johniosaif
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If I wanted to ewi my own house and have a guarantee ,are there many hoops and are the worth jumping through,it is a semi detached 1930s house, so 3 external walls.
sw London location
sw London location
Thought that would be the case, may have to hire someone, who is good but not overly expensive, west Norwood ,end of terrace ewi job anyone?To get any sort of warranty yes and alot of the companies wont let you even by the stuff unless u are.
I understand the building rules part, not the ewi rules part re myself doing the work,would I need to be accredited installer?
It's a 1930s building ,not near a main road but a rat run road ,I would like a finish like it is at the moment,dashed lookyou would need someone to show you as there lots of pit falls.
some systems are more like plastering then others.
what finish would you like? are you close to a main road? some may discolour.
Thought that would be the case, may have to hire someone, who is good but not overly expensive, west Norwood ,end of terrace ewi job anyone?
I am not worried about people's postcodes of birth, more concerned about it been a good job, all boxes ticked.45million polish ,there are bound to be good and bad, oddly the I Q has risen in English schools where a first language is not English.Polish?:RpS_thumbup:
At 47 ,with osteoarthritis my ambition has lessened , been at the game since 18 and full time since I was 21 ,sole trader since 92 ,I would much prefer to buy renovate and sell, this house is the latest, very hard to buy in London now.a lot more fun in knocking an old place into shapeNice job for a machine - Get a ritmo
I am terrible, once I start a house, I ignore all but the nicest jobs, do you find it hard to get decent hard working happy staff, I get sickened of the constant bitchingMy old man is almost 60 and reckons the Ritmo will help him get another 5 years. A ritmo on finance works out 7.50 a day.
Sorry to hear about ur osteo my uncle has it and is a spread. It proper kripples him some days.
Get a ritmo, train some lads and run around sorting the jobs and have a house to do up in between the jobs
Yes I hope you do too, I like to see people making an effort and putting the time and money in to that, I always found it difficult to keep up with the work I had, used to work six hard days every week, turned 250k a year in the prime yrs,with the down turn and my interest levels dropping it is less , never really knew what profit I made, it just went in and out, get yourself into a bit of property if you are not already, there is money in this game still and plenty of work but more searching required, good teams will always be needed ,always recommended , your name is everything.About same as us - We pay ourselves that as well. Profits plowed back in, on machines and training. Im hoping to come out the resession stronger then we went in.
You don't have to be approved to use parex John that's why we use it lol
You don't have to be approved to use parex John that's why we use it lol
Sounds good, what insulation slabs would you recommend for a solid 1930s house, i must get in contact with a parex rep myself
@johniosaif, Hi there, have you gave any more thought on getting around this ridiculous red-tape thats getting in the way of a plasterer rendering his own house? Maybe its worth opening a new thread to conduct a survey asking does anyboby know of an EWI system thats failed and been put right at the manufacturers expense. If knowbody knows of such case then that would strengthen my argument that they are robbing basts creaming £150 a pop, certifying any tom ,dick or harry that turns up for the 1 day course.
If its true what ive been hearing, non plasterers going on the course and being deemed competent to take on such work, then why dont they scrap the course and issue a dvd to the real plasterers who want to use their products and make their product available on the open market.
To all the EWI spreads out there, if I am talking out of turn, then I apologise in advance, my issue is with the manufacturers not the spreads.
If one of my s/cement or s/lime render jobs ever failed, there is no way I could approach mastercrete about their cement or st astier about their lime or even Travis about the sand I got from them, they would all tell me to jog right on, id have to take it on the chin. So is an EWI product warranty really worth the paper its written on after installation? They will always crawl out of it and blame the installer, approved or not!
Make sure any water wont go behind system, all gaps between boardin are filled in with expanding foam, pins not stickin out or hammered in to much, any lips on boards needs rasping back, scrim is overlaped atleast 100mm, stress pads every corner every opening, dash it then. Parex is good powder. Its holds spar as no one else on market only thing is these 30kg bags are a bit to heavy