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Alright lads and lasses. How do you all deal with rooms where their is no air or ventilation. Had a few bathrooms recently with no windows and the humidity inside the rooms makes for hard work to get a nice finish. Feels as if the water is just sitting on the plaster and it goes greasy.

Just had a promo from wickes "New British Gypsum Range and Even Lower Prices on Plaster..." 12.5kg Thistle finishing plaster = £7.29 British Gypsum Thistle Multi Finish Plaster 25kg = £5.95. What the eff? Surely its the same product.

Looked at a job to re-render an outside garden wall which lies beside some steps going up a garden. Behind the wall the garden is raised high so pretty sure soil/earth etc is behind it. The render was soaking wet, which i figure could be two reasons, a. being the soil behind and b. the render...

Working on an old house the other week, and something very strange and scary happened. We heard lots of banging throughout the time we were there (5 days altogether) but we just presumed it was the next door neighbors having some work done as there were work vans outside their house too. Anyway...

got a little but of plaster to mix up? Do you only need a small buckets worth? Grab your render scratcher and mix it with that! A lot quicker than using a bucket trowel and saves the mess made by mixing with a drill! Magic.... :RpS_thumbup:

Hearing more and more about k-rend these days, and decided to get a bit more knowledge from any of you lads who use it. 1st question. - How different is the application from traditional sand and cement? 2nd question. - Have any of you lads done the 1 day training? or is it a bit pointless...