What are plasterer’s stilts used for?
What are plasterers’ stilts used for? |
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Plasterer’s stilts are designed to allow the wearer to stand still or walk about at a greater height above the ground.
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They are used for a wide variety of tasks, including: drywalling, plastering, placing insulation batts, installing furring channels, patching-in, touching up and stopping joints.
They are also used for fixing cornices and minor hand-sanding jobs. |
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Placing insulation batts |
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Insulation batts are the wooden beams that intersect rolls of fibreglass insulation in loft and wall cavities. | |||
Installing furring channels |
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Furring channels are wooden or metal strips which are used as backing support for the finished surfaces of a room, ie: drywall.
The term ‘furring’ refers to the backing surface, the process of installing it, and also to the strips themselves. |
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Patching-in, touching up and stopping joints |
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Patching-in, touching up, and stopping joints are all drywalling terms and refer to the filling in of gaps, seams or cracks in plaster or plasterboard. | |||
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Unless you have prior experience, then plasterer’s stilts may take a little getting used to. As with most things in life; practice makes perfect. | |||
