How To Plaster A Wall

O.k so you might have all of your wall or ceiling prepared and you would like to know tips on how to plaster your wall.

Initial off you'll need to have some bags of multi-finish you possibly can by this from your local creating merchant. Depending on the flatness of your wall a bag covers about 10 square meter's.
You need to give your wall two coats, but the second coat is a lot thinner then the very first coat.
You get a huge bucket fill it half way with cold water add your mixing paddle inside the bucket and then add the powder from the bag. (do not put power in initial and add water as this will give you lumbs in your bucket)

Start mixing the plaster

mix slowly intill you might have a creamy texture but not to runny once you have the proper thickness scrap around the top of the bucket and get all of the power which is stuck around the bucket within the middle and mix again.
Now you need to pour it out of the bucket onto a board and commence spreading it up the walls using your hawk and trowel make sure you've wet you hawk with cold water initial.
When you have covered your entire wall leave it intill it starts to pick up this is where alot of people go wrong they try to start to smoothing it out as soon as they have finish covering it.
All of your trying to do is just take out the heavy line absolutely nothing else given that you've to put a second coat. Once taken out the heavy lines mix up your second bucket. I do this bucket a bit bit wetter then the very first 1.
You are going to obtain that this coat goes on superior as soon as covered you need to wait for it to begin picking up.

Go have a cup of tea

Once it's pick up you're going to trowel it up four times,on the very first trowel your just going to take out the heavy line absolutely nothing else, when you accomplished that leave it a while.
On your second trowel use a large paint brush and dip it in cold water then flick the water (not to much) on your wall and commence troweling it, on this 1 what you're trying to do is fill any holes or marks with the excess plaster you have taken off together with your trowel.

On the third trowel use clean cold water and commence troweling across your wall, once you have completed that go have a cup of tea leave it for a though intill you begin seeing the plaster turn brown, once this happen's all you might be going to do it wet the end of your trowel and give you wall a trowel with alot of pressure.
And that's it so now you might have learned the way to plaster a wall.