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Done 3 walls and two are blown but the other one is sound begging to think that the sand I got from the merchants had frost as it was cold that day.

No just smooth render left scratch couple of days then topped it carnt of drawn in to much as top coat took a good while to set.

Made sure the wall was given a bonding agent as they are high suction put 4-1 scratch coat on then top the same. bin on 2 week customer phones me saying it cracking and bits are hollow. ??

Internal in a garage

Got a job where the render is cracking can not understand why??

Can you render thermalite blocks??

all the base was meshed defo no go the next day think it wants putting on first thing in the moring and scratched back early evening. rubbing up with a poly foat before do you think this is doing it no good letting the air in maybe and sending it quicker ,i just rub it up with a poly float so...

i layed a job on and went back next day at 6am and was still to far gone. stil carnt understand how am getting these little cracks

wot u mean by that like?

done a job with a builder in this stuff a bit ago layed it on rubbed it up with a poly float and scraped it back next day no worries. nice finish done a other job and got air pokets on it rubed it up looked fine but came to scrape back next day it had gone to far and got 1 or 2 little cracks wot...

chancers mate just done a weeks course just need some advice

yeah some one told me to coat the base with plasprime first

painted brick

just had a job go of kind of quick

yeah av used it before mate

when putting on k top coat do you have to give the base a drink:huh::huh:?

k rend tell me that hp12 is the base for painted brick i thought hpx was the best base they done so why not tell me to use this?

thers people up our way on the same construction and only meshing the stress points? :huh:

yeah it always seems to be diffrent

am gona just nothing was said about priming before base

any one now any diffrent

k rend just stated hp12 fully meshed

when applaying this base to painted brick construction anyone no if k rend spec using sbr before applaying ? cheers

yeah i budget is tite base and mesh would be the one. is there a base you can put on paint that does not need meshed?

hp12 is to expensive

render mesh as in what you would use if it was k rend

do you think a sbr slurry mix will be beta than a grano dust splatter coat

was thinking of using sbr in a splatter coat and adding it in the mix as this would be a good key for render

never used thistle bond for external purposes

not enough money in the job to e.m.l

a customer is wanting the back of a property renderd as it gets all the weather and is sick of pointing it as the rain washes the motar out the joints and is needing painted every other year so wants it renderd was thinking of putting a splattrer coat on to paint before rendering any ideas cheers

any body renderd over paint before?

cheers for that

just got some patching to do and have it to marra in with the execting but there is no bead at dpc level is it just a case of holding a straight edge as i hav always used beads

the two adjointing walls

doing the dash coat?

can you dash an external corner with out a bead the same day?

well i normally put some s.b.r in the mix just wunderd if any 1 else done it diffrent

Got a Wet dashing job to start on a extention and there is some timber to eml i have scratch coated over eml before has any body normally just gone straight on to the eml with the scratch coat just normal 4-1 any info cheers:RpS_thumbup:

its blocks on a extention just to marra in with the existing the blocks are approx 800mmx400mm

wots the best way for marking out any ideas cheers

yeah suppost to be do u no if wilsons use subbys ? do you come to this way then?

cheers mate

yeah i have outside work but the weather has gone tits up needing some inside work asap are u just doing private work or sub contract?

yeah its a private job do u just get the num of the k rend site mate for that?

caldbeck marra how u finding work at the min?

carlisle wer u at bubbles?

its a sandstone faced gable and has fairly deep hollows in the joints so am going to use s&c first to get it out if that makes sense mate. so when laying on the top coat lay the first pass on tight then rule the second pass is that wot your saying mate

is any one on this forum in the cumbria area?

the scraped finish mate fairly new to k rend