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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.

It should be clean if you buy it bagged.

Replace 1 fine agg with channel sand or similar.

I’m looking for a plasterer to join me or an experienced labourer. Llandysul, West Wales area. If anyone on here in this sort of area let me know. Mostly domestic refurb and renovation jobs and occasional new build and sitework.

Yes it’s like going to the shop and their talking English round here. But we understand. Got king Edward to thank for that.

More lime specialist. Fi lan y gogledd eithaf aml. Never know.

Dim. Just a lime expert see. Ise peint?

Correct but further up this thread I’m wrong according to some?

Steady on Carys bach

But bricks are apparently designed to be waterproof

Best of lime warmcote then limecote to finish.

Because it doesn’t actually rise. How many old bridges, leets and canals have you seen with water being sucked up the masonry a metre high?

I had suspected rising damp in my stone house which was renovated in the early 90’s. It was plasterboarded over and the lower half of the walls were actually damp and the board was falling apart. I removed the board and the cement and to my amazement the stonework wall was bone dry. I have...

“Can you turn your radio down” is what I seem to get mostly.

Whatever you change for cement and gypsum charge more

Ok then.

Don’t devil it will show through.

Thats why clay bricks suck in moisture like anything? The only bricks that are designed specifically to be waterproof are class A and B engineering bricks.

Bricks are not waterproof by design. Unless they are Staffordshire blue engineering brick.

I’d love to be away working again. Holland sounds like a good place

I like the bostick one too

I tried s&j before without any joy. I was asking here just in case someone may know on the off chance?

then again there are good painters that make good a bad plasterers work.

Does anyone know where I can get a spare plastic handle for a s&j tyzac trowel? I need a replacement.

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Sorry I was replying to a txt

Kids these days!

it’s a good idea to have trade accounts with a few suppliers. You never get stuck then and you can bat one off against another. I use about seven dysuppliers national and local.

Do you not have trade accounts with local merchants?

I would advise removing the current s&c render and apply a lime based render instead. I am a bit far from Cheltenham tho.

both methods are incorrect for limework in my opinion.

Ive not put it on a house in a few years. White when it goes on and grey in a few months!

Old walls with modern materials. Take the modern off and back to the old

Who remembers Alpine?

do them freehand with a bullnose trowel. will look much better I think.

Nhl3.5.