Im thinking of doing one of these courses:

http://www.goldtrowel.org/weekend.htm

OR

http://www.tradeskills4u.co.uk/trades/Plastering

I want to learn about plastering/skimming etc & hopefully by the end of the course want to be able to plaster a wall.

Has anyone had any experience with any of these sort of company's or can anyone recomend any good training companys?

 

one of my mates at football is a platerer and loves it mate........i will ring him later and ask were he got trained

 

Cunt

Cheers Dan

 

I spoke to Tiff about these courses before- being as he is sort of a trade chappy.. I also have a mate who is a plasterer.

They said...

WASTE OF MONEY.

The only one worth doing was Tiling apparently as its relativly easy to pick up.

They both reckoned learning plastering within 1 week was a joke... in fact dolly Daz's mate Gaz employees a lad purely to mix his plaster to his exact requirements- which I understand in its self is art.


Jake

 

theres a lad & his dad i know do plastering for themselves & they are loaded from it mate, if i could start again thats what i would do

 

Oh yeh current rate for good plasters is upwards of Ł125 a day... I am sure some trade people will tell me thats cheap too.

 

A very good analogy


I was advised- do the course and then be someones lacky for a "bit" untill you're good enough not to be someones lacky.

 

So basically these courses are crap?

So where do you start then if you aint got a clue about this sort of thing?

 

i aint a plasterer but am a sparky so as you can imagine i see plenty of the wankers !! like people said it isnt something you can pick up with a week or month course takes a long period of time to master, best bet would to try and get on somewhere not going to be very good money though

lots of money to be earnt in that trade though same as mine you want a min of Ł150 a day

 

So i'll be better off doing a course at college (1 year)?

I have enquired about a college course & it's around the Ł900 mark.

 

you'll need extra length ladders though mate

 

yes deffo, in a year you could become quite good you might be a natural and you cant bed as bad as some of the work ive seen

 

Ive recently started up my own building company an been plastering for nearly 10 years and trust me you wont learn anything on a course your best off getting a job in the trade and geting straight on the tools, courses are jus d i y

 

as said above you need more than a week to become a plasterer
a couple of my mates did the tiling course a few months back and apparently its really easy and theres a bit of work out there for tilers

 

what happened to laying bricks ffs

 

Same bloke did most of my street.

 

You wont come to brum & teach me will ya!

 

I want to do plastering
Im not thinking of doing it for a living, just for my own use so i can plaster a few walls now & again

 

Fuggin hell you tight fisted fucker- how much plastering do you need doing.... just pay the local pikeys to do it.. be mint.

 

That's too easy

I seriously want to learn the skill for myself, you can never learn too much

 

why not look around and find a local spread that u could help at weekend or when youve got free time

 

that course looks quite proffesional though jus read through it

 

do a course then AJ if its just for yourself

 

As long as the plaster stays on the wall it's all good

 

Just thicken the mixture up a bit and it will stay

 

What he said

 

ffs... your made for the job mate, you already think like them

 

Is that the wrong attitude?

 

nope


just dont go filling my boxes in i cant stand that

 

didnt mean that in a horny way more a trade to trade talk

 

Mate, i have no intention whatsoever to have anything to do with your box!

 

DO NOT take advice off STU H LMFAO at that thicken it up method...

If ya skimming a wall make sure you give it a good couple of coats of unibond(pva adhesive)

 

pay me my day rate and i,ll come and show you


them course are poo,the intense collage ones are alot better

 

Let's face it, if you're doing it so you can do your own walls, if the course is naff and you're crap at it, it's only your own walls you'll ruin - I say go for it