Skill transfer between rendering and plastering?

jonwestuk · 19 Feb 2018

Hi all,

Been searching and reading many articles on rendering but I cant find the specific answers to my questions - and I am wondering if you can help.

Question: How different are the skills required to render a wall vs that of plastering a wall? I have a very small garden wall that I want to render. I have taught myself to plaster over the last 3yrs and have completed 14 rooms + hallways/stairways with near perfect results. Are those skills transferable do you think for an S&C render?

Thx

Jon

stevethespreader · 19 Feb 2018

It's quite different but saying that if you have developed some trowel skills and have a small wall to do its possible , look up some youtube vids and look on here for mixes ect , if its only a small wall the worst case scenario is you can knock it off and do it again

roy c · 20 Feb 2018

If your right handed ,start work from top left to right and opposite if left handed. If you haven't got a mixer I will tell you of a little "tip" that I invented in the 8o's (and still use it when working with no electrics) Get yourself a 6ft x6ft.(Or bigger!) sheet of viscreen (polythene) and get your bucket or what ever you are going to gauge it with! So you put your mix to one side of the poly (so you have room to move it about) then walk it around the poly corner to corner you will see when the cement has mixed with the sand. Then you can make a hole in the middle of your mix and put your water and additive in and keep going around adding you water till you see the mix that you want.. Don't tell anybody about this or I will have to Sue!!!

23vc · 20 Feb 2018

As someone who’s done a bit of rendering but nowhere near as much as I have plastering (skimming) if I could give one tip it’s spend time filling every hollow until it rules off totally flat. Even if that involves a lot of ruling and checking and picking bits off the floor that you dropped and using em to fill the hollows. It’s not like skimming where you’re working against the clock (well not in this weather anyway) and like skimming it may look great until it’s painted and the sunlight catches it

jonwestuk · 21 Feb 2018

roy c said:
If your right handed ,start work from top left to right and opposite if left handed. If you haven't got a mixer I will tell you of a little "tip" that I invented in the 8o's (and still use it when working with no electrics) Get yourself a 6ft x6ft.(Or bigger!) sheet of viscreen (polythene) and get your bucket or what ever you are going to gauge it with! So you put your mix to one side of the poly (so you have room to move it about) then walk it around the poly corner to corner you will see when the cement has mixed with the sand. Then you can make a hole in the middle of your mix and put your water and additive in and keep going around adding you water till you see the mix that you want.. Don't tell anybody about this or I will have to Sue!!!

Thanks for that. I have not even thought about mixing and have not yet researched it. I am guessing therefore that mixing up using an electric paddle is less desirable?

23vc · 21 Feb 2018

I’ve used my paddle mixer (needs to be a decent size one) for small render and brickwork mixes loads. Probably not the done thing but works for me and it’s easy

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