The 27th of May was the last of the Plasterers Forum® mine tour events with British Gypsum for this year, well for now, we may just organise another one later in the year, but we don’t have anything planned as yet. I got to my hotel and started watching the
What is Pargeting? If you have visited Suffolk or Essex then you might have noticed houses which have been plastered on the outside and the render has been ornamented. This is called Pargeting,an old English craft trade and an ‘extra’ which plasterers offered to their clients. 17thC Freehand pargeting in
The response we had from the Nela Trowels article a couple of weeks ago has been huge both on The Plasterers Forum® and Plasterers News and Plasterers 1 Stop Shop has been inundated with enquiries and questions regarding these exciting new trowels. There has been a lot of chatter and
It has been over two years since British Gypsum and The Plasterers Forum® have been down the mine and seen the factory, and so we have both been working on getting this trip arranged, and it has been somewhat of a challenge. Two years ago, The Plasterers Forum® was a
‘Stilts’ are now widely known as a tool used in plastering, suspended ceilings, and drylining, but not universally accepted…this is partly because too many users and too many sites operate without an adequate understanding of best practice. Firstly, the name ‘stilts’ is unhelpful. DURA-STILTS work as an extension to the
A new innovative magnetic plaster solution by British Gypsum has helped to transform a subterranean former Royal Air Force (RAF) communication bunker into a family home and guest house. The building, in Nottinghamshire, was operational during World War II as the primary unit that controlled information from the Norfolk and
Back in 2011 myself my good lady Jane and five plasterers from the Plasterers Forum headed to Loughborough to see British Gypsum and have a tour of the mine and the factory. Well, that trip was such a success and is still talked about on The Plasterers Forum that myself,
After my recent trip up to the NEC to see the national plastering finals, I stopped off at my parent’s house as I would do anyway, and I was sorting through a number of plastering books that my parents had found out for me as parents typically do when they
British Gypsum’s Thistle plaster has been used in a newly built medical centre in Somerset. Significant renovation work was undertaken at Frome Medical Practice to create a stylish, multi-functional medical hub which includes two medical practices, a pharmacy, an optician, mental health services, extensive training facilities, a private clinician’s suite
It has been some of the most stressful and frustrating times at TPF towers and finally at long last The Plasterers Forum app is now available for those of you who use an apple device. Whether that be an iPhone or an iPad then The Plasterers Forum is now available
British Gypsum has launched a new high performance acoustic plasterboard. Gyproc SoundBloc F is the latest addition to the Gyproc SoundBloc family and offers all the acoustic properties of its sister products, but with added fire performance. Designed to fit into the manufacturer’s GypWall CLASSIC partition system, a single 15mm layer of the
As many of you will know I am a plasterer by trade, and although I am no longer trading as one I will still go and complete jobs for the old builders I use to carry out work for. One of the main reasons for this is that a couple
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