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Cultura as mentioned above - depends what you're looking for - Action of all places has Craft supplies in - limited range but prices are good. China otherwise - AliExpress or via ebay - we seem to have endless little packets arrive from China

At what point did I say I was surrounded by Brits? I said that maybe the main wish for wet plasterers was ex pats. The OP probably wanted an answer to can I earn a living. Jump to your Frencher than the French conclusions all you like - the only other Brit for miles is my cat. I have a house built by the French 120 years ago that has no plasterboard in site and for some odd reason I renovate it in keeping with how is it was built

Don't have a clue - just know you have to book well in advance. Plastering is one thing I cannot do well enough to hide my mistakes - I had my 10 year it can't be that hard reminder when I screwed up the en suite. I don't care why they-'re busy - I just want my walls tidied up. If they-'re not busy its because they're not very good In somewhere like mine with quite ornate cornice I don't see how anything but a wet skim would work - but mine is constructed with a deep plaster but I also know most locals hide the plaster under wall paper which is what I'm half way through sorting. Every wet plasterer is British I will admit so it could well be the majority of their work is for expats - but there is work - and on FB there's always people (-Brits) searching for plasterers. So is there work yes - is it mainly for expats probably. Building type is a large factor - the Maison de Matre (sic) types really need a wet plaster to my mind. Area probably matters - I'm in the sticks and they do huff and puff about travel

You don't say which area - I will say every decent plasterer round me is busy so there's a lot more work than some of the answers imply. There's Brits who've grown up with a skim rather than the tape and join and much prefer the finish - or have houses that have existing plaster walls that need a skim or more once the wallpapers been removed. All my walls are 100 years old and all have existing plaster so I'd always have them skimmed Board and tape is the norm on new builds and new partition walls - but as I say properer plasters round our way are busy.