FeRFA Apprentices finish formal training with practical experience in laying pumped screeds at Instarmac FeRFA member, Instarmac, supplied all the materials and hosted the training at their Tamworth facility for the latest group of apprentices to complete their formal training. The apprentices spent two days learning all about flowable screeds, with a day of classroom tuition with Terry Foxley, … [Read more...]
The EZE 24 and EZE K4 Plastering Machines
PFT Central – Plasterers 1 Stop Shop have an ever expanding range of plastering tools and plastering machines. They are constantly developing and improving based on the feedback they get from plasterers who use them and this most definitely puts PFT Central in the Plasterers News innovation category. What PFT Central been doing recently? Well PFT Central have launched a number of plastering … [Read more...]
Venetian Plaster Training Day #5
It's my last day at Gold Trowel North where I have been learning the basics of venetian plaster and it is most definitely been an eye opener into the venetian plaster industry. Today is all about buffing and polishing and applying waxes and polishes to our finishes and generally making our sample boards shine and look stunning.... well thats the plan. The first sample board I will be polishing … [Read more...]
Venetian Plaster Training Day #4
Its thursday already and I am feeling the strain of the early starts and the drive from Macclesfield to Bury, so tonight I am treating myself to a night in a hotel right near the training school and it was pretty cheap as well which is even better as the TPF coffers are running desperately low this year. So today I was going to finish up my sample boards ready for fridays buffing session and … [Read more...]
Venetian Plaster Training Day #3
I was once again in bury today bright and early but I am now starting to feel tired, the commute in now is getting tiresome but we are nearly at the end of the week. Today was a day where we are going to be working on our sample boards and start to see some of the finishes come together which is good. I learnt something to day that everything we are doing is a Marmorino finish as its the type … [Read more...]
Venetian Plaster Training Day #2
Today was the first proper day of venetian plastering, yesterday was great but we spent a lot of the time getting settled and today was the day we really got cracking. The first task was to get the end wall base coated and this was just a warm up for the rest of the day just to get you in to the swing of things. We use Veneziano Medio as a base coat and put it on in small random strokes. It is … [Read more...]
Venetian Plastering Training Day #1
Venetian plastering has always been on my list of skill sets that I wanted to learn and this week I have the pleasure of bing the first group of plasterers to go through the new Gold Trowel training facility in the north of England in Bury. I live so far south that if I was any souther, I would get wet feet so the journey up north was a long one but my sister is this way, so I get to stop at her … [Read more...]
Eco-funded External Wall Insulation By Saint-gobain Weber Transforms Holly Park Estate
In the London Borough of Islington, Saint-Gobain Weber External Wall Insulation (EWI) has been specified for the extensive external refurbishment and thermal upgrade of almost 300 hard-to-treat apartments on the Holly Park Estate, Crouch Hill. Islington Council has worked with Network Weber approved design and build contractor Lawtech to deliver a unique upgrade programme that is estimated to … [Read more...]
Pargeting Tools And Materials
Early pargeting was always worked in lime plaster which had three main ingredients; lime, aggregate and hair. Framed and stamped parget worked in cement In the past when lime was slaked on site from local chalk, limestone, shells or marble, the hydraulicity would depend on what impurities happened to be present. Now we have the choice of buying lime putty or hydraulic lime and I normally use lime … [Read more...]
The History of Pargeting
The word Pargeting is English, but the same skills and materials have been used in various times and places around the world. The first plasterers to do ornamental lime plastering lived during the Roman Empire and in the museums of Rome you can find some lovely pieces of ancient workmanship. Ancient Roman ornamental plasterwork and spatula When the Roman Empire fell, the Dark Ages were very dark … [Read more...]
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