Pre-painting stain coverage - help!

[TissoT]

It's good for stabilising loose plaster work and dusty concrete floors. I use it quite a lot for butt-jointing plasterboard at the moment using a narrow strip of plasterboard to cover the join. It gives a very strong joint indeed. Also stick polystyrene insulation to plasterboard with it, very effectively.

Wonderful stuff! Can't find it in France..

Primitive method using it on plaster board joints ..... fibre bonding tape(skrim) before skiming or fibre tape n filler if you are just taping the joints.

 

[asterix]

Primitive method using it on plaster board joints ..... fibre bonding tape(skrim) before skiming or fibre tape n filler if you are just taping the joints.

I use tape on the facing side, waste of time the other. My way is much quicker and far stronger.

 

[byegad]

jackson pollock it so marks won't show.

I think it's already Pollocksed enough!

 

[slowwww]

Dulux Basecoat covers all manner of ills, but be careful not to over-roll it as it peels

 

[Tim Hall]

Years ago I worked with a plumber during the summer holidays. His advice for covering up graffiti went something like this:

So you paint it over with two coats of emulsion and it still shows through. So you give it another coat, and a week later it shows through again. You give up and and chisel the offending section out and replaster it. And when you come back from lunch, some bastard has engraved their name in the wet plaster. You can't win Timmy.

 

[TissoT]

I use tape on the facing side, waste of time the other. My way is much quicker and far stronger.

 

[asterix]

If you had asked the circumstances in which I was was doing the work then maybe you wouldn't be scratching your head!

Perhaps you would kindly explain why it is you 'hate the stuff'? I am genuinely curious as I have used it for years and found it useful.