Recent content by theplasterer

You should batton the wall with 3x2 and insulate with rockwool and then screw the plasterboards to it, fibretape the joints and if there are any gaps along the corners just fibretape them flat on the board. And then you skim over the lot or if you cant do that just joint em with filler.

Could anybody tell me the correct method to go over cement boards externally for a K-rend finish. Could you use hp12 meshed or would you need to use hpx meshed? And do you need to prep the cement board in any way before the base coat? Thanks for your advice.

Might get one, good for bay windows I suppose

Anybody used the EA917 corner trowel, looks handy for funny angles

Dave, do plenty jobs for family & friends for mates rates to build up confidence, Its good that you've got the qualifications but its practice and experience that you need to build up, its knowing what to do when things go wrong, learning by your mistakes, having the right tools for every...

The sun can show up a bump a tenth of a millimetre, anyone who can get a wall 100% with the sun directly to the side of it wants a medal.

They're going on a painted wall

Nice one cossy, I'll have a go and see how it goes

Did you pva them first before you put em up?

Has anybody used these 3d wall panels? I've been asked by a friend to have a go at putting these up on a small wall, I've not come across anybody who has used them, the place where he got them from said you use drywall adhesive to stick them to the wall with a notched trowel like a tile but I'm...

Cheers Andy, part of me wants to say no I'll stick to s/c but I'd love to try and use the mono. Maybe I should learn how to use it first before I jump on a big gable.

I'm doing a rendering job at the moment, just a gable. I've scratched it on with s/c and meshed it due to a few cracks in the brickwork, was planning on topping it out as soon as the weather changes but the customer keeps banging on about a house down the road which has been finished in krend or...

Browning on a ceiling? scrape it with a sharp wall scraper bond it pva it and skim...or just overboard and skim.

Online it is then haha

Thanks lads, Its quite a big job, 2 gables and maybe the front of the house, I'm not sure what the 18" walls are made of, its just what he's told me. You can see where the render has blown but none of it has actually fell off yet. That webber ocr I think will be too expensive for what he wants...