She Learnt Plastering In 7 Hours…Here’s How
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In this video, we taught a complete beginner how to plaster a wall. She had no previous experience…literally no Plastering skills…she hasn’t even seen a Plastering video before this experiment.
But we’re managed to teach the fundamentals to Plastering which meant she plastered her first wall. All this was under 7 hours of work.
Sounds crazy!!
But it happened. And we’ll show you exactly how in this video. She did an amazing job and it just shows that anyone can learn the art of Plastering.
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Thanks for watching. I'll see you one the next one.
Cheers.
Blaine Gray,
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Hats off to any woman thats willing to have a go at plastering 👏👏👏
What a great girl, no fear, just went for it. I am sure she will be doing a wall on her own very soon.
She’s a legend 👍
Better than Rog lol
I was putting a log burner in and came across your video You helped me do my chimney breast. First time skimming and it’s perfect in my opinion. Thank you pal.
A broken in trowel and controlling the suction are the keys to plastering.
Most of us, beginners don’t have a broken in trowel which makes the learning phase unbelievably difficult.
I’ve over boarded 3 ceilings and then plastered, using brand new tools, what a nightmare was the first ceiling even though it was only 6m2.
I then forced broken in the trowel, by shaping the edge and the corners and what a difference it made, I also used a SpeedSkim, what an amazing tool and then at the end I used a plastic blade trowel, very forgiving tool.
I’ve then plastered a whole bedroom for a friend, using rendering mesh as well as the walls had some proper cracks.
All in all, I hated the first ceiling, I now love it, it is so satisfying to know that “YOU CAN DO IT!”.
It doesn’t have to be absolutely perfect, although my 3rd ceiling came close to perfection.
Thank you buddy for everything you do, I’ve learned so much from you!!!
You have all my respect !
Your right the new trowels are the problem for most learners, Its not the correct way to learn, but useing a flexi trowel will help, this trowel is very easy to control when compared to steel, it is also a god send for people with tennis elbow or wrist problems, my last 15 years at work I used a flexi for putting on and plastic to finish on the new houses, and only the flexi to put on and finish on revite work, and yes a good marshel trowel can get a better finish', but if you have the skill, there is very little differnce, I have had tennis elbow in the past, there is no way i could of worked with the last 15 years with a steel trowel, plastering is all about saving your body if you intend making a career out of it, do anything to make this work easier. It has not progressed that much in the las 50 years, a bike cog welded to a piece of steel rod was the mixing drill, and a rake/shovel and a tin bathtub was used for backing plaster.😃
great comment
@greenup9913 I remember the old crank wheel. I started in the mid 80s and did it yrs like that and when paddle drills came out it was heaven. Same as when self adhesive scrim came out. It was a dream compared to cotton scrim. No multi over your joints first.
That's some thick second coat gear!!!(11:05 you can see it keeps it's shape when she puts it on the hawk) - makes it more difficult for her so fair play to her
Mate your a wicked teacher. An apprentice would be very fortunate to work with you 👍
Thank you mate! Much appreciated
Well done Alex. Good of you Blaine to teach Alex and taking us through the procedure. Thanks
She's a natural but also well taught- her method taking the plaster off the hawk is pukka. Really liked you commenting on the sound the trowel makes- tells you a lot about the way the gear is going on. I would encourage bringing plaster down to the skirt instead of starting with a full trowel down there but maybe too tricky for a beginner?
She’s lovely. Something so pure about neophyte to a subject.
Great video as always Blaine!
More videos like this please, really useful for beginners!!!
My brother has been a plasterer for over 20 years. He's kept me waiting too long to do my kitchen so this video has been very helpful and I'll be attempting to do it myself, thank you
Give me a shout when you need it done right
Great teacher and well done student Alex. That was brilliant for 1st time.
She did a great job!! Hats off to her 👌
Purchased your course a couple of years ago, which enabled me to plaster a small wall. Amazing course that gave me a basic understanding of how it’s done. Thank You Blaine.
Thanks for buying it! Much appreciated…cheers pal 👍
very good teacher, and she did great,
Great video, you have great patience and that's a fact, well done to your student
Very well done Alex for a great first attempt at skimming, very impressed at how little you dropped on the floor, being able to cut the skimming, and get in on the wall in the first day, I can tell you for sure, you are way ahead of the crowd. If you get the hours on the trowel and Blaine keeps teaching you, I would guess after seeing this 7 hour effort, you will be probably be confident enough to complete a wall like this on your own to a good standard within 3 or 4 weeks or so, and in no time you will be able to work soft angles, once you can do that a wall becomes a room and your well on your way. Good luck and make sure you learn as much as you can from Blaine, as he looks a pretty good teacher to me.
Quality content Blaine. The girl done really well 😊. I don’t think I’d say she actually leaned plastering in 7 hours because she wouldn’t be able to do a wall to that standard on her own, however she seems to be somebody that it wouldn’t take too long to teach. Most apprentices would have it all over the floors.
Appreciate the videos, fantastic 👍
I started using the sponge float you showed in a previous video. Gamechanger!
Thank you mate! Glad to hear that you’ve found them useful
I’ve been plastering for 26 years and I’m still learning, I don’t care who you are, not just that if he’s a teacher surely you’d teach her the gold standard of the marshaltown that’s first and foremost
Why don’t you care who we are? Bit of a nasty comment.
Excellent tuition as always Blaine!
Thank you matey! I really appreciate it 👍
Thanks for this video. I'm a Canadian girl looking to learn and this is so helpful. No plasterers in our area. People here use drywall mud and loads of sanding! I'd much rather use plaster.
Many drywallers rely far too much on sanding, probably because it requires less skill than just about any other smoothing technique. I suspect that a good plasterer could teach the average drywaller a think or two about minimizing the sanding involved in the mudding process. It would also minimize the mess and might prevent a few emphysema cases.
Well done Pops! You hold the trowel better than I do (which is why my pointer finger look a bit padded and messed up), nice sweeping on your just before final trowels. Smart using two hands when walking it. My fav bit was when you scooped a bit of plaster from the bucket on the back of your trowel to fill in a gap and was like errrrr 😅 I want to see a follow up video where you do a wall on your own with no help!
Great video - I need to show my apprentice this - some great tips in there. 👍
Excellent stuff
Dam that lady a fast learner, she has a Great Teacher, wish 1st year apprentice picked it up as fast😉
Great video. Really educational to see a beginner plastering, and show there is time to sort it all out and do a good job. What's the highest temperature a beginner should attempt to work in?
Nice after watching this its made me want to try it 👌
Ok, the trade takes years to master, is dynamic much more physical than it looks, but brilliant work Alex 👊 you're getting the fundamentals from the best teacher out there.
Well done, worked with men who couldn’t get the hawk down,
Not a plasterer but do find it quite relaxing when i do the odd repair or chase filling at home or work....more so than wall papering, absolutely hate wallpapering!!! But keep up the informative vids.
, although I’m not using BG I’m using french products , your tutorial videos have been an absolute god send. Each job I do I find my confidence improves every pass. Thanks so far 🎉
Well done for your hard work and thank you for watching! Much appreciated 👍
@@PlasteringForBeginners first attempt I was very proud, then in the cold light of the next day it looked like a drunken cat had done it. But we continue 😌
She is a natural
When it comes to the cross trowel - her trowel was too vertical, needs to be more like 45 degrees(not that extreme) - that's why it was skipping. Freeze frame at 27:03 look at the angle of your trowel(verticalness) vs hers at 28:14 for example.
Hey Blaine, haven't yet finished the video, but hats off to ya! Great teaching, positive feedback & explainations!
Alex has done a brilliant job, considering! Massive credit to you for the content, it's helped loads over the years!
I rarely plaster, but currently extending our house so they'll be plenty coming up! & I'm so happy with the finish I can achieve these days!
Cheers, Stu
Thank you mate and you are right! Alex smashed it out of the park - I can’t believe how good she was!
Good luck with your Plastering and thank you for watching. How it all goes well my friend 👍
I appreciate this video! its good to see you reacting to a beginners mistakes as they happen, very useful thanks. Good on the trainee for the bravery of getting put online haha XD she makes it look easy to be honest xD
Well done Alex.
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She’s doing very well
Well done Alex I would say plastering is hard but after 30 odd years it’s not. The more you do the easier it is. Good tuition enjoyed that 👍🏻
Spent the first 2 days of my apprenticeship as a Solid Plasterer in '64 learning to pick up sand and cement render off the hawk. Looking at this, I can only imagine how sore she was the next day.
Great video Blaine . But She was using one of your worn in trowels I bet. Had she had a beginners trowel or her own. I think we both know how this would have went 😄
After tinkering around with plastering for a few years. I’ve learnt even if you’re amazing plasterer and have a knack for it… it’s 80% to do with your trowel being sharp and worn in.
I’ve seen top plasterers struggle with a brand new trowel due to it dragging; causing misses and lines.
Can you please do one on how to put insulated plasterboard on an old Victorian plastered solid wall? This is something a lot of us are going to have to do. I'm not sure how to deal with attaching it, how to do around a window etc. Thank you.
This is great, but hate ceilings and also how do I stop 1st coat drying out and ceilings I even put 3 coats of pva on still dries fast.
I’m not pro plasterer self trained still make mistakes and my second skim coat saves the day but takes me ages.
Can you do a video on how to float a room using Hardwall/ sand and cement and the techniques of ruling off
There’s a good few videos on the channel already pal. You’ll find a few there my friend 👍
Beginner question, but do I have to completely remove all wallpaper before plastering? I have a pretty stubnborn wallpaper from the 50's that's hard to remove. The wallpaper itself is not that hard to peel off, but the inner card board layer or what it is is stuck.
I have a question, when i fill the holes and try to polish it , the compound lift off as they are still wet whereas the thin part is already dry. Why?
She picked that up really well.ive let a few people have a go over the years and most of them it's a disaster .all over the floor and soon give up but one person did pick it up really quickly like that and she was an Eastern European woman .only did a small wall under the stairs but did really well she said because she watched in the preceding week very closely and been practicing in her mind 🤔🤣.picked it up quicker than I did I recon
She did very well! I was very surprised how well it went to be honest - you did an amazing job! Fair play to her and thank you for watching matey 👍
On her first coat you can hear the trowel "scratching" on the surface, tell her to let trowel float up the wall a bit more
U can’t learn over night I don’t care who you are !I’ve done it for 22 years it’s an art
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I've been plastering huge glasgow tenement walls for just under 2 years now and I'm still bang average at it. All looks nice and neat and flat smooth once I'm finished with it but let it dry a week go back to it and there's ripples everywhere, drives me round the bend! Definitely an art form to get it perfectly flat
So for most of that time you've been providing a sub par service. I hope you weren't charging people, knowing you hadn't yet perfected your craft! 🤣
Be honest here do you go back to the walls you've plastered once it's all fully dried to see them? Honestly do you gets no bumps or slight ripples anywhere on a wall?
@@tomdonler2363 u don’t no !!should b perfect first time my point was it’s a art and can’t be learnt overnight
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Which plaster is this bro? Looks too light to be multi. Also do you ever use extra time in your mixes to stop it going off so quickly ?
She goes very diagonally too - I'd coach her to go more straight up with her swoops then swoop right at the top
To all you experienced, guys, can i ask how long would it take to get up to a decent standard so i could do my own jobs but obviously in time to become a very good plasterer im looking for a career change but at 40 is it too late thanks for any advice (apart from don't bother 😂) cheers good video
Do yourself a favour out of all the trades make plastering your last choice, but if you do go for it skimming can be learned in @ 1 month, add another month to learn how to make good/prep and get over problems, you need a good teacher, once you can skim and make good it all depends on you how long it takes to perfect plastering, anywhere between 3 months and 30 years, good luck
I recently watched your video from last year where you were having abit of elbow trouble, How is it now? Hope your keeping well!
It’s good thank you. I do a lot of stretching now and I had to strengthen (load the tendons) with specific exercises. It helped massively to be fair.
@PlasteringForBeginners brilliant! I'm having to do the same, first off for golfers, got over that, now abit of tennis elbow irritation, from carrying buckets of skim through customers houses and up the stairs over their furniture etc, not from troweling, all these things add up and hurt us, got to focus on technique and efficiency I think, your videos are packed with tips.
It’s a nightmare to be honest. I still get it a bit sometimes but stretching helps massively…but like you said, it’s going to hurt us in the long run.
Thank you for watching - really appreciate it. Hope you’re Tennis elbow gets better pal 👍
@PlasteringForBeginners Thanks Blaine👍
Most beginners will not have a speedskim and they will have a new (cheap) trowel. The question is can a first timer get a good finish with only a cheap trowel and maybe a sponge trowel.
She is hired! I have 5 buildings to plaster. Her and a laborer .
Now she's a plasterer perhaps we'll see a video of her running a sand and cement eaves cornice in sitio, or a granite staircase with coved stringers
You ever had any rotator cuff problems my rights in agony
I did when I was younger but that was through weight training. Never had it from Plastering.
Sorry to hear is affecting you mate 😩
Mate... how do you get high? Steps, hop up, those stilts?
Freedy Roach, why r u there? u should be training Manny Pacquio
No way is that her first ever time using a trowel and hawk. I've been plastering 34 years and taught quite a few lads the basics of skimming, I'd say most can't even get the skim off the board first time without dropping it all over the floor, and they usually can't get their head around the angle of the trowel. She's definitely done it before.
Haha I promise you that was her first time. We’re practiced using a Hawk and Trowel for an hour and a half before skimming but seriously…that was her first time Plastering.
I was very impressed/ surprised how well it went. She does a lot of skipping so her hand/ eye coordination in on point.
But yeah…very impressive!
I'll believe you😂, she probably had a go before coming to you, she just seems very natural. she's very good for a beginner regardless, good on her. 👍
If you can urinate, you can plaster.
2024 wife material ❤❤
"learned"
7 hours my arse
It’s funny how no one believes me…the crazy thing was that it was more 5 hours to be honest. We did 1.5 hours just using a hawk and trowel. Cutting the plaster, scooping it on the hawk and taking it off. That was 1.5 hours.
No application. Just that. Then we plastered…5 hours is all she had. I don’t know why I’d lie about it to be honest. I don’t gain anything from this. But the training we did helped her massively…and she’s a natural.
That’s it really!
how many years young is she and what has she done before; that may be a clue to why she is quick at picking up the basics?or could be down to you Blaine being a good mentor so there is a compliment to be taken from this....lol,
Hi,
I’ve hacked of some old sand and cement render on an internal exterior wall which did suffer from water damage from a leak onto the concrete floor which climbed the walls. What ratio and what components would you recommend.
Victorian/Edwardian house.
Many Thanks