If you start plastering, then before you begin any work on plaster, be sure to review these tips and methods for proper preparation of work.
1. Choose your region: If you are a beginner plaster, then you may prefer to start working in a spare bedroom with an existing poor finish that can be done better, which will significantly reduce stress on you. Remember, you can slide the plaster on the walls as many times as you like, so you can always move on to a not very perfect job later as you get better.
Stucco is a big matter of trust, and you can first start in low pressure conditions before striking your walls for the first time. However, do not worry if you have a decent plaster course to follow, you will find that this is not a long learning curve and you will be surprised at how good your first results are.
Remember: 90% of plasters have confidence and stick to what we are Plaster mastering call the “Golden Formula” on the letter.
2. Ensure a good water supply: If cleanliness is close to the God-man, then plastering is a sacred trade! Ask any plasterer, and they will tell you the same thing, keep your equipment very clean and, most importantly, clean when you go.
As you no doubt noticed, the mixed plasters are very hard and rather fast. You may have problems washing the plaster from the buckets and equipment after you finish your work or leave it until tomorrow, but believe me, dry the gypsum sticks like a stone and you need to clean it thoroughly and thoroughly as you go.
There are reasons for this:
* Gypsum is cleared much easier when it is wet.
* Plastering equipment, as a rule, needs to be replaced if the plaster is not cleaned with water before it dries, and this can become costly and wasteful.
* Any stains of unloaded plaster in your buckets or on your equipment from previous sessions will stop later to contaminate future batches of plaster. This can mean a catastrophe, as these little gremlins will cause streaks or “pull” at your finish, which will lead to endless frustration and bad results.
* Contamination in new batches of plaster can cause the drying time of gypsum to deteriorate, as you will know, and this will cause chaos in the application of the “golden formula” used by most planers.
* Contaminated plaster cannot be used and must be disposed of with time and money.
* A good trader is neat, and sloppy processes lead to sloppy work and unhappy customers.
To ensure clean work, you need a good supply of clean fresh water. This can be a problem on some construction sites where there is no running water. In addition, since plaster and plaster may become confused, you should avoid using your own kitchen or your client’s kitchen sink, where possible. Fill a large number of buckets of water in advance for mixing and cleaning and remember that the plaster can block drains, so avoid washing too much plaster slurry through drains. Dispose of water contaminated with plaster, down the main external drainage, rather than draining the drain (we have not written “Master plumbing!”). In particular, always keep your buckets and spatula clean and make sure that you use exceptionally clean water to mix with plaster. As a rule, if you do not drink, do not use it to mix plaster.
Use only clean and very fresh water to mix the plaster. If you do not do this, your plaster will “go away” quickly (that is, be installed) and should be discarded. So, as a rule ...
* Never use plaster that goes - plaster is cheap, so throw it away and start again.
* Never use plaster that is contaminated with anything.
3. Allow yourself time to do the job:
Stucco does progress much faster than many people imagine, but it still takes time. Most of your time will be tweaked and cleaned up, so plaster is not the thing you can spend in odd hours here and there. You really need at least half a day (3 to 4 hours) to compensate for the time it takes to mix the plaster, cover and finish the wall or walls, and then clean and clean. My advice is to give at least 2-3 hours for plaster (the time it takes for a typical wall as a beginner) and an hour in any case to set up and clean. So, to give you an idea, yes, you can go home from work at night and make some progress on your walls right after dinner, but expect that you will wash your gear at midnight! But hey, better than watching TV, so don't let me stop you. Better still allow yourself a full weekend to get the whole room, made as a novice.
4. Make sure you have scheduled the work. :
My advice is not to bite off more than you can chew on to begin with. Plaster is always a race against the clock, as I explain in my course when it comes to the stages of the Golden Formula and how it works. Thus, an attempt to plaster the entire room at once as a novice (i.e. Trying to work on all four walls at once) will be impossible and will quickly turn what must be satisfactory work into a bad experience in which nothing is done at a good level.
I suggest beginners, beginners from just 1 surface at a time, and feel free to leave big walls to the last. All plasterers know in advance that they intend to achieve that day and plan accordingly. Always avoid biting more than you can chew on, because if you do, you will quickly suffocate!
Make sure that before you start, you went through the equipment checklist and got enough plaster to work, as soon as you start plastering and working through the Golden Formula, you will not have enough time to leave work long enough to pry more materials ,
And finally, one more warning:
Always turn off the power supply when plastering anywhere near any electrical connector, switch, light clamp or appliance. Mixed plaster is mostly water based, and as you know, mixing water and electricity is a potentially lethal combination. If in doubt, always consult a qualified electrician and a building inspector before beginning any plastering work.
