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Chris you are right, we have in the past power floated with 24 inch electric mosqito trowel there are some draw backs,with power float, ie; you can't sit power float on surface until much later in the day., where as by hand you may be able to have trowelled it 2 to 3 times already, you still...

Hi Nick0412 The mix ratio is 2.5 granno 6mm chippings to dust, 0.5 sharp sand, 1 cemment.Depending where you are in the U.k. we would purchase granno from Tarmac.We grout the day before,to get a little suction,we lay first 50mm semi dry,and levelled by shovel,approx;and then furthur top with...

done plenty of grano grout the floor the day before lay the first 50MM semi dry and the top 25mm wet. the excess water drains through into the semi dry mix and you can trowell sooner never trowell with cement powder as it can cake and lift we charge approx 12 per metre lab. material prices...

kirk... years ago i made a coving trowel for some grano skirting we were doing,and also make our scratchers using old splash brushes and bike wheel spokes.

all our spotboards are circular as when you load them up the corners stay empty plus easier to roll back to van

Hi all you plasterers out there,came accross this forum by chance and enjoy some of the subjects.I have been plastering for 36 years doing solid and fibrous.