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“medium jobs only”

written by pjCrawford473 on 07/04/2015

I've used this a couple of times now and it is fairly expensive but cheaper than a plasterer. I would not recommend doing a room with it though. I've non skimmed botch job plastering in my house and have slowly been moving the odd door and redecorating rooms. I'm on a budget and sometimes there are areas that needed a lot of infill (door filled in but new and old plasterboard out by 5mm, window frame really shoddily plasterboarded with no edging, walls moved leaving thick ridges etc.). For these jobs it's fine. Use roller to get a fairly even coat, use scraper lightly to remove excess (catch and add back to bucket) then one or two slow steady firm (not too firm) scrapes and it's mostly there. If you have bubbles you didn't roll (initial scrape) well. However getting a smooth finish is only possible with sanding. Luckily this stuff sands down real easy. One other tip, if overlapping don't "finish" to the bottom leave last few inches lightly skimmed so you don't gouge ruts on the next row.