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I have to be fair i really find your videos enjoyable to watch butt..... always look forward to your next videos to be uploaded. No messing no complicated explanations just straight taking well done butt keep up the brilliant work
Couldn’t you have just plastered over the wall as opposed to boarding it up? Oh yeah it’s crazy I was walking past a neighbours house and you can see straight through into his room with the Tv, and never guess who was on, yourself! He must have a keen eye on your videos.
AWESOME JOB THANKS FOR SHARING YOUR ABILITIES. BTW. PITTSBURGH PAINT EXTERIOR IS UNFUKINBALIVABLE. DONT GET IT ON ANYTHING WHATSOEVER YOU NEED TO KEEP CLEAN. LIKE CRAZY GLUE. OMNIPOTENT LOVE TO EVERYONE GLOBALLY
@@Onthetrowel50 years in the trade engineering and building, it's people like us who teaches correct way to do things it's shocking how nobody is doing anything, do you know I've never ever used PVA in my life, I stumbled across sbr in the early 80s, just finished building double decker extension kitchen was in ready to go and I tipped by accident five litres of sbr on the concrete floor just before I go to tile, about half a metre square so I put some on a concrete block half and half, set the tyle try taking off the following day couldn't believe the difference, sbr everything artex before we skim, Mostly everything my coffee Corn Flakes, your attitude is fantastic mate
I’m a painter and decorator and I’ve learnt so much from watching your videos and getting a much greater understanding of some of the processes of what comes before me. You’re such a great communicator mate and a top craftsman. Thank you.
Every day is a school day. So glad I watched this before I tackle a DIY project. I was way over thinking it and this makes it nice and simple to follow.
Why didn't ya tell me ya had a UA-cam Channel ?? bet ya wondering who it is I'll give ya clue m8 you made me a spray booth totally free of charge when I was in Ozzie as a get well present. Keep making the vids m8 Also everyone He's a top bloke and 100% genuine x
I’ve done this with nails to plaster a 11 metre wall, a plasterer explained this and I did it in browning won a block wall I had built. I was a brickie so good with a trowel but not a plasterer. I could put my straight edge anywhere on that wall and there was no ‘bonking’. I showed my wife, who just wanted it painted and finished. I was, and am proud of it yes no-one knows or cares. Slightly embarrassing to be so happy at what is routine for skilled men👍
A concise and well explained video outlining how to apply dots (and dabs) to fix plasterboard to a background. Variants to this method apply in setting screeds out to float a wall or ceiling (plumb and dot) when high levels of accuracy are required. Great to see you outlining different techniques for all levels of ability and noting how they can be adapted as one’s skills improve. Thanks so much for taking the time to share your knowledge and experience.
Love this, I did my C&G plastering in 84 and this is exactly the way I was taught how to Dot and Dab, We used to float kitchen walls this way too so we knew they were bob on. I changed jobs in 89 and have just brought a very old house that needs a lot of work. I dont think ill be upto my old speeds being off the trowel for so long but im looking forward to the challenge.
Love it! Explaining the terminology takes away the mystery of a very skilled craft! I will share this with my American Cousins who will also learn how their ancestors talked!! They will love it, 'cos most Yanks think we all talk like John Lennon! Enjoyed every minute!
Very nice vid explaining the dots. The reason why people dab all the way around the outside is for fire and safety. You may use more powder but it is the Safeway to do the job. It stops the smoke travelling all the way up the wall.
Kirk I just came across your channel and can't stop watching all your vids mate. Great to see your channel grow. You are really good at explaining things. I laboured for a plasterer so I know the work it takes. A very hard job. Respect from Scotland mate.👍
I personally fix a timber ground along the bottom, which when levelled can support the board and I just plumb the board up! It’s also a good fix for the joiners skirting boards rather than using an adhesive on them. Just different methods, whichever suits I suppose? No need for packers underneath keeping it of the ground.
Great video, you have a load of information in a very relaxed manner. Would be good if you could cover how to set out corners etc, what do you do if the room is not perfectly square? Any advice appreciated.
Learning lots from your video's - thanks. Another reason to dab all the way round, creating a complete edging to the plasterboard, is for the airtightness it creates. It helps avoid draughts. Certainly in our last house, there were loads of areas letting in cold air. It was an old Victorian end terrace. With dot and dab, any air getting in behind any of the boards, is able to move right around the walls, passing behind other baorrds, to a spot where it might come out into the room. If you create a complete line all the way around, it keeps the cold air within that board. Certainly with the current rises in heating bills, anything to help prevent draughts moving aorund, helps keep bills lower. Hope that makes sense. I also used airtight tapes at joints of wall to floor and wall to ceiling before I stuck the plasterboards up. Really helped in reducing draughts. 🙂
Been a joiner and builder for 30 years and I have never seen that before haha that makes perfect sense! That would actually be useful for a wall that’s all over the place 👍
Really enjoyed this 👌. 20 years ago when I was a apprentice this is how my boss taught me how to render using string lines and creating markers to run off. This video really took me back.
We've got to keep these old ways alive abit just so the younger lads know how to do it even if it's not what they will do day to day. Just having the knowledge is important
Just watched your dot and dab video amongst others. I had a wall covered with plasterboard by one of the better plasterers in the area. He clearly just dabbed as the pipe boxing in running half way along the wall shows up as they are not equal on either side. Brilliant video.
I'm super impressed. I have a really old house, where the plastering and walls are miles away from being straight. I want to fit wainscoting but figure out how to get it flush and straight and now I know how I can do it. Just subbed too😄
Thanks for showing how to do it that way, wished I’d seen this before I dabbed half my house! Would have been much easier. But now. Know. Thanks again pal
Great video, this is how we got taught to do it at college many many years ago, takes longer but creates a perfectly true wall. Reminds me of setting screeds up for wet plaster. 👍
@@Onthetrowel you've got an hours worth haven't you really, as in viewers time. What about floating a wall with hardwall maybe 10/15 sqm's and showing the viewers how to use a straight edge or even maybe sand/cement render. You could even show your skills maybe in floor screeds, just maybe a quick video of how you set it out.
@@Onthetrowel I apologise mate, I've watched a few videos and I've thought I've been abit harsh. I'm 46 years young and have been doing it all my life, done all the site work years ago and now it's domestic work, small builds, extentions etc. I think your OK and I'd would love to work with you one day, I think you could take something from me and vise versa. Respect for putting it out there and take care, ❤️
I will and never have had a plastering trowel in my hands but i find your work fascinating and your attention to detail is incredible. Best of luck mate -😁
Which adhesive do you recommend? I'm going to try this method today as we have a very gnarly brick wall (chimney breast removal) and this method seems like the best for a 1st timer, so grateful you've shown this. I've read that some adhesives go off really quickly and I'm not very skilled so would like your advice on which is the best adhesive to use.
Yes dots where used to form screeds to rule of, it is a fundamental of plastering that everyone should know and understand. Level a dot top and bottom at each end of a wall and line through of them. Then rule of the screeds that are running top and bottom. The same principle works on dry lining , British gypsum called it the gyproc system. And even supplied card dots.
I’m a DIYER who has got to dot and dab a couple of knauf aqua panel boards to some masonry behind a shower, and I’ve never done it before. This way will be really useful, I’m not in a rush. Cheers
@@Onthetrowel although it takes a lot longer like you say for a DIY person like me it's a great way to prep the wall and get a perfect flat surface. I know this might make you throw your trowel in disgust but because I don't know how to screed with plaster , would it be so offensive for me to use easy-fil to go over a small piece of plasterboard approximately 6 foot high by 4 wide as a makeshift plaster as it's easy for me to use?
Thanks for the post. I've learned something new today. I'll give it a go next time , personally I tend to use more adhesive than you especially on the edges and skirting areas.👍
Kirk love this channel . . Full of fresh thinking and correct methods . Good luck with that new camera but you've come this far already . The best of all plastering instruction videos I've come across .
Ahhhh I remember seeing "dots" in a plastering book I have, but it relates to using dots for screeding sand and cement to walls! I never put 2 and 2 together about the "dot" in dot and dab. Another amazing video Kirk. You really are prolific with bringing out these quality videos! Looking forward to sending you some much deserved beer money next week!
Fantastic video, I always assumed the dot was something like this as it’s similar to dot and screed which I remember seeing years ago on site! Interestingly when I dab I take a 5minutes before I do the wall to chalk line the perimeter with a laser, that way you only have to worry about the middle and on long runs it makes the skimming look mustard when it comes to ceiling and skirts. The building game has Always been a fine line between faffing about on the prep work making the application easy.
Your video were you did the old lady's window came up and I watched it and now I can't stop watching these videos I'm not even in the construction trade at all 😂
Basically this is plumb dot and screed but for dry-lining fella! If you want a quicker way, do it with a screw and raw plug 👍. Its easier to adjust and there is no setting times to deal with... Had to board a bathroom last years that was being tiled with massive tiles and plumber said it had to be mm perfect... Keep up the good content buddy 👍
It reminds of how they got their levels in my 1930's house. Taking off all the old plaster I found nails in the wall at different depths just under the top skim, the house is poured clinker block, I realised what theyd done, I put a level on them and they were spot on level ! I wonder could you do the same putting plasterboards up ? As long as you didn't push the screw heads in to the board putting it up ?
Very well illustrated, on the dob and dab ,Great to see a proper job, As the board has covered the wire going up from the plug socket but then goes across to the right is there any legal requirement to cover the wire in trunking or not,
Brilliant video. Wish I did this when putting my boards up. Yes slower but my walls were out, especially chimney breast. I learned dots for floating a wall during night college plastering course, I never thought to do it for plasterboard. New subscriber here.
It’s definitely good to know the actual meaning thank you . I’m a little bit confused why people just wouldn’t do a standard wet lineing or render / plaster right over the wall
Glad I watched that, can’t believe I have never thought about marking metal back boxes like that then cutting from the back 😂 every days a school day. From now on a multi tool will be referred to as a vibrator
Dabbing trowel I used to use was a cheap tilers trowel with the 2 top corners cut off with a grinder,so when you flick a dab on the wall you can curl the top of your trowel towards yourself without the corner digging in the dab and scraping it off in the process. Good video by the way!
Wow this is incredible info. I’m doing my house up and got a few walls to do. Have been worried about getting the boards level by just whacking it with the level, but this is a perfect system for a DIYer. Thanks so much.
Great video, got to dot and dab our bathroom, not sure which boards to use around the bath/shower area prior to tiling, if you have any advice I would be great full, tile backer boards might be an option. Your a nice bloke with really good videos so I am now subscribed to your channel, 👍
Good video, a real tradesman. Although you should have got the Sparky to put some metal capping on those cables. Going to watch the Skimming video now.
Amazing that he knows what is best. That the people who give out information and who make plaster dont know how to instruct the public on how to do the job..
Fab video. Complete beginner and been putting off the boarding stage for days and watching videos. Finally confident. But if you google what to use instead of packers ypu get some non diy stuff 😮😂
Do you have a minimum and maximum gap in between the plasterboards . When i was fitting offices , we would use a crowbar to lift the boards up from the ground , i see you cut it precisely and slide on a bit of gyps on the floor . Lifting it makes it a bit easier , and can be done alone.
Excellent video, you know your stuff . The only thing I would do different would be margin your line off the door frame to ensure the reveals are the same width both sides. Well presented and enjoyable video
Cheers mate. Years ago on site I used to cut all the reveals and heads first, wiz around and stick all them and then just work off flush with them for the walls. We had to stop though because window fitters couldn't put windows in straight. Especially when there was 2 windows on 1 wall 🙈
Yeah I understand this vid completely. I laboured for a cracking top class Plasterer and he too never dotted just dabbed using a massive long featheredge about say 3M. After he finished he'd always say to me, go check the walls/board to see if the actually were level. I used to always say when watching him use the feather-edge that no way they were, so it was Him asking/telling me to go look for myself using any of the levels. Every time they were always bang-on level and it always amazed me. That would have been over thierty years ago now and he's gone now sadly. He was a brilliant fella, he plastered all the walls and ceilings in mine and my wife's house, would take ANY payment, just said it was his wedding present to us, he was pals with the wife's dad.
Every plasterer is top-class if you ask them pal,,, 😂😂😂 There not so top class with a bottle of there own piss (they left in the last room) in the next mix of skim...... from a top-class labourer 😂
@@PaulH-w2w Well this Plasterer of whom I am talking about DID what The Famous ' TONY-ROME' plasterers could NOT at Arnold Clark's House. THEY Couldn't get all the very articulate ANGLES on the ceiling of his WELL-SIZED Summer Room which looked out onto his bowling-green. The person whom we warker for was contacted and asked if...... could do it....... and it was did to perfection. I have watched your vids and do not get me wrong but the fella whom I laboured to WAS way better than anything which I have yet seen on youtube.
I have never seen this in my life. Awesome job! when you set them packers, I guess you set them, presumably the socket is 25 mm and the plaster board is 12.5mm. 12.5mm from the wall? And adjust if plaster board is thicker etc?
Thank you very much for posting mate, very useful , do you need to post up where you drink so people can phone the pub and stick a fiver behind the bar?
British Gypsum taught Dot and dab back in 81, they actualy had you tacking the boards to the fiber dots with nails to support the boards till dabs set. only ever used the method twice from then till now.
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I have to be fair i really find your videos enjoyable to watch butt..... always look forward to your next videos to be uploaded. No messing no complicated explanations just straight taking well done butt keep up the brilliant work
Couldn’t you have just plastered over the wall as opposed to boarding it up?
Oh yeah it’s crazy I was walking past a neighbours house and you can see straight through into his room with the Tv, and never guess who was on, yourself! He must have a keen eye on your videos.
Sorry but I know faster and better way.
AWESOME JOB THANKS FOR SHARING YOUR ABILITIES.
BTW. PITTSBURGH PAINT EXTERIOR IS
UNFUKINBALIVABLE.
DONT GET IT ON ANYTHING WHATSOEVER YOU NEED TO KEEP CLEAN. LIKE CRAZY GLUE.
OMNIPOTENT LOVE TO EVERYONE GLOBALLY
So do I... Read the video description
What a channel,I’m no plasterer but boy do I enjoy this guy.
Nice to have you on board mate
@@Onthetrowel50 years in the trade engineering and building, it's people like us who teaches correct way to do things it's shocking how nobody is doing anything, do you know I've never ever used PVA in my life, I stumbled across sbr in the early 80s, just finished building double decker extension kitchen was in ready to go and I tipped by accident five litres of sbr on the concrete floor just before I go to tile, about half a metre square so I put some on a concrete block half and half, set the tyle try taking off the following day couldn't believe the difference, sbr everything artex before we skim, Mostly everything my coffee Corn Flakes, your attitude is fantastic mate
I’m a painter and decorator and I’ve learnt so much from watching your videos and getting a much greater understanding of some of the processes of what comes before me. You’re such a great communicator mate and a top craftsman. Thank you.
Every day is a school day. So glad I watched this before I tackle a DIY project. I was way over thinking it and this makes it nice and simple to follow.
Great vlog Brought back memories as I was taught to dot and dab when I started plastering in the 70's.
Why didn't ya tell me ya had a UA-cam Channel ?? bet ya wondering who it is I'll give ya clue m8 you made me a spray booth totally free of charge when I was in Ozzie as a get well present. Keep making the vids m8 Also everyone He's a top bloke and 100% genuine x
Hey Ian... haha how have you found me on here? Cheers mate, that's very nice of you to say, cheers.
Haha the secrets out now 🤣🤣 ☺️👍👍
I’ve done this with nails to plaster a 11 metre wall, a plasterer explained this and I did it in browning won a block wall I had built. I was a brickie so good with a trowel but not a plasterer. I could put my straight edge anywhere on that wall and there was no ‘bonking’. I showed my wife, who just wanted it painted and finished. I was, and am proud of it yes no-one knows or cares. Slightly embarrassing to be so happy at what is routine for skilled men👍
A concise and well explained video outlining how to apply dots (and dabs) to fix plasterboard to a background. Variants to this method apply in setting screeds out to float a wall or ceiling (plumb and dot) when high levels of accuracy are required. Great to see you outlining different techniques for all levels of ability and noting how they can be adapted as one’s skills improve. Thanks so much for taking the time to share your knowledge and experience.
Thanks Jeff. Obviously you're a plasterer yourself so I appreciate when a fellow tradesman gives me a compliment on my work.
Thank you 👍
This shows your commitment and great understanding of the job!
Cheers Iain, appreciate your comment pal
I've never ever seen that before absolutely brilliant method that you are a plastering professor 👏
Glad you liked it!
Love this, I did my C&G plastering in 84 and this is exactly the way I was taught how to Dot and Dab, We used to float kitchen walls this way too so we knew they were bob on. I changed jobs in 89 and have just brought a very old house that needs a lot of work. I dont think ill be upto my old speeds being off the trowel for so long but im looking forward to the challenge.
You’re overwhelmed because you’re authentic. People are drawn like magnets to that these days. It’s becoming rare.
I always wondered what dot and dabbing was and how it was done! Great video.
The vibrator story along is worth a drink let alone the plastering knowledge 😂
🤣🤣🤣 cheers mate 🍻
Love it! Explaining the terminology takes away the mystery of a very skilled craft! I will share this with my American Cousins who will also learn how their ancestors talked!! They will love it, 'cos most Yanks think we all talk like John Lennon! Enjoyed every minute!
Awesome! Thank you!
Very nice vid explaining the dots. The reason why people dab all the way around the outside is for fire and safety. You may use more powder but it is the Safeway to do the job. It stops the smoke travelling all the way up the wall.
Kirk I just came across your channel and can't stop watching all your vids mate. Great to see your channel grow. You are really good at explaining things. I laboured for a plasterer so I know the work it takes. A very hard job. Respect from Scotland mate.👍
I personally fix a timber ground along the bottom, which when levelled can support the board and I just plumb the board up!
It’s also a good fix for the joiners skirting boards rather than using an adhesive on them.
Just different methods, whichever suits I suppose?
No need for packers underneath keeping it of the ground.
Great tip!
Every day is a learning day! Good job 👍. Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks! 🤠
Thanks 👍
Great video, you have a load of information in a very relaxed manner.
Would be good if you could cover how to set out corners etc, what do you do if the room is not perfectly square? Any advice appreciated.
Learning lots from your video's - thanks. Another reason to dab all the way round, creating a complete edging to the plasterboard, is for the airtightness it creates. It helps avoid draughts. Certainly in our last house, there were loads of areas letting in cold air. It was an old Victorian end terrace. With dot and dab, any air getting in behind any of the boards, is able to move right around the walls, passing behind other baorrds, to a spot where it might come out into the room. If you create a complete line all the way around, it keeps the cold air within that board. Certainly with the current rises in heating bills, anything to help prevent draughts moving aorund, helps keep bills lower. Hope that makes sense. I also used airtight tapes at joints of wall to floor and wall to ceiling before I stuck the plasterboards up. Really helped in reducing draughts. 🙂
Been a joiner and builder for 30 years and I have never seen that before haha that makes perfect sense! That would actually be useful for a wall that’s all over the place 👍
I'm an oldish painter and decorator and I learned something today.. Thanks Geezer!
Right on!
Been in the trade many years, you learn something new every day!!
Although it's not a nats hair out...... It's a natty nats knacker out!!😃
Best on UA-cam in my opinion, as you are mate!!!!
Really enjoyed this 👌. 20 years ago when I was a apprentice this is how my boss taught me how to render using string lines and creating markers to run off. This video really took me back.
We've got to keep these old ways alive abit just so the younger lads know how to do it even if it's not what they will do day to day. Just having the knowledge is important
Fantastic this is how it shows you to float walls in the j.b Taylor book of plastering I read whilst doing my nvq. Best plastering material on UA-cam
Yes got Taylors book myself somewhere. Also one by pegg and stagg.
And the plasterers Bible (PLASTERING PLAIN AND DECORATIVE by William Millar)
@@Onthetrowel I got jb Taylor too mate some very interesting stuff in there
Nvq so you are not a time served plasterer
I am a 75 year old retired plasterer this is basically a replica of how we used to do plumb and dot work when doing render and set an excellent video
Just watched your dot and dab video amongst others. I had a wall covered with plasterboard by one of the better plasterers in the area. He clearly just dabbed as the pipe boxing in running half way along the wall shows up as they are not equal on either side. Brilliant video.
Hands up I never knew this and was never taught this by the old boy I used to work with. You learn something new everyday, great video mate 💪🏼
Nice one Dan mate 👍👍
I'm super impressed. I have a really old house, where the plastering and walls are miles away from being straight. I want to fit wainscoting but figure out how to get it flush and straight and now I know how I can do it. Just subbed too😄
Awesome job, what a quality tradesman - nice to see in times of cowboys!
I'm a plasterer myself living in Ireland and I like this guy his funny 😁
I am building my own house and this was very helpful.... Thank you.
Thoroughly enjoy watching a master of his craft , on a scale of 1-10 you get 11 from me
Thanks for showing how to do it that way, wished I’d seen this before I dabbed half my house! Would have been much easier. But now. Know. Thanks again pal
Wow! What expert knowledge.. I never knew that! Makes total sense.
Glad it was helpful!
Great video, this is how we got taught to do it at college many many years ago, takes longer but creates a perfectly true wall. Reminds me of setting screeds up for wet plaster. 👍
Hi
Another good video years ago used little black pads and double headed nails. Tip tap edge of trowel on wall saves adhesive
This man is a DIY enthusiasts dream.... And that's all he is.
That wasn't very nice was it
@@Onthetrowel you've got an hours worth haven't you really, as in viewers time. What about floating a wall with hardwall maybe 10/15 sqm's and showing the viewers how to use a straight edge or even maybe sand/cement render. You could even show your skills maybe in floor screeds, just maybe a quick video of how you set it out.
@@Onthetrowel I apologise mate, I've watched a few videos and I've thought I've been abit harsh. I'm 46 years young and have been doing it all my life, done all the site work years ago and now it's domestic work, small builds, extentions etc. I think your OK and I'd would love to work with you one day, I think you could take something from me and vise versa. Respect for putting it out there and take care, ❤️
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I will and never have had a plastering trowel in my hands but i find your work fascinating and your attention to detail is incredible. Best of luck mate -😁
This is not "probably the best" dot&dab video, the is the BEST video of dot & DAB for a beginner.
Which adhesive do you recommend? I'm going to try this method today as we have a very gnarly brick wall (chimney breast removal) and this method seems like the best for a 1st timer, so grateful you've shown this. I've read that some adhesives go off really quickly and I'm not very skilled so would like your advice on which is the best adhesive to use.
Great tips for those who didn't know good on ya 👍
Great video, used to do the old school way, just like that with my old man! Love the way you cut the board. Very clever!
Old School Great to see the old way's
Yes dots where used to form screeds to rule of, it is a fundamental of plastering that everyone should know and understand. Level a dot top and bottom at each end of a wall and line through of them. Then rule of the screeds that are running top and bottom. The same principle works on dry lining , British gypsum called it the gyproc system. And even supplied card dots.
That'd the one, they tried to claim an age old system
I’m a DIYER who has got to dot and dab a couple of knauf aqua panel boards to some masonry behind a shower, and I’ve never done it before. This way will be really useful, I’m not in a rush. Cheers
Wow i just learnt the crash course of old school dotting and dabbing and it sticks in my memory, what a great informative and well explained video 👌🏻
Glad you enjoyed it mate. That's where the term comes from DOT and dab
@@Onthetrowel although it takes a lot longer like you say for a DIY person like me it's a great way to prep the wall and get a perfect flat surface. I know this might make you throw your trowel in disgust but because I don't know how to screed with plaster , would it be so offensive for me to use easy-fil to go over a small piece of plasterboard approximately 6 foot high by 4 wide as a makeshift plaster as it's easy for me to use?
If you gang on I'm going to be doing a video in the next few months for diyers on a new product that makes it super easy to plaster a wall yourself
@@Onthetrowel ok great I really look forward to that thanks.
I have just done this exact method but with tile backer board for a large format tile, well worth the extra time 👌
great advice and job your work is top draw keep up the good work
There was a time in the 70s where we used bitumen pads and double headed nails. And a foot lifter. Nice video
Got you a couple of beers 👍 the vibrator story had me in stitches 😅 learnt a lot from some of these vids top bloke
Really appreciate that John, thank-you very much mate
Thanks for the post. I've learned something new today. I'll give it a go next time , personally I tend to use more adhesive than you especially on the edges and skirting areas.👍
Perfect, Perfect, Perfect!!!
Kirk love this channel . . Full of fresh thinking and correct methods . Good luck with that new camera but you've come this far already . The best of all plastering instruction videos I've come across .
Cheers Nomis. Appreciate it mate
Ahhhh I remember seeing "dots" in a plastering book I have, but it relates to using dots for screeding sand and cement to walls! I never put 2 and 2 together about the "dot" in dot and dab.
Another amazing video Kirk. You really are prolific with bringing out these quality videos! Looking forward to sending you some much deserved beer money next week!
Still got a box of them somewhere along with the double headed nails.
I’m loving this what a fantastic resource for those wanting to learn cheers.
Fantastic video, I always assumed the dot was something like this as it’s similar to dot and screed which I remember seeing years ago on site! Interestingly when I dab I take a 5minutes before I do the wall to chalk line the perimeter with a laser, that way you only have to worry about the middle and on long runs it makes the skimming look mustard when it comes to ceiling and skirts. The building game has Always been a fine line between faffing about on the prep work making the application easy.
Yes your spot on, and glad you enjoyed it. Just wanted to clear up why it's called DOT&dab
Tremendous video yet again fella. 🤟🤟
Cheers bro 👊
Your video were you did the old lady's window came up and I watched it and now I can't stop watching these videos I'm not even in the construction trade at all 😂
It's nice to have your support... thankyou 👍
Brilliant video... Thankyou... Quick question. What's the best thing to seal the painted wall with before dabbing. Cheers
You are correct about the lack of Dotting mind in today’s workplace! Lol!
Gud Job! 💪🏻👍🏻
Yes! Thank you!
Thanks
No problem
Great video,thanks for the Naladge,am one of 90%
Not any more mate, thanks for the support 🙂😁
Basically this is plumb dot and screed but for dry-lining fella! If you want a quicker way, do it with a screw and raw plug 👍. Its easier to adjust and there is no setting times to deal with... Had to board a bathroom last years that was being tiled with massive tiles and plumber said it had to be mm perfect... Keep up the good content buddy 👍
That's it mate. I just Wanted to show people why its called DOT & DAB.
glad you enjoyed it mate
great video mate. Younger spreads are lucky to have someone like yourself share all these trade tips and secrets! keep them coming!
Glad you liked it and thankyou very much for saying that mate. Hope your subscribed
It reminds of how they got their levels in my 1930's house.
Taking off all the old plaster I found nails in the wall at different depths just under the top skim, the house is poured clinker block, I realised what theyd done, I put a level on them and they were spot on level !
I wonder could you do the same putting plasterboards up ? As long as you didn't push the screw heads in to the board putting it up ?
Yes mate
"He uses the vibrator to make holes in the board" haha that killed us 🤣 Tremendous video and knowledge as always 👌
Appreciate it James
You learn something new every day.
Never knew that's what it meant.
Good video 👍
Nice one mate
Very well illustrated, on the dob and dab ,Great to see a proper job,
As the board has covered the wire going up from the plug socket but then goes across to the right is there any legal requirement to cover the wire in trunking or not,
My dad was exactly the same never use finishing trowel for dot N dab, a lot of plasterers use a gauging trowel, keep up the good work.
Brilliant video. Wish I did this when putting my boards up. Yes slower but my walls were out, especially chimney breast. I learned dots for floating a wall during night college plastering course, I never thought to do it for plasterboard. New subscriber here.
Nice to have you with us mate
👍top video mate. Your a good story teller!
Glad you enjoyed it
It’s definitely good to know the actual meaning thank you . I’m a little bit confused why people just wouldn’t do a standard wet lineing or render / plaster right over the wall
Slower and more labour intensive.
Better job though
I’m not by any means a plasterer or DIY person OK, but mate that video was just amazing. Thanks once again 👍🏻 I have subscribed 👍🏻 best of luck 👍🏻
Great video. I need to put some moisture resistant plasterboard up in my bathroom.
Glad I watched that, can’t believe I have never thought about marking metal back boxes like that then cutting from the back 😂 every days a school day. From now on a multi tool will be referred to as a vibrator
Joiner here. Have to confess I have never dot dabbed a wall in my life 😂 dabbed plenty. I’m sure this method will come in handy 1 day 👍👍
Been plastering for 15 years and never knew about the dots technique...I'll just call it dabbing from now on. 😆
It's just been one of those things that's bugged me for years 🤣
LOVE it! Will definitely do it this way. Thanks so much!!
Dabbing trowel I used to use was a cheap tilers trowel with the 2 top corners cut off with a grinder,so when you flick a dab on the wall you can curl the top of your trowel towards yourself without the corner digging in the dab and scraping it off in the process.
Good video by the way!
Cheers Ro.
Have you seen any of the other videos mate?
@@Onthetrowel 2 or 3 others,just stumbled on your channel today👍
@Ro 81 oh spot on, welcome aboard mate. Keep in touch in the comments pal. Nice to have you with us
@@Onthetrowel 👍
Great video, so informative and most importantly showing how to do the job properly. Keep up the great work 👏👏
I'm old school retired now I used to dot staircases before I floated and skimmed, also Floors.very educational video.
Wow this is incredible info. I’m doing my house up and got a few walls to do. Have been worried about getting the boards level by just whacking it with the level, but this is a perfect system for a DIYer. Thanks so much.
Go for it! You know where I am if you need any help
Great video, got to dot and dab our bathroom, not sure which boards to use around the bath/shower area prior to tiling, if you have any advice I would be great full, tile backer boards might be an option.
Your a nice bloke with really good videos so I am now subscribed to your channel, 👍
Hi mate, definitely use cement boards instead of plaster boards.
@@Onthetrowel
Thanks for the reply, will do 👍
Good video, a real tradesman. Although you should have got the Sparky to put some metal capping on those cables. Going to watch the Skimming video now.
Excellent my fellow Scouser Brilliant for DIYers like me 😂
Amazing that he knows what is best. That the people who give out information and who make plaster dont know how to instruct the public on how to do the job..
Fab video. Complete beginner and been putting off the boarding stage for days and watching videos. Finally confident. But if you google what to use instead of packers ypu get some non diy stuff 😮😂
What comes up Anne?
I'm intrigued now...
Do you have a minimum and maximum gap in between the plasterboards . When i was fitting offices , we would use a crowbar to lift the boards up from the ground , i see you cut it precisely and slide on a bit of gyps on the floor . Lifting it makes it a bit easier , and can be done alone.
Excellent video, you know your stuff . The only thing I would do different would be margin your line off the door frame to ensure the reveals are the same width both sides.
Well presented and enjoyable video
Cheers mate. Years ago on site I used to cut all the reveals and heads first, wiz around and stick all them and then just work off flush with them for the walls. We had to stop though because window fitters couldn't put windows in straight. Especially when there was 2 windows on 1 wall 🙈
Yeah I understand this vid completely. I laboured for a cracking top class Plasterer and he too never dotted just dabbed using a massive long featheredge about say 3M.
After he finished he'd always say to me, go check the walls/board to see if the actually were level. I used to always say when watching him use the feather-edge that no way they were, so it was Him asking/telling me to go look for myself using any of the levels. Every time they were always bang-on level and it always amazed me. That would have been over thierty years ago now and he's gone now sadly. He was a brilliant fella, he plastered all the walls and ceilings in mine and my wife's house, would take ANY payment, just said it was his wedding present to us, he was pals with the wife's dad.
Every plasterer is top-class if you ask them pal,,, 😂😂😂
There not so top class with a bottle of there own piss (they left in the last room) in the next mix of skim...... from a top-class labourer
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@@PaulH-w2w Well this Plasterer of whom I am talking about DID what The Famous ' TONY-ROME' plasterers could NOT at Arnold Clark's House.
THEY Couldn't get all the very articulate ANGLES on the ceiling of his WELL-SIZED Summer Room which looked out onto his bowling-green. The person whom we warker for was contacted and asked if...... could do it....... and it was did to perfection.
I have watched your vids and do not get me wrong but the fella whom I laboured to WAS way better than anything which I have yet seen on youtube.
I have never seen this in my life. Awesome job! when you set them packers, I guess you set them, presumably the socket is 25 mm and the plaster board is 12.5mm. 12.5mm from the wall? And adjust if plaster board is thicker etc?
You are correct
When dabbing over an existing painted plaster wall, what primer would you use?
Thanks
Ok, this is brilliant.
Hi Kirk, what do you seal a painted wall with please before plasterboarding, SBR?
Thank you very much for posting mate, very useful , do you need to post up where you drink so people can phone the pub and stick a fiver behind the bar?
Good channel mate, what do you seal painted brick work with before dabbing?
This had a good coat of sbr mate 4:35 😀
British Gypsum taught Dot and dab back in 81, they actualy had you tacking the boards to the fiber dots with nails to support the boards till dabs set. only ever used the method twice from then till now.
How did they teach it mate, on the bags or on TV? Sorry for my ignorance, I wasn't born until 86.
I actually had to show a "sticker" how to do this once on a wall that was all over the place, nice job👍
thanks!