Mouldmaster 5 Kg Plaster of Paris, White

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You should always consider wearing a mask while working on projects that would involve plaster dust. If your hands and arms feel fine dealing with this dust, you tend to forget that it could still be causing irritation by breathing it in. You will want to make sure you are containing the area you are working on so that you don’t get this plaster dust throughout your entire house. This may seem ridiculous, but it is a necessary step as the lines created by the scratching will provide an ideal key for the finishing skim coat. The scratching is done after a few hours when the plaster has started to harden off. The base coat is extremely important as, with all jobs, the overall finished job will only ever be as good as the preparation that was done initially.

Once flat and level and starting to cure the next job is to them close the surface or “rub in” as it’s known. When you can put your finger lightly on the surface without leaving a mark, its time to start.If you happen to do a simple at-home project that causes you to breathe in a bit of gypsum dust, you may cough and feel irritated, but it would be unlikely for you to have any long-term lung issues from this one instance. Base coat plastering is the process of laying on a coat of bonding or browning plaster to form a solid and level base to lay on a finishing coat or plaster, or skim coat as it’s also known.

Which way you work, whether it’s side to side or up and down is entirely up to you, there’s no right or wrong way, as long as the plaster is on the wall, that’s all that matters.

To fix the beads to the wall, simply hold the bead in place, level it with a spirit level. You can then nail it in place using galvanised nails or by placing a few small dabs of base coat plaster on the wall and pushing the bead into it. After a few minutes the plaster will grip the bead.