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One old Irish bloke I used to labour for held a handful of nail in his mouth as he tacked - spitting one out every second or so tacking - never got a word out of him all day.

Proper tacking that was, quite miss it - Estwing hammer left a nice dimple around the pb & nail for a key.

Howdy partner…he’s not from the wild-west. It’s Oz - g’day cobber.

Why not just do as the code requires?

Any pics mate of the work…love a pic. Miss that staffie-dog avatar

What’s she 2nd fixing to the 15mm copper…loo, bidet and sink

You must be loaded mate. I remember that resort as we walked past it, it was for the rich & beautiful people. We hired a mini-moke and it broke down in the middle of town - we dumped it and got s**t-faced on Pinas.

Start with this block detail.

The stones haven’t been mixed in with the render - they have been dashed on. Some stones are dirty/dusty straight from a bag and need washed & sieved or they can look cat.

Did the builder do the pebble-dash? Should have set and rubbed-up reveals first. Unless you do samples of render/stones to colour match its hit or miss.

Oh yes mate, very tight :)

Decent offer for a grafter - lifelong skill and loads of money to earn if you’re smart

Have a bit of this :)

Ffs, now the cats after my curry

Trying to stop the goat from eating the pineapple out of my Pina Colada

How come the video has gone?

Any pics of it?

Car looks lovely mate, I think for a 1990’s look though you need the wheels just chrome colour

It’s dashed with stones in the mix (pea shingle), generally 3:1 mix, stones, sharpe sand & cement.

Roughcast/wet dash

All sounds normal spec to me. Done loads like this. Rib-lath is my preferred on timber. As long as you wire-tie mid-batten you should be crack free. Pricking up coat with sharp sand. So many intricacies in this application. Loads of builders prepped jobs like this for me… give me strength!

Awkward as fukc those. One heavy pricking up coat with cement, float it then two heavy finish coats.

Nice looking van that - better than the Transit or not?

One hour by car - what can your tranny sports do it in?

I’m in Edinburgh this week - is it near?

I always say it 4be2 or 2be4

When I float curved walls, I always skim them old school trowel, float, trowel,

Lodan retrained as a sparks.

Paint this on the grease marks and you won’t have a problem.

What is the rest of the wall built of - brick/block? And if so, why didn’t the builder just block it up and then render/float whatever. Or, if the garage is sound & dry, remove the cement board and replace with plasterboard and just plaster it - this of course is dependent on the existing...

Get a few pics up of the finish.

Was that you 3 vehicles in front of it, right up my jacksie until the tailback?

R - reg, 1976. Not a spot of rust on it.

One next to me on M25 earlier

Did you slurry it just for a key? When you slurried the walls did you stipple it , scud it or just paint it on? If I scud a wall I always leave it over night anyway and if high suction I soak it before scudding.

What plaster do you use?

EML there mate. Get yourself down Specsavers.

Floating both sides of this wall, it has a 30mm bulge one side and 30mm belly the other from one end to other. Shocking blockwork, builder said ‘bend the plaster’ Lord above, give me the strength to carry on!

What a waste of energy. You watched it all the way through? Interesting at the end…fukc the drenched sponge float on and hard-trowel it.

That looks fookin hot in Florida.

More doors or wheels in the World. Heard the kids discussing it on Toktik now I can’t get it out of my brain. It’s messing with my beer-drinking.

Sand, cement & lime.

GIMP-MASK?

All off and back to brick for a proper job. I’d float and set it in solid plaster (nothing like a solid wall), but you could board it and skim it. Mesh man is dreaming…can’t polish a turd, looks f**k*d. How many rooms need doing?

What caused the damp?

…other 80% in pub?

Giant compared to Andy then

Had a few good piss-ups in Worcester years ago.

How tall’s the milkman?

Go and look at their previous work - look very carefully, find out if the same blokes that did the good work are doing your work. Are you having lighting that shines straight up at your new render (if so, tell the plasterers so they know this).