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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...

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...

/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...

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

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

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

...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...

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...

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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...

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

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...

Gents I would appreciate your input - As described in the title i've got a reasonable area to crack out ASAP this week and it's ridiculously deep. Old style (recently re-done in traditional method for the 17th century cottage i'm in) lime plaster was used wich explains some of the depth of...

Sometimes when you are tacking over uneven joists and the edge of the board is trying to pull itself up to a higher joist the board edge just cracks and splits as you try and get the screw flush to the board. you can overcome this by making a SHALLOW countersink hole using just the drill bit of...

Only for those gadgetmeisters that actually went ahead and bought one and have had given it a fair trial....

Most of my work comes from builders and word of mouth. I get a few bits from t'internet. In terms of advertising though, I'm interested to know any success stories - what have you paid out for that you'd pay out for again? For me, I get about 1 call a month from a website which has google...

I bought a tyrolean contraption about 5 years ago and it's finally getting an outing on satuday - I'm making good 10 windows/patio doors that I plain faced rendered today. I ain't buying no ready mix gear I'm going to knock up my own. I dug out a couple of old text books on what ratio to make...

Hello gang, I need a kick in the right direction concerning acrylic render process - I'm an experienced NVQ qual. spread familiar with all aspects of traditional solid, plus some fibrous plastering. Never done any acrylic rendering although it doesn't look too difficult (famous last words)...