I literally just thumbs up every video this guy makes before I even watch it as I know it’s gonna be good

Thank you thank youuu. I really needed to see this as I’m a single mother and 1st time homeowner attempting to do some DIY projects. So far most have been successful thanks to Google and KZread. Good job sir.

I do this work for a living and I still enjoy watching videos of others doing the same. weird, right? I have to say that substituting drywall for real plaster has really become the easiest and quickest way to repair these ailing ceilings. If I were to offer one suggestion and it's small, I have had great success with back laminating the drywall panels with durabond. this would especially be helpful on the edges or were drywall screws aren't properly anchored. the durabond also forms new keys to act as a fail safe and give you hands free screwing. when doing this, you would obviously have to dust off and use plaster weld or other pva for superior bond. just a thought...not saying my way is better..just another way. keep up the good work!

@als1023

2 жыл бұрын

Great Idea !! Thanks for posting !!!

@hutchdw77

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tip.

@samuelbankston2108

2 жыл бұрын

Same I do drywall on my own and i still watch. I always doubt myself so it's nice to have refreshers and still learn new stuff with his videos.

@jamespoulton915

2 жыл бұрын

Same, I'm a traditional plasterer using wattle and daub with a goat hair lime putty and sand render, can't beat the old method of plastering!!

@carlpledger8719

2 жыл бұрын

@@jamespoulton915 kudos to you! you are a dying breed.

I love how you keep your errors in the videos. Makes them so much better than most others, AND it makes me feel less bad about my mistakes. But only because you're such a boss

@priceandpride

Жыл бұрын

Sqaursh it!

@ShadowWalker8

11 ай бұрын

I don’t . Hope he stop fkn around so I can hurry tf up and learn

@Skyflairl2p

8 ай бұрын

@@ShadowWalker8 Him showing how he solves his mistakes is the best form of learning, because you're sure as fuck to make those mistakes if he can.

OMGOSH!!! You couldn’t have had this problem about a month ago? My husband and I took all the plaster and lath off of a wall in our bedroom because we had old water damage behind wallpaper and part of the wall was crumbling off on one side. We ended up putting drywall over the entire wall and now I’ve finished fixing all the cracks in the other 2 plaster walls, I even floated out the bottom of the wall from the baseboards to even out the walls AFTER watching your videos. Thank you for passing along your knowledge to us “newbies” with home improvements.

I have a 95 year old house that needed this same repair and there were also a number of loose spots in different rooms. I did not tear out and replace the loose areas with drywall, I simply screwed the loose spots back in place, which is far quicker, easier, and in my opinion, a much better repair because my walls have a nice rough texture that is very difficult to replicate. This repair has held up perfectly for 20 years now. They even make plaster repair washers for this purpose, but I didn't even use them, I just used drywall screws.

He’s so cheerful! I’m never this cheerful dealing with plaster.

Don't need to time lapse..it's a pleasure watching a PRO do such a fine job. Only one humiliating moment..:( Fill (Phil) :D LOL waiting for the next tutorial!

@stroys7061

Жыл бұрын

I enjoy watching him real time and his banter, but the time lapse is fun, too. I like seeing it all come together so quickly.

This video has saved me thousands of dollars patching plaster in my 100 year old home. Thank you SO MUCH!!

I found a similar issue at my girlfriends house that had been left unrepaired for years. I did the same kind of repair you did and it turned out awesome. Great knowledge shared here.

Am a BIG fan of your work, and especially now since I have a near IDENTICAL patch to fix in my OWN kitchen ceiling. And now I know how, thanks to you! Keep making these videos! Frankly I don’t know why you don’t have your own show on TV yet. You’d be brilliant.

Funny, fastening drywall is easy and quick when nobody is looking. So, it's a good laugh when the pressure is on. Keep up the good videos. 👍👍

@vancouvercarpenter

2 жыл бұрын

Very true!

Great job. I’ve been a renovator for over 15 years and I still love these videos and Learn a thing or two. Thanks VC

The main trouble with this video is that with your own experience, you make it look easier than it actually is for the occasional to rarely ever 'diy hole patcher'. Still, I enjoyed it.

Thanks Ben timing on this perfect, just started a drywall/plaster patching project in my house and had just finished fitting the drywall. I’m going to give the wide fibafuse a try for the joints.

Thanks so much for your advice, knowledge, and humble nature. You are my go-to when I need assistance with drywall/plaster projects.

I've used plaster washers to hold up loose plaster. They worked well. Have also seen people inject white glue behind loose sections of plaster prior to using the plaster washers. That looks like a situation perfect for using them.

@thcall6441

Жыл бұрын

Yup. I got 100 of them from Lee Valley. They recess in nicely. And hold the pulled away plaster firmly back to the lathe. Good tip.

Wally's plaster magic works extremely well too. I had to repair loose sections of walls and used their product. A little on the pricey side, but you won't find anything as good.

Great video! I restored 8 historic homes and this is what we did, but you did it even better. Thank you!

I’m cackling at 24:36 lol. This was very informative! Would have never thought to use the same thickness drywall over the lath. That certainly makes it easier

This was exactly the video I needed to see! I am about to take down old wallpaper at my parents house and I have feeling a section about this size is “load bearing” so there will be a big hole when I take the paper down! This is pretty much what I thought would need to be done to fix it but really really great to see it demonstrated before I go do it!

thank you for this! first time home owner here currently literally in the thick of it. appreciate all of your videos!

Sir. You’re a very good instructor.

Thanks for being genuine... you're a great teacher.

Thanks for the tips. I’m living in an old apt that has this type of walls. Actually I would have to repair a surface as big as the one we see in the beginning of the video. Heard about the fiber glass tape, bought a roll and used it a few times to fix cracks in walls (and added compound). True for gloves when using that tape, I would also use a mask, I read small particles can irritate your throat after a while.

I love you videos and your humor. Thank you for all of them.

Thank you for being authentic and not editing the screw blunders out…. Helps some of us not feel so inadequate… lol

New subscriber here and wanted to say thanks for all your videos and after watching you attempt to screw that first drywall down I now don't feel so bad about my drywall attaching abilities :)

Awesome work and even better teaching as always, keep up to great work!!!

You make it look so easy. Nice job, and thanks for making this video.

Thank you for being that person on youtube to teach this.

Great job Mr. Ben, thank you for sharing, keep safe and enjoy life.

That fibafuse is awesome! Thanks for introducing it to me. I have an old house with a lot of plaster repair. It has helped a bunch!

Wow... That's the strongest patch I've ever seen... Nice work... With all your experience and trials and errors - You make it look so easy... Great work...!

So wish I bumped into your videos 8 months ago, but glad I found you now! Thank you for taking time to make these videos!

A very likeable pro making it easy to understand THANKS

terrific video. first-timer, here. you make this look easy.

you're a skater? makes total sense why your so chill and easy going. good stuff dude. had a water leak here in Texas. i need to repair an 8x6 patch of drywall ceiling due to busted pipe. thanks for your videos homie.

Thank you so much! Wonderful and explicit direction! Great job !

This is the perfect video for what I'm about to do at my dad's place. He's barely lived there for over 20 years and it's now in terrible condition. Over the last 30 years or so, there have been 3 or 4 leeks from the neighbour's kitchen above and I'm expecting to find a similar plastering issue as in your video. I graduated as a painter earlier in the year and now I'll be putting my skills to the test over the next 3 months as I attempt to repair most of the walls (and some ceilings) in my dad's flat.

Other plasters on YT show just putting up mud to fill the giant hole. They make it look easy, but for most home owners it's not that easy. The way you did this makes it much easier for regular people to save money as a diy project, pretty-cool

good stuff man ... i do this for a living and you did a super job explaining

I enjoy watching your videos. Thank you blessings to all you guys!!

I LOVE Fibafuse. I used it on my sidejobs alot. I only found it at Home Depot or specialty stores though. Like you said it is very east to cut the tape in corners though 🖒. I've never done a plaster job before, good knowledge to have. Keep the bids coming 🖒👊🍻.

I like the way you explain every detail.

I watch your skate videos all the time. Just had to fix a hole in my house, looked up how, and guess who's got a video on it lol

@lilspiceboi69

4 ай бұрын

same lmfao

An oscillating saw with a doll or toothless blade works perfect for plaster. You can score the plaster with it and not cut the lath. It makes putting your quarter inch or three eights inch drywall patch in very easy.

I can’t tell you how many times I wish that I had someone else to clean up at the end of the day. Great job on this patch. As usual, very instructional.

@vancouvercarpenter

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Greatly informative video and hope you’re healing quickly so you’re back in the skateboard soon.

That's beautiful man! Nice work!

Great style to your vids. Honest commentary with gaffes included. BTW great substance for fixing problem

Great video. As someone who has done repairs for decades I enjoy learning new tips. The only thing in this video that threw me off is ' the leak is probably from bad flashing that will soon be addressed '. ALWAYS find and repair the leak issue before repairing plaster/drywall. Your now 'stronger than original ' plaster repair will simply spread the leak damage even further if the leak is not addressed first. Many times I have had roofers that need several attempts to 'find the true leak problem ', especially when dealing with 'old roof systems, which is basically any structure that used 'plaster.

Thanks VC for the tips.

I’m so glad I found you and this video. We have a similar repair needed in our living room and have been putting it off due to not sure how to proceed and the fear of hiring someone who would cut corners. So, I have watched this a couple times, and I feel like I can fix the ceiling myself since you provided a ton of amazing advice and recommendations. Fingers crossed- I feel I have some skills but this will be new with plaster!

@deeplorable8988

2 ай бұрын

Well, it's a year later? How'd it go?

Great explanation and presentation! Thank u buddy👏🏻

Thank's dude! I'm a professional debuting in renovation. I appreciate your video's 🇿🇦

Your videos helped me a lot. Thank you so much 🌺🌺

Thanks for the great instructional video! I think I will give it a go.

Thanks for this helpful video. Couldn't find anyone else. Just trying to join the good to the bad in my old house 😊

I successfully patched a 2X2 hole in the ceiling, following your suggestions, and it went very well. Thanks for these videos!

This video just saved my a lot of time and money! You're awesome!!

As someone who skates AND has an old house in need of plaster/lathe repair this is the best cross over I could ever imagine

nice work, great tutorial.

Where do all the Kin pencils go? I wouldn't mind if I found one every now and then but I never do.🤔 Have yo ever noticed that you can keep a Stanley knife for ever just as long as you don't put any spare blades in the handle compartment. As soon as you put a spare in the handle it opens a tare in the space time continuum and F#cks off to the place where all the lost socks live.

@vancouvercarpenter

2 жыл бұрын

😂

Thank you for this video. We have detached plaster on our church and you have shown us what needs to bedone to correct it.

I like this guy so much!

I've used that 3' mesh. wonderful stuff when working around cracked plaster

Great job you actually show what it's like to actually do the job because nothing is perfect and everything is not Square thank you

you did an excellent job. clear instructions make it look simple, not too hard for a guy like me. lol. thanks

WOW, I love this video it help me to repair my ceiling at home. Thanks

think that ceiling section you're working on is big enough to warrant scaffolding instead of the up and down on the stepladder. beautiful work as usual. I have learned much from your vids

I have never thought of using a tape measure and knife like that to cut plasterboard before lol. Awesome!

Awesome repair. I know plaster and drywall work together but I never repaired plaster plaster b4. 👍🏻 good job

@vancouvercarpenter

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks 👍

Very funny and very educated video. Thank you.

You are awesome guy, thanks for teaching and lecturing, learned a lot from you. Greetings from Serbia, small country in midle/ South Europe :)

this helped me so much. thanks!

LMAO !!! That fill Phil joke. You’re the best man. Lotta lath n plaster here in Chicago. Bum ankle right now can’t skate. Fixing up my house. You would be proud of the drywall I did in my bathroom. 1950s Tile went all the way around the room about half way or more up the wall. So I gutted everything up to the tile line then I put in new drywall and taped n floated into the rest of the existing plaster.

You're doing a good job

Awesome as usual. You may know you’re helpful but you don’t know how much money you have saved me by watching and learning instead of hiring someone. Many thanks!!!

@vancouvercarpenter

2 жыл бұрын

Glad to help

This is great for the video! If a custumer calls me for this... I would just install new drywall on top of all the ceilings plaster.. I would also repipe that area to be safe. Great job!👍

It would be great to get pix of the painted project. Some of us are fully addicted to the before/after. As always, fantastic work.

Done a dozen of these repairs over the past 20 years. Glad to see you have a very similar approach. I also left some of the loose stuff up, it did come down a year later. Now, remove all the loose plaster, no matter how inconvenient.

@bflkurby1

2 жыл бұрын

Is that drywall that he cut?

Thank you for the video and your methods. Suggestion, When doing overhead plasterwork it's important to wear safety eye protection. Should any plaster material come into contact with your eye you could end up in an emergency room with a Cornea chemical burn. Your eyes don't grow back.

Very educational and entertaining! It also doesn’t hurt to have a good looking guy to watch while learning how to fix my ceiling!😉 ….sigh… come fix my ceiling! Lol

Wish you'd come rescue my poor old house. Ran out of energy, money and enthusiasm!! But...I just say it's new decor!

Bout to do decent amount of repairs on an older house ( Earliy 1900s ) and this is an issue throughout the house ( but in smaller sizes ) nothing this huge. nothing this massive. But im sure the knowledge im getting from your videos will more then be sufficient for the small cracks, crumbling going on. Watched a couple of your videos in preparation. feeling confident i can do it without issue following these guides. Thanks again!

Removed tons of rock lath and plaster and installed drywall throughout my Cape Cod. Not fun at all. Your videos helped me accomplish the drywall. Thanks.

Good job👏👏👏👏 , thank you for the video

Awesome as usual VC. But you had me rollin with the whole screw and ceiling part of this video. It was so hilarious. Hope you are doing well.

Good way of doing a repair, didn't know that in Canada you have the old lath and plaster in some house's, it can be very hard to do these repairs and always good to learn a different way in the UK we normally use plaster and plasterboard/ drywall with skrim to form the joint.

Thank you Brother for that amazing Video 🙂🙏🏽🙂🙏🏽

Great job man 👍🏼

Really enjoyed the video Ben! Don’t often come across plaster where I am but confident now to look after a repair. Kind of disappointed you didn’t break out the tomahawks....

Ficou EXELENTE seu trabalho , parabéns ! 👍👍👍👍👏👏👏👏👏👏

Great video and funny personality

Exactly the info I need! I recently bought a house that was built in 1922 that is being completely rewired so there’s holes everywhere and I took out some walls and gutted the bathroom.

@tlc2387

Жыл бұрын

You been youtubing your process? I just bought a 1910 Victorian will be doing the same. Would love to hear and see what you've been doing.

Nice job. Thank you.

Very helpful thank you!!

My mom's living room ceiling has been like that for 11 years that I know of. We couldn't find anyone to repair it. They wanted to pull down the whole ceiling. Watching your other videos you must have learned from a master plasterer because drywallers don't do the kind of job you do.

I used construction adhesive and masonry nails to attach drywall to a concrete block wall for a massive patch. Your previous videos helped me finish it nice. Thanks!

@vancouvercarpenter

2 жыл бұрын

Nice work!

@olivierbourgeois4748

2 жыл бұрын

In a case like this , I would have used Masonary screws . Screws that would be self tapping with a bugle head. The bugle head is flat and has a wide head that grips more plaster under it’s rim. These screws can be screwed in , without the heavy pounding on frail plaster . I have also skimmed hot mud with glue mixed in , on to the plaster 8” from the raw edge . I then embedded perfa tape in to the wet hot mud , then let it dry, after which I screwed in the bugle head screws. This made the old plaster secure. I do this anywhere the old plaster is loose. Strips of perfa tape and screws. Same thing can be done where plaster is getting loose from wood lath. Be sure to hit the wood lath and studs and rafters. Been doing this for nearly 50 years with great results.

@ericaulbach

10 ай бұрын

I’m a plasterer. Just use base coat plaster to stick drywall to masonry next time. It’s called dry lining in the UK. Mix with less water for more body which gives it better holding power by not sagging. A temporary nail you pull out later can help hold until plaster is set. Leave 1/4” nominal key gaps around perimeter of each piece to lock it in with plaster and no need for tape. Use alum to help set up faster.