Semi detached house in the next street has been being refurbed over the last month or 2.. about a month ago a team of lads started to k-rend it, looked like they wereydoing a good job (even though it was snowing at the time of applying )... a week or so later the scaffold is down and sparky fits high powered L.E.D lights in soffits....and it looked terrible...... week later they had angle grinded it and was re-applying it......this time they did a sepperate scratch coat and were ruling it to death....... went past last night and the scaffold is down and it still looks shite.......... oh dear..... now i dont do rendering but can still tell they dont use an i bar......lets see if they have a 3rd attempt....
Hasnt earned a penny on that job....
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Orangemachineman
Well-Known Member
This is the problem with the trade.
The customer probably employed a plasterer assuming they we're capable at using these products.
There gonna get caught out not knowing there game.
I feel for the customer
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The customer probably employed a plasterer assuming they we're capable at using these products.
There gonna get caught out not knowing there game.
I feel for the customer
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Agree 100%, and any plasterer that says they don't know what their doing or anything like that, don't have a clue what their talking about
Gibbo
Well-Known Member
I did some few years back and it had lights shining down it not a flaw anywhere
theclemo
Private Member
Mag
Active Member
Not fast enough . Renders dream the i bar
Mag
Active Member
She's dryer than a sand pit . Yeah Wack in accelerator and use the i bar to open it up then use the scratch float to finish ?
Fish59
New Member
Unfortunately there are far too many inexperienced gangs out there doing the industry and those of us that want to do a great job an injustice.
The customer has obviously selected them based on price alone and will be left with something scary!
I recently went to price some houses in Peterborough and was on an estate that had EWI done all over it less than 2 years ago and all of it was failing! They all looked like puffed out pincushions, you could see all the boards, pins and they looked like duvets with windows!
https://[URL=https://s8.photobucket.com/user/666Grizzly/media/3_zpsxgy0226w.jpg.html]
But, the scary thing was they never extended anything and even boarded around water taps & lights, so you had an alleged EWI system with cut outs and channels for pipes, taps and lights, it was gobsmacking to see!
No extension to the flue either!
The customer has obviously selected them based on price alone and will be left with something scary!
I recently went to price some houses in Peterborough and was on an estate that had EWI done all over it less than 2 years ago and all of it was failing! They all looked like puffed out pincushions, you could see all the boards, pins and they looked like duvets with windows!
https://[URL=https://s8.photobucket.com/user/666Grizzly/media/3_zpsxgy0226w.jpg.html]
But, the scary thing was they never extended anything and even boarded around water taps & lights, so you had an alleged EWI system with cut outs and channels for pipes, taps and lights, it was gobsmacking to see!
No extension to the flue either!
Clueless
Fish59
New Member
Every single house on the estate was the same with channels for the gas pipes creating meters of cold bridging..
and pins showing through the render!
The tenants might have got it free all through a housing association who obviously did it on the cheap, but they don't have to accept this
Fatarm
Trainee mod
Fish59
New Member
I've never done ewi
.but seen it done round my way.. but never seen it as bad as thatI've seen the cutting out round flues,pipes etc..defeats the purpose?
What causes the bulging boards? Pins showing thru?..
Educate me please.
These houses were insulated with phenolic boards, they would have been better served using EPS, especially as they obviously only mechanically fixed the buards and didnt wet fix them also, and seeing some holes and gaps in them already when I was measuring in the area there was only a couple of mm of render at best when they meshed into the base coat! They then missed out the other tightcoat layer and didn't prime either and then just top coated!
We always wet fix and mechanically fix, min 6mm base coat with mesh embedded, then a tight coat, then prime same colour as top coat with Acrylic or silicone primer paint and then top coat, they obviously did these houses so much on the cheap they missed out 2 applications!
Ditto that's how it should be done.
Two passes of base first with mesh second pissy mix tight with a spat ruled over it.
We see some shockers, we get half a dozen projects a year to rectify id say.
Still wet*
all right old bird just sharing information only a fool thinks he knows it all
Gibbo
Well-Known Member
So i am lying am i ceevee
Lol Here what ur saying Defo more comfortable internally
So thought I'd pick the brains of the forum
Been Plastering on sites and private jobs for my self 15 years obvs built contacts and subies but generally skimmers on the meter who don't float
and I'm sick of turning down rendering jobs
Time to jump in and Rule that s**t
Ps im keeping the I bar
CeeVee
Well-Known Member
Probably not. I've just never seen it flawless with a light shining down it.