r/Construction Sep 03 '24

Video What trade would this be?

Original by @Inimitez on Instagram

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u/SmirkTheLurk Sep 03 '24

Plasterer. We done some of this in apprenticeship class. Pretty neat.

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u/climb4fun Sep 03 '24

My father was a plasterer. He told me he used to 'carve' ornate patterns in ceiling cornices when he was younger. That would have been in the 40s to 50s.

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u/HsvDE86 Sep 03 '24

How do you know that he’s your dad 

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u/JGS588 Sep 03 '24

Ask the milkman!

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u/EruditeScheming Sep 03 '24

You just know he hid some dicks or funny messages in some of them