The Plastering Show
Join Chris Frediani as he takes a look at all the latest topics from the world of plastering including product launches, top tips, and special guests.Chris will also be joined by some of the biggest names from across the industry giving their view on the latest news and developments.
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Episodes
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Tradespeople Working On DIY SOS In Feniton
Friday, 21 November 2025
Chris Frediani catches up with the unsung heroes of DIY SOS builds and talks to a groundworker (Andy) about the work that's ongoing and challenges created by weather. Chris also finds a Plasterer (Adam) and asks him about the project and also about the success he's had bringing sprayed cork into his business.
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The Concept & Story Behind DIY SOS in Devon
Friday, 14 November 2025
Chris Frediani brings you a DIY SOS special episode from his home turff in Devon where they're trying to help the grieving family of a tradesperson who sadly passed away a few months ago. Chris talks to Nick Knowles about the concept and story, Project Manager Tom explains what the build has been like to oversee so far and Gordon Whistance gives a complete rundown with regards to design and ongoing challenges.
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NEVER Do These Things In a Customer's Home
Friday, 7 November 2025
Chris Frediani invites tradespeople to join him and share bad examples of when they've seen others treat a customer's home like a building site. Fix Radio Presenter, Clive Holland talks about why it's so important to treat a customer's home with respect and some of the shocking examples he's seen of others letting themselves down in this way. Chris chats to Devon based Plasterer, Barry Warman about the ways he's drummed this into those that work with him and the lengths he goes to to look after the home of his customers.
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Silicone Rendering
Friday, 31 October 2025
Chris Frediani talks to those in the trade who are taking on a lot of Silicone Rendering jobs. Chris looks into why it's becoming more popular, how to learn the skills and get set up to start offering it to customers as well as working with materials and machines. Guests: Blaine Gray & Marc Blair.
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A Look Into Habits & Drinking Culture In The Trade
Friday, 24 October 2025
Chris Frediani talks to Plasterers about the habits they've formed and the bad habits they've addressed that can affect their working experience. Chris covers everything from what we eat and drink while at work to the pub culture in the trade and alcohol and smoking. Guests: Joel Cooke, Neil Cox & John Lockyear.
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How Has The Year Been For The Trade & What's The Plan For The Winter?
Friday, 17 October 2025
Chris Frediani talks to Plasterers about how business has been for them. Have they been busier or quieter than expected? What's the game plan for the rest of the year? What have been the wins and challenges along the way? Guests include: Dylan White, Jason Hill & Jamie Adam
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Good & Bad Habits In The Trade
Friday, 10 October 2025
Chris Frediani invites Plasterers to join him and talk about their good and bad habits. Chris also asks them what habits from others can really annoy them. Guests include: Carl Ruane, Steph Leese & Affan Masood
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How Do You Take Profit Home From Each Job?
Friday, 3 October 2025
Chris Frediani talks to Plasterers about the way in which you can ensure you take enough money away from each job. Chris talks to Brad Hanson, from the Bald Builders Breakfast about the way he's figured out the value of his services and the drive and determination required to graft for profit. Bob Hay also talks about the trial and error he's been through to extract the right profit from all of his jobs, especially when having to pay those that have worked for you.
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Final Push For DIY SOS In Cheshire
Friday, 26 September 2025
Chris Frediani brings you a show from the final 24 hours of the DIY SOS Children in Need build in Cheshire for The Joshua Tree charity. Chris talks to Nick Knowles about how the build has gone, catches up with the lead Electrician and lead Decorator on the job and catches up with DIY SOS Crew member and Designer, Gabby Blackman.
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DIY SOS Children In Need In Cheshire!
Friday, 19 September 2025
Chris Frediani brings you a special show from the DIY SOS Children in Need set in Cheshire. Chris talks to those involved with project managing the build, has a look behind the catering curtain and brings you an unhung hero and veteran volunteer (with over 20 builds) who has joined them on yet another build.
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Are You Staying Safe While Working?
Friday, 12 September 2025
Chris Frediani looks into issues that can affect Plasterers on-site from breathing in harmful materials to working from height, working on-site and what goes into site safety on a DIY SOS build. Guests include: Philip Gaches, Ian Hodgkinson & Martin Byrne.
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Chris Frediani Looks Into Apprenticeships & How We Can Bring New Blood In
Friday, 5 September 2025
The Construction Skills Mission Board launched recently, with a commitment of providing 100,000 more construction jobs per year… Chris Frediani talks to Sam Blacknell - Head of Skills Partnerships at British Gypsum to hear his thoughts, as well as an apprentice from friend of the show, Bob Hay.
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Materials New & Old Used By Spreads
Friday, 22 August 2025
Chris Frediani gets a bit of a roundup on what plasterers are using currently material wise and some of the new aspects and applications they're trying out. Guests are: Scott Morgan, Chris Powell & Brian Rutherford
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Chris Frediani & Alistair Bell Talk Big Projects & CSCS Card Challenges
Friday, 15 August 2025
Chris Frediani talks to Alistair Bell, a vastly experienced and knowledgeable Plasterer, about his experience on the tools.
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More Tales Of Saving Jobs From Disaster!
Friday, 8 August 2025
Chris Frediani is joined by Plasterers to tell him stories of times they've turned around a bad situation and times where a job that looked good on paper has descended into disaster. Guests include: Alastair Bell & Carl Ruane
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Saving Nightmare Jobs!
Friday, 1 August 2025
Chris Frediani is joined by The Gingerspread Man AKA Luke Hipgrove to talk about nightmare jobs and challenging situations where he's managed to get a positive outcome. Racr car driver and Plasterer Duncan Cowper talks about the nightmare of plastering the London Underground and other jobs that he's saved from disaster!
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Follow The Builders...
Friday, 25 July 2025
Chris Frediani looks into ways of marketing your business and getting a good consistent stream of leads. Chris looks into Linkedin and why it might be the most valuable marketing tool available to tradespeople in 2025. He also chats to a general builder about how to work well with one another and a fellow plasterer about his success he's had working with builders. Guests include: Construction Marketing Expert Lee Fuller from Level Up Media as well as General Builder, Noel Bardall & Plasterer Bob Hay.
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What Are The Hardest Things To Master?
Friday, 18 July 2025
Chris Frediani is joined by three successful and experienced Plasterers to discuss the aspects of the trade that were hardest to master. Chris talks to Alan Arbuthnot, James Jameson from JJ Plastering & good friend of the show, Andy MacCauley.
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Find Out What The Next Six Months Might Be Like For Business!
Friday, 11 July 2025
Chris Frediani has invited three regular guests to join him at the halfway point of 2025 - to see if we can predict how business might be for the rest of the year. Chris talks to John at DCL Interiors Ltd. who gives a really good insight into what's going on at the top of the tree for larger businesses. There's also an interesting insight into possible material price rises. Joel Cooke talks about the goals for the second half of the year for him professionally and Ainsley Smith gives an update on how business has been for him as a sole trader and how he will keep himself in demand for the s...
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Catching Up With Former Apprentice Josh
Friday, 4 July 2025
Chris Frediani is joined by Josh Hutchings, who still works for Chris's business to discuss how he's getting on after completed his apprenticeship four years ago. Josh last joined Chris in 2021 right as he was coming to the end of his apprenticeship, so Chris asks how he feels about the experiences learning the trade all these years later as well as how he's progressing.
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Chris Frediani & Barry Warman Talk Business, Managing Spreads & Retirement
Friday, 27 June 2025
Join Chris Frediani at his house in Devon for a chat with fellow local Plasterer and longtime friend Barry Warman. Barry talks about his similar start to Chris in the same area and all of his experiences as a plasterer and business owner. He gets Barry's thoughts on money, business, managing people and finally retiring from the trade and whether that will ever happen
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Twenty Questions For Chris Frediani
Friday, 20 June 2025
Chris Frediani brings you a Q&A session that covers everything from his time on the tools to running a business, DIY SOS experiences and thoughts on the trade and construction as a whole
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Training Updates From The Trade
Friday, 13 June 2025
Chris Frediani checks in with Daahir Mohamed to find out what he's been up to since he was on the show a year ago and catches up with Ruth Waters, who has been giving updates on her re-training journey since joining Chris in 2020
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Plastering History & Heritage with Dr. Claire Gapper & Philip Gaches
Friday, 6 June 2025
Chris Frediani is joined by Dr. Glaire Gapper to discuss some of the history of lime and royal works in the UK. Claire talks about history of the materials, sourcing and how knowledge of the materials was shared. Philip Gaches, Heritage Plasterer, who has worked with Dr. Glaire Gapper phones in from America to discuss collaborating. Claire also talks about her favourite ceilings in listed buildings and the loss of most historic lime work over the centuries
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Stu Roberts On The Challenges Faced By Plasterers
Friday, 30 May 2025
Chris Frediani is joined by Stuart Roberts, Founder of Trowel Talk and discusses the challenges felt and faced by self employed spreads. Stu talks about how he got into the trade, the trial and error of finding a good work life balance and also why he thinks specialising in a niche is the key to success nowadays
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If I Could Turn Back Time...
Friday, 23 May 2025
Chris Frediani asks Plasterers about what they wish they had the chance to do differently from their careers. Guests include: The Pink Plasterer AKA Steph Leese and Paul Robbins
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Approach To Tools & Materials In 2025 - Part 2
Friday, 16 May 2025
Chris Frediani is joined by brand new guest, Bradley Reid from Reid Plastering Services, to discuss his approach to tools and materials. Chris also gives his own experiences and how what he uses has progressed and will continue to progress from here
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Approach To Tools & Materials In 2025 - Part 1
Friday, 9 May 2025
Chris Frediani is joined by Plasterers so that he can discuss what tools and materials their using on projects currently. Guests include: Scott Morgan & Rich Wellfair
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Running A Business Together In The Trade
Friday, 2 May 2025
Duncan Cowper and Martin Brown from Best of Lime return to discuss their experiences running a business together and share some of the key to their successes so far
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Duncan & Martin From Best of Lime
Friday, 25 April 2025
Duncan Cowper and Martin Brown join Chris Frediani to discuss how they got into the trade, how they set up Best of Lime together, experiences on the tools and thoughts on the way the trade is taught
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