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    Render sealers

    what is everybody using to seal they're render? Any better than others? Cheers
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    Spraying Tyrolean bennu x15?

    hi lads I'm hoping to spray a light Tyrolean with mono, and obviously need it as tight & uniform as possible, the mono will be sprayed with a ump 1 3 phase machine, then hoping to use a hopper gun or bennu x15, has anywone got any experience in this?
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    K rend accelerator

    Had quite a late one spraying k1! But have got access to a couple of tubs of they're accelerator, how much are you guys putting in per say 100 lts of water? Cheers!
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    Krend timings now

    whos spraying it now guys? & what's the timings this time of year? Late spray, early scrape, or early spray, late scrape? Cheers guys✌️
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    Spraying hp12

    I thought I'd read somewhere that hp12 couldn't be sprayed, so gave Ian @ Pft Wales a bell, he gave me a couple of settings, etc etc & away! To be honest it was quite nice stuff! This pine end is the last bit to mesh
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    The best brand of render.

    Cmon guys, let's ave it! What in you're oppinions, with regards to price, quality & spec is THE best manufacturer of render? Cheers Rhys.
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    Microgobetis

    How long before coats on this stuff? & how long do you have to let it go before putting maite on? (I can't speak francais!) lol cheers guys.
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    Weber rendaid

    Hi guys, render technical state they're rend aid, goes about 7.5 m2 @ 2-3 mm thick. Has anyone got experience of it going over brick & black mortar joints? If so, in you're experience, how far will a bag go? (The walls hacked off aren't the worst, nor the best!) regards Rhys.
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    Expamet arch formers

    Hi guys, got an arch to form, & I've bought expamet arch formers wich have come straight, which you bend you're self to create the arch. They're eml, wich have a heavier gauge to normal skim beads! So do you form the arch first with bonding, & then put arch beads on to over skim? Any tips would...
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    Distemper

    Was skimming a ceiling today & noticed a patch started to bubble, trowel let the rest of the ceiling up, before leaving scraped the blown bit out (it had cracked a little), &pvad ready to skim tomorrow. I noticed the paint hadn't adhered to the ceiling & was dusty/chalky! Distemper? What's the...
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    Spray hose up scaffold

    I pumped vertically yesterday with the ritmo, & when the hose was full of gear it would kink with the sheer weight where it goes over the scaffold, restricting the flow a little. Have any of you guys fabricated something to make it curve round the scaffold pipe a bit better? I usually just...
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    OCR cracking help advice needed

    Hi guys, I sprayed a 30m panel over an existing s+c scratch, floated it up lovely, only to find it had cracked all over! The rep said I should have never gone over s+c! He also said if I'd rendaid the scratch, he wouldn't guarantee that either! Although I do know someone who has rendagriped an...
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    Mono over lightweight blocks

    I've been asked to price a new build, he wants mono on lightweight blocks! What's the correct way to do this guys? Rendagrip then spray? Or is there a mono which can go straight on? Any advise would be appreciated! Cheers, Rhys.
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    Liquid screed through Ritmo

    Went well fair play
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    Hardwall + set (sprayed)

    Nice little job!
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    Spraying OCR

    Spraying it for the first time today on a small extension! Will try & get a pic up later!
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    Water based self leveler through ritmo

    Has anyone done it? I've got a room which I'm going to do, hopefully with the machine as it's 25 m2, a bag 20 kilo bag states it needs 4.75 lts of water, is there any way of working the speed/flow of water out on the ritmo?
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    Spraying skim

    Sprayed my first room yesterday to have an outing with the ritmo, the water was set at 80lpm, which was way too wet, so decided to give it all a second pass after turning the water down a little & turning the speed from 7 to 8, the water must have been around 65 I guess wich I still think was a...
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    Ritmo spraying skim

    Tried to use the ritmo today for the first time today but failed! Lol, just fishing for tips really to see where I'm going wrong!? Water pressure bang on between 2.5 & 5 bar from the water pump, speed 7, & 90 lpm with the water, before connecting the hose up, testing for consistency, put a...
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    110v on a machine question

    The ritmo needs to be run by 2 5kva transformers, 1 to the machine, & 1 to the compressor & water pump. The connection on the transformers is a larger one which is 32amp, so why has the ritmo got the 16amp connections? Also, does 5kva run through both the 32amp, & the 16amp socket on the...
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    Cpi & ocr

    Hi guys, I've read a couple of the previous posts, & would like more info on these products, is there any difference in them other than brand & price? I believe OCR can go on in 1 coat, can CPI? Is one nicer to use than the other? Also, does one go further per bag? The more info the better...
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    5 kva transformer

    Anyone got one for sale guys?
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    Hardwall over brick

    I've got an extension coming up wich we're going to be spraying hardwall onto old and new work, (old being black mortar brick), question is, what's the preferred primer prior to spraying? Pva,sbr, or something else?
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    New board, old board.

    Now I know old boards suck, but what happened a couple of days ago took the biscuit. So I told him I'll have to bill him a bit more for pva everywhere and doing that wall again, he's cool though! (It's new build, but been going on a while!) this is the most extreme example I've seen! Anyone else...
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    Black spots/spores

    Hi guys, I've had this bungalow about 11 years, about 18 months ago we decided to completely renovate it prior to our second son coming, we did a lot of work including a re skim throughout. Now, this winter we've had an atack of these black spots! We've never really had them before, if any, very...
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    Tennis elbow

    It's really getting me down now, & the doctor said take a fortnight off, there's nothing you can do other than let it heal itself! Have you guys used a certain pain killer that works well with it? I've heard the copper bracelets are good? Cheers, Rhys.
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    Massive hits/gauges with speed skim thanks to tpf

    Hi guys, we got asked to help out another spread who's a good friend to do a job he couldn't take on, on his own. This place is the restaurant/bar of a caravan park, over the last 2days we've layed on 355m2 ov skimming, and we've got a lot to do today! There's 2plasterers, & 2 labourers who can...
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    Wickes 1 coat

    Any one use this much? I use it quite bit for filling in chances etc, and it's great, but used it yesterday on a couple of walls, seemed to tear a lot if I didn't drown it with water! It didn't have much on the bag buy way of instructions, what's the correct way to use this stuff guys? & is it...
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    Ritmo l

    There's a ritmo l in Plymouth on the bay if anyone's interested!?
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    Scrim tape

    How hasn't anybody invented scrim that you can scrim the day before without it falling off the ceiling? What's the best scrim you guys are using now? I'm using wickes wich I find pretty much as good as it gets for me, used to use silver scrim wich was a grey in colour wich looked real funky!
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    Speed skim

    Hi guys, I've been using the speed skim for quite a while now, & use it every time I skim, now I know that the speed skim guys state that once flattened, u can second coat straight away, wich I've always done really, but yesterday, I dug out the refina stainless spat on a pole(the red handled...
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    Powercoat

    Hi guys, just taken delivery of my first machine, ritmo powercoat for skimming, I haven't got a clue about it so would be gratefull of any tips, water, pressure, settings etc, etc. any tips from the guys that know it really! Cheers! Rhys.
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    putzmeister m25 machine

    anyone know much about this machine? is it able to spray multi and renders? im new to this machine thing so am green, im thinking of getting into it, but dont know a thing. i would want a machine to do plasters and renders in an ideal world! whats the score? much obliged.
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    parex

    hi all, a local builder has asked me to render a small garage conversion with parex, now ive only used s + c in the past, any guidelines with this stuff, he also wants it in 1 coat over block! will the lines from the beds show through etc?
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    dashing 10 mm chipping

    just a quick one, does any thing need to be diferent with regards to rendering with a larger chipping beqause of the size and weight of the chippings?
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