on this video i am going to show you how i coat and straighten my sand and cement render
music playing subscribe so first things first got to get the render on the wall before you
can straighten it previous that i have scrapped down my high spots and wet down the wall so
that i can control the suction you dont want your render soaking into the wall its actually
warm today so i dont want it soaking into the wall i want to control the setting time
of my render to give me a chance to not only coat it but to straighten it and then finish
it so like i said first things first get our preparation done and everything will follow
all scrapped down and wet down and now i get my mix ready and you can see the way i am
just loading the hawk up i am coating left to right here already have top on and straighten
im coating left to right you can see the way I put it on press up up them i come side to
side and neaten it all up you can also fill in as you go there the neater you coat the
easier it is for straighten it will be much much easier these bucket scoop are very handy
for rendering always love using the bucket scoop when working from the tub for dashing
scratching and rendering the refina scoop is pretty good for things like this when you
are not working of a board basically i have the top straightened here as you can see its
all open the smooth edges is were i rubbed as they where drying a little bit more you
can see where its all straightened of there where it looks rough and open there is 2 diffrent
ways of straighten it you can leave it open and you can flatten it in which will give
you more time as it seals it in but i have this wall well soaked down so i can leave
it open and let the air in open it up let the air dry it a little bit more you can see
the way I am coating it with my hawk underneath catching any that falls like i said i am trowelling
up up and then across to neaten up you can see how neat it is at the top there compared
to the bottom i do is when i have the top straighten end i tend to put a coat along
the whole edge just to get the join in as quick as possible you can see how good this
is even at the bottom of the tub it might be stiffer and you can easily mix it up with
the refina bucket scoop the hawk I am using i the points man and the trowel is a ragni
a high lift ragni cement trowel on my left here i have a bead set I did it for handiness
as you can see it would be hard to put a rule on I do prefer to work with rules but you
can see how tight i am at the fence here so a bead was a t wiser to chose the bead at
the corner i am taking 2 scoop 2 is scoops of render is plenty you get a good lot on
your hawk you are not overloading it to much where as you are spieling in or going to cause
yourself and injury where you are doing a big wall like this and mane another wall you
will want to keep you fatigue down so that you can keep going sometime taking a light
load will be much more beneficial my render here is 4 to 1 my scratch coat render was
3 to 1 you can see i have got weaker as i have came down and that is very important
guys you ant to always make sure your next coat is weaker than the previous
the way i go is left to right taking it from the top down i keep bringing it down then
when i straighten i do it as i come down but if you feel it drying and pulling in you might
want to straighten it as you go or wet the wall down before you oat further to give you
more time the top is straighten so basically i will be straighten of that top area and
the 2 corners again the straighter you have it the easier it will rub and the better of
a ob and finish you will get not that i have it al on i am just straightening away here
already jumped ahead and got a good bit straighten up i want to show you the slacks here the
smooth areas are actually the slacks as i cut the render off you can see it is more
grainy more gritty more open like a slight teared effect anywhere it is smooth basically
it is a miss it is a low point thats the point you ill have to add more to that the reason
it is smooth is because it is wear you worked it on with the hawk and trowel in the 1st
place and it has stayed smooth as the straight edge missed it and it is to low so you got
to fill out those low spots when you pull your straight edge up you got to look across
it and make sure it is hitting every where and if it is you know you are straight if
it is rocking you know there is a belly you got to cut that belly off and or fill out
around it if you cannot take it if in this corner her you can see it practically finished
here as i ruled that up plumbed it gave it a quick float up and that allows me to be
able to straighten of that corner and my beaded corner as well as the top so i have 3 point
i can work off you can see what was explaining earlier was that the smooth parts are string
to get cut off now you can see it clearly there that is the way you want to have the
wall it is how you know you got it all on the h one shape one straight line again i
have three points to work off here i have the peak and the 2 corners you can set u some
screed as well but if you have beads it is not a great big big wall i have 2 corners
go ear all the way up always make sure you look across the straight edge as you straighten
it so we are ready for the next stage brothers what we do in life echoes in eternity