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Anybody know if ehi this time of year is a next day scrape still. Using it tomorrow for first time on any real area over graphite insulation with maite basecoat. Are we better off spraying afternoon and scraping next morn or spraying early and finishing late afternoon? Any advice much...

Heres some pics of 1mm dpr sprayed last year as a roughcast with the swing gun and onboard ritmo compressor. It was an old concrete panel garage that I clad with gtec aqua boards and then maite/mesh etc. hell of a renovation without actually knocking the thing down and building a new garage...

Sprayed weber OCR today on a block work retaining wall 10x2.7m What lovely gear. Sprays superb. One coat one pass with a smidge of filling like mono. Fined down mint. Cheaper than parmurex, a quid & change cheaper than CPI but thats a cruder 2 coat product. To go from blockwork to a...

Noticed that as of April all new ritmo L's will turn counterclockwise like the ritmo m(used to turn the other way). My question is.....could you now bolt on the L pump assembly to a ritmo M and spray further? Obviously I'd keep the standard M assembly on the machine mostly. For the odd job...

next generation g4 not a radical departure but kind of streamlined. Any main advantages over old one pft misters? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EsEyZ9IizE

Anybody else receive the Parex ewi chitty sent out. Bit late in the day compared to other manufacturers but is a good system and one I use pretty much exclusively now. Lots of pics in it.... One with a raised texture finish and some nice traditional profiles. Anybody on here do that one...

sprayed 85m2 of parex sand smooth 0.5mm today on my tod.....courtesy of the ritmo m and the refina comp. Didnt get going til 11am after finishing masking, setting up, collecting remote lead off blones(thanks butt). Lovelly stuff to spray......looks cowin mint on a flat maite base coat. Went...

Good buy for someone.....ritmo power coat, water pump, big compressor, plus another machine thrown in! Come on spunky here's your chance! http://item.mobileweb.ebay.co.uk/viewitem?itemId=190753305220&index=0&nav=SEARCH&nid=32917664313

Anybody sprayed the sand smooth dpr. Used the 1mm sand fine by hand but quite fancy the look of the smooth sample I got. The maite backing is pretty tight these days. Also is there any sandable type filler for the odd bit here and there?

Here's a vid of my recently purchased ritmo m on a roughcast texture job using monorex. As you can see it's a good quality new build with a nice choice of materials(stonework, slate, render etc). The roughcast texture suits the building nicely given it's rugged coastal location and the...

Borrowed a ritmo m off mr blones for a trial last week. Have to say what a competent little pump it is. Sprayed mono plugged into customers hallway socket with 15m of pipe on. Didn't grumble at all and sprayed perfectly. The pumping rate was plenty on a domestic job....tbh I prefer a bit more...

Time has come to sell my Xl package. Anyone interested please check out the ebay ad. Thanks pft ritmo xl | eBay

Some interesting thin coat machines. CES Hire Ltd Giema Delivery Pumps

Got a job coming for roughcast and smooth bands. I'm thinking of either CPI scratch and texture coat then paint or monorex two passes same or next day in colour. The issue I've got is the Xl gives 5 secs or so of wetter render on startup after stopping because water keeps trickling into the...

These Wagner machines seem well priced and specced for thin coat stuff Wagner PC430 Plaster Spray System 230v Wagner PC830 Plaster Spray System 230v

Just a thought on staining with mono - its the scraped part of the finish that lets it down. Your removing the protective skin and exposing the matted and pitted body of the render. With a sprayed rough cast in the same material the finish is left with the skin on. Takes on more of the...

just lost my promising but unreliable young helper and am looking for a replacement. We've got a good lot of modern render work and external wall insulation in the pipeline. Anyone interested please get in touch using the link below. You must be super keen, willing to start at the bottom...

Was wondering what your thoughts were on using different speeds for creating roughcast effects with the machine. I've done it with normal 3 phase but what about slowing things down in single phase and using maybe the swing gun? Would I have problems with sufficient mixing using a slow speed...

was looking at the ritmo l and noticed the xl's pdf has been updated and the r&s been changed to a d62 with a corresponding short clamp. Are these easier to turn cos it used to be the d52 silver(been using d42 clamp) with no probs but it didn't like anything tighter.....worth changing over and...

I haven't used the xl much for a while as we've been doing insulation work mostly. Now being a self confessed machine nut I've almost got the thing out the garage just to spray some top coat just to get it on quicker with bigger areas on hot days....but to be honest when it actually comes to...

used to get my silver cloth tape off les but apparently speedymask have gone bust in the uk? what do you guys use? they used to cost bout 2 quid a roll i think which seems to be impossible to match with other stuff

Do you reckon this new refina compressor is up to giving a good finish with thin coats? Any problems with using this with a machine? Kwiknail do a good range of Gentilin compressors for decent cash http://www.refina.co.uk/acatalog/Compressors.html Kwiknail - Catalogue

does anyone know who stocks 4095 smoothing screed near south wales? We got 360m2 at 5-10mm to cover which i intend on pumping with the xl. It's for a mint floor in an indoor skate park of all places. Also is it suitable for this kind of area.....does it have to be broken up with stopends or...

in the bath earlier was visualising spraying nirvana as you do every now and then....when i suddenly thought, why not try the swing gun with a nice big tip to spray apply cpi for a good roughcast texture. The reason being is that ive tried to spray acrylic with this setup and the onboard comp...

any day now she will arrive......wonder if the box will be made of chrome and all dry ice will come out of it when opened with some rousing lord of the rings type music blaring out of it and neon lights! Sure ive dreamt it like that anyway lol. Oh and a little pft wales sticker on the corner of...

am thinking about spraying the adhesive coat on a job over aquaboards at the mo. Will be in single phase with the xl hopefully running with no issues off site supply....what rotor & stator is best for this kind of work chaps? Am running a d42 as standard for mono, will this be ok in single...

Went down to see progress on the boarding of a job a job we're starting soon using aqua boards on a timber frame structure. I'd heard from the main contractor that the boards delivered were wrong as he'd had plasterboards instead of render boards. Well it turns out that the boards are correct...

got to say guys am all up for progress but danny......this site is like windows compared to mac mate.....to fussy and complicated for its own good. In my(rather negative, boo) opinion it's a step backwards from the more simpler and easier to read old layout.

Sprayed hardwall today with the xl in single phase off the mains with me robust plug and was pure wankery. Sprayed like fluffy cream and was super quick with no issues at all. All skimmed up in the afternoon better than board. A propper productive marriage of old and new techniques perfectly...

Used my regular 600mm mono spat today to flatten off after each coat of skim after earlier hardwall and can truly say that it was an utter revelation. Believe all this spat hype I tell thee! Santa super flex methinks

orite folks, ive got a single phase lead which has an inline camping style rcd about a foot along the cable from the uk 3 pin plug. This then adapts to the red socket which plugs into the ritmo xl. We've used this cable plugged into the mains for pumping acrylic through 20m hose and had no...

gonna be spraying hardwall and then skimming by hand in the afternoon this week. Do you have to prepare the smooth concrete lintels above the openings when using hardwall? Will a brush of pva be ok or some mesh maybe? Were gonna dab the reveals out bout 10mm? is this right? Got some 10mm pvc...

Pumped cpi through the xl yesterday with a d42 on its last legs and worked fine until it eventually lost pressure and went all wet. No matter how much we tightened the bolts on the clamp it just wouldn't hold any more pressure. So today armed with a brand new d63 twister(no d42's in stock...

I used to fiddle too much with the spat and try and make my mono walls a work of art and in so doing was only bringing the laitance to the surface making scratch back harder. Now my new number one does exactly the same thing.....guess it's only natural to fuss too much. One day I saw another...

check out these two maestros http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0C9apf2zOg&feature=related

been using ecorend of late and switched to an afternoon spray.... was literally running out of daylight to finish it. the stuff hangs like crazy which is good once you suss it out. anybody else switched yet?

am pricing a job at the mo where the guy has already bought a big pile of stainless eml on the advice of his "architect" and wants a modern cream finish on top. ive been advised to use jub jlm 20 basecoat with fibreglass mesh bedded in it then prime and acrylic top. Any other suggestions? I...

just thought it was interesting that the xl needs no water in the chamber before you turn it on and put the material in. Although initially it caught us out, the more i think about it the more it's clear how much thought has gone into the design to make things simpler.....hapus iawn :)

Just a heads up to Sprayit(Ian) of PFT Wales(Swansea) for taking the time to work through the setup of my new xl on a bank holiday sunday, even though it was purchased elsewhere. It's early days for the dealership but for anyone considering investing in a new or secondhand plastering machine and...

Wanna have a fiddle with me new d42 clamp r&s today. Can somebody explain how to set it up with the pressure tester. Is it a bit hit and miss getting it to ten bar first of all or is there a number of turns of the middle nut after initial bite to get roughly around ten then the other two to...

we've done some cement bands around windows and doors. a couple of them had gone past it a bit when we were cutting them out and were quite brittle and have chipped on the edges. Does anybody have a good suggestion of a filler that will stick and also be able to be sanded to repair the edges...

you know what it's like fellas......even pulling the inside board back sometimes doesn't stop heavy rain splashing the shite on the scaffold back onto the windows and drying like a haze all over the glass. Is there anything out there that's shiiiit hot at cutting through it on glass and pvc sills?

went to a site the other day that had been half beaded in pink gripfill. Although they hadn't taken much care the beads were stuck like s.hit to a blanket and were nice and tight to the wall. So went and got a load of tubes thinking right then, this is it, have found the ultimate beading gear...

Anybody had any problems spraying ecorend. Having trouble with it. Machine seems to spray it fine for a bit then sort goes thick, thin and labours the machine. Quicker than a worn rotor and stator, up and down every 5-10 seconds. If we detach the hose and clean hopper out into tub, then...

Just a heads up really to any budding plasterers out there contemplating taking the machine road. No matter what ur budget or any prior skill, machine plastering is a black art. The amount of pitfalls are soul destroying. If your resolve is questionable or your pockets ain't deep then you could...

Changing over from a starwheel setup to gravity fed hopper hasn't exactly been smooth. Every conceivable thing that could have gone wrong has indeed gone wrong. Has anyone got any tips on hassle free operation?(will be visiting les no doubt bless him he is the guru but the sodding machine came...

sprayed krend today with the new xl and was ok til the last metre when the whole r&s seized up solid. no shifting it even in reverse. Les reckons that a d42 clamp is the only setup to use with this sheit as it can separate at any moment and give inexplicable problems. Anybody using it with d63/...

this is my plastering machine up for sale if anyones interested pm me http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170523785581&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT#ht_500wt_1182 ta

Hey guys les is sending the beast out by courier tomorrow. Arrived from germania last friday. After I put me winkle away and mop up will post a full set of pics of her

We're on a job at the mo where the customer wanted big and bold quoin stones running down both front corners of his house together with reeded columns surrounding the front door. So after watching that video on youtube a thousand times and after many many sleepless nights running it over in my...