thanks for your advice I have just managed to render my garden seating walls looks great. blooming hard work though!

thanks mate very helpful

keep em coming Blane!!

What a excellent video. Appreciate your honesty.

really appreciate your integrity for posting this 👋👋👋

Another brilliant video mate. Love your honesty as always. It goes wrong for all of us at some time or another. I've had render go off too quick on me, my fault, thought i could get the walls done on a blistering hot day 🤦🏻‍♂️ lesson learnt lol. Keep up the top content buddy

Great advice FairPlay 👍

Learning a lot from your videos mate funny too😂 🙏🏾

You are very nice man and seem humble and easy to work with. You so informative mate stay blessed

Top video, respect on showing warts and all, we're only human, we all fork up from time to time, Great Channel, don't get to see all your vids, out the door with work but when I get the chance I'll follow a couple of plastering channels, your up there in my top 5 for No 🐂 💩 approach

Do you know about permeable materials when rendering of solid wall construction. Lime v sand & cement . That would make a good video .

Grate vid Blaine

great videos. but none for the issue I have. You say 15mm for render and I completely agree, but I have a wall that has a face difference of 50mm in places. is this still possible I have got the render on but will it stay on.

At around 2.50 where your on about the steel drawing the moisture out of the mix would a rigid plazi trowel be any good for putting it on?

Can you apply sbr to the scratch coat surface prior to applying the top coat to get a better bond than using water???

Good. When you say you paint stuff to the brick or block first to help with bonding, is that technically the same as primer or painting with pva latex bonding liquid?

Hi have you ever had second scratch crack what is best to sort this ?

Hi, do you use sharp sand?

It's always a learning curve, same sht happens. I kinda think that at some point you should move away from the sand cement mix youve been using and considering that you are recommending a ruled scratch coat, I think by adding 50% sharp sand with the washed at 5:1, you'll find it better, plus it holds up better too. Also a floated scratch, leaving a 5-7mm finish with plastering sand gives a better job. I believe us spreads are getting a bad deal as in years gone by a 3 coat render gives excellent results, and I guess you've been thought a feathered off approach as a sloppy 2 coat idea, which is all about saving money, unfortunately. Also I am suggesting altering the mix, as in time and experience you'll probably be introduced to hydrolic lime, so you will have to float and finish with sharp sand/plastering sand, and with no sponge. Also as you are quite good at your job, why don't you prove it to yourself for reasons of wisdom, try adding to the scratch a tanking additive called render guard gold, made by safegurd. Put it this in to beat the heat, if I were to move to Africa for a rendering job, I would take this product. 🤣 A whole new learning curve buddy... 👍 You're cool...

I always use waterproofer in the scratch never had any problems with top coat.

I will key the wall and use PVA before the render

What is the best method of fixing beading ?

Hello mate I scud everything I render. 3 to 1 ratio sand cement with a Costa cup of sbr 👌 give it a go

Good video, any advice on rendering onto thermolite, doing my garage in a few months, front and back will be K rend side will be sand cement, I've heard they are like sponges and dose the mix need to be weaker? Cheers

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Please can you / other professionals advise?: Recently had exterior sand & cement rendering completed and six weeks later noticing (whenever the render gets wet), hairline cracks appear all over in a ‘crazy paving’ pattern. (NOT visible when the walls are dry). I’m concerned that rain might get into / behind these cracks (and will then get worse over time). The plasterer who did the job initially said he’d come back to inspect it, but has now become silent and seemingly disappeared of the face of the earth! Does this sound like a serious problem and Is there something I can do / apply (as a D-I-Y-er) that will salvage/ fix this problem, such as fine surface fillers, caulks, textured coating, etc? Thanks in advance!

Why didn't you wet the render with a hose after it dried on you? Here in Western Australia we do this all the time, a hot dry climate.

hello, what kind of straight edge of 4 or 5 feet that I would need .thank you .

The heat don’t just affect render did some ceilings last year it was 34 degrees in the rooms and had some major shrinkage cracks and peeling it was just too hot to skim in there and that was with 3 coats of pva one of which was applied just before the start of the first coat excessive heat and spreading e not good bed fellows I reckon

any tips for rendering onto 3.6n celcon blocks?

1 I’d never youse plastic beads on sand and cement.2 always use a double washed sand ie morestead or wareham washed opc cement & lime . Never use sands with clay in it what does clay do when it drys out it cracks 40 years in this trade I’ve never had a render crack .

you DO NOT need to soak the wall don't do it a small amount is all you need if any

Scud coat all day long

Mate your not am amateur. The guy calling the names probably hasn’t done a lot of jobs. We all make mistakes that’s the way it goes in rendering.