The health and safety and PPE of these builders is amazing. A cigarette comes before a hard hat or safety boots.
That's why I don't work on building sites anymore, can't be doing with nonsense that they come out with.
Wear a hard hat while plastering on scaffolding incase a bird poos on you 🤣🤣
Hi Kirk , just wanted to thank you mate for all your time and effort in providing us with such great videos showing us how to plaster and render , because of you Blaine gray and Alex Morley i attempted a ten foot by six foot dog rough wall in my garden , it came out brilliant because of the vast knowledge you guys share with us , and oh my god it is hard graft even on a small wall like mine , thank you so much pal
You are a fantastic teacher. Apprentices should be queueing up to work with you!
With your finish it looks more contemporary.You knocked off 20 years looks wise thats for sure.Excellent work
Definitely top gear! Can hang a bit in colder weather so is good to spray late afternoon and next day scratch! But when sun is shining it’s class! The bags are better too and don’t get clattered in van!nice work btw 👌
I'll probably never do this, but it's so interesting to watch and learn. Tidy and meticulous as always, great work
Great finish and super clean, job well done!
Good job as always Kirk glad you’re protecting from the heat and being smart as always
Wow just proves - with a positive attitude difficult situations can become opportunities! Awesome job guys!
Great info, Kirk. thanks very much. And a lovely job too, well done mate. 😊👍🏴
Legend sharing this knowledge showing you still find better material after all this time top lad
I started using ecorend a few year back it's alot more creamy and scratches up lovely compared to other brands, really nice work mate
Its great when you happen across an awesome product......good job brother
I have learned many new things by watching your videos the past few weeks, i do skim only but now after your tutorial on K-render i will do this as well soon👊💪
Very helpful advice, thank you
Excellent job guys, hats off to you!
Top job lads, I know wot I'm gonna try next !
this guys a top tradesman he just knows his craft inside out,
Hi Kirk, I'm a fellow spread like yourself 😉 don't think your too far from me either as I noticed your skip provider is local to me too. Watched loads of your videos and always impressed with your knowledge skills and professionalism....Infront of the camera anyway 🤣😂.
Your bang on with what you say about different characteristics with the different render manufactures. I also hand apply my render as a pose to spray, so pick my jobs to suit this. Only ever used k-rend/parex/VPI never used eco-rend before but after watching this vid, I'll give it a go. Keep up the good work 💪
Ecorend mr1 is one of best renders out there ,used them all this sprays well flattens great so easy to use
id love to get our house rendered ,id also love if you worked up here in glasgow because i love your professional attitude and skill,,these few people i can trust ,your a one off mate
Classic, good lad Kirk.
Really great work. Well done
just fantastic as always amazing stuff iv been the same keep the job super clean good for you good for the client everybody's happy.
Top job again, heard good things from eco rend will have to give it a go
Lovely job mate
Thanks Kirk. I’ve only just done a few jobs on these new renders but I’ve only ever used eco rend. I found it to be a great product but I have nothing to compare it to apart from sand aand cement 😂
im a roofer thought no not retiling it
then looked at the finished job and boy was it better
great finish if i was next door i would want mine the same
Another great job 👍
Looks nice good job
Great job...as expected!... 👍
Top tip.
Use a nice clean scratcher and you won't get much burr left on the scratch coat. Good work.
It’s lovely stuff bud👌
I've recently rendered 2 extensions I had built. Never rendered before but had to take the job on myself because the builder did a runner on us. I'd been following a renderer on insta for a while and he'd always used PRB. So I took a liking to it and had some specs done by a rep. But the cost was too high. I ended up asking if I could use sc grit as a base and top (which I could) and then sponge finished it. Really enjoyed doing it and was really impressed with it 💪
Quality stuff Kirk. If you knew you were using the Ecorend from the off, would you have used the same products for both the base coat and mesh?
Great video lad. Have you ever used dash receiver on a fibre cement board for dry dash?
Nice work mate, I'll remember eco rend!
Looks good.
I made a note of what you used I'll be rendering block wall in the future thank you for video sound guy
I watch you and Blaine from plastering for beginners and I've learned a lot from you pair sharing your knowledge/ talents and I thank you both for that. My question I have for you is this.. I'm base coating my house with HP12. Now I'm putting on a thin coat first and building it up to 12mm . My problem is ruling off. I'm finding the hp12 is being dragged off with my feather edge like it's sticking. I'm constantly washing down the feather edge to keep it as wet as possible as this is the only way I can stop the dragging. I'm ruling no more than 6 foot height at a time and the 4 foot width of the feather edge. Is this my doing our is hp12 the issue?? I'm a complete novice at this..
I used this a couple of years ago and it's a very good product. It does have an achilles heal!!
It's very hard to find a stockist that holds many of the colours, and so you have to get it delivered. If you're slightly short or have to re-do a bit for any reason, you cant just pop down the rd and get a couple of bags, the supplier will charge you a woping £60 delivery and they don't really like splitting a pallet either (50 bags). I had to drive to Essex to pick couple of bags up off of Facebook marketplace in the end and won't use this stuff again.
Top video and top work mate 🧱 👌
Hey Kirk , interested about the i bar , where do you get these from as I’ve not seen this technique, also what float did you use . Brilliant job looked so smart
Hi Love the Tutorials any chance of showing ones with Cracks in outside render I have use a grinder 4 inch to rake out and used a twisted helix bar and sometimes depression is shown in the plaster any recomdations to prevent the depressions in the plaster Thanks in advance
Great job mate, i just rendered my new porck with k-rend and it did exactly as you said, curled off when trowelling on, the HO12 basecoat was lively to work with though!
Whats the basecoat like from ecorend compared to K-rend?
Do you now go all out ecorend?
Keep up the videos Kirk, they are fantastic, i cant believe you can do it all and still get the job done as quickly as you do, born natural presenter! 😊
Mint job 👍
How would you handle small render/roughcast repairs kirk? Council house specials currently at my work and i wish i was more competent to do a better job than the ones that do it. Although i think 2 minutes effort would do that they dont even give the repair a brush, just topcoat applied straight to the webs and nests
Did one these yrs ago we put expanding metal & beads on the laths then rendered save taking laths & felt off
Top job! When are you doing next door?
Top job that la 👏
Is this their mococouche one coat stuff? I had to patch repair a back wall recently and I used a brand called tarmac their version of one coat stuff and it was awful to use, half of it falls off the wall! Would love to come spend a day or 2 with you and learn to plaster. Love your channel mate keep it up
Now that's qaulity work that'll stand on good time, I would ask, do many wear paper mass to prevent lung damage if at all?
Otherwise, awesome finish to high standards just wish more were as good as you, 😊
Ecorend is a lovely product to use, only one I use, never have any problems
Did you have to prime the thermalise blocks before using the base coat
How thick was that base coat kirk? And did you do two layers of it?? And does eco rend do there own basecoat? Have you switched over to that as well if they do one? Cheers 👍👍👍
Great video Kirk, i noticed like myself you went up the ladder with left leg, doddy knees i guess like me, i was terrible for no knee pads when i was younger and now paying for it, 😕
I've got a snapped ACL mate. Just waiting for the operation date at the moment
Eco rend is awesome. I did my house in it.
Good to see you boys are wearing the hi-vis, hard hats and PPE....
Yes we also get our wife's to trim their finger nails so they don't scratch our backs at night.
Oh and we have to wear weight lifting belts to carry all of our wages home
Do you not fancy getting a wee Ritmo machine? You seem to do a lot of rendering. Hope your doing well. Channel is doing great.
Hii how much you charge for that job ? 👍🏻 look so nice 👌 perfect
How much would 55 sq meters cost rough price to nearest £2k .. including scaffolding etc
Still puttin 86 scoops on your hand board!?
My shoulder is only just recovering from that ceiling haha..... class vid again bruv
Hi Kirk great vid
So what base coat are you using now prior to applying the top coat of eco rend 🤔
I missed Saira Deltas, Darth Vader Heavy Breathing, is he Off the 🚬, Cracking Job! Money in the bank ( back pocket ! Tax are for carpet) Hopefully you got a Sneaky few in 🍻 on the way home, have to rehydrate in this ♨️🥵☀️ 😉
If the render is hard enough I use a scratcher first then I bar it’s far easier ,but don’t use a cheap scratcher buy the laser cut one which you change the blade it will get the wall nearly as flat as a i bar.
Kirk, we have bought a project where the render has been painted with a plastic type paint that is peeling off and almost impossible to remove. So do I remove all the render and start again, or go over the surface with a render base board and re render? The bungalow is on a very exposed area of Cornwall and as such we have bee told to apply a render that can be maintained, rather than a coloured product. There are 2 new extensions to consider so I can step out the new blockwork to accommodate a board so the surface is then flat along its length to re render. So what base board would you recommend ?
I'd definitely take off the old and start fresh.
For a durable finish try wet dash
Great video. I wish you showed how thick you need to go before you scrape back as it's different from sand and cement or float and set
U can always take a sheet of plywood and stand a few sheets orver the window so you dont break em im a mason 😊
My X mrs wants me too put out of date k rend on my sons garage. Now it’s 8 months out of date and has been sitting outside all this time. She got 50 bags for £50 on market place I’ve told her it’s no good but she won’t listen and is pestering me too put it on. Could I have your advice so I can show her your and get her off my case😊
Sam is gonna knock you out if you make him stop work so you can do a video :D. Great video cheers!!
Hey kirk top vid mate hope u and yours are well mate
My old mate, I look forward to your comments... been with me from the beginning 🙏
@Onthetrowel yes mate love ur content I follow a few plastering channels but ur mate is top u do what some others don't an give out of the box ideas for getting round obstacles on the job keep going mate
top man quality job not used eco rend yet will definitely be givin it a try used weber was a pain in ass an k rend not as bad but depending on weather can be a pain
definitely will do 👍 looks lovely gear that nice an sticky not floppin off
Sets quicker so you can scrape sooner.
And they have a white that is actually white... a bonus as everyone wants white 🤣
alot better we end up finishing at three then end up back a six seven o clock to scrape ther till bout eight nine o clock finishin it can be a real heavy session 😂
I know your pain all to well.
Apologising to customers and neighbours because you've got spotlights out scraping render at nighttime 🤣
We must be stupid 🤣🤣🤣
Ecorend is the way forward 👌👌
You using 15mm beads or 10mm kirk ?
Been using eco for a few years and think its the best,we spray it on though.
Even the eco thin coat is better than the others i think, been using that today in this heat😢
It's hard work in the heat... I've been indoors.
On a sand and cement tomorrow though
I don't do mono as I just think it's messy scraping all that material off , however I love eco rend thin coat silicone and base coat just a shame it's mega dear compared to other brands especially the top coat a tub over £100 😅😅
Ya know what kirk, when I first seen it on a job what customer bought I thought ffs whats this shit he's bought, turns out it's 1 of best I've used, luv the stuff.
Mate I'd ov never tried it myself, it was only the fact that the bloke in fs trade showed me the colour samples.
Like you I'm made up he did
@Onthetrowel it beats all of top brands hands down dunt it pal. Nice job that an top tips on all ya videos for the up an comers an the time served spreads, it's the little details that makes our job just that little bit easier, no one who's never held a trowel will ever get it, top man.
I saw a newly rendered wall today. It looked like the surface of a lake on a windy day. I wonder if K rend is really hard to work with.
Any chance you can do a video plastering a ceiling where you've installed in plaster led profiles!!! Just done it DIY. Omg! Think I should have left it to the pros!!!? 🤣😂
OSB board the ceiling first. Then fit the channels and then board up to the channels, you always have something to fix to then and makes a good strong job mate
Best on the market mate. Try it a bit wetter next time you can put it on wet as fuck without slumping.
Was it 5 bags in that mixing tub ? What size was the tub ? Roughly, how many builders bucket of water per bag ? Straight over thermalite blocks, no problem with suction ? Thanks.
@@Onthetrowel Are you sure it was 7 bags in the tub ? I thought it was 5 in the tub, 3 over there, 1 in the van etc🤣. The finish looks good though mate.
That 10 min window
Why do always do a scratched texture. Here in Australia we do a wet coloured texture. We do 2 base coats to level the wall and then final texture coaylt. It goes on about 1.3mm and then we float up with a plastic trowel. Its much faster
Yer good kirk
Good job. Does this stuff soak up water when it rains.
Just the same as how your bricks get wet when it rains and then dry out mate
What’s your opinion on thin coat render Kirk
I don't like it mate, it's to much of a drawn out process for in my opinion a less desirable look.
I've done loads of it and I prefer the look of scraped.
That said my ultimate favourite is lime render
Tidy 👍
Even though your saying its a cavity wall I would have been very dubious about thermalite being used as an outer skin??? Brick or concrete block no problems but am sure thermalite were never meant for exterior use no matter what they are coated with?? I suppose time will tell but they will absorb water and maybe go green mouldy ! Nice job and quality work and sorry for the negative.
Agreed. In my experience, the tile forms the cavity in these builds (my house is identical) and it’s solid behind the tiled areas. I think there will be problems!
Mate how come as a right hander you’re starting from the left? Genuinely curious
If you stand facing the wall I start rendering from the right but when skimming I start from the left mate
Lovely job bigman would have liked to seen the SBR rolled prior to hp12. Seeing wasn’t using HPX. put 30 bag HPX on a job along with R7 wet tacky. Your is pissy stuff but do believe it’s probs the best bomb proof backing out. HP12 as all rounder nearly lovely to coat with rubs good. HPX doesn’t
Hpx is a nightmare to use, trying to flatten it and it starts sliding. Horrible stuff
@@Onthetrowel
Certainly so as on want have mesh trowel right into it lol. Strength would best but not the best to put on the wall. When was putting on all the sds chisel marks going over them turn away look back all dropping all over place 😆😆😆🤙. Problem all these renders go to shit pretty quickly. So high maintenance for clients if want fresh and clean looking all the time.
Bring back the Canterbury spa pebble dash, I just got dashing down to a fine art and then all this modern stuff came out and nobody wants the traditional 💁♂️🤣
Can u put eco rend on top of Webber ocr that hasn’t been topped / scratch coat?
Yes mate. Nice and wavey plenty of areas to suck in and hold on the wall for top coat! I had 30 bags of ocr left so used it to scratch a few walls lol! Waste not want not! ??
Can't see it being a problem mate. I would do it as long as the scratchcoat was good and solid
Yes mate it’s rock hard lol! Will do a little wall to see how it goes!! Thanks pal.
It looks like shortbread! Is this a coincidence or what? Haha!
The owners made 2 good choices: 1. The colour is fantastic and 2. Got you guys to do the job.
Cheers mate thankyou
@Onthetrowel outstanding video you or at the peak of your trade very informative great content a true craftsman ❤❤❤❤ and you also have a funny sense of humour