Dry lining however is usually done on the same type of stud wall but this time the boards are not plastered, they are just painted. Keeping the wall “dry” (apart from the paint of course). Use tapered or feathered edge plasterboard for dry lining Materials Used for Feathering out Plaster, Filler or Dry Wall If you are attempting to feather out with filler, use some All-Purpose filler which can be pre or ready mixed. This will help you feather out well as the filler will be of the same consistency every time you use it. When am I supposed to apply the feather edge? (how soft should the render be? completely fresh and wet? slightly firm to touch? etc)

A slight bow in a Feather Edged Board can help it stay watertight Feather Edging Used in Preparing for Decoration Feathering Out Filler You can see a caulking blade being used with an ideal feathering out material called Fill and Skim in our video on YouTube. The most obvious application for the DIYer or Home Improver, is in the Feather edged boards used for overlap fencing and panelling. A plasterers feather edge is a specialist plastering hand tools that is used to create a smooth, even edge on plaster surfaces. I battened off the large wall into smaller managable sections, followed the tips on here for preparing the substrate and getting the mix right and found it went on well (thanks everyone). I can get the wall looking pretty decent with just my trowel, but obviouly still need to remove the odd high spot and fill in the low spots.Clearly it originates with the properties of an actual feather where the density is reduced both from the centre to edge in a horzontal direction, as well as getting thinner and less dense from top to bottom. If you would like to know more about dry lining and errecting dry lined walls, see our project here. Feathering out with some filler will allow you to create a surface which will appear flatter even if it is not. By tapering the bumps and hollows out, the light will have no edges to reflect off and it will appear flat to the eye. Anything ad-hoc or out of the ordinary we are keen to help and our Managing director Phil Hall an avid inventor loves to solve tool based problems so lets give him a challenge! How flat and/or smooth should I be trying to get the wall with my trowel before using the feather edge to flatten. As a seasoned plasterer I naturally try to get it as flat as possible with the trowel.

Feather out dry lining joints, filler or plaster with a taping knife or caulker Feathering out Dry Wall Plasterboard and Plasterboard Partitions There are really wide blades used for feathering out wider gaps or bumps in walls and these are called caulking blades but for the novice it might be best to use a normal (but wide) scraper and even a plasterers float or trowel. A wide scraper or a taping knife will allow you to feather out filler neatly and disguise the lump, bum or hollow in your wall. Sanding down these areas is much better achieved with a Detail sander, Mouse Sander or a Delta Sander. Using differing pressures on the tool will allow you to get the surface looking flat. Be sure to get a sander with a dust bag as the sanding dust gets everywhere. Feathers get less dense along their length Feather Edged Boards Used for Fencing and Garden BuildingsTough Tools have been successfully in operation for 20 Years serving the construction trade with high quality and trustworthy products. Our products are not mass imported and each item is manufactured in house in Yorkshire using only the highest quality materials. Plasterboard partitions are (under normal circumstances) timber stud walls covered with plasterboard and then coated with skim plaster. You can see how to erect plasterboard partitions in our project here and also how to skim plaster the partiion once complete in our project here. Most often these bumps etc are not very big at all but it really makes a difference to the finished job. Please note, it does not very often make the chip invisible and some fine surface filler can be placed into the chip to be smoothed out with a paint scraper.

Plasterers Trowels or floats come in a few sizes. Professional plasterers use longer, wider floats as they get paid by the amount they get on a wall in a day. The bigger the float, the more they get on! You will only need a standard float which is usually 11 inches by 4 inches wide. Feathering out a lump in a wall so that it is no longer noticeable Filling and Feathering out Different Levels and Coats of PaintFeathering will not, in most cases, allow you to finish with a perfectly flat wall. If the bump is proud of the wall in the first place, as in our diagram above, then the best you can hope for is a surface, which to the naked eye, is flat. Specially designed High Quality Aluminium section. Finely tapered for maximum accuracy.Strong construction with thumb and finger groove down full length of section For larger areas that need feathering out, for example when you have inserted a door frame and filled in round the edges which may not then be flush with the existing plaster finish, or where a new section of wall meets and older one, you might want to look at something called Fill and Skim. How flat am I trying to get it with the feather edge? Perfectly flat or just a bit better than a trowel finish? If the latter how much of a dip/bump can I leave in mm? Use a fine sandpaper and rub the edges of the chipped edge hard so it slopes gently to the middle all round. This will give a flatter appearance.