This was excellent tutorial, thank you so much! I have watched all your videos and on those earlier videos (filmed farther away) it seemed to me that your every coat was perfectly flat from the beginning, without any flattening. So, I have been wondering why do you need flattening if it already looks perfect. In this video you showed close-ups and then I saw those bubbles and lines and now I understand the need of flattening. You are talented teacher, your instructions are clear and you obviously want to courage us non-professionals to try and learn a new skill. I won't ever be a professional plasterer, but with lots of practicing I hope to achieve a skill level which satisfies my humble needs. And for that we need professionals like you, who are willing to teach beginners. Some other professionals are telling that we are not even allowed to try plastering.

Hi,I subscribed and bought some of tools you are using.Ox,refina,and others.I am not experienced in this trade but like to learn from You tube comunity.You are one of few guys that I folow recently and frequently.In my place it is so hard to find proper plaster aplying person.There are few and they can do what they want.Not to answer calls,not to do work on time ,charge for they work in gold.It is tourist renting apartments business in expansion going on and around.

Really useful - I'm sure it looks easier than it is but gives confidence

Dont listen to the people that attack you. What you are doing is helping people to learn and that is a GOOD thing! I bet those who have nothing good to say aren't helping others! thanks for your knowledge.

This is the best plastering tutorial I've seen on KZfaq so far, thanks. I have 3/4 of a room to plaster next weekend (one wall was done before I moved in here) and I'm trying to commit these techniques to memory before I begin, hopefully I won't make a mess of it.

As always Blaine spot on with your videos everyone as helpful as the next. Brought my first home last year every room needs re skimming so here I am watching learning and if anyone didn’t know there’s a Facebook page to which is full of great people at all skill levels. But I’m coming along nicely with my work and once I’m done with my house I’m going to go down the professional road in plastering because I absolutely love it. Thanks again Blaine 👍

Im a spark and addicted to your videos. I do some plastering to fix the issues i caused and doesnt come out too great. Since watching your videos it has come out a lot better and one person said i was better than their usual plasterer.. Much better. Thanks

Been plastering for 2 years and still watch your videos for help. Great plasterer

I start collage plastering level 1 very soon I’ve never plastered in my life but after this video I think I will be a step or two infront of the others cheers fella

Thank you for all help mate. 18months ago I was a labourer and skint. Watch the plasters and thought well that looks easy, hahaha how wrong I was... I have had countless fxck ups if honest but today did my first price work and tbh out of 50m and a handful of filler snags boss was very happy. I owe a big part of that to your informative detailed vids and you have upped your detailed help even more today with this slow mo vid!!.. although, just about professional standard now this video still massive help. Thqnk you for helping the ppz without the means to do a course.. #Legend

i'm a plasterer of 40 year's, you explain the basic's very well. good job

your doing everything correct mate well done a good teacher

that was fantastic mate, ive done a little bit of plastering years ago but now ive got 7 walls to plaster! your videos have helped me a lot. thanks

Good video... I’m a total beginner not tried/started out yet Found your videos better than 5-6 other ppls that I’ve seen It’s easy to follow like the bit where you explain ‘why’ helps to understand and also suggestions for example ‘coming back over may be harder than coming off and going back over’ so that way when we try won’t think I’m rubbish bad idea but would remember you saying don’t worry go back to the basic stroke... Nice love it Thanks helps a lot actually feel like I’m ready to try it out now!

The more of your videos I watch the more confident I am at having a crack at it. Excellent tutorials mate 👍

Your videos a second realistically useful videos I ever come across on KZfaq, and the only one from fresh ones (the other was published 8years ago), with clear explanation why "from here" "why like this" and so on.. Thanks

Hi Blaine, been watching your videos since i decided to tackle a few jobs at home myself. I started with a small boxing in job, then a 5 metre wall, and today ive just plastered a little 6metre artex ceiling, which has come out the best of them all! And its nearly all down to your videos. Thanks for sharing the tips and tricks that you have learnt in the trade over many years with everyone. Top man Steve

Good video, you make it look so easy,,as a plumber doing plastering,its not easy,but i need more practice,

I am an older guy, 66. The plaster business in America was dying out when I was young. One of my friends started as a lather but soon changed his career to an electrician , that's when I met him. There were no bad plastermen! If your work wasn't good, you starved. The plaster men worked all day as long as the plaster was wet, you took a coffee and lunch on the run. Now I want to learn how to mix and apply plaster....

outstanding you got to be the best instructor on KZfaq

Really good video.This was one of the first things I was taught when I started out.Always make your next stage easier and laying on that first coat flat makes hell of a difference in output and the quality of the finished work.

As soon as I can get some plaster I will be having a go to improve my home. Excellent videos. Keep them coming

Great videos mate. I use an Mt 14in permashape for laying on, refina 600 and 800 spats for levelling and smoothing troweling with a 16in refina superflex before polishing with a plaziflex. Works for me. Keep up the good work.

Great tutorial sir 👍

Really helpful Thankyou 👍

I think plastering is the only trade ive physically seen a grown adult male brought to tears. The sheer sight of behemoth cradling his tyzack rocking in the corner with big snotty bubbles running down his face was enough to mentally scar me for a decade. Hopefully with this video i will not be that guy! Good vid well done!

Great video Blaine. I just bought myself a Permashape. Great tip re the 320grit, things as smooth as silk now.

I thank you sir. Well done.

Good tutorial very helpful

Wow nice work 👍 I'm planning to plaster a ceiling patch after a water leak from shower trap. Same technique ?

Pretty much the perfect way to put on first coat. Your next video should be how to flatten the first coat. Then do a second coat vid. Then how to sponge vid and so through every stage till the end. Name all the vids the same and say stage 1-2-3 and so on. Ppl will like it. 👍. I’m a plasterer myself so I know it’d be helpful if done like that. 👍

I watched one of your earlier vids today right before plastering my kitchen ceiling. It was very helpful and I definitely would have got into trouble if I hadn’t watched your other vid a few times first to take it all in. I do wish I’d of looked through your other vids aswell though first as these later ones really help to see what you’re doing with your trowel angle etc. Thanks very much mate. Subscribed.

Hello, Thank you so much for your video. I have a question: what is the sizes of tips do you recommend for plastering? Really confusing and will be appreciate for any help. Thanks you.

Thanks for great tips!

Great videos like your technique and you have great finish I'm sponge floating for the first time in 17 years and I must admit it's a better finish many thanks John

Out of all the videos I've watched this is the best. Not that the others were poor. Far from it. I think this was down to you talking and showing the method as opposed to narrating over the video. This method would probably hold you back too much. Cheers once again! I'm going to follow that link right meow :)

Love your videos Blaine and bought the £10 course. I have problems with timings. Another problem I have is that I work as Maintenance Manager in a Grade II listed Theatre. When I plaster its usually a partition wall I've built and has to be left a little uneven or it looks awful against the existing old walls !! 😖😖. I would love to be able to plaster as well as you. Again........Great videos mate!! Stay safe, Dave .

Very informative. Silly question but does your hawk need to be bigger than your trowel so you can get full width of plaster onto it?

A great video.. in the middle of renovating my house . Watched all the videos and am looking for more to come .

Great Video this Blaine. It seems I have been running my trowel at the wrong angle when applying. So leaving a right mess of a 1st coat. For some reason I am only getting 20 minutes working time with the 1st coat and pretty much the second. Tried 2 5m2 walls today but ended up with loads of holes, trowel lines and bulges in the finish. I find myself in a race against time. Will go over them walls tomorrow with this new info. Thank you

Brilliant video thanks very much, you come across as a genuine guy too

Nice video, really enjoyed it and some great tips! You make it look so easy and after plastering most of my house I know how hard it is! Out of all the diy jobs plastering is the hardest! Cheers mate 👍🏼

very helpfull thank you very much

great video I too have been plastering on and off for a number of years . But seen a plasterer once when doing rewire of a house . He was using mesh on a roll that when he put first coat of plaster on, he then cut the sheet of mesh onto the wall so as to cover the whole area and then applied his second coat. His idea being that this should be put on old walls with cracks so as to stop cracks coming through the new plaster have you ever seen this being done and would be good to show on your channel. Cheers Paul

Thanks very much for this great video. Detail on trowel motion is most useful as is the advice about alternative trowel movements for beginners.

Loving the vids 👍🏼 I’ve just started learning should have done a long time ago, but after work I’m getting 1 Wall done a night. Not the best finish but I’m happy with it. Your videos do seem the best out there 👌 maybe some videos of dot and dabbing?

The best training vids...well done mate.

Great video! Learnt a lot - thanks.

Hi tanx for the upload,as a diyr always intrested in plastering tried it once when i had builders working in my house but was useless the plasterer told me you either have a natural hand to work the trowl or u don't and he said he doesn't think I'll be able to be any good at it even with loads of practice which knocked my confidence a little bit, Do u think anybody can master it or is it for someone with a natural skill using a trowl ,ive come across plasterers who said it takes years of practice just to become a decent plasterer and not everyone can plaster a ceiling to a good standard even with years of practice.

As a complete beginner, is it recommended to use a notched trowel first, to apply even quantity of material and then skim for even surface?

Excellent video, Iv been watching your channel for ages, I really want to do my bathroom ceiling as it have artex or bobble, it’s solid so I can’t scrape it, could you do a video on that. If it turns out bad I could always take it out and reboard but that’s the last option, it’s only small. Stef

Brilliant

Very good

PS Skill Builder recommended your site to me.

Your videos have been a great help. I certainly don’t need to get the electric sander out as much now 😂. Is multi finish plaster still workable after 60 plus minutes? My main issue is that I get scared it’s going to go off so I rush the finishing.

Brill video thanks for posting. You make it look so easy well done that Lad

Thank for these videos mate, gives me the confidence to do my own place. quick question tho.... Say you have one mix for your first coat, can you use up the whole mix and do more than one wall or is it better to do one mix per wall? just thinking as four walls would be two bags per wall totalling 8 bags...

But what brownish material are you putting on the wall?

If it is flat can u go straight over with second coat to save time also can u show a video of vaulted ceiling were the ceiling meet wall and they put a curve on it do they bond it first thank you

Hi nice videos helpful. I was just wondering if you could plaster on uneven surface and explain the different plasters to use like bonding plasters.

I am a novice diyer and was considering plastering a wall in my house. So many people have told me plastering is really hard to get a nice finish and I should use a product like polycell smooth it. Im not sure whether to just give plastering a punt. Anyone else have any thoughts on this? Thanks

👍 Thanks.

Very usefull but I've never done it and I have a 2 bed flat to do not sure I can do it lol

Good lesson I had trouble reading the titles in white on a white wall apart from that looks easy. Lol

Great vid

Could I practice my trowel techniques by just gliding by trowel across a wall trying to keep my trowel angle consistent, or will it damage my trowel?

Great video mate that's a thumbs up 👍

Great tips thanks. What if you already have skirting on. Do you treat it as if you where coming from the corner wall.

Can you cover lime plastering please?

Looking for 1st coat on lath, not done much anymore I guess.

Thank you for this great video ! you're applying the first coat of plaster directly to dry wall ? Every video I have seen so far they've all recommended to use a primer before applying first coat of plaster. What is your take on the primer ? Is it not needed ?

Your videos are great mate

you seem to make it so easy but how long after the first coat do you flatten it.

I was wondering if you have to apply pva or a bonding agent to help plaster to stick

Real good like all your vids. Keep up the good work!

I tried it and it didn't work out, You seem very talented though congrats on getting to be as good as you are. 👍

I took my boot through a plasterboard wall and then blamed the kids, just so that I had a reason to replace it and learn how to plaster over it... 🤣

What base trowel are you using?

Hi I studied at college and got my diploma but don’t like my plastering did haven’t really done it in say 3 years. Would u say start up again and just take my time while applying until I’m happy with the outcome???

There is plaster coming off in one of the bedrooms, not the whole wall. I've taken the plaster off and the plaster seems to be quite thin. I was told about using PVA before the bonding plaster but! i'm puzzled as how many bonding coats to apply and when to use a Plasterers Scratching Tool? Please help. Do i use the scratching tool on the bonding or the multi finish plaster.

Wish I watched this video before I plastered today! 😔😭😂

Thanks so much for this! Awesome video :-)

Really enjoy all of your videos and as I'm new to plastering I find them a big help. I wondered if you use a feather edge and could do a video on it?

Yes mon

🤙 class.

So does the plasterer put up the plasterboard as well? or just tape and plaster it? thanks

Heya mate do you pva the plaster board with multi skim finish not multi finish mate just got two bags to try it on my own project

Thank you for your fantastic videos. I've been studying yours and plasteringforce's for a while now and have begun plastering my own house. How can I avoid getting vertical humps near the corners of walls please? Also, which trowel would you recommend out of a permashape pre-broken in or a normal non broken in Marshalltown? Thank you

decent video, cheers!

Great video, noticed you are wearing a wrist strap. I’m also suffering with pains in my wrist whist plastering. Does the strap help at all whilst plastering?

Good 1 m8 👍

Hi. Why is my plaster looking gritty and rough when I smooth it across the wall ?

Hi was thinking about doing plastering but people are saying won't be good for me because I have autism

Another good video.... but I think you need to do teach different things as well.... getting the perfect angles, round door frames, low electrical sockets etc which are a lot harder to learn ....just saying not been critical 👍

Do you go straight onto first coat using same mix for second coat? I have always done 2 separate coats however I’ve tried using the same mix with mixed results? Definitely quicker doing that and saves mixing up twice? What do you think is best?

Very detailed tutorial mate, top man!

I mentioned to say a barrel ceiling

Does one trowel do the hole job?

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