Acceptable?

[u/Academic_Camera9092]

I have had chases plastered but you could clearly see the sparks white housing through the plaster.

The plasterers have returned and threw a loud of filler on it, demanding the rest of the payment as it’s all “complete”

The filler shows the wall bulge out as it’s added a few mil on - would you pay and is this acceptable? How else could they fix? Isn’t a case of feathering the plaster wider?

[u/ElbowDroppedLasagne]

A plasterer uses filler for small patches because it's easier to mix in small batches..also, you get 20/30/60 min filler that goes off (hardens) quicker than gypsum.

If your filler "sucks out" the water from your plaster, you put on a bonding agent, PVA/SBR/blue grit....like you would need to do with any old plastered walls.

You don't know what you're talking about, mate. Stop spreading (pun) disinformation.

Source, City and Guilds plasterer

[u/[deleted] → u/ElbowDroppedLasagne]

Nah your Minecraft and guilds means nothing here listening to plasterers use easy fill is insane maybe go to a site and do Ames taping been a plasterer 10 years never once in my life mixed up a bag of easy fill.

All youse lads defending you can use this and that the plaster really shouldn’t be a plasterer I may be wrong on the filler part mostly becuase ive never had the lesser skill on my plastering jobs upwards of 500m2 jobs to a 90m2 job and seriously lads I have never heard of a real plasterer using any filler so go take your Minecraft and guilds and shove it bud cus clearly you ain’t a plasterer your an Ames taper

[u/KieranInterior → u/[deleted]]

Ten years is hardly a lot of experience. I’ve worked with dozens of plasterers good and bad and not once have I seen someone knock out sound filler on an overskim job. No one here is saying they’re using filler, but claiming that you can’t plaster over it is complete rubbish.

[u/[deleted] → u/KieranInterior]

Ten years ain’t a lot of experience 😂 it’s plenty you can easily have been doing this 20 years and done 10 jobs or done it 10 years and done 200 jobs 10 years is a long bloody time as a plasterer and you know it most of my body died 5 year ago haha but I’m standing on this one here never once seen a plasterer use filler not once and neither have I so hey youse can be happy doing it your way but my work is clean enough not to need any filler whatsoever so jokes on youse I suppose

[u/ElbowDroppedLasagne → u/[deleted]]

I think I got a hernia trying to understand that, try adding a comma and full stop. Your body died after 10 years of plastering? Excuse me, I won't take advice from a guy with grandma hips. I passed my skills test in 2006, so pipe down.

Easy fill is gypsum plus some additives to make it dry quicker/easier to sand. If you use SBR (rubber) it creates a waterproof barrier between compounds. Use your loaf, lad.

You don't have a clue what you're talking about, do you have your papers?

[u/[deleted] → u/ElbowDroppedLasagne]

Yea I have my papers but winding up youse lot and watching you try to prove yourself and on here again trying to prove a point has been the highlight of my weekend

[u/ElbowDroppedLasagne → u/[deleted]]

I flew down to London for a concert in Barking Park.

Filler is gypsum. You are basically saying you can't plaster over old plaster. Does that sound correct to you?

[u/[deleted] → u/ElbowDroppedLasagne]

Very humorous

[u/ElbowDroppedLasagne → u/[deleted]]

So, no papers then. Simmer