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This is why I always cover my boxes with brown packaging tape at the end of 1st fix. Plaster doesn't stick to it that we'll, and they can't full the box up. Makes it easier for me to get a nice clean box, and the plasterers love it cause they can skim straight over the top of it.

A lot of other trades can be kn0bs, but I belive we should help each other out where we can. So a bit of tape on a box helps us both have an easy day!
 
Best way to get back at them is to throw a handful of sharp sand in the mix and give it a stir, and walk away whistling
Or you could carefully slit the bottom of their plaster bags with a sharp knife, so when they pick it up, it all comes out in a big plooomf of dust!!
 
Or you could carefully slit the bottom of their plaster bags with a sharp knife, so when they pick it up, it all comes out in a big plooomf of dust!!

I used to do this all the time when I worked on high volume sites. I was always on price and wouldn't see a penny if I had to locate plastered boxes. In the end we just used to take a hammer to walls and laugh it off. Probably cut close to a pallet full of bags. Plasterers/Liners are the appitimy of stupid and lazy.
 
Had exactly the same this week. 8 sockets in a kitchen and every single one plastered over and took me ages to dig it all out. So next time I chase and run cables I'm going to leave them live so every time the plasterer goes near it he gets a shock. Might keep him away from the socket :)
 
This is why I always cover my boxes with brown packaging tape at the end of 1st fix. Plaster doesn't stick to it that we'll, and they can't full the box up. Makes it easier for me to get a nice clean box, and the plasterers love it cause they can skim straight over the top of it.

A lot of other trades can be kn0bs, but I belive we should help each other out where we can. So a bit of tape on a box helps us both have an easy day!

If I chase I always fill with bonding plaster to help them out when it comes to plastering takes me 5 mins and speeds their job up but I will defo be using the brown tape method from now on ;-)
 
I think they're demonstrating a worst-case scenario here and showing you what to do should the plasterer ignore your explicit instructions that the box not be skimmed, in which case the guidance suggested in post numbers 9, 13, 15 and 21 is then acted upon.
 

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