Ed is self taught in most things. He watched our plasterer work his way round most of this house and then when our funds started to dry up thought “How hard can it be?”
So this is a story about how Ed plasters a bathroom, from my perspective anyway.
I’ve by-passed all the pre-amble about plaster-boarding, and adding a new ceiling and floor. You can work that out for yourselves, right?
First you buy plaster…lots of plaster
and paint the wall with PVA
Then it’s time to have a cuppa tea and a biscuit
Then you whiz the plaster up with a whizzy thing on the end of your drill
…and scoop it out with a trowel
Then you pile the lovely goopy plaster onto a board
Then you scoop it back off there…
…and put it onto the square thingy with the handle in a nice pasty shape
Now, from what I can gather, it gets more tricky.
From the bottom left hand corner of the room he starts ‘slorming’ plaster up the wall
I don’t know the technical term, but slorming seems to fit the bill to me
It tends to get quite messy. There are plastery footprints all over the place
So he works his way up from bottom left to the top right hand corner.
Then he does some smearing it about with a clean wet trowel to make it shiny
Time for another brew
Then he does the ceiling and cuts out the hole for the downlighters
I make it sound easy don’t I? I think the ceiling bit is probably quite hard, but I went to the park at this bit.
For ‘corner fans’ here’s another corner, with a bit of the original door in shot too
Ta da!
Look at the smoothness on that.
Now it’s just a matter of, fitting this bath, putting in the shower, building a sink unit, fitting the radiator, tiling, painting…..
Not sure what all the fuss is about really.
More to come….
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sarah (Catch A Cub In Its Den)
May 5, 2010
hahahaha, great post! i especially like “but i went to the park at this bit”.
Jules
May 5, 2010
I love the fact you’ve managed to fit food references into a post about plastering! The walls look great.
vic
May 5, 2010
Is there anything this guy can’t do???!!! John says – nice plaster work, but he should really be smoking a joint whilst doing it (uh??).
louise
May 6, 2010
Thats how to make plastering look stylish!! – it looks good enough to eat in one of the shots – almost like chocolate mousse!
maria
May 6, 2010
Crikey, I am impressed. We did most of the work in our old house except neither of us could master the plastering, your bathroom looks fantastic.
Sarah, Maison Cupcake
May 6, 2010
Oh to have a husband who can be trusted with DIY!!!!!! Mine just designs pretty stuff on the computer!!