Beginners Guide To Rendering…Every STAGE Revealed | MIXING/ APPLICATION/ PERFECT FINISH

[@anthonylavelle3934]

I've been a spread for 17 years and still love watching your content, great advice everytime, I applaud anyone who shares their time and patience to help others who want to learn our trade 👌🏼

[@shaun5944]

Well said mate 👍🇬🇧

[@stevehiscox1473]

I'm a self taught plasterer and renderer .been in the building trade for years and this guy is a breath of fresh air

[@PlasteringForBeginners]

Cheers pal!! I really appreciate that mate - thank you for watching. All the best my friend 👍

[@simongb7897]

Got a small outside front of house wall to render, and this has given me the confidence to get up Screwfix, buy a paddle and mix first coat, wet,scratch, second coat, then sponge it all off....sit back then realise, I've made an absolute mess of it...and get a pro in. No seriously, great guide, let's give it a go.

[@dzadza7775]

This is so good. You are a great teacher, film maker and craftsman. Just brilliant. An eye for detail and no rushing the stages. Probably the best instruction video I've seen. Also makes me want to get out and start the job. Thank you so much. Inspirational!

[@JeremyCharrier-xn6vb]

Straight to the point, minimal verbal full of information, techniques and tips and no annoying music. Very well done. Many thanks.

[@leigh9919]

Great content mate,I've been a plasterer 25 years now but still love watching how others work.👍🏻👍🏻

[@PlasteringForBeginners]

Thank you for watching pal!! That means a lot coming from a man with you’re experience...cheers my friend 👍

[@tsprltd6187]

One of the best plastering & rendering content creators on KZbin👍 great video as always keep it up 👊🏼

[@PlasteringForBeginners]

Thank you mate! I really appreciate that 👍👍

[@maxrh8947]

I'm not even a plasterer but u explain everything step by step, complete and clear, making it look so easy. sometimes make me change my job and become a plaster 😂. Good on u mate and thanks for the videos and tips 👍🙏👏

[@alwynmaguire8037]

I'm a brickie learning rendering and skimming. What I say to labourers is to stretch the water when mixing. If the sand is sopping then no water needs adding just plasticiser until it dries up when cement is added then add water only if it turns and no moisture is getting through the mix. I love watching your video, I've learnt loads mate keep up the good work.

[@bernardwellings9349]

Nice job and very good video. Very well explained. I've been doing it for 56 years. I've been doing scratch coat last few days, I always had lads labouring for me but now I am pebbling an extension on my own place and I've got no labourer...its knackering me! Keep up the good work

[@PlasteringForBeginners]

Respect mate!! It’s bloody tough bumping it on your own. I’m used to it now but I sometimes wished someone would help ha! Thanks for watching...all the best my friend

[@johnokeeffe2958]

That's hard work to do on Ur own mate it's hardest trade of them all

[@stuartm8997]

Great video again Blaine. Not rendered since i trained in plastering 18years ago, but looking to do few jobs soon, great tips and explanations as I find with all your videos. Always nice to watch videos of plastering/rendering. Different viewpoint to doing jobs yourself.

[@dirkg7062]

Wow!!! Nice straight flat wall no waves. You did a great job with the rod to get that wall looking that good! Thanks for sharing your skills and teaching everyone how to do it the right way.

[@RichToff-b6s]

To date, the best video on rendering that I have seen.

[@stephenissel6320]

Excellent teacher. Absolutely wonderfully explained. South Africa..

[@Steve_9024]

Another great vid!! I’m just starting out on my plastering and revering journey and your vids give me knowledge and encouragement that I can do it. Keep them coming please your helping us little guys succeed 👍🏻

[@PlasteringForBeginners]

That’s great to hear mate...thank you for watching! I really appreciate it my friend. All the best pal 👍

[@BlueVelvetBear]

Your explaination of when the right time to start floating is was great thanks. 👍 I'm excited and nervous to have a go at all this.

[@julianmuttock8570]

I’m a plasterer (30 years) great tutorial pal, nice to see an actual fellow tradesman and not one of the usual fly by nights on here.

[@AntonyGummerson]

Great content and a big thank you. Just tried my first attempt a rendering, ever, today and very happy with the results.

[@NadjibOuasti]

Great lesson, from a top teacher. Thank you!

[@deltajohnny]

Absolutely brilliant!! 👏👏👏😍😍😍

[@dannycorkanon]

Watching from Ireland 🇮🇪 top content 👌 best wishes

[@simongb7897]

Absolute quality tradesman.

[@mgward5694]

Your the best I've seen for explaining everything

[@georgebrowne5935]

Excellent Plasterer, and I have worked with quite a few over the years .

[@disconnectpub]

I love your scratch coat. It’s beautiful.

[@Truevisionsolutions]

You have no idea how much this helped me, answered every question I had 👍🏻

[@PlasteringForBeginners]

Glad it’s helped my friend! Thank you for watching

[@anthonyduffy4268]

Yet again, a great video!!!

[@andrewsteer7075]

Nice one brother, id say the best vid on the subject so thanks for your time, I managed to milk the price of rendering to my bricklaying sotyhis made me money, thank you very much as the end product is banging...

[@qqbqeilltqagoffq7070]

I'm in the US I'm a mason here been doing it for 30 plus years now I've done quite a bit of stucco also my question is for your scratch coat do you use a Portland base first or is it a Masonry mix??? I totally agree with you about using lime with the top coat it gives it a butter feel and makes it easier to apply. You are a very good teacher and it's easy to follow your videos I'm impressed with your talent I'm looking forward to seeing your next video

[@YMNS86]

best tutorial on youtube, this level of tuition is why i pay for youtube premium

[@PlasteringForBeginners]

Thank you mate!

[@johnwilkins5850]

Great video, will be rendering a block greenhouse soon and this has given me a lot of confidence,wish U Tube had been around 40 years ago God knows what I would be doing now, Cheers all the best for your future career.

[@PlasteringForBeginners]

Haha cheers pal and good luck 🍀

[@michaelfoley1080]

Nice work Pal. Cheers

[@ericlitts9917]

Absolute beginner here. Obviously it takes patience, skill, experience, and muscle. You make using the trowel look easy, for sure it takes years of practice. Wish me luck! Ill have to send you pictures of the progress on my projects.

[@NakaNakaDerkaDerka]

Many tanks for your videos, I’ve had to repair some shoddy work in aus and your videos have helped me immensely. Glad you like the OX tools. 🇦🇺

[@lisasmyth1669]

Fantastic video and the expansion strip wow that's so important to stop cracks, I mean who wants to do the job twice. So much detail and a nice smooth finish. Normally I don't like this finish of a lot of render I see as its soooooo grainy. I did like a 3hr render workshop yearssss ago, I remember the foam float (different to yours) with a grainy finish (yes same from instructor lol) I don't remember the sponge. Heres hoping I do a good job

[@scso]

That is a good demonstration, new to this technique, we do it differently here same principles but the techniques and procedures are different. Thank you mate

[@PlasteringForBeginners]

Thanks for watching and I hope it’s helped pal 👍

[@captainvonk]

Great tutorial. Thanks!

[@Professorclown]

Great, comprehensive, 'step-by-step' instructional video, thank you for taking the time and effort to do this and upload - definitely appreciated. Keep going with your awesome channel - and sometimes a 'thankless job', too!👍

[@andyprior6099]

Great insight to a project i might have a go at. Cheers for the great vid

[@PlasteringForBeginners]

Thanks for watching 👍

[@ep91monster]

Another top video mate 👍🏻 best plastering/rendering channel on here by far!

[@PlasteringForBeginners]

Thank you so much my friend! All the best ✌️

[@ep91monster]

@@PlasteringForBeginners and to you too buddy ✌🏻

[@fullcolourfilms8893]

Superb tutorial mate. Thanks for your advice.

[@michaeljones701]

Great video, really helped me out especially with the mix

[@PlasteringForBeginners]

Great stuff pal

[@inverted_g]

Very helpful, love the details. Thank you!

[@garethjones6388]

Brilliant video wish I had seen this year's ago thanks for the help

[@ravenx447]

Master of your craft Sir

[@PlasteringForBeginners]

Thank you!!

[@anthonywilliams2764]

Great work , i really value sand and cement remder. ,its reasonably cheap for materials and when done correctly, looks fantastic over most other render techniques

[@mendicant1981]

Your a hero mate. Thank you!

[@jimmy6754]

Great job by the way, love watching your videos, your a master at it, hard to find people that are passionate about there job.

[@PlasteringForBeginners]

Thank you!!

[@adamprice9214]

I've just watched this video and it's answered most if not all my questions 🙃

[@PlasteringForBeginners]

Great to hear!! Thank you for watching mate 👍

[@adamprice9214]

@@PlasteringForBeginners no problem, I've watched many of your video's.. I'm a chippy but have a go at anything.. it was a scratch coat and pebble dash job, my god did I struggle at times to get the consistency just right so I could apply the shingle, it was my 1st go ever and 2nd time I have ever rendered anything.. I did a mtr square at a time and certain areas would dry out and not let the shingle adhere whilst others we're to wet still despite using a waterproofer in the scratch and SBR in both coats.. my mix was 5:1:1 sand, cement & lime.. I couldn't even get on with the Derby to flatten off so I did it all freehand. Looks alright but blimin hard going 👍

[@ajukaprosper9845]

You are so good bro. Very very very helpful God bless you

[@benrutherford7471]

Great tutorial and great workmanship.

[@savvyreddy5179]

Hi it's the first time I was watching your great work n advice has you go along. I really enjoyed it. Keep it going. After that so I can put Plaster Primer and then Dulux Paint. Savvy from South Africa God Bless

[@timsandman]

Many thanks for the really excellent Video

[@mijalic1]

From A to Z in less then 40 min. Great work. Thanks once again. ps i could not find a hawk in Croatia so I have to make it my self. It has some advantages to work with.

[@antongiuffre6154]

Very good detail. I have a fine rendered wall leading down my driveway. There is a horizontal 5mm wide crack in the wall. I am keen to do the repair. I would appreciate if your could provide your comments on the following: 1. Do I need to do a scratch coat. Or can I simply fill in the crack with say cornice cement. Prime it with an undercoat and then put a fine render over it. 2. Alternatively fill the gap with your scratch coat mix and then apply the fine render

[@raymond4389]

Excellent , love all your videos

[@PlasteringForBeginners]

Thanks mate! I really appreciate that 👍

[@alextrotman2743]

Amazing 😍

[@redshorse]

Excellent !

[@nodgelyobo1]

Lovely job!

[@PlasteringForBeginners]

Thank you!

[@jamesstudley2189]

Great video!👍🏻

[@rockroll456]

Another brilliant video bud 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻

[@PlasteringForBeginners]

Thanks pal! Hope you’re well my friend 👍👍

[@JamesDixon]

Weightlifting wrist wraps while rendering 👀 what a great idea, wish I'd have thought of that 👌👏

[@PlasteringForBeginners]

Haha that’s the one!!

[@jemselectrical9239]

Fantastic tutorial dude🙌

[@Tojofica]

Loved watching this vid, super informative! Just had a mud kitchen built outdoors and the render not only cracked and blew but looked mega thin and patchy. Builder re did it but it's just as bad more patches more discolored areas and blown. Looking under the the render that's come away the base looks level no scratches could there be a specific reason for this. The overhaul render only looks to be around 2mm deep, am I right in thinking this is even worse than I 1st thought? Any advice welcome xx

[@richardcooper4102]

Another great video. I was just going to comment of damping down but you have just covered that. It looks a bit chilly there and I am a bit too old for site work these days but you young bucks can power through a bit of cool and breeze. Keep up the good work. Anyone following this will learn a lot.

[@PlasteringForBeginners]

Thank you mate - it was a bit chilly but nothing my Northern blood couldn’t deal with ha! All the best and thanks for watching

[@kristyjdm]

@Plastering for Beginners, thanks for your great content. Here in the Caribbean, specifically in Puerto Rico, where we enjoy year-round summer weather, plasterers only do one layer, so it is completely new to me to see a double layer of plaster. Is this due to your zone's climate? Is there any reason you think we should be doing two layers of cement in our hot and humid climate? Keep up the great work!

[@PlasteringForBeginners]

Great hearing from you!! Thank you for watching. 2 coats is for 2 reasons. An extra layer against the wet conditions…very wet here…and strength. The more layers you apply the stronger it is. That’s obviously if it’s been applied correctly but that’s the idea to it 👍

[@glenwarren4351]

You c ould do it in one coat use glue on block a 3 to 1 mix sand to cement scratch Ina bit ahead go back and double up then Darby straight edge is to hard for a beginner

[@sarahhayes152]

Absolutely love the videos. You've inspired us to try some DIY rendering next week and we've ordered some plastering sand and cement to start us off. We are going to follow your mix 4:1 for the scratch. The problem I'm having is working out how much sand and cement we'll need for 60sqm. We are rendering a new outbuilding made from high density 7n block. Any advise much appreciated. Thanks again for all the great content

[@johnwilkins5850]

You finished yet??

[@jameseverett3995]

Just finished rendering a garden wall after watching this, thanks for the tipa. If you use lime in the top coat can you paint it with exterior masonry paint?

[@aylorpaul39]

Hi Blaine, another great Vid. Can i ask what approx thicknesses are you doing each coat to ? And how long will the mixture last before becoming unusable?

[@paulgorman8097]

Thank you for sharing your skills. Very helpful. 🙏

[@P374Wilma]

Top video mate, thank you. I’m in the middle of building a small garden room and will eventually be rendering it. I’d love to have a rough idea how much sand/cement to order. It’ll be roughly 3 metres long on each of the 4 sides and 2.25 metres high

[@johnclowes3894]

Blinding vid bruv very informative and of course really nice work. Now me not being a plasterer I once a long time ago tried rendering a four foot high garden wall. It was about as long as the wall in your vid. Now I used Sharp sand four to one mix and it took me forever to get it on the wall it was heavy to work with and it was forever falling off. I know now that I tried doing it all in one coat😫 Anyway at the time I was told it was because I didn’t seal the wall first with PVA. This I now know didn’t matter because the I applied it all wrong. Needless to say we got a plasterer in to sort it. Anyway I’d like to know from you if you ever use PVA to seal the block walls first? As in this vid you seemed to just apply the scratch coat straight on. Thanks again for a great vid.

[@declanbutler5876]

Top job fella 👌

[@PlasteringForBeginners]

Thanks mate!!

[@Carlos.Radders]

Great tutorial. Cheers 😎👍

[@PlasteringForBeginners]

Cheers matey!

[@Mike-lm1db]

Love the vidoe. How would you go about plastering an external block wall that has been painted a few times over the years with masonry paint?

[@JaiJai-by4tp]

For scratching I do up and down too after the across. You can really dose it with the hose and it throws off the water it dosnt need

[@acdcjustthebest....8980]

Great video and explanation thanks for sharing. Could you tell me if I could use Sikabond SBR+ instead of the Integral waterproofer ? Cheers

[@alexkent2248]

Really helpful, thank you :)

[@niallm-i6s]

Do you have a bead at the top of the wall? How do you ensure nice straight finish there?

[@bc.oO0Oo.]

Love this channel thanks dude top man

[@stevejukes8996]

Really helpful video. Thanks. Wondering why nobody finishes to a bell cast or drip bead at the bottom though? Is that an old school thing?

[@estherzerubb]

First time rendering here, no clue what I'm doing. Rendering aircrete block wall and was told to render with the adhesive, not with sand and cement. I've done a first coat hut didn't know about scratching it. It's been drying for a day. Can I add the top coat without the scratch, considering it's adhesive? Any tips for rending with adhesive- are there any major differences I should know about? Thanks for this video, it's really helpful. Just wish I had found it before I did the first coat!

[@piotrm6128]

Great video, thanks!

[@gw2031]

That was fantastic, what was the lime product for the top coat mate ?.and what is the techie name for rhe long straight edge you use ? I could watch this all day ,so chilled lol !

[@Jo-xg6rk]

Hydrated lime .. the straight edge is called a darby

[@charmawingingitlewis1259]

Construction girl here. Where am from we flash first with course sand and cement then we render, is that the same purpose as scrating ? I enjoy you presentation !🎉

[@MrSmithGuy]

If you’re dealing with a pretty rough block wall, in which some of the blocks properly protrude from the wall, what metho do you use to remove those protrusions in prep?

[@williamcollins6997]

Thanks very informative and helpful 👍

[@durhamplastering7064]

Keep up the good work pal 👍 pretty much how I do it. Got a lovely 100sm to do next week ☺️

[@aminimin]

A big fat Thank you from the Pacific Island of Nauru👌

[@jamiebond6349]

these concrete blocks were very clear, does it need to be clear of old plaster before applying the scratch coat?

[@tinyhouseonwheelsireland]

Question about water proofing, I have a concrete block walls, 100mm solids on the flat, the walls will be clad in 200mm of rubble stone, I want to render the solid blocks before the cladding, to give a water proof coat, is one coat of render enough? or do I need to apply two coats, scratch and finish? I don't think I'll need to float the finish as this render will be covered in the cladding, what do you think, any suggestions?

[@gdfggggg]

Hi, did you put any plasticiser in the top coat? Thanks mate

[@PlasteringForBeginners]

I use Rendamix which has added plasticiser in it I think pal

[@philharrison7846]

Cracking content matey, spot on. I have been plastering a while but have never done large amounts of rendering. Only small garden walls etc. I have a dilemma though. What happens when you are rendering up to a neighboring wall. Do I just stop bead vertically down the wall to split my side from the guys next door. I have to get my old render off the wall too which is a pain but has to be done as it is ancient. Have to be careful though as would not want to upset the guys wall next door if at all possible. Any advice would be tremendous matey.

[@johncowie3092]

Really useful cheers

[@Joe-jv5mm]

Top Work

[@robday3968]

Hi Blaine, I will be attempting this in the next couple of weeks. You have given me the confidence to give it a go and I am looking forward to it. Are there any tips for painting a rendered wall like this? All the best, Rob.

[@mattrybacki189]

So, how did it go?

[@robday3968]

@@mattrybacki189 I finally got round to giving it a go on Sunday. I rendered a 6 meter long wall which is about 1 meter high. I think it went OK but definitely a steep learning curve and mistakes were made. 1) It was the first dry day in Pembrokeshire since 2013, and although it was dry the wall was saturated. Apparently this is a big no no, and it meant that the render took ages to set before I could start ruling it, and then even longer before I could start floating it. 2) I've got three tonne bags of sand at my place ready for various jobs, and I used the last dregs of a bag to do this rendering. In hindsight this was a mistake because I think the sand at the bottom of the bag was grittier and more coarse than the fine stuff at the top. This meant the final finish wasn't as smooth as I would like. Its not terrible by any stretch, but it could have been better. 3) Rendering is bloody tough work, and tackling 6 meters of wall in one go, with no assistance, learning as you go was maybe biting off more than I could chew, and physically I am feeling it today! 4) Do not get render (that has lime in it) on your hands!! They are in a hell of a state now, dry as f..k and peeling like mad. Apart from all of that, I managed to get it reasonably level (within an acceptable tolerance for me - being a total novice), it is still on the wall (and it has rained since, so maybe a good sign). It is relatively small, and from a distance looks great and even closeup there are no obvious hollows or lumps.

[@schubertcatch1431]

Learning a lot here thanks

[@PlasteringForBeginners]

Thanks for watching! Hope it’s helping 👍

[@sampennick6364]

Hi Blaine. Do you still do the Venetian plastering? If so, is it in demand or not so popular?

[@viankalobosvalenzuela7456]

Excelente trabajo 👏 👍 💪 👌🏻

[@PlasteringForBeginners]

Thank you 😊

[@michaelberner4839]

Awesome videos, near perfection... I have 1 question though. Are you using plastic cement or regular portland cement?