How To Use A Trowel and Hawk - Plastering For Beginners
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- čas přidán 27. 10. 2018
- This video shows you the basics of using a Hawk and Trowel for plastering. For more info visit the plastering For Beginners website at plasteringforbeginners.co.uk
If you're completely new to plastering then one of the most important aspects of learning is mastering the basics. You’ll never be able to plaster a full wall if you can’t use your tools.
That's why in today's video we are going to show you how to use your Trowel and Hawk. You’ll learn how to get the plaster from your Hawk and eventually discover the key to applying plaster to your wall.
the tools I'm using in the video are:
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Marshalltown 14” Trowel: amzn.to/2RhwzbN
Regina Plastic Hawk: amzn.to/2PoZrl8
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Thanks for watching. For more information visit our website for more tips on plastering and improving your own home:
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This video should be a model for other CZcamsrs demonstrating practical skills: great, straightforward videography, no music fannying about in the background; clear and concise explanation of what to do (and why) accompanied by a great demonstration - repeated a few times. And the handy tip on the end to keep practising loading the trowel WITHOUT slapping the plaster on the wall! Brilliant! One of the best videos of its type I think I've ever seen on CZcams! :)
Hi Mark. Thank you mate, I really appreciate your comment. It's great to hear feedback so I thank you again for that. Hope your plastering is going well and it's great to hear from you 👍
Well said 👍
Great video!
Wish I had of practiced this before trying to plaster, it was a fricken messy situation! And repeating the motion a few times so we do t have to rewind, Thankyou!
Totally baffled at who would give this video a thumbs down, seems like there are decenters for anything these days. This is a brilliant video I am not a plasterer but capable engineer and having watched this video have now plastered 100m2 + and have started to KRend external finishing using the same technique shown in this video. I only watched the video again as I was looking for anything specific to KRend. Fab post and thanks for taking the time to make the video.
My father was in the plastering business.
He started his business shortly after the end of WW2.
In 1952 i left school and began working with him full time.
I had worked part time for several years prior to that.
Back then there were no mortar mixers being used by plasterers.
The brown coat mortar was 100# bags of gypsum mixed with sand by hand using a large mortar hoe in large metal mortar boxes.
We would mix 3 or 4 bags at a time with 13 shovels of sand for each bag of gypsum.
Then we used a hod to carry the mortar from outside the house where the mixing was done to where the plasterers were working.
The hods would hold 5 full square shovels of the brown coat.
As an apprentice, your job was to mix and carry the mortar to the plasterers, build scaffolds, etc.
And, when caught up a bit, you would use a hawk and trowel while standing at the mortar board practicing loading the hawk and taking the mortar from the hawk with the trowel.
We were not permitted to apply mortar to a wall until we were proficient with handling the tools.
Meaning, taking mortar from the front of the hawk, not the back of the hawk.
Top notch advice, thx
I agree with David Smith. Too often the basics are missed. 👍well done !
Thanks Richard, really appreciate that pal.
Just finished plastering my first room, literally learned everything from you! Happy with the outcome. Thank you so much for your help.
Brilliant mate good one you! Glad it's worked out and thank you for the support! Really appreciate it 👍
Nice lecture
Brilliant just the video I was looking for 👌👌👍
Good to watch you and refresh
Cheers mate!!
great channel mate enjoying the new videos .
all best Simon
Thanks a lot mate, really appreciate it!
Great video mate, I've learnt a lot from your videos, helped me out a lot. Keep up the good work!
Thank you - I appreciate the support! Glad to hear it's helping you out. Thanks again, hope you're well 👍
Tell you what. I really enjoyed that. I’ve been at college for months and they’ve not broken that down aswel as that. Thanks pal.
Not a problem mate, I'm glad you found it useful!
This is a great video, going to try and plaster a small hall way ceiling over artex, these videos really help, just need to muster up the confidence now
Thank you for saying my friend!! You'll be fine - you have to start somewhere and it's never as bad as it seems!!
Great content as always
Thanks a lot Mate 👍
Man this is great
Cheers pal!
Very well explained... You'd make a great teacher. Thanks Llewellyn... Swansea
Thank you!!
Great video tutorials buddy,any chance of doing a video on applying scrim to plasterboard prior to plastering.
makes sense. Thanks
Great video great advice
Thanks a lot mate 👍
Awsome thank you
For drywall compound, I much prefer the hawk and trowel. It's got a learning curve but you can spread so much more
Good video, thanks
Thanks mate!
Thanks for your videos. Something I'd be interested in is tips for plastering a large/complex area. Should we use a retardant to slow the plaster down and do it all in one go, or, split it? If it's split how is that done without it being visible, stop-bead, feathering? I need to plaster my hallway and I'm considering the sponge float/speedskim method as it looks faster.
Hi Blaine, lovd your vids , as a DIYer don't do as much plastering as would like , your vids help me refresh my plastering skills. I've invested in some new 14"trowels ( MT PS, RSF2 and RPF) , misplaced my old 12" hawk which used with 11" trowels, just wondering what size hawk is optimal with 14" trowels ( going to get a MT aluminium) but not sure whether to get 13",13.5" or 14"?
Awesome
Cheers mate!
👍🏻👏🏻
I’m just starting learn plastering now, I find it hard to get a wet mix of plaster from my hand board to the top of the wall that’s the difficult bit for me at the moment
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How much would you mix just to practice? I suppose it has to be the right consistency as a full 12.5 litre mix?
All good. Thanks. The only thing is I'm a lefty so I'll be using my right hand for the hawk
It's all good mate. That's not a problem
Holy cow dude. That hawk is like an inch thick. You ever clean that thing??
😆 polyurethane, light and wont warp like metal ones but break easy
Hi great video, im interested in learning to plaster as a full time job, if I can get on with a plasterer how long realistically will it take me take on my own jobs? Im a multi skilled guy and have good experience with in the building trade thank
I really couldn't say mate. Everyone is different and everything picks it up at a different place! It's just one of those things 😉
The forgotten art of practise.
I love it when you get people who think it's easy. They don't realise the hawk has weight on it. They wobble when you pass them it. Then... try to get gear off is a right laugh. Almost jab at it with trowel. Finally, get a bit of gear on the trowel, I say don't get it on the skirting. Boom, it's on the skirt and floor. People don't realise the hawk moves, too. People watch plasterers and miss all the skill.
blaine do u know the scientist that changed career to a plasterer ? stephen “hawk”ins
I’m left handed and is it opposite way
Nice! Did you make your own hawk?
No mate it's just an old plastic one!
Hi, thx for the video :) I am french and I wonder what it is that you are calling plaster (what type of mix is it)? Is it gypsum? Lime? Anything else ??? Thx !
Bonjour! Great hearing from you. Yes, its a Gypsum plaster which is readily available in the UK. Hope your enjoying the videos and thanks for getting in touch!
gypsum in this example. lime is very different
omg ....i have been plastering and didnt know this...YOU CUT THE PLASTER...
I was always taking from the bottom of the plaster and it ends up all over the shop.
What kind of damn hawk is that? Looks like 1/2" thick. And who let's you mix up and play with a bucket of plaster in their clean kitchen?
It was my kitchen 😂
Why aren't you using an aluminum hawk? I can't imagine cleaning that is effective.
They are lighter. It's a dream to use and clean 👍
Great advice but that mix looks quite stiff , the real skill is doing that with a wetter mix . By the way im no expert and my comment isnt a criticism.
You do have a point but I just wanted to show the basics with the mix I had. However you are right - the wetter the mix the harder is is. I appreciate your comment mate 👍
What's a hawk?