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Crown staples are best on plasterboard. Brad nails on over skim. Cordless brad gun to fire them in straight through the bead.

Mesh straight on timber, use or make a window gauge. You are making work for yourself.

Render is not great, but the light is pure stupidity!

Just fill it in, then just cut it back to give a nice edge to work to. I pack out 10mm to give a bit of tolerance, I might scrape it back to 5mm if the reveal needs it to get the margin right.

Yes

You take the ply off and work to the reveal when it's hard a day or 2 later. Rendaid on before the ply.

No, piece of ply with a round hole in it fixed to the front.

Get a piece of ply and cut a circle out to the required size with a router. Do the reveal first and the front when reveals are hard. I pack the ply 10 to 12mm off the wall.

I use it a lot. Buy it on ebay 2kg at a time.

Sponge in one hand trowel in the other. Wax on wax off Daniel son! If you are seeing sponge marks you have left it too long.

Spunky have you used it on external sand and cement? If not, do you think it would work ok.

Give it a coat of pva over the top. Only go over sbr when tacky.

That's been painted before sanding. It is rough jointing though.

It was a whole bucket, 12 metres lol!

You can get tennis elbow with any size trowel. I had it bad years ago, I had to wear the splints with the steel bar between velcro straps for 6 months. They stop you over turning you wrists. Plaster like a windmill and tennis elbow follows. I put on now with ox 18in, had tennis elbow with a 14in.