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The render looked perfect, smooth, couldn’t see any bumps when it had been painted with the smooth Sandtex (apart from some lines where he’d had to patch some bits which made the scratchy noise). Maybe this paint was reflecting the light so we couldn’t see it? It was only once painted with the...

Thanks to those who have given me some good input and advice. It’s appreciated. To the rest of you, I thought this was a forum for people to get advice, not somewhere for people to take the piss to see who can get the biggest laugh. We’re not all specialists in plastering/rendering /building...

I can’t remember but I think the ones which look okay were left quite a while before painting. What I don’t understand is that they all look fine when painted with smooth Sandtex (Gravel colour). It wasn’t until we added sand and then changed to the Dulux textured in a slightly darker colour...

We painted with the smooth sandtex paint first and these bumps didn’t appear until we added the sand and also changed the colour slightly to the Dulux so I’m not sure what has caused it. Any suggestions? Hi

We had 4 planters built in our garden. The insides were painted with bitumen then rendered by the builder. He suggested we get textured Sandtex paint. We couldn’t find textured in the colour we wanted (Gravel) so we bought smooth. We noticed too many imperfections. The builder told us to put...