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once it is on though are there any long term after care maintenance issues?

Brilliant - many thanks for the explanation. Might go for a Parex mineral render and scratch it up. Cheers, Andrew

land drain behind a retaining wall is a standard detail

If you don't want holes in the face of your wall then put a land drain in the bottom of your retained earth that drains to a soakaway or your surface water drain.

I have done something similar recently. You need to build your wall and then paint the inside of the blockwork with bitumen paint or blackjack. Don't bother with damp proof membrane it won't work and is difficult to form around corners and penetrations. Also you need to have holes in the wall at...

Raggles - what is the after care bollox of lime render? Would be very useful to know what the downsides are. All the stuff I've found out from Google is positive.

they don't want paint on the render. They want a rustic finish like this

thanks raggles - that sounds like a good idea. If I slurry the blockwork with sbr and put sbr in scratch coat too will that help keep the water out or would it be better off just applying a clear masonry sealer to the top coat once its all dried. I take it lime render is no good then for...

any proper suggestions?

Hi guys Got a job coming up which is a blockwork bbq/party/summer house with large oak lintels to frame some large open openings. It is single skin blockwork laid on flat. The customer wants to use a lime render as they have found one that has a lot of course sand in which will look good with...