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Am on to it now Steve but the putor keeps crashin' will have another go later...alright roy cheers let us know when you have managed to upload the picsso your technique is rub up twice with the float and then leave it off a sponge finish?how about this one roy? click on the "click here" tab to watch a vid of it in use http://www.brickytool.com/catalog/product_info.php/cPath/28/products_id/983[/QUOTE]a rendering float ( not one I myself would buy) , but a float ,non the less...
Sorry Steve but I am afraid I am a bit "old school" when it comes to floating, I tend to use Stadium floats and when I get them I sand the corners off and sand the "pattern " off the float, if no sander then I will rub it on a concrete block till surface is nice to use. I tend to float up as soon as poss and sometimes give it a second float, If you look at that video the muck was too dry when he was floating it , and any way I will always sponge up after floating.... As you probably know you only need light pressure when floating and I tend to hold the float vertical with light pressure and always float with downward stokes. Interesting to see what the lads think...
It depends on the size of the job Steve, sometimes theres not always time to give it a second float but if I can I do...Also a lot of my jobs involve other things aswell, like the last one I have just finished was on a 4 storey house and we had to knock the chimney off and rebuild most of it, replace lintols on all the bays on each floor, take out a fire escape and fibre glass the gutter and over the bay window, and cut out cracks and mesh and bring them back in. So I get a lot of variation around my rendering and plastering.. I have tried to load pictures on my album of that last job but cant get the pics to load, I will have to get the missus to show us again Must be an age thing.....