Recent content by timlad

i got 2 14" marshall town permashaped one i use for skimming and troweing up and the other for rendering. do you lot wear yours in first with render?

i use normal hand applied k rend , i know it ain the best for things like cracking but laying it on it spreads lovely

i have used monorex and i find it quite hard to spot all the misses and have used maxit aswell which i thought was good, have yo ever used prorend i got a job coming up with the stuff

what dont u like about k rend do u mean machine or hand?

Did the job yesterday, looked nice. i got my labourer to go ahead of me rolling on this r7 adhesive to the thermalites, then i came behind when it was tacky giving it 2 coats of k rend, the total job was 75m2 so it took me till 12 to lay it all on, normally the first panel would have been ready...

worked 5 days this week, first time in ages!! tis quite knackering, like danny i like to have at least one day off in the week plus the weekend. how you all doing on the money front so far??

ahh well im from the westcountry so bit of a trek !

where you live too?

K rend is the best !!!!! i lay it on manually ( machine rend is horrid if you got to lay it yourself) and ive used a few different types of coloured like monorex, maxi, marmorite , and weebber, K rend spreads like butter all the others seem really dead and unworkable. How much can you generally...

the job has been put back till nxt thurs bloody windows not there yet! i rang the rep (good idea) and he said to mesh up the building first then it should be ok. do you do much k rend ? ive been doing it solid for 2 years nearly , but never on thermalite love it !!!!!!!!!!! ;D

On friday i got to k rend an extension on thermalite blocks, ive always done it on concrete blocks. anyone got any tips?

thanks for that buddy ill try and get some of this bond it for my next job

hello everyone, glad to be a member as im a keen plaster myself. I have done a lot of through colour render and havent had that much experience with inside work. i had a reskim to do with old walls the other day, i took all wallpaper off gave the walls a good brush and then gave them two good...