This is Adam.
He is a pro at everything 
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You have been able to choose from Square or Tapered edge for at least 30 years in the UK. Tapered is a wee bit trickier to fit and has a bit more wastage as a tapered edge always needs to butt up against another. New builds are generally built around sheet sizes for ease of sheeting ie walls around 2.4m high.
If you have a lot of patience you can fill and sand square edge to give a half decent finish but it will never be perfect and might be subject to cracking down the line, good filler is important. I use Mapei but I’m sure other good quality ones are available.
Give it at least two coats of filler and the sanding after each coat will be a ballache. Then give it at least a couple of coats of thin emulsion to before the final paint coats or papering. Again, it won’t be perfect but if you are short of money and rich on time it can be done to a reasonable standard. If you are using a heavy paper I doubt anyone other than a pro would notice the difference.
You shouldn’t really use tapered unless you are taping and jointing. The pros use electric sanders of course which makes the process a lot easier and a lot dustier.
…and a lot deadlier, because silicosis. 
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It was mostly ceilings in my case. The plasterer and I did the first one and then over a few years I plasterboarded all the others and he and his mate skimmed them. Scrim tape went down the tapered joints but in 4m x 4m rooms there would always be some non-tapered joints.
That’s the point, if you are skimming you don’t need tapered edge boards.
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Exactly. Tapered edge is primarily for taping and filling, square edge if you are plastering the entire surface.
He definitely wanted the ceiling joints taped. I guess even though the skim layer was thin he managed to hide the tape in it where he had to.
Do they use beading on corners and feather gyproc filler onto the boards?
Get into the foo
Yes they use special thin coat beads.
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At the opposite end of the scale of Upsetting Plasterers, had a chap replaster the tall, narrow stairwell in the Victorian place I used to have in Barnard Castle - I was at pains to insist I wanted it done to Victorian standards… Which are generally (E&OE) lower than modern - coarser plaster, less perfectly finished, as it would always go under paper. I fucking hate it when a nice old house ends-up looking like a cheesy Barrat Home; plasterer hated the job because he felt it didn’t reflect his skills. For once I got my way, and it looked fab and matched the rest of the house.
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The plasterer that did our kitchen wouldve been ideal for that.
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Gonna hazard a wild guess that wasn’t the finish you actually wanted…?!
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As you are in the business of hiring substandard workers - Look no further. Myself and Stu are masters of absolutely zero craft and will make your shoddy dreams come true. Many of our customers have commented on how we have exceeded their shit expectations.
As an aside, you will be pleased to note during the summer we both got heavily into naturism so we won’t be bringing any foreign fibers into your abode, or steal panties or owt like that. To really get the best work from us It’s critical to note Stu will refuse any work unless offerings by Mr. Kippling and Uncle Ben are dotted around the place (Preferably hidden) so he can snuffle them out whilst I make guttural oinking noises.
We promise not to clean anything when asked to leave. Congratulations by the way you’re going to be a Dad. Well, puppies at least - Patch will be impregnating all pets in the vicinity whist we halve the value of your home. Please contact Coutts with your offer as we find it frankly vulgar discussing financial matters.
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Adam’s sideline is coming on strong.
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Learning and practicing a skilled trade in your own property.
Absolutely the right thing to do, always.
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Funny you should say that -
- Before the guttering was replaced -
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- After the guttering was replaced with expensive, new guttering-
Notwithstanding the lack of connection between the T-piece and downpipe, the upper level continued to overtop the gutter just as it always had, despite me showing similar pictures to this to the builder and him agreeing we needed a collecting hopper at this point. Because of this and his ongoing failure to fix the almost-completely eroded pointing, the waterfall was indoor as well as outdoor…
- What we now have because said builder is too yellow to go three floors up a fucking ladder to do the job properly…
Of course he could have done it properly in the first fucking place, but that would have involved him listening instead of fucking talking incessantly and then getting shit Rong.