| A day in the life of a plasterer |
Jul 1, 2008 7:49 pm
Mood: roasted, 932 Views | Did ya ever wonder what a day in the life of a plasterer is like? Of course you haven't. Being the public minded person I am, I'm gonna tell you anyway.
Cause and effect.
We worked Saturday from 7am till about noon. Which gave me time to come home and take a nap so I could enjoy my Saturday night. I like to stay up late and not worry about alarm clocks... or basically anything grown up.
Unfortunately I am also rock solid and dependable. This is a tuff combination. So I control it. Most of the time I am very conservative but sometimes I let T have his head, in a manner of speaking.
I did that Saturday night. Stayed up really late (or early) and then slept late Sunday morning. Which meant I wasn't sleepy until late Sunday night. And we started at 5am Monday. Sooo I worked a nine hour day, without a break, in 98 degree heat on three and a half hours of sleep.
Cause and effect.
Stucco, in case you don't know, is an exterior siding made by combining sand, water and cement and applied either with a machine or by hand. We do it by hand which is the conventional method in our area. By "hand" means scooping the stucco or "mud" onto a 15 by 15 inch flat piece of metal with a handle called a "hoc" and transferring it to a 5 inch by 12 inch trowel and smearing it over "chicken wire" basically.
In an average day between four of us, we will smear about fifteen tons of mud on a house by hand. In addition to building and moving heavy scaffold. It's a hard job but keeps a guy in pretty good shape. When I was young I used to tell people they didn't want to mess with a plasterer. We punch walls for a living.
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