No pva on external
Managed to bu@@er my trowel hand up (flipping a bag in the bin for gods sake!!) got to tackle a big K Rend job , I usually scratch on in sand / cement. Would you Pva on S/C say 4 to 1 to buy me a bit more time with the FT top coat till my hands back in form ? Cheers Guys
Just give it a good drink , pva on externals re-emulsifies unless encapsulated in cement , so can cause delamimation
Does waterproof pva react the same way warrior?
you swallowed a dictionary paul? big words today!!!!1
No mate just looks like I have and Mr Redman is right just use SBR (styrene butadiene rubber)
Cheers warrior, you are a fountain of knowledge:RpS_thumbup:Not if its the ethylene vinyl acetate, am assuming that's what you mean .?
Where you from boarder? Is that boarder as in plasterboarder or are you a surf dude?
Last rendering job I did I experimented with putting a little SBR in the scratch instead of waterproofer to control suction. It didn't kill it enough (i probably didn't put enough in) so I primed the scratch with a 5:1 SBR mix which worked real nice. The client couldn't get planning on a balcony so had to turn around some double doors, the fitters broke a small bit of finished render off the reveal while doing so.
I tried to seperated the scratch from the topcoat off this broken piece and no way could I do it. It was like it was welded together.
We did a back of a terrace on Friday with 5 washed sand 1 cement with 3 ltrs of SBR in the mix (scratch coat). Really nice stuff to use and set hard with 12mm glass fibre strands added. Come to render it on Monday with 5 1/2 washed sand to 1 cement and 2.5 ltrs of SBR and there was suction. Didn't expect to get any but did so had to wet it down.
Looking at your post are you saying you primed the scratch coat with 5 water to 1 SBR? Did you let it dry or go over it tacky?