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Busby Plastering Services

Plastering and dry lining
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General repairs and maintenance
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25/10/2026

Genuine question, why do people use bonding coat + halftime, when you can just buy bonding 60 its ready mixed to the correct proportions, eliminates the risk of adding too much additive and the price difference is minimal! Other than being sponsored by eazymix why would you!

23/10/2026

Little home project, finally found the time between jobs to tear out the old utility room, rip out the floor, give it a lick of paint, screed and install new flooring, install new units and redesign it to give maximum storage, build a bespoke boiler cupboard, install and plumb in a new sink and tap, install some new tiles and grout it! Completed the bulk of the work within 6 days of rip out and back to a functional room, the finishing touches have taken 3 weeks as i have been too busy! But its finally done! Thats it for projects for 2026, lets see what i find to do here in 2027!

16/10/2026

Quick patch repair this morning after yesterdays inspection visit!
Expanding foam sprayed into the void to give the bonding something to go against! Wall cracks raked out! Sbr applied to brick and surrounding plaster! Hole and larger cracks backfilled with bonding, then patch skimmed! Smaller cracks easifilled ready to be sanded and painted! This was a budget option to make the wall look better for a year or so until the extension is torn down and rebuilt!

16/10/2026

2nd job of the day, patching in multiple small holes so this area can be painted! 30 minutes work!

15/10/2026

HOW do builder get away with this???
Inspection job today, this customer was experiencing cracking in the plaster and ceilings in their extension, the plaster where cracked was sitting a good 6mm proud of the rest of the plaster and had blown in between the cracks! Rather than just take a guess what was going on and not being able to see the wall from outside as it was joined to neighbour we decided to chop out a section and see whats happening underneath!
First discovery was the area had a length of expanding metal lath running top to bottom, bit strange for the centre of a wall! Then after cutting it back it exposed the absolutely shocking brickwork underneath! Instead of fixing the brickwork the builder has covered the join with the lathe, and got the plasterer to float the wall with bonding thinking that would take care of it 🤯🤠 with the dry summer cracks started appearing and the brickwork has started to move! The customer and the neighbour both have plans to tear down the extensions in the near future and have them rebuilt properly, so now we know the cause, and that its nothing more serious we will patch it back up and make it liveable, until its time to tear it down!

13/10/2026

Little “mates rates” job today! Wall washed down to remove the salts and residue after the leak! Prepped with SBR, new beads over the old rusted ones and then fully reskimmed!

12/10/2026

Quick one today to finish up at this house, 2nd archway skimmed before the units go in either side! Patch repair on a ceiling after electical chasing. Small under stair slope skim, more ceiling boxing and another small patch where a plumber cracked the ceiling!

09/10/2026

2 days prepping, repairing and skimming these walls and ceiling plinths ready for the fitted wardrobes to be installed! This was a nightmare working around rooms full of tools and crap, and the tiler making dust eveywhere while we were trying to sbr and plaster! But we get it done!

08/10/2026

Returned to a house today where i plastered a downstairs toilet in near darkness, the room gets almost zero natural light and it was a very dark grey day! Had my trusty dewalt worklight but that was all! Glad to say it came out an absolute dream and looks the nuts!

07/10/2026

Something different today, installing 2 tile splashbacks for a friend, grouted in polar white and white metal trim to finish! Sealed and finished with while silicone!

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Camp Road
Saint Albans

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447830022562

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