The path to success | Plastering tutorial
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- čas přidán 27. 10. 2021
- In this tutorial I demonstrate a lost technique in traditional plastering, how to skim the surface! Guiding beginners/sponge plasterers to the next level
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Perfection 💪 you make it look easy
Bro you killed it !!! 🙏👍
Bless you for these videos, I just subscribed so I can get all the info I can outta them. Thanks brother
Definitely the best way to plaster and achieve a top finish nice work mate
Thanks bro 🙏🏼
How it should be done, keep the vids coming! 👌
Awesome mate, can’t wait for the next vid. Been waiting for these 👍
Great to see you again Lloyd 👍🏼
Thanks bro! I hope it helps you become a better plasterer 👊🏼
Share the knowledge 😉
bang on mate, im sick of telling people your first coat is the most important all i get is just chuck it on as fast as you can
Thanks mate
Tell me about it! Glide don't grind 👌🏼
Your one of the BEST I've ever seen do it Dan. You got anymore videos coming, would love to see one on corners and a ceiling. PS how long your sets taking you, and what's the most amount of plaster you've ever mixed up?
Very good video thank you very much
Simply lovely....
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Great vid mate. Looking forward to the next part.
Thanks bro 🙏🏼
very impressive dan really nice work, fellow spreader
been looking forward to the vid mate, im 18 been in the game since i was 16 i flatten first coat with speedskim then fllatten again when second coat is on then wait till its bit damp but not to wet then go over it with the refina plastic trowel then go over it again with my nela laying on trowel then give it the final one with the nela flex 2 to get rid of any tiger stripes or anything from the previous but loving the vids mate
Hi John
Thanks for watching mate 👍🏼
Sounds like you're doing great! I started just a year earlier than you. Plastering is a hard game to crack! Easy to learn but hard to master
@@DanSoloPlastering how old are you now Dan? Who taught you ? Great videos
Sign of a very good spread u do all the same things i do. Keep her 🔥pal
Thanks bro 🙏🏼
Hi Dan after first coat when you “skim” with the spat how is that different to what most guys call flattening? Great vids nice to see how other guys work.
nice!
Great work. I still don’t understand the difference between using a speed skim or a nela spatula. Both flatten, both are flexible, and both leave you with the same result surely
nice work dan can you do a video on running cornices insitu and staff beads etc
Are you 8ft tall
Having just subscribed I'm watching an older video of yours where you advocate a long pull down from the top.
Is there a reason why you've changed to the more traditional long pull up from the bottom?
Really like the straightforward style of video.
Hello mozzer, thanks for the sub 👍🏼
That's my favourite way to plaster! I do still plaster like this alot, it's alot easier on the wrist. I lay in a few different ways to try minimise the strain on my body. Top to bottom is all legs and light work on the upper body, bottom to top I find is harder on the back arms and shoulder so I like to switch it up now and then
👍🏻please 🙏 speak more about timing between each stages(1skim-flatening,1st and 2nd coat,and 2nd coat and troweling)maybe something about you gears(trowels,speedskim etc)you have so much potential let's build your YT reach
Hi Dan, what’s your opinion on the Refina Spatulas with the thin blade?
This is great bro , where’s the part 2!!
Hi Dan great videos , when is part 2 coming out , can’t wait 👍
Thanks bro!
Sorry for the wait I'm working on it now mate, won't be much longer
Top man👍
is your trowel a pre worn marshalltown trowel or did you have to wear it in mate
Hi Dan. We have just bought spatulas and want to use them instead of a speed skim. Can we use a spat on the second coat as well. Also, could you please explain the first spat as you mentioned that this was skimming and not flattening.?
We would like to use your methods as our sets seem to take 3 hours.
Many thanks for your videos Dan.
Nice! What 1 did you get mate? I have the 800 nela hard steel spatula! If you go back and watch again look at how I even the pressure through the blade by pushing at the base of the handle. This will make it alot easier to glide over your work. Skimming off the surface is like self leveling your first coat. A very fine version on rulling a wall, just shaving of the surface! With the right angle you'll find as you are skimming the surface the build up of plaster on your blade is being dragged back onto the wall at the same time
My main trick to a faster set is skim the surface on 1st coat with blade at a sharper angle to open up the plaster allowing it to pull from both sides! Then catch it just at the right time to grip that thin 2nd coat. From here on its a glide! Closing over compressing the plaster. No need for a spat on 2nd coat as it's so thin the spat can make trowling up alot harder but all this is only possible if you're able to lay flat Straight from the trowel, in long strokes at an evenly laid thickness! Playing with it too much can slightly hold back the setting time 👍🏼
@@DanSoloPlastering We have gone Refina skimming spat and nela finishing spat so may well dump the nelas.
We gave it a go today and have seen the benefits of your description and and fully appreciate your time and effort in giving back your reply Dan. Total respect and many thanks.
What size trowel do you use and what make is it? Have you wet the ceiling corners before troweling upto them? Do you use a corner trowel for the wet corners?
18" marshalltawn trowel. I wet the corners before I start and all my angles are free handed 👍🏼
Hi mate, been watching a lot of your videos and I’ve noticed that you overlap your trowel by half over the last bit of plaster you laid when laying on. Is there a specific reason for this ?
Hi Dan 👋 any tips for an absolute beginner please?
What size trowels do you use keep up the good work
My tools are displayed in the thumbnail of this video bro czcams.com/video/6LewgetsXsE/video.html
Iv always used an 18" trowel 👍🏼
Do you use spat to skim the seccond coat..
Would you use pva over bluegrit?
Do pva artex or pregrit ?
Hi Dan
What are the advantages of using an 18" trowel over a 13" trowel. Enjoyed watching the way you work
The main difference is that you can lay on much more gear. I work with an old school spread and when he saw my 13” M/T trowel he said “I don’t ever wanna see you with that trowel again” lol 😆
Hi try this blue grit on wall I did pull in very fast look ok in the ligth put now notes when got lamp shade room see lots waves and dumbs in the wall do no what course this happen thanks
Great video what size and make is your spatch
Thanks Michael
It's a 800 nela hard steel spatula 👍🏼
What kind of spat you using? 👍
Jougot that sust. I noticed when you put the plasyer on, you are over lapping each trowel of plaster, that's were I'm going wrong. Where did you get that 2ft spatula ?. Great video
Hi Dan lovely job! By using the left over mix and waiting to use it for the second coat does this set that second mix at a faster rate than normal? Also how long did the set take you to complete? 👍
Hi Nick, thanks mate 👍🏼
Yes is does but not much, maybe sets 10 min quicker? But it does stiffen up prettyquick! I do it so I can close in my 2nd coat quicker then a quick wet trowel when ready, go for an early lunch around half 10 and polish before my next set at 11. Each set takes 2 and a half hours 👍🏼
Won't take 2 1/2 hours in the winter. Unless using heaters
Nice work anyone tell me the make and size of the spatula
Dan how old is your Nela superflex do you change them often ?
The very first nela super flex 1 lasted me a year and a half! Now I struggle to get 6 months out of super flex 2 gold edition. Im thinking of switching to the flexi marshalltown next
I got the nela black edition don’t like it at all have it nearly a year thinking of getting marshaltown flex myself
What's the difference between using the metal spat and a speed skim ?
A plastic speed skim has lines on the end of the blade that drags the plaster to level it off, simular to a sponge float. A hard steel spatula will glide with no drag keeping the grain embedded into the plaster 👍🏼
Thanks for replying that's pretty interesting, I'll have to give the metal spat a go at some point
Love the vid!....... I know about your debate!! BUT why didn't you just chuck the wires in their hole's????
How many bags of plaster have you mixed up here? Doesn’t it go off with 30 minutes of mixing??
Yes mate, but I can chuck it on pretty quick. If mix is going off too fast you may be putting to much air into your mix? If so try mixing like in this video! It's a 2 and 3/4 bag mix 👍🏼
Are you always use blue grit instead of PVA ?
No mate it's horrible stuff but was already prepped so didn't have a choice. On vinyl silk paint like on this job I'd prefer to use thistle bond it! Anything else internal I just pva if I can unless it's a high suction area, then I'd use sbr to kill the suction first and pva after 👍🏼
Hey i love your video is the best plastering tutorial I have seen so far and I have seen a lot of them,keep making it and posting m8.im buying house im getting ready to plastering my self your vid. is very helpful
@@Brick_dont_hit_back thanks Andrew 🙏🏼
Iv just bought a run down house myself that I'm working and have 2 more videos coming soon so hopefully they can help you out too! Any questions don't hesitate to ask 👍🏼
so what is the difference between flattening and skimming?
Hi Paul
Flattening can follow the different levels in the background on a reskim or ramp over an uneven spread, even trowel out a tapered edge on plaster board but skimming off the surface can get a wall/ceiling perfectly flat from 1st coat! Its like a fine version of ruling off a wall 👍🏼
what trowel do you use ??
Marshalltown mate
@@DanSoloPlastering what marshalltown is it pre worn one
Those walls silk paint ?
Yes mate 👍🏼
Well ya obviously doing something right as your results are better than mine and so is your speed
when is the second vid coming out of troweling up
Working on it now mate, hopefully by the weekend 👍🏼
In what way is this traditional plastering???????
Please, I've been plastering for 32 years.
Hi Luke, thanks for watching!
Iv also noticed you giving some advice in the comments 👍🏼
Are you the old quacker on a new account by any chance? You write very simular 😆
First of all think what the word traditional means?
Tradition is a custom or belief that is passed down through the generations! Iv been plastering for nearly 25years now working around the world with hundreds of plasterers from 3 different generations! So I'd say I qualify as a traditional plasterer being able to do every aspect of plastering
Tradition doesn't need to be hundred of years old or require a certain pedigree to come into existence
Traditions get invented all the time! Traditions can be invented by reviewing precedents and drawing forth cultural norms from sources, or they can be synthesised out of a pre existing tradition
Something could’ve been done a long time ago, with various different nuances, and re-invented as a tradition which then creates a kind of standard that excludes and possibly destroys the original range of practices
In this video I have laid the top coat the same way as on solid background work in accordance with tradition!
I hope this answers your question 👍🏼
fair play flat as fuk on a reskim too not board looks a crackin job
Oh Dan Solo fan boys
A great video just a shame your're not actually explaining it yourself, instead of the text. Music is a little distracting too IMO. Nevertheless great work mate. Thanks!
Hi Daz
Thanks for watching mate 👍🏼
Yes I agree youtube music isn't the best. I am planning on that in the future I just make these on my mobile phone at the moment
Decent work mate but hearing you slate the sponge all the time gets boring
Will save for 2nd coat🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Doesn't anyone know how to take mud from the top of their hawk anymore
Guess what? Time and people evolve. Stop slating people because they're not stuck in the stone age ... FS
Evolve? 😆👍🏼
1 for dough 2 for show
When you get 50 yrs in tradewill see the way you work your back wont make 10
That's not very nice?
You been drinking again quacker? 😆
Did plastering break YOU?
I'm nearly half way through my 3rd decade in plastering injury free and still smashing out sets with ease! So I must be doing something right?
Being a plasterer since 1998 iv noticed 3 types of plasterers!
we got gliders at the top level who's trowels wear at the toe down to nothing, grinders trowels will bow in the middle due to the emense pressure they take and spongers, well we all know what I think about that 😆
Gliders can last a life time in this trade while the grinders and spongers usually wear out and break around 20years in. What 1 would you class yourself as?
I'm a glider!
A rare breed in this trade knowadays it seems? Let me assure you, my neck, shoulders, elbows, wrist, back, hips, knees and ankles are doing fine 😊👍🏼