1. Wall Details - Reveals/Returns/Door Openings
Apply Plaster Materials to Internal Surfaces

2. Wall Details
Introduction
The following slides cover day to day wall details , door openings, windows etc.
The slides show how to deal with these details and how some can be used to your advantage

3. What do you know? What is a reveal? What is a cill? What is a return?
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What do you know?
What is a reveal?
What is a cill?
What is a return?
What is a reveal gauge used for?
What is a pier?

4. Reveals The face rule is nowadays replaced by
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Reveals
The face rule is nowadays replaced by
an angle bead, which is set up plumb
and square. The reveal is then floated
using a suitable lightweight backing
plaster and straightened using the reveal
gauge.

5. Door openings When floating walls with door openings
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Door openings
When floating walls with door openings
the door frame can be used as a ground
from which the floating coat can be ruled
flat

6. Wall returns Small returns can be ruled in using a
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Wall returns
Small returns can be ruled in using a
square, ruling from the bead and the
floated wall surface

7. Using Beads In this case the bead is used to set up
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Using Beads
In this case the bead is used to set up
the screeds for floating the main wall
area

8. Attached piers When floating the pier, the angle
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Attached piers
When floating the pier, the angle
beads are plumbed and squared
from the floated back walls. The
margins should also be checked
from the floated wall to the bead

9. Lining in attached piers
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Lining in attached piers
When floating the pier, the angle beads are plumbed and squared
from the floated back walls. The margins should also be checked
from the floated wall to the bead

10. Wall Details
Ceilings

11. You should now have the knowledge to answer the following
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You should now have the knowledge to answer the following
What is a reveal?
What is a cill?
What is a return?
What is a reveal gauge used for?
What is a pier?