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Been ask to price a house with lots of bossed render, to be fair its at least 40-50 years old but its about 400 yards from the sea front. Will the salt air affect the render and if so how?

Whats the best way to render onto SBR? Tech spec says mix with cement, one coat let it dry then another, render while tacky. I was told the same from techical manager from a leading chemical company. Bloody messy though as when mixed with cement it dries black and goes everywhere, nightmare to...

Another quick querie regarding the house we're doing. Personally don't think its a good idea to render the window reveals without removing the Silicone, nightmare of a job, alternative is to fit PVC stop beads over the Silicone butted up to the window frame, i would normally dab them on with S&C...

Started a rendering job, the windows have steel lintels which are exposed at the top and as the building is around 70 years old they are starting to show slight signs of rust. Was wondering best method of covering them?

Started stripping these 2 large garden walls today, the existing render was put on around 2 years ago by another contractor and its starting to fail already. (See Pictures) The walls are badly cracked and a lot of the paint is flaking off. I noticed when we were stripping it the the walls...

How do you guy's d&d? Dab the wall or the board? Just curious

We've been using Refina bucket trowel 10", but they seem to break after not a very long time and we are spending top dollar on them as they are around £23 each! Does anyone know where we can get the same size (10 inch) or bigger for less candy? We've tried ebay but they all seem to be 7 inch...

Need some help on this one. We're starting a job on Monday and its untreated exposed oak every where, theres no ceiling as the full oak roof is exposed and there are oak colums everywhere, middle of walls. corners etc. (Horizontal and Vertical). Obviously we need to protect the oak at all costs...

We have 200 litres of waterproofer & plasticiser (100 of each) and lots of galv angle, bellcast and movement beads for sale. Also 4 gallon tubs of SBR. All brand new, bought them in April 2008 and no longer need them, email for more details.

We bought 100 litres of plasticiser and 100 litres of waterproofer a few months ago when we were still roughcasting, we gave it up as we hate it (weather). Bought it from Gorilla Hardware and cost us £300. Has a shelf life of 2 years. Bought it in May this year,Will take £150 for all.

We used Durafinish for the first time today and had some problems when trying to polish it. Second coat was on and had been trowelled twice ready for a polish. Flicked some water on and it kinda started to tear. We checked the tech spec before we used it and it says its the same as multi for...

Might be doing an old stairwell thats been stripped back to random rubble walls, Also its circular going up three flights (starting at the bottom and going up to the left). Was thinking about doing it in Hardwall and finishing in dura finish. Its got scaffolding up all 3 flights and its going to...

We might have a chance at doing a job in Milton Keynes. Its for a guy we work for up here in sunny scotland and he's building a hoose down there. Can anybody tell us what the going rate is?

Need to buy some new trowels. Somebody mentioned somewhere you can buy trowels that come "burnt in" any one know where?

Have noticed a few of you guys (Danny included) talking about stapleing beads on. I thought this would save a lot of time as we normally nail them on where possible. I bought a Tacwise stapler, model Ranger 40 Duo. its like a Paslode gun without the gas. Tried to staple beads onto board but...

For example old houses or conservatories where there are 125 degree internal angles. I have replastered plenty of these and the angle was very sharp (vertically), we always work wet to wet as we knock out big areas at a time and normally use corner pro trowel to round in angle, or alternatively...

How much do you guys charge for dry lining?