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i use a waterproofer(thompsons/cementone),then two coats of cera wax then paraffin wax-or you can use stucco guard or there is another product called aquadivetro-both of these are expensive though-stucco guard £30ish litre aquadivetro £250 for 15 litres-im also trying out some acrylic sealers...

try and avoid site work-they pay people to rip your work to bits and then try and avoid paying you-best one ive had was theres too much movement in it-if you wanted a sheet of plastic you should of ordered one! its marble effect! mr & mrs bloggs will be well chuffed with the marble effect youve...

gents ive just done a 15th century gaff-oak beams etc-customer wanted to retain rustic charm between beams but as we all know trowels aint that flexible and you get lines-pavan(venetian plaster trowels) do a super flexy plastic trowel that solves this-bit of pressure and it closes everything in...

i tried it and it didnt seem any different-was in the summer though so heat might of been a factor-ive been told a capful of freeflo is good in skim,but only in first coat and then a nice tight second coat-geezer that told me reckons 60m piece of piss

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tradlym in cheltenham-martin is the guys name he,ll sort you out but i reckon 1200 is too cheap

alternatively stucco italiano also supply coverit but andys gear comes in cheaper-its all about the margins innit?

yep-unless you want your gear by the pallet load im pretty sure that andy is the fella you need to talk to-i know that his gear is manufactured by coverit but as said youve got virtually no chance of dealing with them directly

ive seen a couple of sisters rendering-they were good but a bit big and sweaty

its a nightmare all that mallarkey-your paying out wages before youve been paid+the tax man with the yellow book every month+employers liability insurance(although theyre subbies youve still got to have them covered)-only time you see the benefit is when you get rid of em and get your final...

funny thing is you go like a loon for a few years then you start to slow down as you approach 40-ironic that you spend all that time trying to be quick as **** and then you spend an equal amount of time trying to do as little as possible-or maybe its just me ?

mr marshall knows his craft

tell you what that borg bird was the fittest robot i ever did see

get a decent drill-them blue things are shite and take ages to knock a bag up

job im due to start next week has had a non compliance order slapped on it-farkin great! best start looking for some work then

i had one on the cards-gave him a oner a day/holiday pay etc-he proper mugged me off.62 days sick in a year and then started bangin on about lawyers if i sacked him! sacked him in the end caught him snorting coke whilst we were working in a really posh private school-he works in a caff...

i thought all the work from back then was rough-unless it was in a posh house

go round with a bag in the morning and take the phones off em-give em back at hometime

i had one a few years ago-binned it!the nuts/bolts went rusty and in th end i couldnt adjust it anymore-back of the trowel far easier

superb-is that done with acrylics?

nice work dave-**** doing it off a ladder though!

sometimes there isnt a choice-vans in for fixing so gota use car-breakks my heart getting plaster on the leather but luckily it wipes off

get a pipe trowel from refina

the cotswolds pisses all over the thames as far as im concerned-but horses for courses

**** that tell em to get some ruskies in-im in the midlandsv and getting nearly twice that-moved up here 6 years ago and it seems to be far less cut throat than all that london bollox-theres too many people after the same bit of work-plus the people in the countryside seem to be wedged

lend it to a spread for a while?

far too many years spent in london-s**t prices,s**t traffic,expensive lunch and every f**k**s ignorant-best thing i ever did was move to the country

ive used one on lime render but it does leave a very open finish-looks a bit like a scratched back mono-if your using it on lime t=you want to avoiid over working or it will bring a fat to the surface which will weaken the surface of the render

i would of thought sbr coat then sbr in the muck-the sika nstuff is well expensive-did 3 x 3m3 plunge ;pools at a ruugby club a couple of years ago and materials were 5k-ouch!!!

thistlebond-hangs around a bit though!

it is gonna want rendered though so i,ll see whats what with it-its a proper big house theres probably 500m there so hopefully can do someone a turn

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im getting 8.50 f/set,3.50 skim,3.50 dot/dab,3.50 tack,6.00 gypline,9.50 m/f 60/70 venetian-think nive got a right touch going on though-the outside is gonna need rendered though which aint really my thing-probably gonna be buttermilk k rend(@the usual??????????)-im meeting the client soon so...

my cousin flies a merlin helicopter-hes had two stints in afghanistan-hes off to jordan next month to get ready for the next invasion-could well be saudi and then the shits gonna hit the fan-i say nuke the F*****g lot of em then pop in and nick there oil?

do you not think that polished concrete worktops could be the way forward?ive been asked a few times to do them(ive always declined)but theres deffo a market there.your outlay isnt gonna be massive and if you check it out on google the applications for concrete are a step forward from granite etc

i got the little skywalkers-can do a 2.7 ceiling off em easy-also i got a pair of 12 inch supastilts 70 quid off ebay well handy for barn conversions etc

very nice carl-nice bit of cutting as well dave-speak to you both soon xxx

on the hawk then in a bag when its built up a bit-cant be dealing with that edge of a bucket mallarky-get upset when the boy washes his trowel without scraping the fat off first it makes the water F*****g filthy and its disgusting-saying that though he just thinks im a miserable moany focker

all the pigments we use in venetian come in liquid form-ive tried to use cement dye and it looked great until i rubbed my hand over it and got a black hand-dont know if this would happen with skim or not-venetian is a lime based material so gypsum might behave differently

went to b + q today and picked up a hitachi 18v with 2 batteries down from 200 to 90-dunno if theyve all got the same deal going but thought it was a snip-if not my local branch is evesham worcs if anyones nearby

some boarders i do work for have looked into it-they do a load of council contracts etc £8000 a man!-someones having a laugh

i tried cream of tartar the other day-it was on hardwall over pva d thermalites but still it went as quick as you would expect-maybe need to use more

plus dont mean to sound like a bighead but i got a £30k venetian job yesterday+ solid ,mf ,boarding to about another 100kk so it is there you just gottaq target the right market-peace,health and wealth!!!

i use a flexible rubber coving tool-apparantly a plastic coke bottle works well

when your on your second trowel why dont the other man start laying on the next batch?

i agree with uveco-been spreading for 23 years and its nothing like solid work-i did a 10 daycourse with andy goldenbollox and i gotta say he knows his s**t.that was 16 months ago and i regularly get venetian work now-its kind of 40/60 at the mo but the venetian is so so so rewarding i couldnt...

but i gotta say it-if you dont know what your doing then you really shouldnt be doing it!its not a bit of skim-its a high class/price finish and the end result has to reflect that

dont put parrafin wax on until youve sealed with cera or marseille soap-if u do you will get dark patches

my mrs says that!