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    Best straight edge/Darby for external rendering?

    rite on gonna get one ordered! 6ft it is! cheers
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    Best straight edge/Darby for external rendering?

    Hi there all, What do you find are the best sizes and straight edge for levelling sand cement render? I find can't really go wrong with a 1200mm darby with the handles. Was looking at getting maybe a 1.8 or 2.5 straight edge maybe something like this Aluminium Plasterers Builders Darby...
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    New Build - Dry Lining - Chester Area - 800m2

    6.50m2 was for the skimming not per board. this wasn't a site job was a one off the ceilings were double boarded as well so actually was more than 700m2 of boards. We decided to do the boarding on day rate as we don't have a labourer and was a lot of boards to load out setting up working...
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    New Build - Dry Lining - Chester Area - 800m2

    I have just boarded and skimmed a house out 700m2 done the boarding on day rate dot dab £150 and the skimming on price £6.50 the vaulted ceiling was 110m2 which needed counted batten and boarding had 3 of us in total on that. The total price for labour came to around £8000 for the skimming...
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    2014 Wallcrete Training Dates

    Well there is fair bit of people around here that want slate and granite stonework doing and you can be looking at around £150-£200 a tonne so can quick add up, I think your right though cities prob won't be as much call for it. Stonework aint my favourite thing so if this system is any good...
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    2014 Wallcrete Training Dates

    Well for me I'm a plasterer and builder lots of people like the idea of stonework, in their gardens or fireplaces etc... but the cost of decent stone, obviously it takes longer to build than a standard block wall, you always end up with stone left over, could be another option for people who...
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    2014 Wallcrete Training Dates

    Do you do any of these courses in the southwest would be interested? Dan
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    Plastering problem when trying to trowel up....

    cheers dean will give that a go next time!
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    Plastering problem when trying to trowel up....

    cheers for the comments think it could be a combination of the boards getting damp then drying out and a bad batch of multi!
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    Plastering problem when trying to trowel up....

    Cheers oli seems a good forum, Yeah we got through it just a lot harder than it needed to be never really had a problem with multi finish before maybe was just a bad batch like you said.
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    Plastering problem when trying to trowel up....

    Yeah seemed to tare like it was too dry an you was using a dirty trowel not had it happen before, don't know if you use a skim speed but even straight after we laid it up the skim speed seemed to tare into it. You had a few problems recently then mate, you think its down to the multi finish?
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    Plastering problem when trying to trowel up....

    Hi all, Just like to introduce myself I'm dan been plastering for 8 years but recently two of us was plastering on to plasterboard in a wooden cabin and the multi finish went all weird, and was very difficult to finish seemed to go dry quickly even through it was fresh skim brought the same...
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