Recent content by solway

Members online

  1. S

    Careful with your saw.

    I'm actually thinking of wrapping my employees in cottonwool and for extra protection strap bean bags to them also front and rear. Wake up people. It's all a "claims game". It doesn't matter how well you police your safety on site a "dope"will always find a way.... And don't get me started on...
  2. S

    Careful with your saw.

    Building sites are not crèches. I had it myself last year with a "dope of an employee" Climbed up the side of a scaffold slipped 10ft up landed on the ground and dislocated his shoulder. Apparently it was my fault because I was his employer and I probably should have showed him what a ladder...
  3. S

    Careful with your saw.

    How the f@#k is that the fault of the building company. The dope who was using the saw is 100% at fault. I suppose its easier to claim against the construction company because they have the insurance......what a load of bullshit
  4. S

    Baffled

    Ya sand is lovely and clean. Good "bite" to it. Its very strange because over the last 2 years we were on a site doing houses which had a napp finish. Over the 2 years I never saw a hairline on any of the houses or boundary walls. Religiously used the 5 to 1 mix as stated above all through the...
  5. S

    Baffled

    Hi Malc. No the 2 mixes I mentioned in the 1st post went on over a 4-1 scratch coat. I firstly scratched the panel at 4-1 on a Saturday and the following Saturday I finish coated the panel (divided the panel in half with 2 different finish coat mixes)
  6. S

    Baffled

    Yes scratch @4-1. All bucket gauged
  7. S

    Baffled

    Hilarious....
  8. S

    Baffled

    Handle sponge would leave too much of a rough finish wouldn't it.....?
  9. S

    Baffled

    But why didn't the napped render have hairlines.....same mix. I'd guess 99% of plasterers don't put fibres in their render when sponge finishing. If it's the wrong mix for sponge finish I'm all ears
  10. S

    Baffled

    Interesting answer monkey boy but how would you evenly distribute water evenly over a sponge finish to achieve no hairlines. Its sponged with a damp sponge
  11. S

    Baffled

    I'm after doing a few sample panels at home here with traditional sand and cement. 1st mix was 5 sand 1 cem and half lime with 200ml evoplast waterproofer mixed into a 10 litre bucket of water 2nd mix was 4 1/2 sand 1 cem and half lime to 200ml waterproofer mixed into 10 litre bucket of water...
  12. S

    Cement strength

    Ya 32.5N scratch 4-1 and top at 4.5 or 5 -1 What ratios do the people who use 42.5N use. We used 52.5N white cement a couple of years ago and mixed it at 7-1 top coat and still thought it was a bit too strong.....
  13. S

    Cement strength

    Quinns is now called mannok
  14. S

    Cement strength

    Hi all. Here in Ireland for as many years as I can remember it was always irish cement that was used for plastering/blocklaying etc. Irish cement has 32.5 Newton strength. There's a load of new cement producers (mannok,o briens etc) appearing in building providers and offering their cement at a...
  15. S

    Flaking roughcast

    Bricky
Top