Rendering Advice

[Rel]

dulux and granosite (wattyl) have good finishing products, trowell on texture coats, paint is thin thin thin, like 0.1 of a millimetre,

If that's the case then, I'll what you suggested. That is using render cement.

Do I need to get white cement? It's going to have a yellowy-creamy colour.

Can you describe how to render?

Like you said, I probably skim a first coat then top up with second coat then painting it with the render paint.

Any suggestion?

Cheers

[rebaj]

Myla,
thought this was a forum to help people on-line.

you're not fishing for work are you.

I am also a renderer but am not dangling the hook out for anyone.

just a query.

p.s. can't get any work offline? How come?

I'm flooded. Just returned form a two storey 40 squares job in QLD.

Are you able to give some idea of how much a house this size would cost?

[billbeee]

I will throw in my take on rendering.

I consider myself a fairly handy and practical guy but I wouldn't dream of doing a render job on my own.

Some things DIYers can do but rendering is not one of them.

Labouring for a guy like Myla yes, and even troweling under his supervision, when he has set up the right material, the right preparation, how thick a coat and the right mix etc.

When he is there to give you a kick up the bum if you are playing around too much on a small area instead of going for the whole.

Some jobs look deceptively easy, and with the right training and practice I guess they are, plastering is one of them.

It looks easy but it ain't.

Cheers
Bill

[myla]

hello rebaj,

to work out approx cost if getting crew in simply do the following:

a. work out area of wall, length x height, this will give you total sqM (do not take windows out at this point)

b. multiply this figure by 44, as most renderers are charging around this figure per sqM

this will give you a basic indication of cost if single story, walk up start for 2 basecoats and 1 color texture coat

some things to keep in mind is if double story an allowance for scaffolding would be required or roof fall protection, so do same calculation but u will not have scaffold allowance

thats when some additional cost would come on for scaffold, grinding, meshing etc

the thing with an OWNER providing labor, with rendering, someone is always required to mix up, tape windows, clean up, move trestles, do a bit of floating, set up straight edges, prime walls

all very easy things

thankyou

myla

[pasey25]

just a quick check. I'm having a new house built.

I wanted a part of the front facade rendered ilo of the standard bagged/painted finish.

surface area is about 22.5 sqm + another 15% or so for the returns, lets say 26sqm. There are two sections, one surrounds a large window, and the other side is the garage surround.

If I ignore the window per some of the comments here, a should add another 7.5sqm

So lets say 33.5sqm.

Builder wants to charge 3k to render this portion. Thats about $90sqm at best case, not forgetting that the contract already includes bagged & painted.

I'm getting the feeling from this thread that this isn't a reasonable cost.

Anyone have any comments? I can post a pic if it helps.

[myla]

hello,

yes, come across this

couple of friends just went for the face brick option then rendered sections as required

can you cancel the bagging/painting option?

Can only see the cost rising to that figure if any piers are included.

thankyou

myla

[pasey25]

Can only see the cost rising to that figure if any piers are included.

so you think the quote might be resonable?