No More Soaking Trowels & looking after carbon steel

let's talk about caring for a Carbon steel marshalltown trowel.
also we will take a no nonsense look at soaking your plastering tools and as an added bonus we will look at putting a bent trowel *back into shape.

*note: if you are very unlucky you could pop a rivet doing this but the trowel is knackered anyway so in my opinion it's worth the risk.

I hope you enjoy this video as much as I did making it.

Please be sure to subscribe to my channel, just follow the link and hit subscribe.

Also if you would like to show your appreciation and buy me a beer, that would be very welcome.
Just follow the link, there's no signing up and it's nice and simple. CHEERS 🍻

[Onthetrowel]

Oh I forgot to mention, if you hit the spine to hard and you are very unlucky there's a chance you could pop a rivet on the trowel (it's knackered anyway so in my opinion it's worth the risk just to get another month or so out of it).

[salomonkb_renovations]

Excellent,
People sometimes make things more complicated than they really are. Thank you for fantastic tips again 😀

[dangermouse_]

Lime render cleans up tools beautifully

[dealartist]

Great video, I learned alot.. but the plaster does corrode the carbon over time so clean is for longevity. Also experienced the rain water affect on my trowel by accident last week.. it's true!!!

[russcarter]

Great Chanel...I used to soak mine in white vinegar overnight & it would be like brand new the next day...now I am like you, they just get thrown in the bag till next job

[patrickhamilton]

Good video mate wat I do if trowel starts go the wrong way get an old trowel an tap your trowel on the spine up an down tap it where the spine an trowel blade meet up n down both sides an it will come bk right I do it on new trowels to give it the proper shape

[PlasteringSWales]

Just found your channel, brilliant videos you give fantastic information, your K-REND videos are really informative will be following your tips and info
All the best butty 👍

[Kevin-ghlw]

i think soaking my nela in vinegar and bi carb made it weaker. its about a year old and got significant cracks near the spine

[tuckpoint]

I don't with my plastering stucco trowels but I do spray my drywall knives down with wd 40

[alunthomas]

I clean my trowel fairly regularly, just makes it look nice and doesn’t take long, I have no interest in cats by the way

[brimplas]

Merry Christmas pal, you would hate me!!!! Lol. I wet and dry my trowels practically every work day, buckets and hand board as soaked when ever i am on a job more than 1 day... I can't help it, its just The way i am wired... I have a clean monogrammed hoodie in the van for when i go quoting and the van is washed every week.... I am solely domestic and my cleanliness gets me alot of work... 😁

[John-ggud]

Sod all that cleaning ya tools malarkey all the time! 😂 the main skimming trowel does get kept in good order but everyone I’ve came across with immaculate tools used to spend more time worrying about how clean they’re tools where instead of what was on the wall!

[darrenpaulgreen]

I’m guessing that acid rain is exactly what you have. All rain is slightly acidic with the carbon dioxide dissolved within it giving carbonic acid.

[paullord]

As someone in the trade, that's great advice... only you've just fucked your gatepost up or worse, your customers. Keep spreading buddy.

[jackwatson]

Great channel keep up the great content. I just have a stainless steel perma, chuck it into a bucket of water and forget about it 😂. Plus I don’t do enough plastering so by time I come to use a carbon again it will look like it was found on the titanic

[waynehendry]

Baby oil in garden spray bottle stops rust. What I do. its just mineral oil. No problem with your skin or unpleasant like WD 40 or other toxic oil. Or leave as you say and clean off rust. Great advice though...

[Freedomflyerscraig]

Hi. Why do u use a carbon trowel. I can remember years ago when I went to a stainless steel trowel. It was heaven. What am I missing. Please answer. Love ur content

[andyslate]

I only soak my skimming bucket when am off work for holidays

[christopherbailey]

I'll not go so mad cleaning it now then 🤣. Have a great Xmas!

[ivelinaminkova]

I wonder if there's anything you could add to the soaking water that would help dissolve the plaster off the whisk?