For this article we will concentrate on applying plaster to a well sealed & prepared wall. There is a set pattern that you follow for applying plaster onto a wall, follow this and you should find your plaster application runs quite smoothly.
1: First off, decide which hand you will hold your plastering trowel in.
2: If for instance you are right handed, face directly at the wall to be Plastered, then look up towards the far left hand corner nearest the ceiling, & this is where you will start to apply your first strokes of plaster.
Basically, if you could imagine that the whole of your wall area is split up into four equal sections which we will call: A, B, C & D.
A is the top to middle left hand section of the wall.
B is the top to middle right hand section of the wall.
C is the bottom left hand section of the wall.
D is the bottom right hand section of the wall.
3: Apply plaster to the first section (A; the far left corner nearest the ceiling) once plaster is applied there.
4: Move over & onto the next section (B; across towards the far right hand corner nearest the ceiling) & that will be your first two sections covered.
5: Next, move onto the lower left hand corner of your wall, C; and apply your plaster there, overlapping slightly onto the first section that you have already covered.
6: Finally moving across & onto the final section (D; the far right hand lower corner of the wall.)
By now, your whole wall should be coated in the first coat of plaster.
To recap, apply plaster to the first section of your wall, once completed, carry on applying strokes of plaster as you move towards the next section of the wall. But do remember that each stroke of plaster applied must overlap slightly onto the the last stroke of Plaster that you have already just applied, that is to say, once you have applied a section of Plaster onto your wall, don't move right off the spot over to another area of the wall to apply again, instead, keep each stroke of plaster right next to, and overlap slightly, the last one as you move along your wall.
Dale Ovenstone 2009
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