Recent content by Chasdad

They look like cracks when you put sand anf cement on a bit thick and it slumps. I think it's a combination of the ocr being a bit thick between the 3 beads and maybe the scratch not deep enough. Because it's not happened on the wall I scratched in sand cement Seemed to have disappeared now.

I was told I could use lac and then top it. With ocr. There's no issue with the scratch coat

I've just rendered my porch. The side wall was rough painted render so I a chance and gave it a coat of Sbr and scratched it with sand and cement. The front I boarded with external aquapanel scratched and meshed using weber lac. Left it for two weeks.yesterday I topped it using ocr. All went...

As above. Sweep all dust off and a weak coat of pva. I even give new breeze block a weak coat as I've seen it came unstuck do to their high suction

Sounds like bullshit to me. Plumbers earn too well to need to be working like that. It would prob kill the average plumber a day like that. Also our jobs not something any Harbert can do. Let alone 7 bags worth

Before internal trowels were around we used box trowels. The old boys who taught me called these twitchers.bloody awful things. Bit of a revelation when we started using mt internals.

I've got both skywalker 2 and 2.1 the newer ones are very cheaply made. Not worth the money in my opinion

Bloody he'll I'd go home at 11 at those rates

I'm in essex. Worked in London mostly. 20 years for same firm. Been on my own for 10 years so no more city work. Nearly all domestic with the odd little site job occasionally

Cheers dave. Blimey I've been in a few mansells jobs. Long time ago though

Almost there. Getting 5

He hasn't said a rate. I don't think he knows. He's just running the job. He's someone I've known since we both worked for a subby. He's a dry liner

I'm getting a good rate for the flat areas. Just have always measured bulkheads and piers as whatever rate I'm getting per metre. Not sure what to tell him

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They're flat to start with as it's used for skimming