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Elite exteriors
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The cracking is usually down to settlement the block behind the render cracking
Competent renders should stress piont weak areas like around windows and doors
Stains are usually down to leaking gutters or things dripping on it things like that
Also I'd be a bit weary of using krend in warm weather it seems to hairline crack
Competent renders should stress piont weak areas like around windows and doors
Stains are usually down to leaking gutters or things dripping on it things like that
Also I'd be a bit weary of using krend in warm weather it seems to hairline crack
Cockney
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It's all about the application and the ching ching ching!!
Elite exteriors
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Application won't stop settlement or staining though and with krend it doesn't matter how you apply it if it's hot it's going to crack if it's cold it's absolutely fine
Cockney
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Modern render is s***, fock me it's the best thing since sliced bread!!
like when you hear people saying don't like £50 notes i prefer £20s
give me strength ffs
John j
Mono Don
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That y sand cement and lime is time served. Will this modern render last 50 100 years time will tell,
Elite exteriors
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Time served and outdated most of it is cracked beyond repair or just falling off modern render systems are far superior
The modern render I use is essentially sand and cement/lime with the added benefit of polymer, quantities exactly gauged and reinforced with mesh,
no horse hair, cat s*** or labourer that can't count
Monkey Boy
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1, 2, 3, was that 3? Not sure I’ll stick half in just in case, 4, 5
we shall see m8 if your wrong il teach you old school way of plastering! Ha
Elite exteriors
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I've been doing it 27 years buddy I started on sand and cement the game has changed drastically in my opinion its much better now but that is just my opinion
sand and cement render has not reached 100 years yet, more like 70 years.
it is about 35 years ago that i was first trained on mono in Rotterdam, and it was in use years before that.
30 years ago Dryvit thin coat systems was being used in London and it had been in the states for years before that.
Cement was invented 1824
lime mortar render was the regular render system up to the 50s
MakeItSmooth
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I never really gave it much thought, but I casually assumed cement went back a couple of thousand years or so
The Romans used a type of cement ,crushed lime and clay heated up to form a type of concrete.
modern cement is lime crushed and heated to very high temperatures. one of the main causes of climate problems.
Saying all modern render systems are shite, is like saying all modern cars are shite because they once bought a Kia.
Mixing sand cement in a belle mixer and rendering a gable by hand,in July, still gives me nightmares.plus as you say, none of the labourer rolling a tab and missing a shovel of sand.
Modern renders....we were fixing dryvit Ewi systems in the late 90s, and scratch renders at the same time.
As building techniques change so should the materials over time. With epc ratings on domestic properties having to be better over the next few years, Ewi work will boom particularity on landlords as there houses will have to be a c or above. Equally with timber frame houses, 10 years ago we rendered none now id day we did 10 a year minimum, equally icf or durisol systems.
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I think the co2 exhausted when cooking lime is all reabsorbed in the cure , cement it's fixed so no return