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When doing 2 coat K-rend, topcoat being Silicone FT, does it need to be put on and just flattened with straightedges etc or does it need floated to leave it for scraping?

I got a nice tshirt with my Nela Ryan , is awesome .....although it was a XL lol and im just a smallguy but suprisingly fits ok :) trowel is brilliant also. Is the EZE spat the same as the blue handled refina s*p*r*lex skimming spat?

Have you done it before with plastering sand dash1

The actual DIYSOS team seem to be more like Foremen in the big build ones lol. Dont do much work in em.

Almost every builder in our area does their own . Ive only came across one who I now work with quite a bit who is actually very competent on the trowel. But there is another who swears by PVAing new blockwork and then putting a 2sand -1cement render mix on it lol and saying its been on for...

I see, apologies to you, good luck to you friend :RpS_thumbup:

I see, apologies to you, good luck to you friend (Y)

Thought youd been plastering 10 years? Think you could be right @zombie lol :P

I saw the lads on DIY SOS using yeso lol they had a hell of a time of it

Mike is this for yourself or a customer

Haha class Beddy

Our local builders merchant has a pallet lying around. Not a Jewsons or Keyline. Family business but the best one in out area. Only just across the water from you in Dumfries and Galloway lol

Nothing up but Pva does same job cheaper lol.

I know people who use neat SBR or sometimes diluted 1:1 with water for skimming. :-O PVA is the business though

I know a guy from birmingham whois a brickie. Best ive ever seen , I laboured to him for a while. He served his time down London and is proper old school. I will pm u his name

Can you use multi to artex

The prick I learned from claimed to know everything, but now im on my own and worked on other jobs with other spreads ive learned so much more and better ways of doing things. The amount you learn on your own is unreal . No one knows everything

Awesome. Thats a monster

Im skimming some flats that are being renovated the now, and the sparks are rewiring, its a disgrace, almost 1 metre of cable hanging out of everybox. And the chases for the cables arent deep enough for the plastic capping. So yeterday I went around with the tin snips and cut back every wire and...

Dave , eithet these courses are worse than I thought or u didnt pay any attention? Some of the questions u ask are interesting. Davethedog must be a wind up account. Surely

Poor davethedog. He maybe gave a partial refund for this one too

Dave you camt really give advice to Windys pal about ages as youve not been going long enough to know how much youll make, fair enough you make 1000 a week just now (if you work 5 days) but whos to say next month youl have no work

Im moving to stoke then haha.

200 a day seems awfully expensive. And thats probly what the customer is thinking when they got your quote. Another plasteres probaly come in and asked what other prices are and undercut you and everyone else. You win some you lose some pal

Ashley, what if you mess the scratch coat up. Then if your pals top coat fails it makes both you look like fools. It might be hard to get someone to top coat someone elses eork.

They did fall out . Theyve built out all the bellcasts and not cut it back. So theres only maybe 1mm on the bead left, im some places none. In some windows theve stuck 30mm beads ontop of scratch coat?!! And in other places theyve used 10mm beads. Its a disgrace, thats **** balls

Shitballs.

I see , its on about 6-8 mm , 10 at the most where the beads are, its only in small areas in random parts of the wall also. I dont think it was too wet as done afew walls on house before and they are perfect.

Ok. Its adhered fine kebab, customer had no idea what scratch was so I put a 5:1:1 on top

Its got lots of waterproofer I believe. I could understand if id soaked the wall down first and it sagged down. if the scratches are too deep can that cause problems

What causes this ? Two walls did it today , after id finished got a call to say it was coming through , and a wall I did last week which is already set has started also supposedly. I didnt even soak the wall down as there is no suction even if they are damp from a soaking and its dried in...

I know so I pit a big price in and still got it. Did 2 small panels and all seems well, waterproofed etc, so il leave it a few weeks and go back and finish it if its still sweet

Scratchhas been done by another spread , im just top coating, guy wants it white but sbr also. Domt see the point myself, scratch is OPC

Good plan man

Thats what I thought but just incase haha.

Can you add sbr to white sand and cement and it wont alter the colour ?

Dont party naked cause **** happens

Thats a weird one mate because im sure BG say you can go over artex . They say itl stick to the artex but you have to check the bond of the artex to the actual ceiling.

Lol random davro, I think youll possibly need to rebuild the house as spunky says. Or it perhaps dried in too quick amd didnt suction in. On a seriius note was it the uni finish only coming off or the artex too?

Been back to jobtoday and skim is painted and stuck like ****, 1 coat 5-1 with water then day before skimming 3-1 on top, and skimmed next day when dry, sweellll. Definatly dont skim onto sbr when tacky aftr afew coats as it hung for ages . I tried to say....

Is this like the 'fishing trip' from gavin and stacey

I ser and youve hadno problems atall

How many coats neat sbr? ours had 2 im told and it hung ages

Cliff richard was on radio 2 the other day, id say definatly michael parkinson

Your crystal ball sucks then danny. Sucks ass

But its beem almost 2weeks and been painted

Danny its already been done if you could read jackass, it ws a hypothetical question , its no skin off my nose if it fails not my job . I see spunku, il have to make a start tomorrow

So if put neat sbr on an old plaster wall and skim the next day it will stick?

Whats that spunky

I see, cos it maybe re emulsifies but sbr doesnt and that means that the skim wont suck into it but it seems to. Strange