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Hello all. Been a while but thought I'd ask those with far more knowledge of finishing timber frames than me for some advice. Hopefully you can see the picture. Timber frame ontop of a 40 yr old brick extension with an RSJ in the middle. Nice. Both parts are to be rendered as the...

Hello, If anyone wants a pre-registered caddy C20 1.6tdi 102ps, blue motion tech van with full bulkhead, let me know. Been offered a smashing deal, so bought a couple! Will have delivery mileage, that's it. Straight from VW Uk so full warranty etc. £12.5k + Vat Happy to discuss options if...

Hello all, first off, not too concerned about the actual costs here, more interested to know if there's a 'universal' method of pricing up work by the meter. I normally just measure surface area of the room ( LxWxH) and include windows and doors in the meterage rate to make up for reveals/...

Hello all, Been a long time since I done any krend.....and to be honest it was a tiny dwarf wall extension. Other than that and a 2 day course in it a while back, I've not touched it. Anyway, just about to finish a 5 bed house and the guy is now interested in having 2 walls rendered due to...

To prove I'm a proper spread (:RpS_wink:) , see pictures below of a trowel caddy I've just hacked together.....after I wrecked a 2nd refina plazzi in a matter of months last week. Its holds my 14 inch MT, s*p*r*lex and Refina plazzi, a 13 inch MT, a MT midget and an 11 inch nela...

Guys, Got a steady job on at the moment, nice and comfortable room every couple of weeks style affair, customer supplying mats as he thinks it's saving him money......da da da. . Anyway, all going well till I rock up and the guy hands me insta stick to bond new board over a large(ish)...

All, Just got a job to do a couple of walls in magnetic however all I can buy at the moment is a whole pallet. So, anyone interested in buying a few off me? At cost, no mark up so £65 all in per bag??? Funds up front via paypal, bank transfer or cash. Need to order this week.

Ok, maybe a simple question for most of you but giving me a headache Im doing a house at the moment where the guy wants me to leave an old pitch pine window lintel exposed Its a small window in the bathroom, originally the job was just a re-skim and float to one wall however, when he took the...

Right, a pal of mine has asked me to sort this out.....obviously caused by using cheap galv beads which have blown. So got a couple of questions for you. Firstly, what materials, processes would you say they've used here? At first I thought it was s&c but upon closer inspection it seems like...

Had a nice easy lid on yesterday and as I'm trying to get a portfolio together for a website I took a few photo's ... Anyway, thought I'd share them with you all.....unsure why but I'm sure you won't be afraid to tell me if there's anything wrong with it!

Guys, a guy needs his chimney breast refloating, including the seat. He's putting a log burner in there so I've advised using vitcas but he wants to keep the cost down. Any tips? Personally I hard walled mine 7 years ago and never had a problem but BG only guarantee it up to 49 degs. What...

Guys, got two bags of MP finish (FOC) in the garage as not used em as I'm shite scared incase it goes pete tong on a job. Was gonna board my garage out and finish with em but that's never gonna happen. Anyway, what's it like to use? And stupid question time, is it only viable on board or can...

Right, now I've got your attention! A bit hoofed off and need some man love (:huh:) as I got blown away from a job I really wanted, now thinking if I can't make a living doing it proper, I'll go and sign on with the other tax dodging f**k**s.. Part of a ceiling in a 30's house falls on family...

Ok, a question for you all. A small job I visited today where a guy wants me to do a downstairs room to match the lime in rest of house. So, I go and have a look at the other walls and there's a chunk of plaster on the floor where the spark has fitted a couple of extra sockets. I look at it...

I think I've attached a picture....crap as it is. Anyway, got a room on with all sorts in it, along with a curved corner on the chimney breast.. Now, I've done free hand corners in the past, but always used an external angle trowel to shape or it's been a big enough radius to get on it with a...

Drinking buddy of mine is taking me under his wing on lime work....soooooo excited:RpS_thumbsup: he's got a listed renovation on, all types of lime specified...from all over Europe.. get to have a go at the dark art at last!

Cus I've mastered the refina plazzi :RpS_love: I'm sat waiting for the second set to pull in and got time on my hands cus there's no need to do a third trowel on first set.....so I'm sat here thinking how I'm gonna tackle these bull nose corners on a chimney breast?.. part of me is saying, fill...

Another schoolboy question coming I suppose, maybe. Priced up a 1st floor bedroom in a house this week, 200 yr old terrace with solid (non cavity) brick and stone walls. All internal walls are timber so a simple re-board and top coat.... No snags. Now, part of the job is to re-float the...

Having to bow down to the missus and consider using some kind of cream on my hands as they're getting slightly abrasive! anyone use/recommend a barrier cream which protects against the Lyme? I know I could use gloves, but I'm crap and will forget.....:RpS_blink:

Guys, Got a large (well, large for me) ceiling on soon which is stipple artex over board which has warped all over the place, due to loads from roof trusses ( bungalow). As normal, customer don't want it over boarding as they don't want to replace the coving so I've put in a price to skim...

Been thinking about what I'm gonna live on when I'm too old to earn my keep. Anyway had an idea this week as I was using multi on a real fiddley job and the back of my trowel got heavier than normal, more often So, as you do, I used my brush to clean it up.....takes 10 seconds I suppose? But...

For info, @carobyn sent me a twitch to review a week ago... Here's my initial thoughts after using it for a week. Firstly, very well packaged and looks like it could withstand a nuclear blast......quality is good. I was concerned about how rigid it was, it's a firm 90 degrees so was unsure...

Bought a 14 plazzi ( sponge back one) and managed to get it out the van today. Not impressed, but wondering if I'm using it proper? I laid on using my mt, then used it on first trowel. Now, it was a biggish ceiling but the gear was ok, but the plazzi just wouldn't flatten off the firmer bits...

Thought I'd lost my twitch today, but found it when I lifted the last bag of multi out of the van......flat as a pancake! Tried to bend it back into shape but no good. I've had the same one since about 2007, it's the Marshalltown one. So, gonna buy another over weekend, anyone use anything...

Done 3/4s of a bedroom a week or so ago, young lad had boarded the walls (looked like he'd measured every screw hole, was perfect) and all I had to do was skim em.. He was in mid twenties, young kid and missus, i really wanted to help him out so I quoted him £not alot and he rightly snapped my...

Guys, had a job to float and finish a couple of small walls the other day. I used hardwall as was on 100hr old brick. Now, I lay hardwall in two coats, but I don't scratch the first, I just wait for it to pick up a bit they lay and rule off the second coat, never had a problem. Was a guy tiling...

Had an 'easy' job on today, 9x7 room, walls only. Glued walls when I got there, fixed metalwork, set up, put second glue coat on, had a brew. As normal, waited for the glue to go tacky and put first coat on. When moving onto the third wall, I looked back at the walls I'd done.......covered in...

Guys, any recommendations as to where best to source cornice/moulding equipment? cheers in advance.

Secured a job today, just a reskim but needed more...... Customer not wanting to pay for anything more than a skim. Anyway, 1930s house, plaster in a bad way, blown, cracked you name it. I've used the feb-bond blue grit before on artex ceilings but never used it on walls. The feb blue grit...

Currently got a Citroen dispatch and hate it. Don't generally carry much 8ft board so don't really need a big van Whats the consensus? Looking for reliability and cost of ownership, don't care about badge.

Guys, Quick question. Bought some cemoplas deep to do a kitchen floor however on the back of bag states not suitable for 'mastic asphalt'. The existing floor has some of the old vinyl floor tile adhesive, black stuff. anyone used this stuff in similar situations? Maybe recommend a primer (sbr...

Guys, those who read my intro will know I'm keen to learn more on perfecting s&c rendering...especially as I have a job coming up :RpS_mellow:. Been told to invest in a serrated spat to open up the top coat, Unfortunately, my contact was a little sparse with the facts as to the benefits of...

So, got a small slc screed job on next week and customer very picky so, I thought I'd invest in a spiked roller to achieve that uniform colour without any trowel marks.....unfortunately, I visited the refina site.....now £110 worse off, I only wanted a £12 roller! Ive bought a few things...

Guys, called to to a job today where someone has floated up a room (badly) with hardwall and abandoned the job. Customer wants me to put right! Again, showing my relative inexperience here, so I've never had to skim over dried out hardwall, I usually skim it the same day if I'm floating with...

All, I have a rendering job on in Yeovil coming up in the next few weeks for a pal (when the wall's finished). Standard sand cement over block work. It's a low garden wall, about 25m2 in total....so no scaff, good access....a nice 'straight forward job'. If you've seen my intro post, you'll...

Hi all, So, was skimming with a guy a couple of weeks ago who was using one of these refina plastic trowels. He only used it to trowel up, layed on using his marshalltown. Am I missing something here? What is it with them which is supposed to give you the edge over your everyday steel trowel...

Hi all, Done a job this week where I covered a guys garden in multi cos my paddle (standard, 100mm collomix one) seems to spit the muck out of the bucket. Had a quick look on the forum for paddle reviews etc however my question is, what's the best paddle to use if your generally mixing...

Hi all and firstly a big hello, been reading many of the posts on this forum for a while now so, go easy on me for probably asking the same questions as 1000's before! Having recently left the forces, i'm in the early stages of setting up as a sole trader in the business. Although I was...