Recent content by valboy

Right I've spoken to kinspan and they never recommend sand and cement render over the top of any of there products, I e in formed the building supplier who arranged the spec and so on and they are basically washing there hands of the bastards, so is the best solution a polymer base coat with...

No bother pal, thanks

Hope these help, and thanks for all the input

Really don't know how to get pics up lads and I've got loads of the whole process.all the products came recommended by the manager of the building suppliers. The surface beneath was sound, concrete blocks.

Is This similar to k-rend hpx? Or is it a finish coat. Thanks

More horizontal than vertical right across the front of the house.

They are in the pattern of the outer edge of the mesh sheets, no slump what so ever.

Also the bottom of the house is a cavity wall so didn't need insulating and I did that at the Sam time and its great, no cracks hollow patches nothing, gone off lovely.

Not sure how to post pics up lads, so do you think k rend would have been better?. I left it a week before top coat went on, there where no cracks in the scratch coat either so I assumed all was ok. The mesh was very tidy, overlapping all joints by 100mm. I thought waterproofer stopped a lot of...

Kingspan kooltherm.

It was recommended to me at the building suppliers, I don't do a lot of rendering myself so reaserched as much as I could, got a really good finish except for these bloody cracks. It was a warm day but kept it nice and wet through out and into the evening and next day. It was kingspan with like...

Hi guys, hope you can help. I've just insulated externally the top half of my house as it's single skin which used to have tiles on the front of it. I used the suitable insulation and fixed the stainless steel mesh over the top of it over lapping it by 100mm, the mesh in question is deep ribbed...