To plinth or not to plinth ?

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Afternoon gents,

Just rendered a small lean to extension and the customer wants me to add a 'plinth', about 15inches high all around the bottom - Never done one before but was guessing I just screw some timber battens to the wall and render up to it ??

Also, the temp down here in sunny Bournemouth is on the turn and forecast to get down to 1 degree overnight - Should I wait until things warm up a little, I'm worried about frost buggering up my work ??

All advice as always, greatfully received
 
plinth? you mean like a section of render starting at ground level, bridging the damp course and joining up to the existing render slightly proud?
I wish i had a tenner for every one of them ive hacked off cos it creates damp problems..
if your gonna do it mate you need to separate the render from the building..
my advice would be just dont do it...
but if he's adamant once youve explained the bridging issues then post back cos its not as simple as it seems..
 
Hiya Segs,

Customer is adamant chief as there is already one there that I will have brought flush to the new scratch & top coat - he wants it replicated

So as it stands, I have just rendered down to the old 'plinth' (or whatever its called) that is now pretty much flush and not proud anymore - what do you mean I need to seperate the render from the building ?
 
Nail a lath on lad and fill it out might need a scratch first depending on matching it with exsisting plinth, fire it on never worry bout the tempreture aslong as you trow in frostproofer in. i was rendering all day and same again tomorrow
 
sounds to me that whatever is there now has already bridged the damp.. to do that is just asking for trouble..
the thing should be chopped off and the bricks re pointed and coated with synthaproof..
still, if the guy still wants it doing just nail a lath horizontally with some 60mm masonary nails, not too tight cos u wanna pull it off just before you float it..
scutch up the existing for a key
give it one good coat, rule it flat, bugger off for a good while and when you float it, pull the lath off and flot the corner into a chamfer..
id make it thin if you can though or youll end up doing 2 coats..
 
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