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ARE HEATERS ALLOWED FOR DRYING PLASTERBOARDS ON SITE?
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#1 Posted : 03 November 2006 12:29:00(UTC)
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Posted By Austin. U
Hi All,
I would like to know if it allowed for any type of heater to be used in drying plaster board paintings for an apartment building.The reason for artificial drying being the weather; which makes the boards to take longer to dry up thereby delaying other jobs on site.The paint is waterbased and is not flammable.The painters intend to heat overnight,is this allowed and what are the safety precautions?

Please does anyone know any other way round this?

Thanks for the quick response.

Austin.
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#2 Posted : 03 November 2006 12:55:00(UTC)
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Posted By rks
if the plasterboard has been skimmed and I presume it has you could use a dehumidifier to dry the plaster and apply the paint when the plaster is dry and this should be able to go off and the paint should dry quickly on the plaster.If this is not the case you could use electric heaters "red rads" and these will quickly heat up an area and allow the paint to dry quickly and there shouldn't be any need to have them and they also shouldn't be allowed to put the heaters on overnight.

In the meantime you get the painters to paint were the rads or wall heaters are going and see if the heating can be put on asap.

Regards
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#3 Posted : 03 November 2006 13:54:00(UTC)
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Posted By Glyn Atkinson
If you are heating up and drying overnight, would you not want some form of security nigh[expletive deleted]chman to be present to prevent any form of fire outbreak to protect the properties in question?

One wage against how many men stopped tomorrow ??

And the person would be there as site security as well as overseeing the drying operation - probably glad of a warm environment to look in on??
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