Yeh I find if you shined up a wall with the flex its different to shining it up with a mt .the mt is more missis show rather with the flex its just a clean shine and the gear is still wet . It's like when you lay up multi you see a slight reflection .still learning a lot because I'm still a...
Could be someone else ...I did moan a lot bout the flex but totally change my opinion on them . I've always loved the speedos never tryed the spats maybe 2016 I've had enough of trying new tools for a bit lol . I think the flex gives a mint matt finish nice and uniform
Used to hate them but love them now ...depends how I catch it sometimes the water from cleaning the edge is enough but if not just a little brush where I'm going to trowel. It's leaving a nice flawless uniform pink finish when dry for me . Living the dream:-)
I've had to have a new gear box ,drifts shaft etc and its playing up now losing power and its slow as anything I remember when I first got it we went up in my my mates 1,1 106 pug and when we were on the way back I thought right I'm gona whizz right passed him so I put my foot down and it...
Not soaking wet I speed skim it soaking wet .... Then jumped on the skim when it was slightly wetter than I usaully go on it but its working!!il still fuk around with it trying new ways of flattening but the trowel is working for me and with more use .il onli perfect it more .....aren't you...
I've just mastered the flex no tigers ,no bumps .i used the trowel before but had problems but this time I think from past use it wore in abit and I used no water at all well about a tea spoons worth to clean the edges and I jumped on it soaking wet after speed skim and let it go hard and trowel...
yeh probably easier just to use the liquids . Is that wickes good ? So if you left a scratch for a couple of weeks in the winter you wouldn't dampen it down a tad so you have time to get the panel on ..sometimes I've just went on it dry and it sucks in when I'm still laying up friggin nightmare
Used one for first time today .Brilliant ! Always used the grey one thought it was good but the blue is way better and rules render up nice and flat found the grey ones would bend with the wall a bit but yeh blue speed skim living the dream :RpS_cool:
Im a bit like that sometimes il wet it and it goes off nice some il wet and it don't go off at all and sometimes I won't wet it after the scratch has cured for a week and it still doesn't go off .ive never really used additives like harderers but Ive been trying them out and there wikid I used...
When I was employed I got payed every Friday ...now I work for my self I get payed every few months but I pay subbys fortnightly ...Ive gotta finish jobs before I get payed but pay out in between for subbys
nah gotta use sand and cement cheap materials ain't it ,I don't mind doing it tho .
sweet il do that top coat then . Still learning everyday been rendering for 8 years never thought about winter rendering and products to help it go off quicker just always got it on early and got on with and just...
Do u think 6.1.1 is fine for a top coat mix .normally do 4.1 scratch 5.1 and little bit of lime on block .but this is old render so don't wana go to strong .but don't wana do 6.1.1 and its soft on the wall when cured .
Yeh it is a swine ,hard work aswell fibres would be well easier but I always think that if it blows in a area then it won't fall off because its all tied together by 6 inch over laps . Orrrr will fibres do the same job ?? All I want is it not to crack and stick . Every time I've top coated the...
Will frost proofer not react with the fast setting cement at ? Gona use it the scratch today cos its gonna be cold as fook tonight .would u say my mix ratio is about right?
Work for builders who have private clients don't mind that ,on a few domestics now spend most of the time running round getting materials while the lads working ,spent one day on a real site on a block of flats rendering doing 4 scaff lift panels worked our balls off worked how much money we...
Crap init .i was rendring last week and layed on by 9 am didn't wet the panel down came til 4pm there 1 area not pulling in still ...so I went and grabbed the foreman and showed him and see what am I ment to do with that .puts me off in the winter
Hi guys ,I'm starting s+c moz on a house that's old shitty render that's all sound so I've render gripped it today was gona do 5.1 very little waterproof and bed fibre glass mesh in scratch then leave to dry fully out and top with a 6.1.1 lime with half rapid cement and half normal and just feb...
Had a big site on a while back had to knock out the houses quick ,we was scraping all the linings but then had the decorators moaning that we was fooking them up by chipping them and they had to fill them ( they were cheap shite linings anyway) now common sense kicked in we put duct tape around...
Wise words thank you mate I need to chill out ..my work is good and because of my attitude and commitment I have a good reputation and loads of builders down my end want to use me .im all booked up next year with 3 big new builds each a million plus so I have got to keep it happy medium but...
Ur one looks good mate the other one looks messy .i have used the nela on the bottom half of a 4 bedroom house and it all got painted and looked sweet but it was re skim and it was the 1st time I used it and I got caught out on a wall that was right near the front door and had the sunlight shine...
Wat it is with me is I got taught by a one man band brilliant rep then I left him and went on my own and I've never plastered with any other decent spreads .so all I know is this one kinda finish which when painted is bang on but these other trowels close it in it finished when its still wet .so...
I dunno cos there metal and bit stiffer? You a fan of plastic fantastic are ya?
well if everyone else is using the trowel and finding ok I should beable to . I think that 9 times out of ten the walls don't go in perfect because you have to put it on a bit thicker there to get over that and you...
Il just put it down to a phase I'm going through when I say I'm getting bumps n tigers its not really bad but I got OCD my hole life's revolves around work I have no hobbies don't go out drinking just got a moaning mrs at home moaning cos I work to much .jeeez I need to get a life
I don't think I can buy another fancy trowel ..I was taught by a old school always used stainless same finish same way every time .he would probably say its all aload of rubbish
Fair point. I get no problems with my mt never have ..but never get that same confident finish with others . Sorry il stop posting about the trowels if its annoying you
Don't get on with the nela sf but get on with refina plastic ??
problems I have with nela - rides over bumps ,leaves tiger stripes
with refina plastic don't get any of that same timings used and there both flexible trowels and nela should be better if anything .
i always 1st trowel with mt...
Thanks @Danny this is facebook but different ! I'm only 24 started up 2 years ago been through 6 blokes working for me .il never stop working everyday love it
Before I bought this trowel I read about all the good things but there no negatives about it so I bought it tryed it found its a hit and miss which I can't afford on jobs and now more people are saying the negatives .are these people that say the negatives are checking there work just like a...
Well I'm not the only one ,did a pissy little wall other day because the builder put a wall up last minute so I put it on speed skimmed them second speed skim then 1 st trowel with my mt the about 4 more with the nela cos I got board .cos it was a small wall put the plaster on bang on thickness...
Sorry mate wasnt aimed at you,everyone says they are lighter on ur arms .im just turning bitter been working 7 days a week for the last 2 months :RpS_bored: think its getting to me
I'm probably the only one that doesn't get on with them .im starting work for a couple high end builders next year so my works gotta be on its A game :RpS_thumbup:
Mines going in the skip .nothing wrong with my hard earned normal worn it trowel never get no ifs and ums and it aint that bad on the arms ur not pushing a 20 kg weight around the walls .you never get this much hassle about any other trowel and u can't compare it to a plasterer of 20 years...
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