Spraying thistle dri coat
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Vincey
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Was thinking this on Monday I had a call from a dude who want dri coat or sand and cement in a gutted property in new year tbh I like using dricoat, if it ran through machine would be ideal, I can't see why it wouldn't be ok
Vincey
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Probably a good shout mate tbh I not been to see the job yet only ever ran hardwall through ritmo on a job and the guy is stripped out the house and doing injection , never used the cpi gp I'll have a look, you had in running through machine okay?
Orangemachineman
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I've run tons of it through vince
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Vincey
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The dricoat or the cpi g.p ?
I've put lime lite by hand over a slurry coat, good and thick with no problems. I'm not a machine man but can't see why it wouldn't go on well out of one.
jamesthefirst
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How many bags? By hand is no problem.
jamesthefirst
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Reminds me why I don't like microwave cooking! Frustrating that it states pierce lid in several places, so I go to the bathroom, bedroom and lounge! Then I have to stand for one minute when it's finished!
Plasterers1StopShop
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Plasterers1StopShop
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Unsure on this but if its the same as limelite, then it goes through machines fairly easily.
3 bathrooms (big ones) doing the rest the rooms in hardwall so machine is there. be a bonus if i can spray em
Funny thing the plasterer i replaced on the job waz using a conveying only pump and the hardwall was going off too quick for him so he packed up and left.But machines that only convey are pointless....sorry not sorry
Not never used limelite . but cant find any evidence on internet of thistle dri coat being sprayed .
I'll take one for the team and report my findings
Arti
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not much fun skimming over 3 week old hardwall. ooosshhh
It had 2 rollered coats of gyprime on it left 24 hrs between each coat. And all the concrete blocks have been gypprimed.
if you splashed it with water you would think you were going to be ok. the water was just running down the wall.
I layed the first coat on and after the first 3 hawkfuls i could see it was getting the juice sucked out of it. and i was in for a grewlla.
By the time i first coated the whole wall the skim was shrinking and cracking and blowing back off the wall.
I second coated it and that was fun.
Next i sprayed it with water and sponge and trowelled it flat. it came out ok so i left it a bit and then gave it 2 more coats of skim rather than fukkk about trying to salvage everything. They trowelled up better but it was non stop work with a variety of fascial expressions, expletives and what ifs.
Theres a few bits left but im gonna try sbr on them. gyprime is useless on 3 week hardwall
does it have to be knauf ?
To be honest its just a few returns is all thats left. i will sbr it overnight. its just the walls the other guy left. Kin hard work on your own tho.
been spraying hardwall this week and i think they have changed something. its how i remember it when i first started. spraying at 8 and set hard by 11. (normally been taking much longer)
been doing about 30 odd m2 a day finished. the hardwall is easy but skimming it at 2.6mt ceilings can make it a bit slower and more effort and adding more time to the set. Prob be much easier with a bit of help and could stick a bit more on.
Vincey
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Funny you should ask I promised my mate I'd try this knauf stuff in the new year
I more interested to see the thistle dry going through machine though and tbh in shock that neither of top 2 machine companies or Bg haven't done already.