Plastering A Brick Wall From Scratch | SCREEDS Make A Hard Job Easy

This guide showed the easiest way to plaster a brick wall from scratch. And that’s by using screed bars. These are basically guide rails for plaster. It allows you to get your walls FLAT AND PLUMB with ease. That way you’ll have a solid walk with just plaster.

No plasterboard in sight!

This is considered a hard skill in Plastering and is in my opinion, one of the hardest things to learn. But this method makes the whole process a bit easier.

This is one part in a 5 part series called "Plastering For Beginners Crash Course". We'll show you the full process to plastering so make sure to subscribe so you don't miss any future videos.

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Hope you enjoy the training.

Blaine Gray,
Plastering For Beginners

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[givemethejob]

Many thanks Blaine, been years since I have plastered a wall or ceiling and your videos and advice have been excellent. I got a great finish on the first wall and ordered some stilts. Keep up the good work!

[felek]

Blain every video is amazing, I have just noticed 114000 subscribers, I remember years ago wen I bought your on line curse of plastering and learned it so quick, since then I have plastered my parents, friends house and mine, by the way I have moved 3 times and always plastered and painted all because your Curse Live for ever MATE

[NevilleHayfield]

I done my 1st room float and set 30+ years ago with Lime like that. Although I pinned timber, ruled off, took them out and filled. U can't go wrong 👏💪👍

[martindrury]

I was taught this method years ago, its so affective & takes the guess work out.
Like they say the old way is the best way.
Great video.

[RYANable]

Very well done. I've always wondered how to get it truly flat from scratch. Great tip, and cheers.

[Jack-Daniel.]

I love hardwall too, super easy to work with.
I used baton strips, screws and packers to plumb the walls, mainly because of the ease to get out.
I done the shed as it’s block built, and being a shed I wasn’t too concerned about finishing with skim. I tell you what I done abit of rubbing down and painted it tbh it looked good.
Never thought of using plasterboard as rails tbh, I doubt I’d ever do it again as it isn’t my trade, but I do find it therapeutic. Still wouldn’t attempt to skim a wall in the house though lol

[EapeTheMatrix]

UVPC window / door sills make amazing feather edges. For a plastic alternative. Nice idea with the plasterboard. I used wood and taking it out with a multi tool. It was a 3 side corner and took me ages!

[Doug....]

Enjoyed watching that. What a clever idea to set up 3 screeding points. 👍👍👍

[giogio]

Strips of plasterboard is a tip ill remember...what ive done is apply lines of bonding coat about 1m apart and just level them with a long level.then fill in the runs.

[RhysMullett]

Greats videos mate, always explain clearly!
Quick question.. what do you recommend, a plastic or metal blade speed skim?
Thanks 👊🏼

[ChrisTian-uwtq]

Great little video here to add some confidence to a bigger than usual interior brick cover up task I have!
Have popped up some timber as screeds, which straight away showed some lower spots.
So, I am in Slovakia and the stuff I was recommended as base layer - translates to 'Core Plaster' which is a lime hydrate plaster...
Going to make myself a devils key also, seems neat!

The top coat I have yet to decide, as I want something structured and slightly rough/cementy looking.
Question I have, at the end of your video - once I get to that - it seems I can in the same day apply the top plaster (once decided) once its had a few hours to dry. When I key it and were to leave it for a few days - would I need to pva the wall before applying top coat?
Maybe the better question is - is it wiser to do it all in one day i.e. I have to decide final coat and can't use the night to do the base layers? :)

I have two 3x3m walls to cover up, didn't want to decide the top coat as I don't have the funds to gather that right now, but the plaster is sitting there ready to go :)

[ThomasGreatbatch]

This is a brilliant series, thank you for making it.

I have an internal red brick wall (not breeze blocks as shown here), it's a relatively small wall, but next to our dining room and was quite dusty, so we PVA'd it (I think it was a 2:1 mix).

Now watching these videos, I am toying with the idea of plastering it myself, then within about 2 minutes of this video, you say not to PVA the walls as Hardwall is designed for walls that suck up moisture. So I guess my question is, if the wall had been PVA's (as ours has):

What produce would you use for your 'base coats'?
or would you just board it?
or is there a way to make the wall breathable/thirsty again?

Thanks
Tom

[joejoe-ijqy]

you should run screeds horizontal, you only need two, straight edge across it, much easier to level one end then the other and straighten across wall, just a little tip

[greyhoundracing]

Blaine i suppose newbies will get there in the end but you might like to demonstrate how it really should be done when you were taught in school. Plaster screeds top to bottom say 6"" or the width of your trowel 2x1 6" batton top and bottom. easy to tap them out fill in the gaps no messing cutting strips of plaster boards scrimming and so on !! easy. Nice vids though.👍👍👍👍

[hema]

Thank you so much for sharing your experience with us 😊

[chrisward]

Great vid. I’ve got a wall I’d love to try this on. But it’s half brick that’s been painted over a few times. Would hardwall work on this please?

[simdog]

excellent video as usual. What is the advantage of this as opposed to adding plasterboard with dot and dab and skim? Thanks

[ookoro]

Could you screw the plasterboard in using packers to level?

[ThePlockets]

If you used cement board strips instead of plaster board strips for the screeds, couldn't you leave the strips in without any concerns about removing them?

[gavinrackett]

Great video as usual 👍I've got to wet plaster a bare brick wall soon but the customer has given it a coat of pva thinking he was doing me a favour. Is it still ok to use Hardwall as I don't really like using bonding 🤔
Cheers mate 🍻