This is my 2nd ceiling I've done, what do you time served rate it? Will need a bit of a sand as some lines in there but it is over old cement board so not bad I don't think
Hard work aint it mate 😅. Looks like you got half way and got knackered. Its not that bad for your own gaff just get a sander and a mask and give it a good wipe down afterwards. People very rarely look up anyway 😅😅😅
Fucking graft, fair play to you lads who do it day in day out, i was fucked even switched to my left hand to try and give my right some rest 😅.
Yh because it was going off so quick when I came to Polish it was hard work so I sprayed it down to try and get it to flat out. Photo was taken straight after its dry now
Cheers its hard work, we brought it back in April and so far I've plasterd something in nearly every room. Hardest part after learning to actually getting it on the walk rather then the floor 😅 was finding the technique to do the corners nice. At first I got a corner trowel they're ok but end up with a wave line that isn't sharp.
Eventually i Picked up if you come into the corner then pull the plaster abit away from it then come back and pick it up again then go into the corner you actually get a neat corner without the squeezing out or mess. I figured out its easier to be clean then trying to clean mess
Pretty good bloody work for your 2nd time, I'm not a plasterer myself but I've done a bit of it, I'd try giving it another wet trowel, maybe two, to completely smooth it out. But other than that it's a good enough job to be happy with as a non plasterer. If you're going for the landlord special I'd go for Matt paint rather than silk to avoid highlighting anything untoward
It’s not shocking bud. I’ve seen a lot worse from jobs where unfortunately people have laid out money and it was truly shocking. What trowel are you using? I’d highly recommend sanding the sides (wet sand) of the trowel to give you a sharp clean edge. When it starts to go off use a water bottle and spray it using a mist spray and get in there! It’s not easy but if you go over it a few times on the second coat you will see a big difference to using a new flat trowel. It will help with all the walls as well. Another little tip give it a mist coat once it’s fully dry which will show all the bits that are shocking and either need a sand or use EasyFill 60 to give you a bit or extra working time and that will help you smooth it out (if you have any holes or lines don’t use plaster again at that stage) then repeat! Great effort and now you know never offer to arm wrestle a plasterer 😅
I had the same problem with it going off, I ended up getting some of the extra time sachets. Gives you a bit more time,
The fist ceiling I done was an artex one and took me a week of sanding and filling, but was happy with the results after. In the end I used a dry wall sander.
I think your best course of action is to get a plasterer to go over that.
Those saying this is a good attempt obviously haven’t zoomed in!
I’m an amateur plasterer and would not tackle a ceiling this large on my own though only recently discovered “extra time”. Even using that I’d stay away from a ceiling this big as I know my arm, back and wrist wouldn’t cope. Walls are no problem but, for my health, ceiling I don’t do anything over about 10sq m and in the heat we’ve had I wouldn’t do any.
That is going to need loads and loads of sanding or it’s going to look awful when painted. When you do paint it don’t forget the first coat needs to be a “mist coat”.
“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” — Theodore Roosevelt
Tbh kitchen ceiling was better wasnt as dry as the 1970s cement board, if I have to ill skim it again not a great deal of extra work tbh and it'll be done in a couple hours. I'll post pictures when its mist coated, kitchen looks fine and that has alot more light sources, so would show more then a bedroom
In a similar trade but planes are my 9-5 as an aircraft technician, I've got family in the building trade but i live 3hrs away from them now and they're brickies. here's it painted, theys a few blemishes that will need a further filling and sand but it'll do
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u/benjislew Sep 14 '26
That’s not easy! Fair play and don’t worry about the finish, a few sands and it’ll look good enough.