Absolutely Plastered - Rendering Demonstration of tolerance levels

[julyarchives]

In europe especially france, spain, benelux and switzerland skim coating exterior and interior is done by professional painters and decorators .Thats one reason why the skilled eastern europeans can come over to this country and do things that we still catorgorise as individual trades.Of course plasters will always do their thing but they must also look to be skilled multi tasked trades to compete or they will lose out.

[DinoDoesStuff]

I had four local (so called tradesmen) out to price up my rendering. None cameback with a price and all said that they had never rendered a semi-circular bay before (not reassuring) I got pissed off with it and bought a dvd from ukspreads ltd on ebay. I did the job myself and aquired a new skill. Rendering is the easiest job I have ever done on a house - very low tech and just a question of timing for the rub up and sponge. Saved myself between £1k to £2k. British builders suck big time!

[TPLR2]

@DinoDoesStuff We are not all like that mate. BTW Straight forward rendering and plastering is easy.

[DinoDoesStuff]

@TPLR2 I am sure that you are a good tradesman - what annoys me in the UK is that a bricky can try his hand at a bit of plastering or carpentry and suddenly he is a "BUILDER" and robbing expert tradesmen of their earnings. Regarding the rendering - I really enjoyed doing it - how do they get that very open grain look when rubbing up?

[TPLR2]

@DinoDoesStuff Good point mate. The thing is these days if all I did was lay bricks, I would starve to death.

[ron1martens]

Thats a feathering edge. I have one of those. Its a pity with the filming as the frame rate is slow better to hold the camera still. Its a different type of render what are the materials? The mortar looks a lot different to what we use in Western Australia. As we use sand that seemed different. It looks like a type of mud or river sand can you describe the material?

[ehaug]

render is what you do when you plaster a wall it is a process not a finish call it

 plaster ..........and use you darby as a darby it is not a straight edge

[ron1martens]

@ehaug Render is not a plaster. Plaster comes from gypsum. Where as render is normally for external but can be also for internal work. Render normally consists of a mortar depending what Country you are from as to the type of cement and sand. A feathering edge works well with screeding wet work in cold places where the mortar does not dry and sometimes additives are needed. You can also screed plaster with a feathering edge. Like the German product a plaster you float and set in the one coat.

[brettwill87]

its good to see a plasterer using a straight edge to rule off i use one all the time but most of the plasterers i know dont they just slam it on and rub it up and it looks terrible then when the sun shines across it