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alright lads Can someone give me a brief guide to using thin coat render products and explain to me what k-rendering is? this site has made me realize how little i know about rendering. i thought it was just sand cement and lime job done im comfortable doing it the old fashion way but if these...

alright lads start a job on a bay window for a mate 2moro hack off and replace with sand cement render. question is am i likely to find lath below an upstairs window after i hack the old stuff off? and if so what should i do? its a 1950s' ish semi 9 inch solid might of dropped a bollock on...

alright lads! march 2010 off to Melbourne Australia on a working holiday visa. plan is to hit the ground running and get plastering as soon as possible can anybody tell me if my cscs card will be valid, or do i need to get one of their site cards also what tools should i take? is it worth...

alright chaps rendering this little annex i rent of my mum and dad. its a right pig of a job over a hundred years old so nothings level and no dpc. I have injected the mortar with this damp proof stuff. my first question is does this stuff actually work. and will it protect my render from...

saw a couple of labourers loading out boards when i was on site once. They were using these metal clamp things with rubber on are they worth investing in? can somebody tell me what theyre called and where i can get some from got a few pallets to load out next week cheers rh

Just finished a nightmare job ss render on a gable over a conservatory under quoted massively got a bloke in to help me 15 years in the trade thought i could learn a thing or 2 as ive only got 5 day 1 he smashed a window day 2 he set fire to the dust sheets by smoking on the scaffold and...

Can you name and shame on here? think ive just been ripped off been sub contracting on a site in derby wrote out my invoice and got the site manager to sign it to say that he'd seen the work and was happy with it did everything i could to cover my back just called their head office and no...

Hi everyone Got cable end to render the people im doing it for are a bit on the flash side and want to splash out on EML which is great because ive never actually used the stuff can anyone correct me if this is wrong 1. remove existing render 2. sbr 3 fix eml with the screws and washers 4...

few months ago my younger brother put me on to one of his mates dad for a re skim on 2 chimney breasts dead simple 1 in each room did it for a 100 quid mates rates i supplied materials finished the job fine. clean no mess perfect finish asked for my money and he said my wife is just on the way...

forgive me if these questions have already been answered ??? can anybody tell me the going rate m2 for taking blown tyrolean off? (with impact drills) ive got 2 lifts front back and side plus a gable end on a semi detached to hack off im also trying to twist his arm into having eml as the...

alright chaps my old mixer is about to give up the ghost was a cheap one from screw fix erbuer or whatever there called lasted 4 years plus some bloke borrowed it on a job once to mix up board adesive and got some on his hands then got some on the switch so the triggers a bit dodgy plus i...

Hi Everyone working on a job tomorrow need some advice old semi detached about 1950s possibly older, the woman who lives there has been renting and she found out the house had no earth when the sparky came to change some lights. so total re wire channels everywhere he also found an asbestos...

Hi everyone can somebody give a bit of advice on this rendering job the house in question has had ivy over one corner and has pulled off the tyrolean but the base coat is still sound as is the tyrolean which has not been effected by the ivy the ivy is now all off ive said ill have a go at...

Jst been researching Plastering in New Zealand. will be out there in Feb 2011. found a website with topics on housing i dont know if this is true but it says that the external rendering they use is a Monolithic Plaster and the houses in NZ are mostly bulit out of Kiln dry timber with low...

Hello everyone My names Rob. this is my first post on this site. ive been plastering for 5 years now and still loving it! and my triangle plasterers neck is coming along nicely. was wondering if anyone knew anything about life as a plasterer in N.Z./OZ and the materials and methods used and how...