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Day went great in the end had a blockage, purely because I didnt 100% listen to guy who taught us and tried to do something from youtube. I'm a fanny.. Anyway, job done, got to top coat it and the guy wants it done to look rustic so gonna hand apply top coat cos awkward and machine to fast lol...

Why, in most pictures from you guys down south are your reveals only 20mm wide ? Up here we build houses with cavities cavitys (not sure correct spelling). Anyway we place the frame flush with outside of cavity giving us at least 100mm of a reveal. Wtf? Am I missing something??

Picked up our new baby courtesy of @PFTscotland yesterday, brilliant days training from John and canny wait to get going. She's staying in the spare room till her first job..

Trying to talk builder into thincoat rather than k1, onto block. Am I right? f**k**g hate scraped finish..

Has anyone got one fitted?, just ordered one. Self contained, just remembered the cold condensation issue over the winter yesterday when I jumped in van.

Headbanger. excuse the bbq, it just fell out the sky..

Why do c**ts call it this? Its k-rend.!! Also, c**ts say they are getting their house krendered and you turn up and its weber or parex. Fuckoff. That's a load off, thanks.

Has anyone done this? Only ever used sbr with s&c. Krend themselves have said to use hpx to prime before base coat but way to expensive it's a huge area.

Currently doing a bit of work on an old building, replacing wooden lintols with concrete etc. It's an old stone building that has been roughcasted and painted years ago, obviously because water was penetrating the building, I know this now as some of the walls are bare for lintols replacement...

Can you still get parts for these machines? And are they user friendly? What's the best genny to use alongside them? No further questions , just now..

Hi, I have a dummy chimney to fix as the last 'tradesman' has made a c**t of it. I haven't chipped it off yet to see how he has done it, I will take pictures when I do as I have already fixed a couple of others of his.. Anyway, how I usually do them is felt them, then fix vertical batten on with...

As much as I love doing what I do, this building game is shite and your up against it constantly, with everything being scrutinised to death. I have worked on a few hydro schemes and nothing gets checked (money was good)but they were painting blocks I had just laid FFS but fire them up and get...

Well, that's the last handball job I'm doing!! To old for that s**t now, gonna raid the kids piggy bank and get a machine, don't care if I only use it 3 times a year. How long should one man take to do this? . Enewall base coat ( which is lovely gear) and enewall scratch finish which is feckin...

As title, looking for tiler, must be very good, for a couple of jobs, more to come after very soon in argyll. Continuation of work if I find the right person and very good rates. Drop me a pm with your number, or if anyone can point me in right direction of somebody good. Ready to go next week...

just built a wall in ma garden, about 8m long by 900mm high, needs rendered but was wanting to do something really different, any ideas would be much appreciated, thought about slate but nah, smashed up glass? Prob end up sponged :-))

Started this yesterday and finished today..nice going home clean..

Not so good..

Hats off to you guys that plaster every day, yous must be on drugs or raving alcoholics!! Just done 3 (only three) days plastering over artex, usually my mate over boards it so no problem, but this job was an afterthought so no choice. Stipple on the ceiling and swirls on the walls. Looked at...

Could anyone give me an indication on cost per square metre of a system (materials) not application. Probably a roughcast finish. got a few people asking me about this now, never done it myself but im sure its pretty straight forward, however not my cup of tea anyways.. Would you need to...

Last time I take a radiator off to plaster a wall!!:-)

Got a job to do next week, it's a re-roughcast on a new build. The story is, it was a hpx base coat, then a dash receiver with a wet dash roughcast. However, the feckwits that done it after beading and hpx then proceeded to render the rest of building with dash receiver. Leave it for a week...

I patched a wee external corner in a bedroom this evening with multi, (filled in with bonding the other day). When I went to trowel it up, the smell of ammonia was wild. What caused that?

Don't know too much about this side of the game but it interests me, anyway, there's a job local to me that was started weeks ago, they stuck the insulation on ( can't see any fixings on boards) then they have just slapped a base coat on all joints( looks a mess in my opinion) then left it for...

Sorry, but can't be arsed looking up histories, anyhow, I have a room to reskim. Normally I just do new builds but I have the odd exepshon :-)..art ex stipple on ceiling and walls were wood chip(told her she would struggle to get it off and was goin to overboard with 9.5 gyproc happy days) but...

Down here for a bit, who's to blame for patching smooth rendered houses with tyrolean? Also, lot of brickwork needing rendered over..

Am I doing it wrong? This bugs me, on numerous topics I see people saying they just throw a capfull of freeflo in the mix! However if you read the instructions it says 20 -40 parts water to one of freeflo, so if it takes 20 litres of water to make a batch then you need a minimum of 1 litre...

I have been asked to go and look at a concrete floor in a kipper factory, apparently was done 20 years ago with a dye through the concrete to save them painting it( lasted well). Speaking to the guy on phone it's just a bit that's crumbling so I have suggested cutting out degraded part and...

I have a large chimney to chip off and redo, I have some hp12 base coat spare so was gonna scratch it with that and mesh it, however I have to top coat it with s+c then wet dash it. Does anyone see a problem with that? Pretty sure it will be fine but always nice to hear other opinions. I...

I built a blockwork skin round a timber frame, probably about a year and half ago, now the guy is ready to finish it now, most of it is getting faced with stone but there are a few elevations to be roughcasted. However the amount of salts that have leached out the blocks and crystallised are...

What do you all think of my stones?not the best photos, customer happy so I'm happy.. Criticism welcome but don't be to harsh! 5.photobucket.com/albums/ac59/CalumScottBrickwork/null_zps0a953e2e.jpg[/IMG]

The diesel I used to use is up for auction, don't know the reserve though, company I used to work for selling everything. Finishes tomorrow, maybe some bargains for some maybe not? It's on Sweeney Kincaid Industrial Auctioneering

Looking for a wee bit of advice, builder friend has asked me to do a job, reluctantly agreed to it as to busy but anyway. He has a couple who are selling(have sold actually) their house, anyway the side wall of their conservatory is pissin water in, it's only single block then dry dash finish...

Just wondering what anyone else does?? When I fit these I always backfill with vermiculite mixed with cement so that down the line when the flue corrodes away you are still left with a lined opening.. Guy i m doing a job for say he wants it done with loose vermiculite so it's easier to...

Think the one I used to use will be up for sale, it would be a good buy as its not done too much, can't be more than 200 hours on it. All the screed hoses, render hoses,built in power washer. Are these still in demand does anyone know?

Just finished a house in ivory after years of using e-grade, scratched, beaded and top coated on my own but was shitting it in case I left join lines (halos?) but job was seamless and turned out perfect, have k-rend done something to change this scenario or was I just lucky?

Hi folks, got a couple of jobs coming up with that stuff. What mix would you recommend for scratch and top ? Hate this stuff cos the metal is to far apart.. And how much per square metre . Only jokin the c**t's gettin hit with a day rate and that's that....before some jobs worth...

hi folks just looking for your opinions, got a job to top coat that has been scratch coated for over a month, it's k-rend goin onto s+c . I was just going to dampen with water beforehand but I was speaking to a k-rend rep and he said to prime with sbr 4 parts water to 1 sbr (not sure if that was...

Just started a job, it's sand/cement scratch coat then top coat of e-grade. I have been bedding the mesh into the scratch coat over and under openings and along gables where kit meets joist frame. But after reading some differing opinions will the mesh be doing anything in the scratch coat (bit...

Right folks, here's one for all you aspiring architects. There's a house built really close to the sea (timber frame) and in the last eight years since built the lower room closest to sea has flooded 3 times,someone fcuked the levels up, never seen job but know where it is, apart from raising...

Have any of you guy's had much experience of rendering/plastering onto this system? I have a job to price and this is what its built with. They are wantin parex on outside but not sure on inside till i go se them...Do parex do a roughcast? or is it just a texture via machine? thanks in advance..

Got quite a bit of work in front of me for turn of year as work for myself now and dont have use of p11 anymore so seriously tempted to get a ritmo. However, through the grapevine i have heard how much per m2 not supplying materials a company has came up to stix where i am and done a job for my...

As opposed to chipping off old roughcast which is quite porous, does anyone on here recommend anything to put over the top of it to seal it and make it watertight? thanks in advance..

Got a job to do, the original skye marble on the house is sound so do you think it would be okay to just to dash over existing (will power wash it all down first) without using a bonding agent? the guy is getting new windows in so going to renew cills as they are poorly installed and use wider...

Reading about some dude in the paper gettin lot's of freebies in return for publicity, was just wonderin if anyone was gonna donate me a machine to do a couple of hundred m2 of e-grade and see how it compares with a diesel, and if it's the dogs bollox prob even purchase it at a reduced price...

when your sprayin onto block do you guys prefer blockwork that has just been flushed up or jointed ? used to always point up my blockwork with an iron(not the kind for shirts spunker) as it compresses the mortar which is meant to make it less water permeable, but when sprayin two pass the render...

Got a job to render soon but four of the movement joints are on internal corners, think it will look pretty gash with an expansion bead squashed into corners so was thinking about stop bead. stop bead one panel one day and render then another stop bead on other panel then finished with a...

If you were asked to go and look at a timber frame house that wanted rendering, once you seen it how honest would you be? Whoever built the blockwork skin has not left any movement joints and put the weep vents in pretty much all the wrong places, sorry forgot to say client is project manager...

Just realised that i have never actually introduced myself to you all, my name is Calum. Well, i am a time served bricklayer since 1995 when i worked for a small local firm, spent most of my apprenticeship up on roofs slating, tiling, leadwork etc. I then got left to finish the chimneys and...

Job i'm just about to do and the blockwork is shockin, there is bands to go round the windows so i am gonna spray on base coat and mesh all dodgy bit's then put 10mm beads round windows to form bands. After all the bands are done then i will spray it with egrade. Bands are to be painted black...

Certainly not the nicest stuff in the world to spray, especially when your tryin to teach two lads how to do the job at same time. Was trying to keep the stuff moving in the pipes whilst keeping them going with the floating and meshing, all in all a very stressfull couple of days. Started off...