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There are 3 types of sealer matt, lustre and gloss, it's the customers choice. All the pictures are of lustre seal but it has not dried. When matt is applied you wouldn't think that there was sealer on it. We have gone over the crazy paving and we put down a base coat and set the mesh in the...

Ashler in pecan tan

You can buy a bark textured roller in any artex suppliers, it's a popular pattern for artexers

Try our P100 we always use it on smooth surfaces it sticks to any surface, has a bonding ability of 1.2n per mm2 which is massive. From what I have heard rendaid shouldn't be used on a painted surface.

When we concrete driveways we always coat the surrounding area walls etc with with wallpaper paste, end of the job wash off with the jet washer, unlike grease or oil it does not leave a residue

There are many ways to stitch cracks depending on the substrate and the type of cracks (active or inactive) if they are a structural problem then heli-bars or similar are good, if they are fine and non structural then a two part epoxy can be injected with a syringe type tool very fast setting...

Depending on the depth of the dubbing out course I would go in at min £8 per m2,

The list is for people who are new to an area or don't know or trust any builders, as there are a lot of cowboys in most trades. They contact their insurance company who will either direct them to their repair management team or send you a list of trusted reputable builders.

A mate of mine is a loss adjuster for one of the big insurance companies, I had the same idea when I done some repairs on a damaged roof via an insurance claim. Although householders can nominate builders for smaller repairs any work of any size is carried out by a main repair management company...

Re: Robbing lil (french person)*s!!!!!!! All tough talk, in reality if your going to do the business on somebody you don't make it public knowledge you just get on with it and make sure you got an alibi

Finding your first job will be the hardest then you'll be on your way. I shall be doing the Interbuild trade show at the NEC in October, I shall be in the specifiers hall so it should get the word out amongst the architects, buyers etc

Nice display Chris, I know some like it and some don't but I don't understand doubters saying it's rubbish when it's got many more qualities than any other render. After all companies that have huge turnovers have already tasted success, why would they bother to invest if it was rubbish. Crack...

Chris Check your emails, I just forwarded an email another enquiry in P'boro

Them samples look okay Chris considering the time I had to do them, set up looks good.

I was using the epoxy based moulding mortars years ago, good quality material but found it more difficult to colour match and fewer options for it's use.

I've got a cobblestone mat, I understand the time thing thats why I have to run the courses on weekends, hopefully you will be able to make it down

Will you have time to get on this course before you do it Rich, if you repair the corners then 10mm flexcement all over and print it with a limestone or wall texture mat and colour to suit. The boys off here have seen all the different mats I have and how easy it is. No worries about...

How deep does he want the beds and perps

Just read your thread again, missed the render bit. Why don't you use an acid stain instead of rendering it will look original as well

Rich can you check your emails and see if you have them pics I'm not to clever on these PC's. When you repair concrete load bearing or not it should be done right, I am sure that Rich would be to busy or want to keep his good reputation rather than go back and do it again rather than spend a few...

I'll send the photo's shortly Rich. The best two adhesives to use with concrete repair is the p100 which I use which has a bonding ability of 1.2n per square mm or two part liquid epoxy. Dont use sbr or any other crap pva as it will definatly peel. Quoin beads are ok for support or consider 8mm...

Rich, I repaired a lot of concrete in the past with various methods,if your interested I'll send you some pictures of a major repair that I've recently finished of architectural decorative stonework, plinth and cornice of an 1850 building using flexcement. It's easy because it's 50% lighter than...

I'v made various types of cutting tools, grab that brick banding when you can very handy.

If you make a jointing tool as I said in the scribing render thread, making your scribing end flatter and wider it's much easier to rake out a flat joint.

Chris everybody takes the samples, I've tried something different as well. Instead of cutting out and apply a base coat, I've applied a base coat to stone effect and then cut out creating a grey joint, like quick brick. Looks nice as well.

I have very often made my own carving tools, I have renovated listed buildings and buildings of historic interest for many years. It also included the repair of sandstone, bathstone etc and included architectural decorative stone (corniches, plinths, flying buttresses etc and even carved render...

One of my joint cutting tools would have been perfect, try this. Hopefully you can get your hands on a piece of brick/block banding steel or similar cut it to about 100mm bend it centrally over a 10mm drill bit, get a piece of brush handle 300mm cut in two slots to the vertical, slide in ends of...

My workload has erupted, I think it is because householders are are spending on their own homes rather than upgrading or buying new.

I've been doing 7 days a week for the last 6 weeks, sundays just another day

We tried my new twin paddle Eibenstock on the training course this weekend it is a beast and well worth the £388.

After these May courses I will have 35 installers plus national paving companies use a lot. I have had nearly 800 hits on my website this month and loads of enquiry's and I haven't got the installers to cover the work in various area's. There are over 60million people in this country and most of...

A guy from Alton asked me to replicate cotswold stone on his bungalow after extending it, when I told him how easy it was he is booking in for a course. The most common brick in the UK is a wire cut, I was asked to replicate them. I thought about it for a while and then come up with the...

No bullsh*t it's a shame you haven't done the Flexcement course because you could have replicated the older stone no problem at all. There is a very easy antiquing method and you can also replicate efflorescence, it is even possible to replicated granite including the quartz

3 coats of bituminum, sand in between coats for a key, render and skim.

They have instructions up on all the walls for that lot Paul, and big stickers on the bags saying THIS IS PLASTER

No reputable company will have any cowboys or chancers on site.

There are 3 types of asbestos, Blue (Crosidolite) Brown (Amosite) and White(Chrysotile) the latter being the least harmful. Artex contains minute amounts of white asbestos and is virtually harmless unless inhaled in large quantities.

Since the corporate manslaughter law came in, it is law to have a cscs card to be allowed to work on a construction site. You might get a smaller developer building a couple of houses letting you on site and ignoring the law, but if somebody had an accident and wanted a claim the finger would...

Try talking them into stone effect render much nicer that a floated wall

Many years ago,I worked on a coalface for 12yrs and to cut a long story short, a roof bar was coming down on a guys back and I tried to catch it. My knuckles bent back so far they nearly touched my forearm, my wrist is now fused in one position. That hurt as well.

I think the only thing that kept the rest of the stack up was the brickwork resting on the joists into the roof void. I've had a couple of stingers as well, one of the most painful that springs to mind when I was on this job and both the husband and wife followed me everywhere asking me stupid...

When I was working in London an I****n fella asked me to look at his house as he was a bit worried that his friend and neighbour was doing some thing wrong when taking half the chimney stack down. Instead of taking the top half away he had literally taken it in half vertically, even toothed the...

I would send them a reminder and a copy of the invoice telling them that payment is now overdue etc, make sure that you send it by recorded delivery so there is no excuse for it being lost or they saying they didn't receive it in case you need to tale matters further.

Penblwydd Hapus i chi, Church. ;D Stone

Wait til you pass 50 mate, 17yrs playing prop forward and loads of heavy weight training knackered a lot of my joints. You just got to get on with it. I am still fairly strong for my age but my plasterer is 58 and jumps about like a 30yr old and will work with the best.

It's a membrane they have above and below ground systems take a look www.newton-membranes.co.uk they have some interesting systems. I've converted several basements and used to use 3 coats of bitumen sanded between coats for a key and then standard render with waterproofer incorporated, and then...

Have a look at the Newlath 2000 system, cleaner and easier than using injection methods.

Depends on the type of damp, rising or penetrating. And if your renovating what stage of the project you are.

There's plenty on ebay Rich