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Right ... now a new drama: My nice, crisp newly rendered walls (straight off fresh blockwork) suddenly look (five days after completed) like they've been subject to a massacre. Loads of weeping red/black spots everywhere. Render mix was cement, lime & plasterer's sand (1:1:6). Now only...

Close up of spot ...

Alarming development in new render

Thanks very much Micilin ... Price for the LAC around the £20 mark, although I'm waiting on one supplier who is normally very competitive. I thought SBR made mortar rock hard! We used it between the coping stones at the top of the parapet around the house, but hadn't figured it would be...

Thanks Micilin It is very sound paint ... but mostly in a sort of smooth masonary finish. Am I ok to think that grinding it and then priming it will only improve things key wise? By gel I meant paint stripper ... but turning my back on that now ... no point I feel. But Weber.Lac is...

Thing progressing ... my guys have notched out (? not sure right terminology!) parts of the existing render so that no long straight joins between new & old. And a lot of the new areas have been rendered too, so that coming on well. Question regarding paint removal before the 5mm mesh layer...

Hi - question for Glock 339 if by any chance you are still following ... how is your worktop a year plus into using it? We are going for a semi-circle island in our kitchen, and quoted ludicrous money via traditional routes, so self build concrete top is a real option ... but both of us very...

Jeez. I hope they are stainless too Roy! But at £3.50/m I'm beginning to doubt that. Fresh worries. But good point - I will get them bedded back into the brickwork though. (They are there to fix timber in cavity which door frame is then screwed to ... but this door is under big canopy so...

Thanks - but any stepping back and all you'll see is scaffolding! But to paint a picture with words, the elevations are about 6m x 6m/8m/10m etc., and all contain 1m x 1.5m window apertures, with new bare blockwork surrounding them. A few elevations are 100% new .. so quite easy to cope...

Here are some pix ... pretty standard stuff I'm guessing. Must admit I'm confused by my Polish guy saying it's an 'adhesive' that he will use as the final layer (ie. in which the mesh is embedded). Then apparently it is ok to paint over this. The products he likes are from Bolix ...

Hi all In desperate need of a few tips on this subject ... paranoid that as we come to the end of our long and arduous project, I'll blow it all by cocking up on this very visible last bit of construction. We've built lots of new extensions and hacked out new areas for windows, and we're...