Fixing skirting to plastered walls

[foxhole]

A good plasterer can and will make a crooked wall straight.
Big straight edge is all you need and should be part of any good plasterers's tool kit.

Here in the province you don't have to trail after other tradesman with a tube of caulk!

 

[noseall]

The province sounds like the place to be, what with cheap concrete, internal drains and arrow straight walls. It's a wonder there aren't boatloads of people heading there to live.

 

[chirpychippy]

The plasterers that work on my jobs also don't plaster to the floor which makes a good finish on skirting awkward, their excuse is that they don't want to drag the s**t that's on the floor up the walls! Horlicks!!!

 

[noseall]

The plasterers that work on my jobs also don't plaster to the floor which makes a good finish on skirting awkward, their excuse is that they don't want to drag the s**t that's on the floor up the walls! Horlicks!!!

You can plaster to the floor as long as the room is swept and hoovered.

Otherwise it common practice to avoid skimming the last inch or so down to the floor.

I fit our skirting so i know what it is like. When I skim walls I try and make sure i run the trowel along the base of the wall to avoid that inevitable lip of skim that always kicks the skirting at the bottom.

P.S. if you have never done skimming then you have never dragged up a load of crud off the floor up into a freshly troweled wall and ruined hours of work and spent another half hour trying to work some gear into the scars.

 

[sleepless_amateur]

I fit our skirting so i know what it is like. When I skim walls I try and make sure i run the trowel along the base of the wall to avoid that inevitable lip of skim that always kicks the skirting at the bottom.

In my case what would be the safest way to remove or smooth off that lip at the bottom?

 

[Norcon]

noseall wrote

When I skim walls

You don't surely do your own skimming?
Why don't you get a pro in?

How many tubes of caulk do you go through?

 

[Norcon]

I fit our skirting so i know what it is like. When I skim walls I try and make sure i run the trowel along the base of the wall to avoid that inevitable lip of skim that always kicks the skirting at the bottom.

In my case what would be the safest way to remove or smooth off that lip at the bottom?

Hammer and bolster.

 

[gregers]

bosch gbh drill with clutch facility,when i was on site this was an absolute god send,matter of minutes.

 

[sleepless_amateur]

bosch gbh drill with clutch facility,when i was on site this was an absolute god send,matter of minutes.

Is that not a bit excessive?

 

[gregers]

bosch gbh drill with clutch facility,when i was on site this was an absolute god send,matter of minutes.

Is that not a bit excessive?

not when your on price it aint.

 

[noseall]

You don't surely do your own skimming?

You say that as if skimming is a dark secret. I have been plastering for aboot 30yrs. Back in the day we used carlite browning and carlite skimming. Tough work. Skimming boards is a doddle compared to wet plastering.

Why don't you get a pro in?

Funny.

How many tubes of caulk do you go through?

Hilarious.


I do however have much respect for our Irish and Scots colleagues who make rendering look easy. I'm pretty sure they could show a lot of site plasterboard board skimmers, what plastering is all about.