it’s nice to hear that think about the chiippys coming behind you. I do the same and think about the decorators coming next. If only everyone could think like this!
Superb video set up is spot on. Must take a bit time buddy.
Nice work,I alway's find your work evicts interesting and you're u tube post's amazing for hints and tips thanks..
I appreciate that!
You make it look so easy 👍
Yes... plastering is still classed as a simi-skill. 1 to 2 months on the trowel, and you'll be where he is.😮
How come you use sbr instead of pva? Won't sbr pull quicker than pva....you know your stuff for sure but I've only ever used pva
I don't mean to brag. But I think I'm the best Plasterer in the world. This one time I forgot my trowel so I ended up doing the whole building, (a 15 bedroom mansion in the country) with a butter knife. It took me 3 hours to do the whole mansion. The finish was pristine. Like glass it was . The customer was so pleased with the job he gave me an extra £10k.
Having been plastering for 40 years or more, about 20 of those years with my dad , who taught me , it's a pleasure to see someone with pride in his work and doing thins logically. Also, while you are clearly fast enough it's great to see a job without a bloody mess everywhere. No point slapping it on like a loon when there's more on the floor.
Spot on, cheers Al 🙏
It's true - some plasterers do make a hell of a mess. In fact this chap is the cleanest plasterer I've ever seen (I've not seen that many - I usually do my own (slowly and badly - plastering well is hard!))
Excellent work
This mans not a plasterer,hes an artist.just class
Your words have truth at heart To plaster is an art His work is art, his art is an Artwork of an artisan