![]() The guys here wear stilts and a helper constantly renews there hawk with more plaster. The difference is it takes me 3x as long and I can't do ceilings. At the very end I just skim over some tiny imperfections with all purpose compound and it looks awesome. I'm not even a drywaller and I can do a small 10x10 walls in my own home real good. If you can skim a butt joint than you could learn plaster. I think a good drywall finisher could figure it out pretty quick. I'm surprised more drywall guys don't learn. I mean the plaster guys will drywall if you ask but no one asks because i think it's pretty close in price. I don't even know anyone that does drywall. I'd love to be able to spec veneer plaster instead of drywall.Ĭlick to expand.I live in boston and the guys are everywhere. Blue board and corner bead could only be sourced in massive quantities. It was only by chance one day that I was in at one of the yards asking and the elderly owner happened to be in and over heard me asking about them that I was finally able to get even the plaster. All of the yards here had no idea what blue board, base and veneers, and plaster corner beads were. I had a hell of a time sourcing any of the materials. Local availability of the materials plays a big part too. Not to mention how physically demanding doing veneer plaster is. You screw up with veneer plaster and you're toast. You screw up, you just sand more, add another coat, and you can do it solo. Not saying drywall doesn't take skill, but the learning curve is a lot easier. Nobody here seems to know what it is though, most likely because to be good and profitable at it you need large very skilled crews. I've been trying my hand at the veneer plaster lately. Why would anyone chose drywall over plaster? It's seems like drywall is even more work when you add in the repeated visits and sanding. For those of you who do both, what's the difference in price. They lay down tarpaper and at the end of the job roll it up and walk out. The prices to me seem so reasonable that I've never even considered drywall. Screw pops are no existent and it's smooth as glass. Sometimes it's left unpainted on ceilings since it has a matte white finish. The benefit is a much harder surface that is more durable. I always hire out for veneer plaster instead of a drywall finish. I'm not talking about real old school scratch coat, horse hair, thick plaster. Blue board is the exact same thing as reg drywall except it has a special paper that allows the plaster to adhere to it. I'm referring to 1/2" or 5/8" blue board coated with a 1/8" coat of plaster. I've actually posted about veneer plaster before and a lot of people didn't know what I was talking about so I'll explain what I mean just in case. I live in the north east and veneer plaster is very popular.
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