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Lad wanted for local work; small builders and private domestic contracts. No CSCS required. On the job training provided and help securing an NVQ college place if you want. No previous experience required but definitely the right attitude is. Initially no contractual obligations to you or me...

True ting Essexandy although there are a lot of coursers and wannabees that read this site and i have seen experienced trowel hands make a very average job of it and create a lumpy ridge above it. Not everyone that calls themselves a spread is as good as you blood. And Gibbo...I prefer to muck...

Here is my top tip for creating that perfect even sweep down onto a render bellcast bead; I will assume that you have already taken the trouble to fill out your bellcast bead to leave a standard thickness coating of 8to10mm by either doing so with the scratchcoat or using a strong mix of...

Forget creme of tartar; the smart money is on 20 sachets of Tartar Sauce per 25kg bag of finish. If you can't get Tartar Sauce then a suitable second best is 3 large dessert spoons of Helmet's Mayonnaise but don't forget to stir this in vigorously counterwise. For best results pre-key the...

....in response to responses..... I knocked up the first gauge of Donald myself to demonstrate to the reasonably intelligent labrador.... .....regardless of the suction of the original background I thought a scratchcoat regulates i.e. minimises suction once on and set. I can't understand how...

/unlurk I'm not one to grumble. Much. Feb Rendamix by Evabuild - waterproofer and retarder allegedly. My local builders merchants that most all my local builders supply from, swapped from Cementone products to Feb. It's my 4th or 5th rendering job with Feb I ain't using that mush...

Cheers Nisus...

LMAO. Have been drinking mind....

Dude did you get the PM i just sent you? I clicked send message but I dont see it my end.... re rendering in Ruislip... cheers spredz

I skimmed a conservatory for a builder and he'd stuck all the boards with this sh1t. A few of the boards in the corners had a bit of bounce in them and the thin window reveals were easily pulled off (he'd put one reveal on wrong and I re-did it with bonding) in short i thought it was...

I'm thinking a fillet / chamfer is the way to go so rain/ice don't collect....

thanks for your comments gents. thought it sounded wrong-up

http://www.transtools.co.uk/store/cat_567/plastering-tools/plastering-scarifiers.html Is this in the same category as the Trowhawk? Anyone played with one of these? cheers spredz

mixing OPC and gypsum products produces, if memory serves, sulpho-aluminates and calcio-magnesiates (spelling prob wrong) i.e. salts which can migrate. Particularly an issue where moisture becomes present at any stage in the future as the salts are hygroscopic (absorb moisture then become...

Oasis no disrespect mucka but this kind of scenario is such a basic skill and given that you're getting plenty of punters in I really think you should sign yourself up for a basic skills City & Guilds course - do nightschool or whatever it takes to go and get proper training in this area. As I...

Do you muck your beads on RS or do you clout them on, out of interest? The gang I was raised by always scratched the whole thing then mucked the beads on. cheers, spredz

I was quoted £8.25 a bag for canterbury just yesterday from my local merchant; west london.... ouch

I've done this probably only a couple of times with no problems but a mate of mine reckons it all blew off on him once has anyone else had this happen? cheers spredz

yes mate i can still rule off a wet screed it just so happened that by the time i'd been up and down the ladder and set them all out it was sandwich time. by the time i was back they'd firmed up a bit. cracking timing, in front all the way.... ;D

That sodding rated people site always has that sort of thing (although i have had a few nice earners out of it) as well as a buget of under £100 that the punter thinks it's worth. tossssers.

...victorian property, HSL - basically an uneven swazstika shape, about 60 sq meters in total. A few meters one end of the landing was to be married up to and the rest of the wall was all over the place - proper wonky brickwork and all the joints had been raked out. I was also worried that i...

Don't be daft mate stilts are just plain dangerous ;D just don't admit to having fell out of em.... ;)

I went back to a job that another team had done (properly) on closer inspection the old timber sash windows were letting in rainwater from above which was permeating through the wall. In this case the solution was to dig out the old external mortar from around the windows, fill with expanding...

I do a fair amount of damp proof rendering and i often have to come out 30mm plus. One firm i work for is hot on removing the socket boxes and getting waterproofer'd muck behind them as they can be a weak spot in damp proofing (another firm i work for doesn't bother with this). I found an...

Just do a search on google or whatever for fire proof cement there are a number of proprietory products available.... you can also search the forum this has been covered previously.....

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Thanks for the advice matey I'll bear that in mind in future. From your experience are you able to take a punt on what is likely to have caused this issue? cheers Spredz..

You can make a DIY joint rule out of an old saw using an angle grinder if you have to. Not as good as buying a nice shiny new one like but it's an option....

A busk is kidney shaped and slightly flexible mate....

I've read a few posts about this and somehow didn't really take much notice i kind of vaguely assumed someone was doing summut wrong but I had it couple of days ago i tried to lay in and it completely failed to bond to the 1st coat never had it before it was rotten, plus the 1st coat dried to a...

Been a little bit patchy right after christmas, jobs getting moved and postponed and cancelled but getting a nice few bits coming in now happy days. Got a 2 week contract starting monday, damp proof rendering, loads of additional skimming plus a couple of days fibrous supply and make good all...

Wrong all over mate but funny. Tell him to make sure your trowel is clean before he puts it away for you. :D

Plasterer's labourer required in a couple of weeks. PM me if you are interested. £50 a day bangers and mash.

Anza inch brush. (1.5 inch brush actually). there's gotta be a few short coursers on here thinking 'sandpaper' is my most useful tool.....

This is an old post but I can confirm that the property IS listed and owned by the National Trust and they signed a contract to have it DPC injected and re-rendered with modern sand and cement and additives (given that traditional methods had failed miserably). I presume from your question that...

yeah you aint wrong mucks I just liked the idea of having the best posts/threads being available at glance rather than diluted amongst the endless "my arm hurts" and "how do you do skimming/rendering" posts. I think the ratings system is more suitable where you've got hundreds of regular...

I think it might work there's some serious bacon-saving going on with a lot of the threads. I personally don't use paypal or credit cards any more so could not do any such on line transactions. Slightly off topic but related is the 'ratings' option in use on some discussion boards whereby each...

KSJS a room like this took me 4 days when i first started. 4 days! (first job i did by myself before working for a price work gang) I could sweat it out in 4 hours now with a labourer. But it's still all relative the blokes that taught me will always be that bit better and faster to me. Not...

yeah you're not wrong mucker somtimes i have got some but it gets on my t1ts having a bit of everything on the van..bonding, adhesive, finish. Normally i'll turn up with setting on the agenda i ain't got the time to use and leave adhesive to set. Well thats what i'm telling myself i probably...

Like the suggestion of the floor scraper round the edges mate i'll try that next time. I usually t**t the main area with my lath hammer and save the shovel for shaving off the tacks (if i've removed the laths). I'll try the shovel to hack off with an all. got lazy with the bonding and left it...

It was cracked here and there all over - they had a tight-coat of some white stuff (one coat it looked like) and reskim on top of that about 2 years ago over the top of the original (by someone else) and this had failed to bond properly and was ready to drop in a few places. The orginal...

I'm normally following behind other blokes that aint there and there aint no adhesive knocking about (board adhesive you mean right?)

Gents Did this job today and would be most amused with more of your golden nuggets of suggestions from your own experience - I usually carefully run the blade along the top nib of the cornice cuting into the ceiling and re-board right up to the cornice. Today I had the whizz bang idea of...

Can't go wrong with this method but I don't like the empty external angles it creates when putting the skim beads up - the angle ain't solid i.e. its concave not convex. Especially where I need to dab the beads on and there's no soliders to screw into. Someone knows a trick for this as well...

Thanks for your comments gents. the sika slurry just says sika slurry on it from memory but it is totally waterproof. I didn't get to talk with any of the contacts on site that I usually speak to, to ask about if it's listed yet. The render additive is a salt retardant pore liner that...

Don't know for sure. Guess it can't be can it if the national trust have agreed to have it done in sand and cement? Unless someone's dropped a brollock. I'll make discreet enquiries tomorrow....

You're dead right mucker and this is what we aim to achieve but in the scenario where you've been screwede over by a joist too high or twisted and you cannot physically screw into the board and get it flush and biting the paper properly and it's cracking and splitting, the next best option to...

Thanks for your posts gents. It's a national trust property, They had it replastered a couple of years ago and it's still very damp. I think some of it was done in lime plaster but in the 2nd room there's evidence of bonding and one-coat around so god only knows exaclty what the last firm did...

duuuh 70mm not 700mm as originally stated. I added half a bag of rapid to each mix today and it stiffened the muck quicker but did not set it much quicker at all. with no background suction this job is behaving like outside rendering but 7cm thick.

hmm....won't be going on one though, plus the other chap did this in standard sand and cement. with a kick in the right direction i reckon i could work out the finer points myself like....