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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
PFT Central – Plasterers 1 Stop Shop are pleased to launch a new machine to their Hire and Sales Fleet – The Pragma 12s – 9LD. The Pragma 12s – 9LD is manufactured in France by Priomix. It is mainly made up of Hydraulics and has limited Electronics, this machine
The success story of PFT RITMO continues… In 2004 at the BAUMA in Munich, the world’s largest fair for construction machines, PFT showed the innovative mixing pump PFT RITMO for the first time. The versatile and flexible machine fits within estate cars without problems. As flexibility is so important, all
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