Genuinely refreshing to see your 'no nonsense' approach to plastering/rendering, and being candid and honest with your approach and techniques. Also, very 'therapeutical' to watch, too! Beautiful stuff, thank you.

56 yr old scottish brickie here i havent done rendering since early 80s,your methods here take me back to the old brickie i served time with ,,no beads,,and yes back then when serving time as brickie rendering drydasy wetdash etc were part of aprenticeship

True craftsmanship. Very nice work.

Wow that wall looks amazing, that is brilliant how you got the corners and top to look so good. The homeowner must be delighted with your work. Attention to detail makes a tradesman's work stand out above others. xx

You make it look so easy to do. So casual, relaxed, tidy and efficient. Thoroughly enjoyable watching you at work Blaine 👍🏼 Very inspiring.

A joy to watch a true expert. I was gonna render small area 4’ x 2’ of daughters porch wall but now I won’t - so when can you turn up??!!!

With the SBR I personally put couple hand falls or sand and cement to make a wet paste for extra strong bond

Your videos are amazing, I've watched lots of your videos and yes obviously liked them too 👍. Thanks for the demonstration and information you provide. X

Been doing exactly this last week, pigging nightmare of a job. Hacked off the old pebbledash and it was about 50-70mm thick in places, all bricks/lime mortar loose and had pushed into a 2" cavity in places, failed rusted wall ties, needed taking down and re-built in large sections. Hey ho, its all experience eh 👀😥. Cracking job Blaine!

Great job mate-hardly ever used beads especially outside,only ever used inside and only when specified.

I`ve been a plasterer for 29 years, great work pal 👌

Crazy to be using anything that will seal a old wall up. sbr and cement will do this, lime render should be used

Has the weather face on those bricks been removed when the render was hacked off or have they become spalled behind the previous cement render? If the latter is true then it would indicate that the old render was trapping moisture behind it so that freeze/thaw action damaged the bricks and re-rendering with cement will repeat the process. I'm interested because I am currently removing a render from brickwork that was made from white portland cement and sharp sand - in other words "concrete" many times stronger than the bricks. There was a lot of spalled bricks and some unavoidable damage when the render was cut/chiselled off. Fortunately it is an outhouse that I'm repairing otherwise I'd probably have to take down the outer brick skin and rebuild. In order to hopefully preserve what exists I've decided to repoint with a 3.5 NHL mortar and use ;ime render with a limewash finish to allow water to move in and out of the wall. Is this overkill or not with a building that has already suffered by the use of inappropriate materials, do you think?

If you render to the bottom will dampness creep up the wall ?

I really like watching your videos and I be honest I learn plaster from you sorry still learning 😅but now I take it money from, you are the best man for me in this game

Wow that looks really awesome Blanie great job I definitely want to have a go to see how I get on

Excellent vid Blaine with an equally excellent rendering job. Excuse the density, but I guess the 'render mesh' is to minimise any cracking in the finished render? Thanks mate

Do same way... My signiture is spirit level left on each job😂🤣

Very impressive!!

Beautiful job! Pleasure to watch. :)

Them angles are spot on mate 👌🏻

Fair play its good to to see something done well

Artist 👏👌🤝

Beautiful Job!

amazing craftsmanship

Love watching ur vids with a bottle of suds I've been plastering for over 40 years now although am picking my jobs now but yep love your content and your a nice guy keep it up mate

Brilliant job pal

Spot on that video mate. Thank you.

Nice job lad

Great video. What's the mix you use for each stage please?

Master at work. ive been learning from you haha good man. 👍

Big smile at 6:20 when the cup of tea came out .

Oh my God Blaine the title alone seems perfect for what I’m after! I’m looking forward to watching this my friend.

Brew bought over as well...

That corner as you say is crisp.. possibly too crisp, lol, might get a call back from the HSE to smooth it a tad. Cracking work and thanks for the vids

looks like you bridged the damp course slightly

Well this has inspired me!

That looks like lime built brickwork which needs to breath. Cement based renders are not breathable!

Absolutely mint that bud 👍👍🔥🔥

Problem i find using mesh on s&c is, that the weber/krend mesh and what you get on amazon only have 4mm holes in it. You can get one online with 8 or 10mm Much better for sand and cement to proper squeeze it through. And, after a while of using it on my scratch coats, I realised you cant rely on it to keep your walls solid as because your doing 2 coats, only the scratch is meshed, the top coat has absolutely no protection and could still crack especially float finish as we know can be a ballache to keep sound

Amazing job. If i want to render the damaged brick wall, can I instead reinforce the wall with render mesh and then install slip bricks on the top?

Hey mate, new to your channel but love your content! Does this type of rendering have a name, I love how it’s only about 1 meter high!

it is good to see real tradesmen do still exist. you should be very proud of you r work. If you ever come to Australia let me know.

Thanks again blaine. Thoroughly enjoyed this.

Amazing job mate but I cant for the life of me figure out how you got that level to stay in position and plumb while ruling against it .

How is no one here commenting about the use of concrete render and subsequent damp issues it causes by trapping moisture in the bricks?

Very nice job . Look great 👍

Would a corner bead provide some reinforcement to parent chipping from, say, a wheelbarrow edge? Or, because the bead reduces the thickness of the render does the bead actually make chipping more likely?

Top job as always Blaine.

Given that it’s an old Victorian house shouldn’t the render be breathable in order to not trap any moisture?

How much time we wait before rendering over the SBR that you brushed

Great video, but one thing I don’t understand is what is the mesh actually used for?

When would you use and not use a mesh?

Love the videos mate, always look a lovely finish and a great walkthrough. Do you ever dabble in monocouche render?

You done the brilliant Job good see highly talented person skills

Nice work

Hi, firstly, love your helpful videos. Used them for tips in plastering and rendering so big thank you! Advice? I'm repaired patching my mum's house pebble dash.,, Iv removed all loose stuff, I was guna use ur 4-1 scratch and 5-1-1 lime mix for top. Inc waterproofer etc, and maybe put mesh on? However on your other videos you rave about the one coat render stuff. What's your thoughts now and any advice would be great. Thanks again bud👍👏

Anyone know why Blaine wouldnt use weberend aid here and then OCR? Just a newbie here trying to get my head around the various rendering systems

Sharppppp!

Not a victorian building but a great job though. 👍 Your videos are very informative. Thank you.

Tell the big lad PPE

Great work bud! Hope your all well!

Another good vid

What a finish.

Great job as always.

Can you use a base coat, or a top coat render to put the mesh on with as I have left over bag's?

I'd love to fix a new wall with render but has anyone tried to get a builder to come back after giving a quote

Shocking job above the air brick, was all the wall like that ?

Beautiful job as ever mate👌hope families all good

Its a shame you arent here in Aus you could do my place.

Friggin great man 👍

That was a very good video. Thank you

Another great video 👍

Why are you rendering below the damp course, isn’t that going to give you rising damp?

Rendered a very small outside wall, My own house, was fine just had a couple of small areas break out with frost over winters (3 years ago). Should i off added lime?

Thanks for the vid pal. I tried rendering a bare brick wall yesterday, was much harder than I thought it would be. Unfortunately, by the time I got to the scratching part, the render had dried and I was unable to scratch it. Is there anything I can do now to make the second coat stick? Should I not bother doing the second coat in render? Instead should I just use Bonding? Eventually I intend to plaster over the wall with British Gypsum. Look forward to your response.

wounderful

top job and top trades man

Looks awesome mate just like normal 👍👍

Am looking to do this on our house which has a crumbling plinth but would like to use a coloured k rend, would that need any different techniques? great channel by the way

Great job 200%

That's a really nice clean job, love how crisp the finish is. What sort of mix is that, no render I've made with plastering sand looks that buttery smooth...

Nice, very nice 👍

would you use the mesh on masonary paint or remove all paint before rendering?

Nice looking work mate , shouldn’t you always put cement in that sbr to activate it

Nice!!

What's the purpose of the SBR + water mix? Any different to using PVA + water?

Good idea with mesh over brick 👍 like the free hand work, I see U use use the Kiss system " Keep it Simple Stupid" ,😂🖖

Good vid!

Why ate you going right to left?

Great videos! How can I prevent the lines from the scratch showing through/sagging on the top coat?

What about the render that’s bridging the damp course 😭😭

Where can I buy the ear defenders?

I like your work do you need a worker I'm in West Sussex 👍

Hi I've been asked to do something like that but I've never done it befor but wouldn't mind trying it would you recommend me trying it?

Tried a pillar and a wall, got away with it on the pillar with the beads to rule against, but not a prefect finish on the wall, think I mixed too wet and runny as it was difficult to work with, need to get it back to that melting ice cream texture you have, did i add too much water and waterproofer?

👍👍Blaine it always makes my arms and shoulders ache seeing you spreading 😜😜😜😜😂😂😂

I've got to render a brick wall where the joints are washed out to about 1" . Do I need to repoint separately or can I just render? Thanks mate.

Does plastering a external block wall keep water out?

Are you from Canada 🇨🇦?