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    dot & dab / width of door linings

    Just checked The White Book and there in states both 9.5 and 12.5 as well as all manner of insulated boards are standard for dabbing...You do know the white book dont you J.B.?
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    External render querie

    If you tried enquireing at Quinn light blocks ( Irish equivalent of thermalite) based in Ulster somewher I think they should be able to help you with the technicals
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    External render querie

    There is a product on the market that you mix up with a scud coat for applying to thermalite type blocks...I used it once a few years ago when rendering internally to a new build and you needed to wear a mask as the fumes made you as high as a kite...sorry though I dont recall what it was...
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    dot & dab / width of door linings

    Are you completely f****ng stupid J.B....what is all this crap about delivery drivers and specs you clown. A Wimpey..Permisson..Barrett type house are build cheap and fast to bare minimum requirements and they are not going to spend more than they have to so if 9.5mm boards will surfice that is...
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    dot & dab / width of door linings

    well one thing is now crystal clear without any doubt whatsoever!!!!! J Bonding you have never plastered on site on a development. You can not possibly have or you will be fully aware that the quantities are worked out to the exact bag of finish .....dry wall compound...The exact number of...
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    Blown render!! Please Help!

    When you were labouring to me you owed me money so I couldnt shout. If you worked for me and I owed you money...I would shout. No not really I would just sh*t in your sndwiches :lol:
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    dot & dab / width of door linings

    Your most welcome :lol: Cant speak for the testosterone fuelled chimp though!
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    Blown render!! Please Help!

    Wibbly wobbly ....I glanced through your post but when I have a little more time want to read and digest what you are saying a little further. I would very much like to pick your brains about renovating in France, I spent a couple of years in France in a small place called Couilly Pont Aux dame...
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    Blown render!! Please Help!

    J bonding no I dont really think I would have learnt anymore than I know, One thing I have learnt over the years is that theoretical and practical are often poles apart. My Partner (work that is) served his college time and is/was one of the best plasterers to come out of Nottingham but he had...
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    dot & dab / width of door linings

    You have answered your own question Paul and laura. I have plastered hundreds of houses in England and on a standard wimpey type newbuild detached to use an example all materials were supplied ready and waiting....Never ever did I ...or be supplied with a half inch board. So unless specs have...
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    Blown render!! Please Help!

    Firstly I am not knocking people with qualifications only those who CLAIM to have them yet show over and over they know nothing, as if this makes them something they clearly are not. Maybe I would have benefitted from going to college, I will never know but having said that I have yet to meet a...
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    Blown render!! Please Help!

    Ha Ha Ha the only person confused here is yourself J B ....You are a man that could have an argument in an empty house. Qualifications....Not a sausage other than an O level in history. When (and well before) I left school my old man had a building firm and I went to work with him...I was...
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    dot & dab / width of door linings

    Its a no no to use 12.5......three eighthts ( 9.5mm) are standard for dot and dab. Of course you can use half inch (12.5mm) but not necessary.
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    Blown render!! Please Help!

    J Bonding is wired to the MOON
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    Blown render!! Please Help!

    Hey J.B ask me twenty five times and I will give you some answers....At least you will get them unlike the answers that were not forthcoming from you. It (claims) it does say something along those lines if I recall, when I call into the merchants next week I will get the name of it and see...
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    Blown render!! Please Help!

    J Bonding you are feckin unhinged boy By the way Freddie the point you made about the substance painted onto fresh render before actually painting it is a stabiliser and is sold in Heitons, Chadwicks, The N.C.F, and Arrow, ............of course it could be a figment of my imagination. :lol...
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    Message to Freddie

    Pussies the lot of ya!!! Twelve pages...Pahhhh. Blown render twenty plus...Who needs drugs???? :lol: J bonding what the hell do you know about cameras? :wink:
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    Cleaning a Aluminium feather edge

    So you live in a shed Porker? :D
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    External Rendering Assignment for college (Please Help)

    J Bonding, what would be quicker....plastering a ceiling if you were seven foot five inches and didnt need any thing at all. Or being five foot five and needing stilts. Clearly the former! therefor working off a sheeted platform is akin to being that 7ft plasterer its just as if you are working...
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    Blown render!! Please Help!

    O the Irony about not finding work here.....from a geezer who spends his days on this forum, because he ...errrrrrrr hasnt any work!!!! You have no idea as to why I live in Ireland J bonding, and as for working in England as I have said, and you are the living proof of, its all tuppence hapenny...
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