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Does any other plasterer suffer with these , ive been plastering for more years than i care to remember ,to a high standard , but recently ive been getting these lines in my setting , like drag marks , cant trowel them out . when its painted you can still see them , faintly , its doing my nut in , t...

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so no one knows of a more textured finish that sandtex textured , that all i want to know

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[quote="JRS"]Try, when the filler is wet stippling it with a paint brush to give the effect of the render before painting.[/quote]

dont want to fill the whole house , i wanted to know if anyone knows of a textured product , more textured than sandtex

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its all rendered but over the years the render had been patched and has cracks , i have filled the cracks and as much of the render as possible now i want a slightly textured paint , not smooth , to hide the filler and different backgrounds , eg new render patches , old painted render and filler . I...

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Hi All started painting the outside of my house , using sandtex fine textured , problem is its not textured enough to hide all the blemishes , i have filled and filled but the marks and different finishes still show through , anyone know of a product that will leave a bit of a texture that will cove...

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Sorry to be brutal but i would sugest before you try and go out as a sole trader, plastering, you learn a boit more about the trade . Have you any experience in plastering . You would be better off labouring for a plasterer and learning the trade , it really isnt as easy as lt looks

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Good advise from the doc , i have been plastering for more years than i care to think about , and every 2 or three years i take on an improver , weather he is at college or just keen , 3 of them still work for me as plasterers one of them for nearly 10 years , the others have either not made the gra...

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This is what we do , weather it is the right way is another story but it works for us , 1st we find out where the joists run by making a few holes in the ceiling , then we screw with a washer all along the edge of the cornice , maybe a inch or so away then , carefully we get a pad saw and cut line t...

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Thanks Doc , you know one of them jobs where you can feel a problem coming on ! SBR it is then , problem is i cant say no :shock:

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Ginga

No, as said a false ceiling will not help only hide the problem and when the lath and plaster ceiling finally comes down it may bring the false ceiling down too , one method we do use though is to locate all your joists by making holes in the ceiling then , by using long screws you can tack plasterb...

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job done

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when we render big areas ,50m plus , we put two coats on the wall , first coat is a scrath coat with a waterproofer mixed in the gauging water this will allow time to work with the second coat , float coat , but as said timing only comes with experience

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Ginga

you can indeed tape and joint the boards but you will need to use boards with tapered edges to allow for the tape and jointing compound , plasterboards will need to be tacked very neatly and generally you will not get as good a finish as with plastering

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preperation is everything when rendering , damp wall beforehand , use the right mix for the background at the right consistancy , build up in coats , use a good admix with the gauging water

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We would always as a matter of course cut the plaster at least one inch from the floor , except when tanking , for a few reasons , any damp in the boards or water spilled on the floor will track back up the plaster , 2. it stops any snots building up so to allow better fitting of skirting boards , 3...

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