Sand and Cement Rendering with Reigate Plasterers

Roger spots Reigate Plasterers working on some sand and cement rendering and jumps up the scaffold to say hello.
Special thanks to Lee at Reigate Plasterers for letting us film them working.
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[@protectiongeek]

Have always found it amazing how plasterers can render walls with such smooth finishes and no lumps and bumps. They always make it look easy when it is most certainly not. It's an artform!

[@manjichromagnon5480]

Rule it off and fill the low spots.

[@jamieh3772]

its hardly rocket science... i rendered my garage, and done as good a job as those guys....good prep, right mix for scratch coat, top coat, apply, straight edge, float, then sponge.....i found it easy

[@edwardholmes91]

There's something really nice about watching someone render or plaster and get a lovely finish. Great work!

[@Ourathe7thcolumn]

No fancy tools, just good old fashioned skill!! Good job

[@SkillBuilder]

He told me he has hard that bit of wood rule for 9 years. Just breaking it in.

[@leeosborne9605]

@@SkillBuilder it started as a bit of 10ft 4x4 fence post 😂

[@MarcusT86]

Just as I'm thinking I need to use my work furlough to understand and build new skills, Skill Builder pulls through!

[@eddjordan2399]

Lovely job that got have at least 3 guys for rendering makes it flow nice. and the right weather. stay safe all during the Event.

[@morganchetty7593]

Without watching you guys we won't learn. Thankyou for making this video. I'm learning something.

[@serge.crispino418]

Great workmanship - perfect finish !!

[@johnswimcat]

Excellent video. Some friends and I are trying (!) to render a swimming pool. This shows exactly what we need to be doing I think. I'm very impressed by how flat these boys get the mix on with the trowel. For anyone who hasn't done it that's not as easy as they make it look! Also this shows to rule off with a straight edge as soon as one has got quite a small area covered. Great job

[@darthsregor]

They make it look so easy and effortless

[@johnswimcat]

Yes, and it isn't!

[@zedman442]

Nothing better than a nice spread go on like that! Lovely consistency. Great bit of levelling off too. 👍

[@rigobertomendoza7248]

Looks great, good work you do fellas.

[@T.E.P.]

wow superb work gents ... absolutely stunning

[@paulcarney5668]

Great job prefect finish.

[@jasonmurphy435]

lovely smooth finish👌

[@ToffeeApple]

Lovely finish.

[@gbwildlifeuk8269]

That looks a nice job 👍

[@Offensiveword]

I love rendering it’s a pleasure to do I think .... radio on nice weather , bliss

[@amateurvegan2636]

The skill of the older gent is impressive, he wastes no movement laying on and flattening.

[@johnswimcat]

I've done quite a bit of rendering as an amateur, I'd say they're both very good. Unfortunately I was self taught! I wish I'd had videos like this to watch, especially this one

[@michaelplays2449]

Great video

[@dannycorkanon]

Hi to UK 🇬🇧 from Cork, Ireland 🇮🇪 hope your all OK great videos cheers 👍🍻

[@SkillBuilder]

Thank Danny we were in Cork not long ago, my God did it piss with rain. We got soaked through and more so. I hope you are seeing some sunshine now and, importantly, able to get out there to enjoy it.

[@dread4836]

very nice work

[@George.Coleman]

I don't know how they can get so good at eyeing what seems like only 5mm over than the amount needed. When they screed with the wood plank it's like there just skimming the slightest layer meaning they're not wasting much energy at all in over applying plaster. Amazing. Great skill and beautiful work

[@AnthonySmith-cp7yc]

Good video , nice job

[@g.pigobsessed1437]

Hi Roger, have you any tips on what to fill hair line cracks with when you have white painted pebble dash render? I was thinking a paintable external sealant? Thanks

[@SBIGDTSM]

Nice work that 👍

[@leegoody350]

Nice to see sponging up with the classic jumbo car sponge best trick in the book 😉

[@SloopyDog]

I live in Northumberland. I have been trying for a long time to get my porch rendered. I have had no takers as they only do the colured render now and it is very exspensive. Nobody wants to do sand and cement rendering anymore.

[@petemoring67]

Fair play to the lads letting you film this .... Back in the 70's I was doing site-work for Taylor Woodrow - Sand&Cement render with a Siraphite Set internals, working on my own, doing 3 bed houses in three & a half days - The contracts manager was so impressed he Mini-Bussed about 12-14 office-wallers down from London to 'Watch' how I did it ..... AARRGGHH!!!! ..... Lost me a good half a days work (and of course - Money) Kept tripping UP the stairs with my hod, and trying to miss them with my rule as I ruled off and needed to 'flick' it back on my board was an art in itself ...... Did some of them get 'splattered'? ........ As IF! ;-)

[@SkillBuilder]

Hi Pete To be honest out approach is always minimum intrusion and always respect the people doing the work. Too many film crews think they are the important ones and once you rub the real workers up the wrong way you can't rescue it. I remember Anneka Rice coming out of her hotel to visit a site where they guys had worked all night to turn the job around for the next stage of filming and she took the piss out of their dirty faces. She is lucky not to have been buried under the patio. Her mistake was thinking she was the star but without those guys there is nothing to film.

[@petemoring67]

@@SkillBuilder It's a fine line for sure, but I have to say, those you film always DO look comfortable with the situation, so you must be doing something right that others aren't ;-)

[@elroyal1]

Did Taylor Woodrow give you an extra pat on the back ?😂😂😂

[@newry123]

going to try and render a wall,what length and width of trowel should i get,cheers

[@farezrbn264]

Can u teach us about mix plaster sand for bricks and blocks and how many bag is enough for how many meter please?

[@EppingForest304]

V skilled trades 👍

[@ernestogonzalez17]

ART

[@kasimpivano943]

@skill builder I have an old (built in the 1960’s) external red brick wall to render. Also the internal side adjacent to the external wall is red brick also, having hacked off the bonding internally. I’d like to know the best mix for going onto the brick work. Both externally and internally. I’m aware that internally I can use a sika1 ad mix to the mix. Please can you offer some guidance. All the best. Kaz

[@MrSmid888]

I’ve laboured for a plaster going up and down 30ft ladders with a gorilla bucket on the shoulder full of gear. Up and down all day long dashing a huge gable. You become an expert mixer. Just waterproofer we added to the mix. I remember he scribed my mobile number into the scratch coat the day before, the numbers where a metre high. Quite funny as you drove towards the job seeing that. Absolute clown 🤣🤣✌🏻

[@billybatts3750]

Guy in the flat cap is a proper plasterer can tell from the way hes taking off his hawk.

[@robertward9837]

Nice to see a Darby on the job 👍🏻

[@aplasterersday]

Good!

[@ricardolarsen4171]

Nice job... we do it a bit different where i come from... using an metal board 5 x the small metal board! Making it full with plaster and pushing it on the Wall from Down on knees and to stand up position.. this movement 3-4 times and you got 4 m2 plastered in few min, then making it straight with a long metal board.

[@rozzer666]

How do you avoid getting cracks round doors and windows with sand and cement

[@a1motorcycletrainingandsal528]

Beautiful mix, steady away. That old boy doesn’t like roger lol, you can hear it in the tone of his voice. Love a bit of external coating, breaks it up.

[@SkillBuilder]

You could be right and that is fine but when the builder, whom I know very well, suggested me getting the video camera out they were completely up for it. We often find that people are reluctant to say too much on camera. If you aren't used to it then it is best to simply ignore it. They were both very sound guys. The mix took a while to go off and they told me it would be couple of hours before I could get any sponging action.

[@petersparshot4997]

@@SkillBuilder thought you both got on. He was just concentrating on the task at hand

[@a1motorcycletrainingandsal528]

It turned out a nice e job. For what it’s worth you seem a great guy roger and I enjoy your videos.

[@telosfd]

It works like butter. Nice jobe! Ratιο of the mix is, tree parts of sand and one cement or no!!!

[@M.A.691]

5 sand and one cement ( maybe one lime ) to avoid cracking now days you can use liquid plasticide and waterproofing

[@mountainconstructions]

So good to watch a real tradesman doing his craft Especially without all the HiViz, Harness, Fall Arrest, Hard Hat Safety Bullshit

[@cliffcarlo180]

Now, that's the way to do it.

[@jacobkr437]

How proportion on last render wall ?

[@gdfggggg]

Your right, board skimming is the easy one. I find rendering is much more of a skill. You need the right sand, the right mix ratios top and bottom coat, the right weather, the correct sand; so easy to screw it up. Those lads looked like they did a pucker job. Don’t know if they used lime? I find that’s the wonder ingredient. Cheers

[@robthesamplist]

You need the correct sandstorm too.

[@SkillBuilder]

Slashley I am with you on the lime I go 1.1.5 or even 1.1.6 and it is creamy.

[@gdfggggg]

Skill Builder like butter... seams to limit suction too. Stays more workable for longer and stops it falling off the wall, when the apprentice has overworked it 😉.

[@goatface6602]

The lime provides autogenous healing.

[@SkillBuilder]

@@goatface6602 Not a lot of people know that but you are right. It is the same process as stalectites. The water takes the lime into soloution as it runs down a hair line crack and the lime is deposited and builds up so there is no longer a crack. You see it best with self coloured work. There is a fine crazing as the cement shrinks but a few months later it is all gone.

[@piee683]

Well plastered

[@mickellis8747]

Hmmm, looks very much like a vid you did a while ago where you were on the trowels. I leaned how to render from that video.

[@divinodayacap3313]

What's the difference of this with stucco?

[@AB-nu5we]

Yeah, quite the job. These guys have got it down. Looks great. Building owner should be pleased.

[@brightonduder]

Love it! Question: any advice to repair a few bits around a door frame? Tried a few times - but it falls away or blows... xxx

[@Brettly01]

doors and window frames always expand with the heat thus pushing against the render, thats why it cracks away.

[@Emin3m1986]

Use mastic

[@JohnnyMotel99]

I met an Irish renderer who used to mix a bit of crushed glass in the final coat. You could spot his work a long way off.

[@markcarey3308]

What kind of sand is being used here in this mix? Picked up some plastering sand (washed plastering sand from a big cement company in Ireland) and it was so coarse it was near impossible to work with! Working on the finishing coat this week so love to get a mix at that consistency (using 1:1:5 or 1:1:6 Cement:Lime:Sand)

[@petergray882]

If very course you would get away with some building sand mixed in

[@nicklloyd8191]

Do you use building sand or a different sand for rendering as I have just been told you need rendering sand when rendering a wall.? Or am I having my plonker pulled. So can you let me know.thanks nick

[@jimmybaldwin737]

Yeah I used to normally use Leighton buzzard plastering sand. It’s the best sand for rendering. It holds its position when your rubbing it up. It’s really nice to use. Make sure you put some waterproofer in the mix aswell. It’s easier to work with

[@I-am-not-a-number]

Reigate Plaster, their reputation is spreading.

[@nickmail7604]

If a plasterer can't render hes not a plasterer. Its like screeding a floor, its rarely done anymore but to be able to do it is part of the job.

[@willybigspuds]

Lovely Jubbly

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Beautiful 👌🏼Does the skill builder van never venture past the Watford gap 🤔😉🧱👍🏼

[@SkillBuilder]

The Skill Builder van is going nowhere at the moment. We had a trip to Venice planned but that is looking a bit dubious right now.

[@SteveAndAlexBuild]

Skill Builder just costco on a big roll run now 🙄🧻🧻🧻😂. Stay safe chaps 🧱👍🏽

[@MrSmid888]

That guys float was a metre long when he started as a boy.

[@deanreynolds2027]

That looked a nice creamy mix I bet there was atleast 2 shovels of building sand in that,CAN'T FAULT THE FINISH,

[@acostin4004]

How long do you have to wait before rubbing up the second coat . and how thick is scratch coat and top coat total cheers.

[@jaimehewitt365]

Both coats should add up to about 15mm. So two 7.5mm coats roughly. Don't go too thick with each coat as it is more likely to crack and fail. Leave 4 days between scratch and top coat. Keeping it wet as it's curing for as long as possible with a hose on both coats. Rubbing up depends on temperature. But if you can leave a thumb print with a bit of pressure it's ready to rub. You will know if it's too wet as the render will drag under your float. Hope this helps.

[@petevito]

Where do you get the additive that makes it stick to the towel like that, when I try it just ends up on the floor.. Another great video... 👍

[@SkillBuilder]

Try some lime, it makes it sticky and gives it more body. You will improve no end with a 1 cement 1 hydrated lime and 5 sand.

[@matthewgartell6380]

Don't put Feb in if using lime tho

[@itastal01]

What’s the silver line or white line on the left of the wall there rendering for???

[@MikeFromDublin]

I'm guessing its a movement bead.

[@petersparshot4997]

Osbourne's top quality plasters .

[@jamieanderson8171]

Did they rub it up same day

[@jamienewman4141]

Any building sand in that mix, or just washed? Looks particularly creamy that’s all

[@jaimehewitt365]

Never use building sand for rendering. Ideally a washed sharp sand for rendering. But plastering sand will do. I go 5:1:0.5 sand cement and hydrated lime with freeflo additive for top coat You will get it like those lads.

[@dragonfly8080808]

Hope you guys are still working!

[@richardjreynolds6166]

is that 5-1 on first and second cote?

[@matthewgartell6380]

first 4-1 Second 5-1

[@GavinLawrence747]

I'm confused why do you need the cement render on the brickwork? Is this purely an aesthetic choice or does it serve a practical purpose?

[@SkillBuilder]

It is a new extension built of solid blocks

[@kevinmcdermott2120]

Depends on the brick face could be corroded that is why it's rendered or for a better appearance.

[@nackway]

Skill Builder solid is a relative term these days....

[@BODGE71]

Could you run a speedskim over the render to flatten it?

[@SkillBuilder]

some people do but it is a bit bendy for ruling off.

[@dismaldog]

good old school sand/cement-none of this new bagged rubbish that goes on 1 coat 5mm.Love the old wood hawk too

[@SkillBuilder]

That is a urethane hawk.

[@dismaldog]

@@SkillBuilder oh cool-not seen one here in Australia

[@jonesconrad1]

Is that an expansion joint down the centre ?

[@a1motorcycletrainingandsal528]

Yeah

[@SkillBuilder]

Yes

[@rhysevans7903]

No lime....good lads 👍 Thermolights tho?

[@markneilson6380]

Whats your take on lime and cement render mixes?

[@richoliveria9829]

Could you please supply us with a interpreter?

[@megaman2016]

What's best render for a 1860s Victorian terrace?

[@SkillBuilder]

A mix of 1 cement 1 hydrated lime and 6 sharp sand is plenty strong enough. Even better is a 6 sand to 1 hydraulic lime NHL 3.5. Avoid waterproofer because it can trap moisture and you don't want that in a wall with no cavity.

[@megaman2016]

@@SkillBuilder and what kind of paint is best to keep it breathing

[@timmade]

Have you got any advice on rendering over a timber frame?

[@Mjflyer]

Wire mesh it first

[@matthewgartell6380]

Don't think they are on price. Who's on furlough? Great of the government to start the portal for employers to claim at end of APRIL.. WTF? I hope Roger and team have filmed enough of skill builder to get us through. Great blog.

[@trevorhayes1079]

Great to see a cheese cutter

[@dougsaunders8109]

That fella does not throw much on the floor.

[@leeosborne9605]

Its render not screed hahaha

[@coops6621]

I know why no-one likes smooth rendering anymore. Any sunshine on it and the slightest imperfection shows up a mile off! Probably one of the reasons why cement board cladding is being used everywhere these days, quality renderers are few and far between.

[@nackway]

coops66 that and everyone is building with blocks made of cheese....

[@keithy363]

Must admit though tidy job

[@siy83]

Jesus he is a talkative fella lol

[@SkillBuilder]

I liked them. They don't need to impress anyone, just do their job.

[@markneilson6380]

comparing him to kirk Giordano?

[@claudioborgesdeandrade8721]

Como pode postar um vídeo desse não entendemos porra nenhuma pelo menos usar legenda

[@ya00007]

Is there a video for beginners or non tradesmen so that when I get a builder to render I know he's doing it professionally/properly. Asian builders just mix sand and cement to create the mortar and 'SLAP" it on, like the dob and dab technique. We need a proper 'how to' video

[@5N19ERG0D]

Why not use a product like krend over sand and cement? Thank you :) just a young plasterer learning here

[@SkillBuilder]

K rend is OK but it stains really quickly and is expensive. Sand and cement finished with Dulux Weathershield is guaranteed self cleaning and mould free.

[@stephenribchester2185]

There is a new built bungalow across from me that was done with K rend 5 or 6 years ago and in the right light you can see just how green it has gone The bungalow has a good overhang on the roof so the line where the rain hits is quite a way down and really stands out. The wall is west facing but gets plenty of sun to dry it.

[@AmanSingh-ss8ep]

@@SkillBuilder thank you for the reply please do more videos of Robbins barn refurbishment. He is an a master craftsman.

[@vistron888]

In what context was the 'fake news' comment made?

[@SkillBuilder]

VT I haven't a clue. Maybe nothing. I think we were talking about conspiracy theories.

[@aliones]

1st to comment. wait where is the comment?

[@SkillBuilder]

Here it is.

[@adamsargeson520]

Are you using plastering sand ."

[@SkillBuilder]

Yes

[@davidskeeterskeeter1835]

FFS stop playing with it and just Slash it on the wall,!

[@zila6988]

David Boulton cowboy

[@terryhunter1500]

Not very sociable them boys

[@SkillBuilder]

They were (are) fine. They did what they always do, which is keep working, because they understood the value of the piece was in seeing them work

[@faizmiah2363]

Indeed . Watching this was relaxing

[@terryhunter1500]

@@SkillBuilder not as good as rogers detailed walkthrough videos

[@ricos1497]

@@SkillBuilder Agreed. I thought they said just enough, and I'm guessing that they're not on-camera regulars either. I enjoyed their work. Very impressive.

[@johndaniells4440]

To be fair they probably just wanted to get the gear on the wall. Time is of the essence.

[@gianlucareddavide4356]

Cambia mestiere che è meglio!!!!

[@marcusmorgan3087]

Pointless. Tells you absolutely nothing....

[@miyahampton]

Bootifull....Reeeeally Bootifull.

[@aplasterersday]

Good!

[@aplasterersday]

Good!