raining in the cold guys so obviously we're talking about you know winter time
anywhere sort of before december january february start of march you're going to get
really cold weather damp conditions mostly as well and especially anywhere ireland uk
and parts of omega these are definitely going to have very similar climates to ourselves
but yeah this is how i go about raining in the cold things that i do and the decisions i make and
why basically the best options is actually you know good on weather forecasts the night before
trying to get the dressed couple of days get the warmest weather monday is not too bad and well
will help you subjugation help it dry um and again it's a lot of what's going to come down to mix
what you choose to put in your mix scratch coat your top coat a lot of this is really going to
help you know handle you or help you basically help you speed up your day
so there's lots lots to talk about there and that's the thing of it
again similar to weather it's picking a a place to start some walls might still be damp
from the previous wet day so you may not want to start there
some walls might be in the shade you may not may want to leave them for a better day
um try and work with the sun in the winter you know so it's it is picking up and so definitely
choosing your walls which walls that they actually render will definitely help you
so that's something to really concentrate on what walls are too dumb that just won't dry today
maybe let them sit another day or two um so you know there's guys that you know i guess they can
see it all around the world people have random you know minus one minus two and likewise it
you know they've come up with things ways so there's ways and then and options you have
to make it work guys um for instance what i found is that getting it on all as fast as possible
and you know we'll try and get our clinton done hopefully around about 11. get it all straightened
and when i statement yes i use the shredded edge if i have an environment sometimes
it's on a different job or i leave it behind but most times i'll have it with me um but if not
if you get your wall straightened up you'll have to have this through the
through the edge and leave it as low as possible for you to start rubbing it in because you will
just lock that moisture in so again that's where the windy days will come it'll really help dry
them types of walls out and back to the sort of mix less plasticizer in the mix the better some
people put a scoop of lamb in and no plasticizing and that helps their gear shut up and not a big
massive farm online and this job in particular everything was sort of coated by about 11 half 11
and believe it or not the walls uh summer came in soaking the bottom foot soaking because it's lower
so you know still still nice to get it rubbed again using a diamond float mostly in the winter
and also sometimes a float with nails in it and to turn every tactic in the book guys
um you can use wire finishing when you are rubbing up you can use paper to try to draw moisture and
another thing that has worked pretty well in the past is some diesel heaters on certain areas and
just just that little boost you want to kick around there otherwise you can crack it as well
but just that little bit of air warmer air blowing in a damp corner will really really help yourself
so again similar to what i was saying about dry or rat walls you know you
really want to be running over a scratch coat that looks like it's soaking wet um
so try it you know if you're going over a high suction wall old black or you know old red brick
and this can't help you don't don't suck it down just let it go let let the suction work in your
favor and because like i said there's going to be less drain so you don't need to worry about
the key the suction will help your key as well you don't need to worry about that as much guys
it will you know it'll actually work to with the suction and the other thing to think about
is it garden walls is it what types of walls is it that way is it a house um there's somebody
living it or is it just is it memory houses on site the likes of them are going to be colder
again you know somebody's living high surrender their cable wall and have radiators and heating
going inside that that really will actually help that will help the wall dry that that little bit
so this is another another sort of thing to consider and again if we're going to be talking
about rainbow we may as well talk about cameron have a funny story about that as well and that is
no um so k rand you can use accelerators and not equally with the mix on satin cement you can also
use accelerators frost performance and some spr can help tighten up your mix dramatically guys and
really will pull this out of the hole and there's something called fondue as well that will set like
in half an hour if you're doing heavy things but you cannot do a full wall with that unless
not a mission a bit sad on the mixer so we can't really take fondue into the big basis of raining
but the funny story with the canyon was that once men have said this before i don't know
and once we were i was working for another guy and we were in the middle of nowhere real country
and it was cold it was in winter but it wasn't too bad and me pumped on i wouldn't pump but
a massive gable wall we double coated it straight got a floating flattened in ready for the scratch
off and things were going really well i'm sure my boss was over the moon with the progress
back wall was on and another would be small well also all in all there was three walls
on big massive cable nice back another rebreak the house was probably about you know that's
it was probably just number 50 perchance at that stage and came back the next morning
and it was very very cold the labor was trying to defrost the water that was called the site there's
nobody living in this house this is a barney build so the neighbor was trying to defrost there
but it's slightly bags up trying to just heat up the plastic pipe you get the water defrost
and you don't get the top of them get the hoses working so we could mix more for that base coating
and we went to rub up the cable and we had brand new scratch and floats ready to scrub it all off
and as i was scratching up and scratching up and i looked at the one i was like why is this wall
shame back at me there's very very streams on their closer inspection
to really start out it was actually the metal was worn off the float and it was
wearing the float down take all the teeth off the float and the same happened the two other blasters
i realized that felt the wall was froze solid like an absolute breakthrough sword
and i have encountered that again recently and something else i'll maybe tell you about that it's
a bit of a crazy story too but basically there's no way that this wall was stronger than concrete
you wouldn't have even with the atlantic power float that i have with blades off it wouldn't have
made it down nothing was coming off so the guy's working four at the time he phoned his brother
he's an absolute expert he came in very very good at it he actually taught people how to
how to use the products and stuff he was like a mature folk basically and he had the same issues
they were doing carrie end up on another shape just like just they'd say just talk about fast
and big massive shape and he had the same issues he's just gonna have to wait and then i thought
i thought no way that stranger's gonna last the strainer's not gonna last four months so maybe i'm
going this is bad but my boss being my boss and actually a very very good blaster and get plenty
done in a day and you know taught me quite a lot of what i know so he came up there here let's
let's just lay it up with some parts and stuff somewhere in the middle of nowhere and years ago
he says that's that's the process and we let the far either end of the cable wall the sun's
still coming up as well but this cable isn't going to get hit by the sun at all
that's the sun's gonna hit the other hand and so since that's i'm thinking what if the smoke
sort of somehow stains it you know right let's not put the fire too
just just enough it was kind of you know rolling off random and stuff not not big
bottom feathers or anything like just you know a couple of parts and bags and things
and scrap wood that was landing to say let that up either end of the wall
and believe it or not within 20 30 minutes the walls actually starting to defrost
absolute crazy story and i remember talking to him years and years after it and we met in the
being queue and saying hello and stuff and we spoke about that job and he says harder harder
to actually ever end up and he said that it was brilliant he was turning into a garden wall
and believe it or not he went around to be sneaky one room knocking all the walls he says we're all
solid and he was down doing a card involved with the same fella that was maybe five six years later
quite quite a long time there and he says you know walls look brilliant as if the day we done them
so sometimes carrying them and whatever guys you know it is quite strong but that doesn't show
you there was ice in the top layer of that stuff unfortunately we were taking it off you know so
if that was satisfying there may have been a different story made it look really bad
but that that stuff actually did scrape off um and then the other bit of a strange story
was sort of working on a film set and most times what you're doing there is you're using
and made a couple guys we spread a cable and i had to carve it out like stone and the same
thing hit there it was quite cold we're working outside things had to keep going
and you couldn't carve it with ace was in it about you know about 10 mil thick inside and
i'd say this so we'll carve it with the chisels and small things we're just just sliding off we
weren't getting anywhere fast very very slow work very hard on the hands especially in the cold so
again that was another one i thought this is all going to fall off this is all going to blow off
because the ice is in it and i've actually thought and it was 100 and and that film was recorded
done and dusted now i'm sure a lot of his may they actually watched it he knows but yeah
it streams that the ace can get into something still thought and the product actually being okay
again maybe and me i wouldn't risk it guys if it was me i would try to hold off to the boss
whether possible but you know sometimes it is what it is you've got 108 jobs you have no inside jobs
you have one inside job and it's done you have all these outside jobs they're going to do you can't
you know what do you do you sit in house and wait for the sun
and sometimes you do keep going you have to keep going have to keep trying and so you know
you have to try and earn money you know if you're not earning money you know you're not paying your
bills things things sort of creep up on you so not one that to say don't work but definitely
trying to make the best decisions and make the right call will give you you know a better outcome
less headaches i think you have seen me working the regard and bought the house and it's snowing
you know me just just thinking about because it was i had free time or something um but i
had seen things believe it or not that i could put on one day and actually rub up the next day
or the following day if it was that wet that was that sort of cold not freezing cold um but again
i would suggest guys five degrees and rising as good temperatures were random and you know but
like i said it can be done either way so i hope this helps you so it was asked for quite a lot
and so hopefully it's helped a few guys right
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