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  1. Dr.B

    Orange staining and plaster taking a long time to go off - limelite skim

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

    Roughcast quantities

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

    Roughcast quantities

    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...
  4. Dr.B

    Porous walls

    Lovely stone there.
  5. Dr.B

    Amsterdam Netherlands

    What is the pay like out there???
  6. Dr.B

    Prepping for tyrolean

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

    Prepping for tyrolean

    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.
  8. Dr.B

    Porous walls

    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!
  9. Dr.B

    Porous walls

    Sort the world out in your own head whilst pointing!
  10. Dr.B

    Rendering a plinth

    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.
  11. Dr.B

    Backing coat for dash

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

    Backing coat for dash

    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.
  13. Dr.B

    Plasterer needed

    I need someone with experience Ritch
  14. Dr.B

    Backing coat for dash

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

    Backing coat for dash

    It should be clean if you buy it bagged.
  16. Dr.B

    Backing coat for dash

    Replace 1 fine agg with channel sand or similar.
  17. Dr.B

    Plasterer needed

    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.
  18. Dr.B

    What to do

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

    What to do

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

    What to do

    Dim. Just a lime expert see. Ise peint?
  21. Dr.B

    9 inch wall

    Correct but further up this thread I’m wrong according to some?
  22. Dr.B

    What to do

    Steady on Carys bach
  23. Dr.B

    9 inch wall

    But bricks are apparently designed to be waterproof
  24. Dr.B

    What to do

    Best of lime warmcote then limecote to finish.
  25. Dr.B

    9 inch wall

    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?
  26. Dr.B

    9 inch wall

    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...
  27. Dr.B

    Time it takes

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

    Any lime plasterers here?

    Whatever you change for cement and gypsum charge more
  29. Dr.B

    9 inch wall

    Ok then.
  30. Dr.B

    Prepping for tyrolean

    Don’t devil it will show through.
  31. Dr.B

    9 inch wall

    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.
  32. Dr.B

    9 inch wall

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

    Amsterdam Netherlands

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

    Febond blue grit

    I like the bostick one too
  35. Dr.B

    Tyzac Handle

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

    Is it really that hard to some people

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

    Tyzac Handle

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

    Large order delivery

    Sorry I was replying to a txt
  39. Dr.B

    Large order delivery

    Kids these days!
  40. Dr.B

    Large order delivery

    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.
  41. Dr.B

    Large order delivery

    Do you not have trade accounts with local merchants?
  42. Dr.B

    Victorian property external cement render removal

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

    Beginners guide to Lime Plastering

    both methods are incorrect for limework in my opinion.
  44. Dr.B

    How was this render done?

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

    Beginners guide to Lime Plastering

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

    How was this render done?

    Who remembers Alpine?
  47. Dr.B

    Bullnose beads

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