Plastering tools

What tool do you use to rub up the render to an even and smooth texture?

• A float

• A featheredge

• A darby

• A trowel

What tool is used to hold your plaster before you spread it on the wall?

• Trowel

• Spot and stand

• Hawk

• Bucket

what tool is used to help form 90 degree internal angles?

• Trowel

• Spirit level

• Builders square

• shovel

What is used to form a key on the first coat

• Devil Float

• Scratch comb

• Surform

• Paddle mixer

What is a devil float used for?

• Forming a key for finishing plaster

• Smoothening the surface

• Raking out joint

• Spreading plaster

what tool is used for straightening the surface, when solid wet plastering

• Featheredge

• Trowel

• Hawk

• Gauging trowel

What is a method statement?

• Something you tell your friends

• A safe system of work

• A speech that a politician says

• Rules of what you can or can't do

Why do you plan what materials are to be used?

• It is not necessary to do this

• I don't plan, I just guess

• The apprentice has to move it, so I never worry about planning

• To help with budgets and have less waste

Planning your job.......

• Wastes time

• Helps the apprentice but no one else

• supports health & safety, and helps to manage our costs

• Means the supplier will see me every morning