You can buy one that looks like an M16Count Steer wrote: Sat May 24, 2025 5:47 pm I've never put plasterboard up - and probably never will.
But I still want one of those.
Yer not missing much, its a bloody awful job and we only get it when its the niggly pain in the arse jobs the dry liners can't make price on.Count Steer wrote: Sat May 24, 2025 5:47 pm I've never put plasterboard up - and probably never will.
But I still want one of those.
Yup, I've done it on & off as needed for decades. Got a mate here who employs a squad of 6 Mexicans, they can do in a day what it takes a homeowner a month to do. Ya blink & they've already moved on to the next house. They'll do a 200sq ft room in minutes, not hours. Ya show up at the job at noon to see how they're getting on & discover they already went home. It's scary how damn fast they are. They get paid by the sq ft & they all drive new full size trucks... but when they show up for work all 6 are crammed into a beat to shit 40yo Chevy pick up.
Aye, there's good money to be made on the big jobs with large areas but honestly I just don't really like the work.ZRX61 wrote: Sat May 24, 2025 9:28 pm Yup, I've done it on & off as needed for decades. Got a mate here who employs a squad of 6 Mexicans, they can do in a day what it takes a homeowner a month to do. Ya blink & they've already moved on to the next house. They'll do a 200sq ft room in minutes, not hours. Ya show up at the job at noon to see how they're getting on & discover they already went home. It's scary how damn fast they are. They get paid by the sq ft & they all drive new full size trucks... but when they show up for work all 6 are crammed into a beat to shit 40yo Chevy pick up.
Handy bits of kit for ceilings you can reach off a set of steps or off a joiners sawstool (not that we ever do that, no siree, no way. Sawstools are just for cutting on, honest guv)Silly Car wrote: Sun May 25, 2025 9:16 am Best tool I ever bought to help with plaster boarding ceilings was a board lifter, no more struggling to lift an 8 x 4 sheet into place and trying to either prop it or hold in place whilst trying to screw it in place.
I bought it off Facebook marketplace and I reckon I won’t lose a penny when I come to sell it.
Here they just steal the vehicle & then sell off the tools at the weekend swap meets. We have 1 acre place in town that offers secure parking for food trucks, There must be 40-50 of them all parked there. I think a similar place for contractors to park their work vehicles overnight could be an earner, but then you've created a target rich environment for the perps.demographic wrote: Sun May 25, 2025 11:01 am Aye, there's good money to be made on the big jobs with large areas but honestly I just don't really like the work.
We tend to do the faff jobs they avoid like the plague but that gets us a foot in the door on the second fix on those same jobs that are often a bit more interesting than normal housebashing.
The guys doing it all the time are all over the UK, in digs and having their vans broken into every few years. I can't be fucked with that.
It's not hard for the thieves to work out that a shopfitting company van outside a Travel lodge, or Ibis hotel is worth a look at.ZRX61 wrote: Sun May 25, 2025 3:33 pm Here they just steal the vehicle & then sell off the tools at the weekend swap meets. We have 1 acre place in town that offers secure parking for food trucks, There must be 40-50 of them all parked there. I think a similar place for contractors to park their work vehicles overnight could be an earner, but then you've created a target rich environment for the perps.
