Onoff

Maybe learn Welsh? The wife's uncle married a Welsh girl & learnt the language. They never really accepted him but it kept Meibion Glyndŵr away!

Love it!

Bugger.....man flu!

I was told on here not to use watered down pva on my concrete floor that wasn't to be tiled for a long while. It was just to dustproof it. The against being that once tiled, if water gets through the grout it can soften the pva film under the tile adhesive and the tile can lift. I used watered down sbr instead. Noted it's getting a tad dusty again so it's probably all worn off by now!

Nope, I use te boards. There's one I think te to square cut edge on a short bit.

Cheers, v.helpful. So half teaspoon of cream of tartar in the first set? Mix a full bag for the ceiling? It's nom 3x3m but only about 8sqm in total as I'm leaving inside the cupboard for now.

Trust me I'll get that first set on like Billy Sulphate from Viz! Got the can of Monster and some hard trance all ready!

Just the joints have been done 5:1 with the garden sprayer. Agreed, it's messy! Over to a roller from now on. North facing, Sun less side of the house. It's the coolest room in the house. Open the window and the temperature soon drops hence going a bit ott with the PIR all round. As for levelness over the joints I'll have to put a straight edge with a light behind or something. I got very little fall off the hawk onto the floor. Trick is to wet the hawk then dry it off on a bit of pb wall so it's damp but not wet. Watched this guy a couple of times, room looks a similar size and I like his style. Plus he's from darn Sarf! I also "wore" the trowels in with some 80 grit paper following another vid I found. Erm that's where the Onoff moniker stems from...all or nothing, feet first or sat on arse! I also have to be punched many times before I realise it hurts!

Breathes a sigh of relief! :) Yep, that's the plan. The BiL's knocking on 70 anyway and has back trouble plus I WANT to have a go.

All I have to go on is @nod's post that they will show through if you don't.

A bit of background; I filled the joints with multi based on @nod's comment of April 5th. Assumed "separate mix" was multi:

I often wonder what the post count would be of these threads if you subtracted the pi$$taking? I'm as guilty as the next man of that but it's interesting how some forums have some super anal mods who will jump on and remove off topic posts. The mig welding forum is pretty good for that. Just saying.

Erm...multi... So guessing from the "God loves a tryer!" comments elsewhere (without them stating why) that I've done something wrong by using multifinish over tape to fill the joint. Only guessing really as "Best slept on!" type comments are hardly helpful. Typical of most pure "trade" forums tbh, they advetise as DIY friendly then close ranks when one comes along. Generally this place isn't like that covering multi disciplines as it does. AFTER some reading I suspect it's that multi isn't considered strong enough for jointing purposes and that any stress on it might (will?) show up as a crack? If that's the case is there any way round it? Wider "repair" tape? Or magic paint? Thanks

8W cool white spots stop you looking up too...

Two man lift and the cover comes off! They then get to experience a fully sunken bath.

I really MUST board this hole before I go down it, I can just about cope with the two main levels! Handy for sweeping the crap down though.

Is there anything special about these internal corner trowels? I've some st/st angle and could tack a handle on easy enough.

So I put the metalwork away for another day and decided to have a crack at taping and filling the joints. Someone said if you don't they'll show through. But first I scraped off some nasty blue stuff that I thought might make things a bit gritty... I've about 4.9L left if anyone wants it... I put 5:1 pva through a garden sprayer. I'm sticky from head to toe. Now I know how @pocster must feel 24/7! It was OK on the two wall joints but it dripped from the ceiling. A bit of kitchen roll and some dabbing soon sorted things. I let the pva go tacky and whacked some in the te joints. The short joint to the right of the body dryer where the spot hole is, is I think a butt joint, so it'll be interesting to see how that comes out: Where the Febond Blue Grit had been was a little awkward, it went "liney": But I let it go off and went back and flatted it off (flatting being a term we plasterers use ). Bottom line is I'm not scared of it! Reckon just doing that little bit that my right arm will ache in the morning. A feeling many on this thread I'm sure are familiar with!

Had a beer...had an idea!

The Courage Best is suggesting not tonight dear, I can barely type.

I've been halfway down the patent road a few times and always held back. I always remember my big bro rejecting / pi$$ing off that Trevor Bayliss, he of the the wind up radio fame when he (my bro) was in the civil service. Can't remember quite what over. I'm pretty sure his company takes a hefty chunk of your ideas for their services.

Cheers for the support Ed. Of course the doubters are the sort who'd probably buy their own stairs!

Picking up my 30L plasterers bucket up from Screweys on the way home!

Just got to scrape the hardended gun foam off the big st/st trowel and derust the other one...

You only pay for insulation ONCE.