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as clint eastwood once said. ‘be right mate’

i found this out the hard way mate. Looks patchy AF once scaff down and very sparse . Looking at re-doing it later in the year with another product

what do you reckon mate would this dry out ok eventually? Don’t feel like it was sagging that much, but was wet like

it’s onto the old basecoat mate. Was solid so went over it with a tight couple of passes of vpi gris with mesh embedded

any ideas what the cause coudl be mate

any seen this before? Rubbed up friday, but has left wet marks… chipped off the old mono, but kept the basecoat as it was solid. Render primer’d old basecoat. Then basecoat & mesh. Then topcoat. TIA

how do people prefer to finish high flex basecoats like fx4 or star contact for EWI/render carrier? Spatted flat and coarse sponged finished one yesterday in the heat but didnt like the finish I got compared to normal basecoat. Looked a bit choppy in the sun for an hour at midday........ Cheers

Il be on the lookout pal i think. Or an optimix

Does anyone have any joy spraying johnstones silicone enhanced with a Bennu set up? Took me hours and multiple passes to get to a finish that was something like. Ended up using 1500 water, speed 2 on drill. Trigger pressed down full pelt. Shouldn’t be that bloody hard. Got the rest of the house...

any links for these

yes iv heard this too. What’s best way to ventilate it? One rep said be better to build out the top section with lats then board it so it has a overhang detail with a mesh bead at the bottom to let the cavity breath… If you saw the job it wouldn’t work wouldn’t look right.

like a bit of EPS mate?

Looking at a couple of bungalows where the top of the gables to the apex are to be renderboarded - running through into the lower level masonry. Reps say i need expansion joints where the bottoms of board and block meet. Already know customer won’t want it. Does everyone do this? Feel like i...

Thanks mate that’s helpful will go with that then

Do folk like to use standard 6mm beads for render carrier boards are use the winged mesh profile ones like in EWI? TIA