Sealing new plaster

[seanandruby]

mortar is compo

Aka 'Gobbo', ready spread, muck, but usually compo. Never knew where that came from ? ???

Hp

It's a composition of ( putting together )...sand, cement etc: So compo' for short :;):

[ilovesettsonmondays]

mick o brien got lots of plant on m25 widening near brentwood too.hawk plant another one who seems to get on most dot jobs.

[Suggers]

Never heard of "compo" before.... you learn every day.
Like everybody, drives me nuts the way the word "cement" is used .....Yours, another grumpy old man. (pedantic mfu***r)

[lutonlagerlout]

heard it called pug as well on the south coast
" muck up" is music to my ears
"wash out" is like a lullaby
the sound of bricks in a diesel mixer is like a nightingales song

yes i have been drinking
LLL

[mickg]

I hear the term 1RB every day

>>>>What's the difference between a road and a street and does it really matter?
in days of old a street was paved and a road wasn't and but connected towns and cities together

>>>>the sound of bricks in a diesel mixer
ROFL

when asphalt was used on all floors the bucket runner would shout "Daylight" to the guys spreading, this meant there is not much left in the boiler and daylight was in fact showing at the top end of the boiler so its nearly time to go home

[DNgroundworks]

We call the bricks in the mixer "happy stone"

Just my 2p worth on the plastering, i served my time (well 3 years) plastering with an old school proper trades man, who was emplyoed by my boss who was a developer and groundworker in partnership with the crusher guy, anyway multifinish, skim whatever you want to call it as far as i know does not need sealing as long as you use a 'trade' paint, ie, dulux trade emulsion, i have seen people seal properties that we have skimmed, with pva and the result is a mess it shows through the paint untill you get about 100 coats on.

ive replasterd the whole of my mum and dads house a few years back an then my dad painted it with dulux trade emulsion, the outcome was absoltuley fine

[Mikey_C]

i always thought compo was one of two things

1) Concrete -- which when work on my own, as I often have to, I always had a chuckle about "fine Spanish concrete" yes that's right compo viejo.

2) a huge financial payout -- that someone (usually) undeserving claims when they have slipped on tomato in a supermarket or after staging a car accident.

my other personal hate is everyone tradesmen thinking all engineers are awkward.

[flowjoe]

my other personal hate is everyone tradesmen thinking all engineers are awkward.

Not all are awkward, some are just plain thick

Had to tell one last week twice what up and downstream meant on a drainage system, he honestly thought that those chambers/manholes shown more Northerly on his topo drawing were upstream, and those lower down the page were downstream. as though this was the norm for all drawings :O