Use a grinder (not the website)
And chamfer
Seems overkill but works,
If problematic (s**t pvc beads) temporarily hold with Duct tape and brace til gear pulls in.
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Done them many times
Some cement
Some lime
Not easy first up, knack to get them good.
Just done some 16" dia - 4 on a house.
Did a Manor house with 40" dia - 6 of them about 7 or 8 years ago
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100%
Ka tanking slurry is good
Just add water
Most would sbr and cement which is the same, but KA is fool proof - especially if you're s**t at batching
or may want to leave a brain dead lad on the job to slurry up for you.
Get all paint and coatings off first
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People are getting slow and lazy with the transfers aswell now
I feel like a window cleaner coming back to them for the dough days later, reminding them, FFS
Getting aggy
I think that's the difference between fibreglass and polypropylene fibres.
We used to get proper fibreglass that would separate equally/evenly through the water first, you stick polypropylene ones in there and it looks like frogspawn
Probably cheap Chinese shite flooding the place again?
That's them, although we changed to 6mm
Found 20's could sometimes pop up "out" on warm days rubbing up.
I carry 2mm , 6mm and 8mm fibres now.
Don't even see them.
Work well though, knit it tight.
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Ok
Back to basics first
Sand is the aggregate (won't stick to itself or anything else - without........)
Binders
Cement and lime are binders (bind s**t together and stick)
You have more in the 2nd than 1st coat, hence it's stronger (and heavier) which leads to.......
Your...
Not fantastic,
But they must have been f**k*d. Going by the freshly plastered images, they already did a fair bit of dubbing out to be drying like that. Also being governed by the coving line there's only so much they could do (without removing it) and killing the line.
Probably double the...
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