I plastered 18 yrs, great great money, reputation beats ads, stay clean , mind you I’m 57 now and my shoulders are shot. Well done

Nice to see a person thinking of the next man. Cleaning out the electric boxes. Bottom of the plaster. Cleaning up. A true tradesman

As an office monkey for the past 20 years, I have the utmost respect for skilled tradesman👍

As a painter and decorator, these kind of people are a god send

Im a cabinetmaker and I’d employ you any day of the week. First class work and liked how you stayed calm - too many plasterers are stressed out and racing - creates a stressful worksite. Lovely work.

You are the type of people the world needs: down to earth with smart, practical skills and knowledge.

I'm an artist/owner-builder on my 4th building. I like plastering, it's an incredibly satisfying thing to get the nice finish of a cool to the touch plastered wall. This video is amazing, so full of information, you need to watch it at least twice. And the professional attitude is second to none, a joy to watch.

I'm a chippy by trade and i was on site with the plastering guy one time and i said let me have a go it will be a doddle. Got the trowel about 30cm up and thought i best stick to woodwork. Lesson learnt! Plastering is an art and not for the DIY novice

Most honest scouser i seen, hope customers still got his car alloys and stereo! Only joking. Top work , top man!😊

Even though I've been skimming for 17 years I still love watching another spread in action 👏🏻

Mate just the fact your looking out for us joiners by running the trowel across the bottom, legend

As an Electrician I have never seen my socket boxes cleaned out of plaster. So this was a first and it's easy to do when wet.

Not all Superheroes wear capes. There’s a lot of people like me who tried diy plastering and failed miserably, so watching a expert like yourself is enlightenment 👏

On the internet, everyone has an opinion on the work of tradesman. You're the only channel I've seen with 0 negative comments, all praise💪🏼

Probably one if the best plastering videos i have watched on KZfaq. He is straight down the line very informative and points out the finest of details on what NOT to do and why. As another person mentioned it was very good to see him working along the bottom with the trowel making the job easier for the joiners and also to see him fill a hole in the wall which he did Not have to do, what a genuine and caring bloke top man, thanks for showing us your amazing work and giving newbies like me a better crack of the whip and making it easy to understand without waffling. Thanks very much Bristol Lad 😊👍💪

I've just signed up for a home DIY course having recently bought a project of a house. I've never plastered before and it's a little bit daunting but I'm really looking forward to having a go. These videos are brilliant. Thank you💪

My old dad found plastering quite taxing on his body in the last 10 years of his work life, so he tried to specialise in doing the small jobs that no other plasterers really wanted. He had ties with electricians, window fitters and plumbers and basically went around filling chases and small voids after the workmen and snagging. He said in the last years of working he made the most money ever for the least amount of work. If he didn't opt to do this sort of work, he is convinced his body would be a wreck in his old age.

Its fantastic to see your attention to detail. Your videos are great and do reflect the real world

Plastering for nearly 40 years nice to see nice neat clean job with the sockets cleaned out I used to fix thinbead with gripfill adhesive it saves lots of problems just push bead on small brush to blend, oh and marshmallows corner trowel a godsend.

Great video's kirk. I've been plastering 35 years and you explain all aspects of plastering so well. 😊

As I approach my 65th birthday I have to say that these jobs are few and far between,,you simply cannot get them all the time,BUT this fella is a tradesman,clean work and is trying to help people so rock on and keep the videos coming

Very good. It's a pity that there are so few tradesmen like this.

Good job. 👍 Every aspect considered. ⭐ My apparent award winning plasterer moaned about every room, took matters into his own hands after being given specific instructions, complained about and argued with other trades on site, set bent beads, stopped 3-5 inches from the floor, left gaps between the wall and ceiling, and covered all floors, cables, pipes, and windows in plaster and then left without cleaning. Just earned himself a new award from me... #1 worst plasterer ever. 🏆

Worlds changed…I plastered for 45 years,I’ve an 18 year old who earns that an hour as a influencer on social media…but good to see you give advice and leave it good for any other tradesmen

If you put a handful of cement in the bonding, it’ll send the bonding off quicker. The more cement you add the quicker it goes off 👌🏾

Great work Kirk I’ve just found your channel through suggestions on other videos and I’ve got to say your not one of these one skim Jim’s you see going viral doing ridiculous sets on board work. It’s nice to see normal tradesmen taking jobs seriously and getting a good finish even on a late start👍🏻 Im a joiner by trade but also a plasterer nailing timber together is a very hard job indeed 😉😂😂

As a chippy its nice to see a plasterer do the bottom right and not sticking out top job mate 😎

Great video thank you as a Diy renovation my house learning from you,tried plastering many times i can do around sockets,small holes and a 12 inch square patching up is my limit,would give anything to have your amazing skills and patience,keep up the great work and fantastic channel ❤

There are many worthy skills, plasterers sit on the pinnacle of them all. 🙌🏻

Howdo kirk, i watch a lot of the plasterers on here, i can plaster, render and everything else to a good standard, but i still like to see how others do it to see if i can learn anything from anyone else. I noticed when you turned up and started saying about flexi trowels, all the others who post plastering vids changed their tune, lol, you are the most real of all of them, i have picked up a few things from you, nobody knows it all ! Keep up the good work.

Best plastering channel by far mate be great to see some floating vids and tips keep up the good work 👏

Well done on a nice tidy job, cleaning out the sockets and taking the lip off the bottom for the skirting and cleaning up is what made the job.

Painter & decorator 38yrs & i know a good one when i see one, my trade i follow the plasterer & a good plasterer is gold dust, it's hard bloody work I've tried it but im useless 👍 masks on fella when mixing as that shit is no good to breath in , im speaking from exp old skool tradesman who are affected by it 👍

A plasterer who cuts out the boxes and fills in-between the doubles 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Great video tanx for the upload,if ever you decide to come of the tools you could open up a plastering school,you have a great in depth way of explaining things👍👌

Great job Kirk. Your video quality is on the next level!

As a plasterer with 25 of experience use to do kitchen, bathroom and wc for councils for over 8 years and i used to do all in the same day, including the ceilings ceilings

Some great advice nowt like watching an expert plasterer at work, nice job mate

Skimming hangs longer on sbr, thats why that gauge took longer than 3 hours. Should of put pva/sbr on walls before bonding chases then you wouldn't have had problem with sbr mixing in with skimming.

I love watching people who have integrity 🙏

I did a one-year's plastering course at college in 2014 and got a certificate so i skimmed my own living room walls and i felt so proud of myself because it looked pretty smooth i was showing pictures to my tutor he said well done but then it got a lick of emulsion paint and then all of the indentations started to appear so it put me off and i never picked up a trowel since

Great content BTW. 👍. The mark of a good plasterer, making sure the skirting line is flat so that we Joiners can put the wood flat on the wall. 👍👍👍

Stumbled on your channel by chance. Our family trade is stucco and plaster, its great to see your work

A plasterer that clears the back boxes... that's as rare as hens teeth. Most of them don't bother and leave them full of gear.

Subd after this fist video, im not in the trade but very interesting and great description /knowledge of the job . 👍🏽

Love it, but Reveals last, it’s thicker and takes to the bead better. Then some nice wet butter with first flat

Hey kirk if them lazy sparks didnt tuck them cables in we didnt clean out the boxs, but if they cut and tucked the cables in, then fair enough we cleaned them out, most of them didnt

Use SBR if you want ripples and lumps in your finished skim where it’s not gripped, I’m not a fan of it personally, £600 for an afternoons work I don’t know any spreads round my way who are getting those prices.

No plaster would start a job in the afternoon!!! !!!! You need to learn the word mañana ……. Great work love you r enthusiasm ,

Love the videos! Especially the extra bits you do for the following tradesman.. as a decorator a lot of the time I see things left for the decorator to do. So nice touch on that. Keep up the good videos 👊

This is great, some real life advice. Man, you make it look so easy!

This was me other day haha kitchen after first job. When your driving there your thinking of the plan. SBR straight on then prep and off you go. I can relate

True artist! Bravo..Specially for plastering where the worktops go..Something only 1% of tradesmen would do and it's such a criterion of professionalism.

Ive been plastering for years but I love your videos and I also play mind games when doing reveals etc.

It’s nice when you get a decent wedge. You get paid properly, you do the job properly. Everyone’s happy.

I gave a lot of work to plasterer in greater Manchester area… I had to clean up all the time because they didn’t use masking tape , I was told they didn’t want to spend the money, so I started to tape everything of myself

Great to see a professional looking after other trades like me painter

im a sparky who does a little bit of plastering, mainly I started out doing it to learn how to fix my own fuckups but its really quite handy to know. I've found its hard to find a good plasterer or good tiler here in Australia, but fuck doing tiling I'll leave that for the tilers

Great video for new spreads coming into the trade. 1 question.....you said about using an extra hawk full of plaster to go down to the pipes under the window, why didn't you use another hawk full again to completely plaster the 1st wall with the radiator on? Like you said it looks good to the customer. Keep up the good with these educational videos

O my what a price nice, was quoted £600 a wall, 4 walls to a room, all ready and prepped just waiting plaster. Nice one good man 💪👍🦾

Always a pleasure watching your work! Worth every penny for that graft. 👍🏽💪🏽

you sir are the G.O.A.T of plastering👌

As my job was a tiler for many years, not all plasters care about the tiler coming in after them. Yes they plaster and cover the walls, but how many plasters, make sure that the plastering they have done is straight and flat for the tiler ,answer none ,they don't care as long as they have their money. This guy is a nice guy, he got 600 pounds to plaster this kitchen, then the unites draws and everything else is fitted, that will cost around between 1,500 to 2000 pounds, then the tiler goes in and prices his jobs ,and the number of times ,i had people say how much, when i was asking around 200 to 250 pounds to tiler it. well you have to explain most of the time that ,the plaster has covered the wall ,but it is not straight, so it is not a case of just throwing them up. I bet thee is a lot of tilers out there who will tell you the same. But saying that in the end i went on a 6 week course ,and did the plastering as well myself and the walls were straight.

Good professional work ethic my son AND nice ‘quiet’ hands on the trowel for a big guy 👏💪👍 If the customer doesn’t like the price for quality work - then let the ‘rough’ squad in!!

This mans not a plasterer,hes an artist.just class

I use lime to set the bond off quicker always keep a small amount in an old 10L paint bucket with lid on or 20min easy fill for the finish plaster 😁👊

I love how you consider the next tradesman's job and make sure you don't make it hard for them. Nobody seems to do that nowadays, they are just in and out as fast as possible doing the bare minimum they can get away with.

I stumbled across this & im not into diy or anything but I well enjoyed that. Therapeutic guy!

what the fuck man. i'm plastering a wall right now and i've used 8 hours to get halfway on the first coat. i thought the tools you used was for a different type of construction. this stuff is alien here in Norway. I will get these tools and do it the right way going forward. thank you! and for this job i would happily pay 1000 pounds easy

Yes... plastering is still classed as a simi-skill. 1 to 2 months on the trowel, and you'll be where he is.😮

Plastering is just about the only thing I can’t do to save my life. Love watching you guys do that as it looks so easy. Only one question is it normal to put two coats of finish plaster ? Cleaning out the socket boxes you are giving plasterers a bad name. I thought the idea was to hide them so we need to get the metal detector out

Oh man. I was a plasterer for 10yrs. It was torture 😂 earnt 1k a week site plastering. But I lost my mind. Retrained as a bricklayer. Similar earnings. Wasn't as hard...I mean...hard but not as testing as plastering. Now...I'm a construction project manager. University as a mature student was difficult. But it was worth it. More money less work...physically of course.

Never plaster over PVA etc if it is still wet, it needs to be tacky.

Well done Kirk. Fab video.

The SBR is still tacky because the painted parts are vinyl silk and slower the pull it in I’ve got much different things I rather do but another thing and not green grit but similar and hardly any cost at all and give you the advantage of some suction always a big plus when skimming 👍👍best wishes to you all and every plasterer

Well done mate 👏 👍 excellent work

You seem like a very nice person to work with. And thinking of other trades after you, well done sir

Ever thought of using a speed skim to flatten out first 👍

Brilliant channel. Great watch. You are a credit to your trade. 😊

Theres an art to this, i wouldnt even try to do this myself, leave it to the experts

Good plasterer is a clean plasterer.

Any decent sparkie will use the correct back boxes and joining lugs so you dont have to worry about the space between the boxes.

Miss Peagram would be proud of you man ☺️👍

Plastering is an art and worth every penny, nearly everyone can plaster but not everyone can do it properly, i’ve known plaster come off when a door is slammed 😂

£600 for half a days work. I would only work one day a week. Its so hard to find a good plasterer so you are worth it.

Thats it im done with Decorating im going for plastering, i dont get 600 for a weeks work

Another very informative great vid. Thanks for taking the time to share your knowledge.

Doesn't matter if it takes 1hr it is the master skills that are value for money.

I don't mean to brag. But I think I'm the best Plasterer in the world. This one time I forgot my trowel so I ended up doing the whole building, (a 15 bedroom mansion in the country) with a butter knife. It took me 3 hours to do the whole mansion. The finish was pristine. Like glass it was . The customer was so pleased with the job he gave me an extra £10k.

Wow it’s nice to hear that think about the chiippys coming behind you. I do the same and think about the decorators coming next. If only everyone could think like this!

Bang some hydrated lime in the bonding, goes off in 5 minutes literally!

Dont forget the floor layers that have to scrape yer plaster off the floor b4 fitting 😂.Nice job pal.

I been sparking for 45 yeas never seen a spread clean my boxes they used to cut all the wires short and skim over woopies for metal dectors in the 80s from argos 😂😂

Faster usually means rougher

Brave skimming around live light switches, do you not cut the power to those circuits before you start ?

I am a DIYer but use lime plaster due to age of house... with a 2 week set time, its a different world.

Always up and down with the beads 😂😂😂😂😂

Great stuff. Clearly you’re a talented professional and all round nice guy. What would a labourer make a day?

Having been plastering for 40 years or more, about 20 of those years with my dad , who taught me , it's a pleasure to see someone with pride in his work and doing thins logically. Also, while you are clearly fast enough it's great to see a job without a bloody mess everywhere. No point slapping it on like a loon when there's more on the floor.

I used to have a lot of trouble with electricians in my day!!!!!!😂