On 21 Jun 2004 12:05:25 GMT, Andrew Gabriel wrote:

At least make sure your plaster is new -- the longer it's been
sitting around, the faster it goes off.

he he, but it stops you messing around titty vating it in an attempt
to get it "perfect". Forces you into the way plasterers do it, whack
it on, smooth it out, leave.

Mind you the last lot of old plaster I used which, had also been open
to the air, set in 5 mins, half of what I made up ended up on the
rubble dump. B-)

Thistle Multifinish is nice stuff, behaves in a nice controlled manner
with a long "plastic" stage.

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Cheers
Dave. pam is missing e-mail