Making good

[Richard3009]

Do most domestic electricians do the filling and plastering after the install or leave it to a plasterer to make good.

 

[GLENNSPARK]

depends..

good tip here:

get a PVC/water mix....you paint this into the chases....

stops the new plaster dropping out and lets it`bite` onto the existing stuff....otherwise you could find yourself following the chase all around the wall...

 

[dan86]

I personally make good myself. that way I know the job is done right and I get all the money. fark paying a plasterer or the likes if ya dont have to!

 

[Richard3009]

yep agree with the pva mix for deffinate don't try and fill a dusty chase, I like to finish the job and making a chase flush and flat is not as challenging as a large area.

 

[trev]

Don't do much domestic but if I do I have a mate who is a plasterer. Why mess about is my view

 

[davesparks]

When I worked for a building company, we did not make good, that's what the painting and decorating department was for.

Now that I'm out in my own, if I need to make good something to make my life easier I will do so. Otherwise I will chuck a base coat of bonding into chases and big holes having agreed with the client that I don't do final filling or decorations.

Obviously anything more than decorative like reinstating fire barriers or preventing water from getting through a hole I have drilled is different.

 

[uksparks]

I do all my own making good.

Chases, I use easifill 20 min as it goes off in 20 mins funnily enough and then I can power sand it if need be.

I Hoover all chases first so they are dirt free.

One the other day, I thought it was going to be a quick easy job, but turned into a big job, you know those double single back boxes, not a double but two singles in one frame.

The woman said can I convert the single plug into a double... Yeah no problem

The back box was fixed at the sides, nothing behind it apart from a damn cavity, took it out, made an even bigger hole in the wall, wammed loads of 20 min easi fill in mixed with brick set the boxes in, jobs a good n. the lady had just had brand new carpet laid that morning too...

 

[Deleted member 9648]

Make good but make good in the same way as a plasterer would.....use a bonding first fill and a final skim with finish. Watch a plasterer do it and learn,my making good is better than most plasterers,but then I've been doing it 30 years. I've yet to see a decent job made with any of the 'alternative' plasters such as one coat or 'easyplast' etc....you never see a plasterer using any of that krap.

 

[SparkyJoe]

I Just make the mess, I dont fix the mess

 

[shanky887614]

Bit of polyfiller is all ive ever really used.

A guy last year got me to mix some bonding up for him so im sure I could do it again if need be, you guys score it to get it to grip better?

 

[BES]

Don't do much domestic but if I do I have a mate who is a plasterer. Why mess about is my view

Same as me trev plaster mate lives in next street to me get each other work. Don't mess about with that horrible pink stuff.

 

[uksparks]

I am more than capable of plastering walls and ceilings and getting a good flat finish this ready to be painted, but if just filling a chase or Lund a box, easifill it is, it gives a good finish. I retired a bungalow and did all the chases with it, quick power sand and painted and you would never hve Ben known it was there.

I only use stuff that gives me a good result, yeah proper thistle board finish is more desirable I guess but you have to wait for it to dry.

 

[uksparks]

This is the stuff I use...

Gyproc Easi-Fill 5kg, 5015892854643

There is nothing wrong with this and it gives a perfectly acceptable finish.

 

[londonlec]

I don't do plasterering, I get a plasterer in.
I can earn more money being on another job instead of pi55ing about with that.

 

[jay sean]

Bonding and then easi fill, Cant go wrong