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Could well be soot staining. Im not a fan of limelite myself. Cow manure in the basecoat stops the staining coming through.

if its cement render get it all off.

I’ve dubbed out and scratched it. Just need to dash .

One thing I never seem to get wrong is the quantities of material I need for roughcast. I’ve got a 145m2 job almost ready for dashing and I usually do a mix of 4:1 butter coat and 4:2:1:1 for the dash. It’s been about a year since I rouchcasted last and had loads of gear left to take back Is...

Lovely stone there.

What is the pay like out there???

If you put tyrolene on too thick it looks s**t! But if it’s a council house who cares.

if the floating coat is poor quality it will be hard work to get the tyrolene to look good. It does not cover sins as easy as you think, if you want to do that you need something like roughcast.

Whatever you do don’t put s&c back on it. I’ve been hacking off s&c from a cottage today and could fell the walls sighing with relief!

Sort the world out in your own head whilst pointing!

Just a suggestion, but more labour and material intensive. Build a plinth from brick tied in to the wall behind and then have a bevelled brick on the top course in to the brick below dpc.

You could get sand from Mid Wales that’s darker but a bit red.

Use it a lot down here for finer work on bands and quoins etc. I put one gauge in with white cement when doing reveals and plinths just to give a slightly darker shade to white roughcast jobs.

I need someone with experience Ritch

Or use limestone duff. That’s quite dark whilst still being like aggregate.