Plastering after the course

Below are a few plastering accounts, from previous participants of the plastering course.

Hopefully this will give you an indication that it is possible to achieve good results at home after a relatively short but intensive course. This is due to the emphasis of the whole course focussing on the basic techniques. This enables a good finish to be obtained on small areas then with practice larger areas will be possible. The aim of the course is to ensure that whilst practicing at home you are achieving a nice clean professional finish good enough to paint. You may have the odd mishap but the course will explain how to resolve any problems.

So essentially a lot of practice is needed but you are not abandoned after the course - if you are having any problems then you can just email me.

The plaster course proved to be very useful; I have now plastered almost two rooms which consists of 7 walls and one (small) ceiling.

Generally I'm pleased with the results, I did make some mistakes and it took me a little while to get a feel for it, I'm sure you know what I mean.

In short the course was definitely worth the money and has paid for itself several times over.

The plastering has been a great help with the property developing. I probably saved around �1000 to �1200 on the last project by doing it myself, and to be honest I was really pleased with the results.

The course was very effective.I have managed to plaster the landing area including the ceiling, the stairdrop (bottom of stairs to landing ceiling 1 wall), the entrance area ceiling,and 1 wall in the entrance area.

Its taken me a while to complete the first project I started, but I managed to complete the bathroom project I started almost straight after the course.I had a few issues which I were I think down to old plaster, things went much better after we got some new plaster in.I'm just in the middle of plastering one wall in the kitchen after removing the old kitchen a whole lot of plaster came off, I'm repairing this as well as filling holes left by new sockets.

Im really enjoying doing it though, its definately a confidence booster when you do it and it turns out well !

the course was very good , so far i have replasered a bedroom , and a hallway and up the stairs, it went well, i had to keep telling my self to STOP playing!!

I would recomend to any one

I must say that the course was very well presented.I attended full of apprehension, and I did not quite believe that I would leave the course being able to put any amount of plaster on a wall let alone skim awall which was flat and level!!!

Your instruction throughout the day could not have been better, you put me atease as you explained and demonstrated the techniques and then watched as Ithen practised you always gave with words of encouragement, hints and tips eventhough there was more plaster on myself than the walls or ceilings.Having said all the above I have managed to skim a few walls at home the weekafter the course so to keep it fresh in my mind.

I have to date skimmed my hall stairs and landing with mixed results the largewall could have been better, but the walls upstairs have been quite good.

I have also skimmed a few walls for other people and this has been mostsatisfying as after the initial stage of starting to plaster in someoneelse’s home filled me with both excitement which quickly turned to fear, as Ithought things were going wrong but, I remembered what you said and tried notto panic which in turn worked brilliantly and both jobs turned out well.

2 Day Plastering Course