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  1. M

    thin coat over existing render

    cheers ill have a look at that
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    thin coat over existing render

    hi ive got a mate wants his rendered house done over with a thin coat like STO now when i worked many moons ago in germany we prepared the existing render ( meshed any existing cracks etc ) then painted it with a primer called tief grund basically it was little similar to thistle bond it much...
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    Poor standard of funded work

    there was a gang coming down our way from stoke 160 mile round trip when m/2 wasnt quite ready they signed a daywork sheet for them for cleaning prep etc i asked my mate plumbing there what they got daywork cos he knew the agent well .....£80 and they were brits there were 3 must have cost ones...
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    Poor standard of funded work

    at last some one finally mentioned the cheap east european f@@@wits who are installing substandard all over the country but then only £6 hr so british gas dont care raking it in...... does anyone guarantee for 25 years they will all wriggle out...... i was back in germany last year had a look...
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    Nice

    people get what they pay for russian ***** down ur way polish ***** up mine basically same s**t different day just charge more to put it right or dont bother and laugh like fcuk in the client s face for havin em ( where r the smileys when i need em )
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    cutting renderboards

    sounds like u got the hardie backer cutter i saw them £5.99 at tops tiles coz i went in looking for a diamond blade for cordless i normally use.... ill get one no point paying the extra ....the srtiker says it has a file a saw ! and u can use the end to hammer in screw heads !! bet that works...
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    cutting renderboards

    anyone used these striker carbide utility scores Carbide Utility Score - £24.99 : Striker Tools!, Striker Tools UK for cutting render carrier boards ?????? or the ones hardie backer boards are cut with same thing really or have i got to suffer the dust and shite of angle grinder again any info...
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    Job in sheffield

    foff back to polackville
  9. M

    A couple of Weeks in France

    me too another btime wasting t**t
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    What do they want????

    serves the c*** right
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    Costs for Lime Rendering

    yeah right on sounds like a 4 day courser asking the prices
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    Living room re-plaster needed before xmas!

    got to agree here it was a good fair price probably wants it done for **** all....id say the 380 quote was just for overskimming and not painting should have told her to get a pole plenty of em in north london for £50/day at least u only wasted phone call didnt drive all the way there wasting...
  13. M

    foam

    its pretty good stuff u know u still got to screw the frames in place although some t**t builders dont
  14. M

    Setting angle bead depth on window reveals

    as above square em off the frame and measure the margins cant go wrong....well maybe ahmed can lol
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    Rendering on Stonework

    lime render will stick like s**t to a blanket we use it internally on stone but u got to keep damping it down and u will get shrinkage cracks that thick it can be problamatic ...have used the poly ball material or some thing similar in the fatherland but u will still need to key bradstone might...
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    Cavity/Non cavity walls

    yeah should have a cavity closer so theres no bridge between the 2 skins i been on a few jobs where damp has bridged coz no cavity closer people have dabbed over the gap probably down to builder running out of closer and cant be bothered to buy anymore takes a while to penetrate if external...
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    The only way to describe it is .... WOW!!!

    definately chancers dont look like they removed the rad so hows the damp behind that ok if its permanently on dont look like the skirting came off and its f@@kin rough job was it injected or tanked my experience with damproofing companies is they just have some kinda allrounder guy who does a...
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    foam

    skim over it no problems just put a few pieces of 100mm scrim over it if u got any i usually foam up gaps left by shitty builders boarding if they are that bad
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    Rendering on Stonework

    an old firm i used to work for if the rendering was over 15 -20 mm they used to make the client have metal lathing screwed all over the wall or they just simply wouldnt guarentee it its a lot of weight on stonework u could get comebacks unless u just tell the guy no guarantees bradstone shite...
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    Is it Too Cold To Replaster?

    yeah thats what i thought my mate spoke to the bod who was in charge his gang hes the one who weber write s the guarentee for his words oh itll be ok put a bit of sheeting over it ....wasnt there for the next 5 days well this week me thinks weber would be querying that guarentee if any thing...
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    Spongers

    yeah thats true with knauf one coat always go over with the sponge bob it brings the fat up then u just trowel it up as the norm its a bit like the old style graining with a float on syraphite i think thats correct aint used it since we did moses house thats how old it is wouldnt use it on multi...
  22. M

    Makita Autofeed Screw Gun 240 or 110?

    senco sorry illtitirate didnt have time for school was too busy with the tin bath and bycycle wheel
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    Makita Autofeed Screw Gun 240 or 110?

    cant beat the simco guns ive had one near 4 years batteries can be bought no probs albeit they change the design now and again u will have to get the 18 v if u want to fire in the 55mm and dont clean with plus gas or wd 40 they just need s**t blowing out with air hose if u live near a garage
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    Might be of interest to some !

    yeah another one is smart ass client oh u dont need a scaffold for that bit ill hold the ladder u put the hawk in ur mouth and do that bit at back of the chimney ....i always say yeah ok u sign this if i fall break anything u pay a grand a week untill everything hunky dory that normally gets...
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    Makita Autofeed Screw Gun 240 or 110?

    good price though for that u cant go wrong
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    Makita Autofeed Screw Gun 240 or 110?

    get a battery gun u wont be tripping over the leads 2 chippys where im working been doing the boarding for the builder and he bought them a 110 just like the other guy said got to lug transformer around and both said to me keep f**kin tripping on the lead unless u tuck it behind ear chippys can...
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    Is it Too Cold To Replaster?

    yeah better not to force dry especially anything with lime or lime based .....or then u will be looking on the hairline crack thread for solutions... saw some guys on a site near me putting weber on freezing to the wall already could see the sparkling of the ice hehehe at least they will have...
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    Might be of interest to some !

    unfortunatly doctors think we are as well off as them with big f**k off pensions and can sit on our arse recuperating they have never worked on piecework can just imagine the firing the patients through the clinic doors on £10 a patient turnaround ....might have a try of the copper bracelet my...
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    repair to concrete ceiling

    yeah aint got a wickes near me ill check that one out ...used a primer from the trad lime company about a month ago like a white sealer with the sand texture in client supplied it looked like a watered down version of bond it £109 for 10 litre tub F**k good job i wasnt supplying eco friendly...
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    Might be of interest to some !

    sounds good if it worked i used to get it a lot using sand +cement rendering and screeding or anything heavy to spread for that matter keep away from the injections if u can coz u can only have so many 3 or 4 i think... it does eventually ease off another good thing helps is throw the tools...
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    Slow setting bonding

    bit irregular but there are 2 gypsum works if u work right up north u get the grey bonding around the midlands the pink stuff f**ck knows which is which of the works as for setting quick the batch probably left out in damp under polythene depends on the merchants storage might even be out of...
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    Beads

    just use the 100 mm scrim wraps right around the corner
  33. M

    repair to concrete ceiling

    beton kontact u must have worked in the fatherland haha spent near 10 years there myself good stuff it is pity cant get uni H here coz thats sticks like s**t to a blanket ......thistle bond it same thing anyways
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    Slow setting bonding

    piss in the water bucket like they did in the old days makes it smell like sugar puffs hehe lol
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    Plaster shelling off....

    use thistle bond it gybond what the f@@k its called now u wont get a problem .....old lath and plaster lime shite if it aint sealed well it will lift not much u can do with the cracks unless like m33 says screw into laths and scrim over board all ways better unless u want to breathe s**t...
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    Rooms skimmed for £80

    but they would nt be looking for work if it was nt for t****r firms like cisk big site in bristol my mates on got rid of the brisoil fixers and boarders and got load of rumanian for £6-80 an hour doing 12 hours and living 10 to a room in rented houses time us lads started getting tough with...
  37. M

    What's the crack?

    here here agree totally
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    Dodgy Boarding

    p,s looks like my old pet rat where did u dig him up from
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    Dodgy Boarding

    i know where ur coming from mate probably got some pole or other idiots to do it on the cheap coz anybody can do boarding right yeah ....hehehe id have left an old trowel and said do the f@@kin skimming too pal
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    1 Reason to not sign write your van

    another reason is u get silly c@@nts ringing up about a crack in their ceiling and can u come straight away ......or some dumb ass road rager ringing up like pshycho coz he cant overtake a loaded van on the way to his office ( should have got up 20 mins earlier prick) thats just my 10 pennies worth
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    overboarding artex

    overboarding is always better job overskimming artex ok if its the hard stuff nut if its the coldwater crap or got asbestos in it forget it overboard 12.5 mm better but depends how far the joist span is old houses anyones guess
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    Rooms skimmed for £80

    2 days to skim a cupboard must be a pole ( bean f@@kin pole)
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    hair line cracks

    roll the walls with thistle bond it u never get comebacks pva crap doesnt flex nearly always get hairlines the old walls probably lime mortar in old house
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