▲ 50 r/Plastering
First attempt at skimming a wall. Spent four hours on it. Cried a little. This is genuinely one of the hardest things I have ever tried to do with my hands?
Watched about forty hours of YouTube. Felt confident going in. Mixed the plaster fine. Got it on the wall fine. Then the finishing started and it just went wrong in slow motion and I could not stop it. Trowel marks everywhere. One patch that looks almost okay surrounded by patches that do not. It has dried now and it looks like the surface of the moon. I am not giving up but I need someone to tell me this is normal for a first attempt or I am going to feel bad about this for a long time 😩
u/BillNo874 — 3 days ago