Movement bead Help

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Curry

Curry

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Can you form a movement bead out of 2 stop beads in a acrylic system? If so how?

My understanding is that a specialist movement bead is used with a pealable protector which allows for a 6mm base up to each edge. After a topcoat is applied directly over the top and once its semi set the protector is pealed back to leave a neat joint. That's the way we have always worked but I have a contractor insisting we use 2 stops:confused::confused:?????
 
Yeh ya can do it mate but you have to fill with a compressible elastic sealant and when you add the costs up its as cheap to use the ones made for job
 
How would we not cover the sealant in acrylic? I can't work out how you would neatly go up to each bead if there is only say a 3mm gap and the wall is straight.

I just looking for some back up to the fact that they are wrong and I am right and a proper bead is the logical way forward (even if they do have to wait for delivery on them)
 
If you're using back to back or even movement/expansion beads, and your concerned about fouling the line, then your rendering flush to the bead edge.

We always cut the render to the inside of the bead lip so that the texture will fill and work into the bead edge, rather than over it.
 
i would show the contractor what a movement bead looks like ,and point out to him that he is years behind the times.
 
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Rigsby said:
I would have thought you put the sealant in after the bucket coat?
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Yer but then you risk getting the sealant over the acrylic and I would also have to wait for it to be dry

The more i think about it the gayer it is. I will have to stand my ground.
 
good thing about stop beads and mastic,you can more or less get the mastic the same colour as your render or texture at no extra cost
 
if its standard colours like(white,cream,grey,brown)i just go to the local builders merchants,but theres sites on the internet that you could get other colours off,to be honest your better off going with what the builder wants,cos last year i did a job (white weathby texture)and put white expansion beads on and had to change them cos the blokes house it was just didn,t like the look of the plastic
 
essexandy said:
Steve like me is from down south and will have no idea of what "flriting" is you strange handboard wielding northern monkey. Is it something involving ferrets?
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its pigeon fancying marra..................you southern shandy larger top drinking hawkboarderererer.............:flapper:
 
For coloured sealants go to a decent tile merchants. Buy yer thin coat sponges whist your there!
 
Sorted now have ordered terracotta expansion beads. Think back to back can work on whites and creams but not dark colours.
 
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