How To Render Walls: The Full Guide (Applying Beads & Render/ Preparation/ Floating & Sponging)
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
- In today's video, I'm going to show you the full process on how to render a wall - from start to finish! This is a mammoth tutorial where we cover a variety of subjects!
I'll show you how to render exterior walls with topics covering:
How to apply your first coat of render
The mix you need for success (sand cement render with a pinch of lime)
The secret to getting extra strength in your render to avoid cracking
The big reason why you need Lime in your render mix
How to fix exterior corner beads
The 1st thing you need to do before you even start rendering
The correct way to float a wall so it's DEAD FLAT
The best way to get a flat, smooth, finish wall
These are the subjects we'll cover! It's a big tutorial so make sure to get comfortable because its a monster.
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Thanks for watching
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Blaine!
with this dudes help through videos, i rendered my entire garage and house by myself. its so satisfying, i love it! i am programmer... so getting out and forget about the computer and do something like this is awesome. thanks for all your videos!
You keep saying “easy” but easy it definitely ain’t. That’s a real skill and an art. And it’s obvious you actually take pride in what you do. Appreciate your willingness to share freely your knowledge and experience.
Just about to have a go at rendering for the first time and I'm finding your videos absolutely invaluable. Lots of tips and advice, superb.
Thank you mate! I really appreciate that 🍻
How did you get on? I'm about to give ago myself too, doing lots of research.
Very thorough step by step tutorial on how to install corners ans stucco a building. It is in fact the most complete set video instructions I’ve seen on RUclips and I’ve watched a lot of them. Thank you 🙏
Thanks for yet another cracking video. Your clear insightful tutorials have helped a complete novice to succesfully plaster and render several walls to a surprisingly high standard of finish! Keep up the good work!
I'm plastering a wall for the first time and this video is really useful. Amazing that the float, a super finishing tool is one of the cheapest.
I could even smell the sand and cement mix. Strange how your mind can play tricks on your body. Great job 👍🏻
Top man keep up the good work been in the trade for over 40 years now it’s good to see a good tradesman explain his trade keep well and be safe
Thank you mate! I really appreciate that... especially coming from a man with experience like your own. Cheers pal 👍
Many thanks for the extended video explanation. It was just what I needed to confidently tackle a big gable tomorrow. I am just a DIY guy but I know I can pull this off. Great work by the way.
Good luck my friend and thank you for watching! I really appreciate it
Wow just wow, great work, I feel like you just took me through a years college class!
Great video, just about to have a go myself and you’ve helped with lots of tips I never even thought about. Wouldn’t it be good if all tradesmen were as dedicated as you. Well done that boy !
Good luck my friend and thank you for your kind words! I really appreciate it 👍
Another top video mate. You do it so well. I mean the tuition side as well as the rendering. It’s people like you that are inspirational and give others the aspiration to do projects like this ourselves. Top man 👍🏻
Thanksyou mate - that really means a lot to me so thank you for your kind words. I'm glad it's helping my friend. Cheers 👍
Just beautiful. Great video. Thanks. Very informative. Keep on keeping on.
Thanks pal! I really appreciate that 👍👍
another detailed yet chilled video, well done man . nice work as ever!!!
We're trying (!) to render a swimming pool. I wish I'd watched this first! Your answers to the comments are very helpful as well
I'm glad to hear it's helped! Keep us updated with your progress pal 👍
@@PlasteringForBeginners Thank you! Will do
Mate you legend. Have an exact pebble rendor on my garage and hate it. You literally laid it out in easy steps, you make it look easy though, highly doubt that will be. Cheers fella really appreciate you sharing that knowledge. So quick question I live up north (rains alot), like what happens if it rains say after you scored it for final coat, finding a spare 3 days without rain is pot luck.
This is a Fantastic Video! I've just finished a rendering course at college and this video reflects what I've learnt. I cant wait to get into doing this on a regular basis.
Great workmanship dude🙌 very informative
Good teaching. Interesting and I cannot wait to get started.
Thank you so much...I really appreciate it 👍
Best content on rendering. My walls don't look as good but they are a lot better now I've been watching these! haha thank you
Ha thank you pal! I really appreciate that. Good luck with your rendering 👍
Another excellent video mate! Best how to's on the tube!
Thank you pal, I really appreciate that! Cheers.
Fair play bud, have a block wall to tackle, your vids are giving me the balls to try it out!!
Word of advise, hose your scratch coat down on shower before applying top coat, then it won't set up on you as fast. A brush just doesn't get enough water on. Other than that, very nice 👌 mix ratios spot on, I always add lime as you say makes it more usable and gives a little flexibility and helps prevent cracking.
Thanks for that pal!! I'll bear that in mind. Cheers 😙
Easy to follow video instructions. Thank you buddy
Another brilliant video fella keep them coming being a plaster my self love watching them to see how other people work with the materials 👍👊💪💪
love your work! thanks brother for quality information 😊
Thank you my friend! I really appreciate that
Brilliant thanks. Your tutorials are amongst the best mate. You explain and demonstrate so well.
Thank you! That means a lot to me and I really appreciate the feedback. Thanks pal, you're a legend 👍
Great tutorial, im gonna try rendering my garden wall, never tried before, can i use a sponge float?
Very nice work... watching lots of yours now buddy. Thank you
Excellent, great job and very well explained, thanks for taking the time to make, edit and upload this
Thank you for watching my friend!!
If you have an extension with a rendered face on one end but with exposed brick on the other sides, would you use a stop bead at each end as well as a stop bead at the bottom? Looking to re-do the render as it's cracked and scruffy looking. Currently there are no beads anywhere, either at the ends or the bottom but I wonder if adding beads might add some additional strength? Really loving the render series of videos.
Nice one mate! you've just confirmed the very method I'm going to use on the rear of Vic House x 3 floor terrace so the mesh & lime & cost is the way to go it Take care of any movement for longer good info & detail
Great stuff!! Good luck 🍀
Sooperb !!!
Pure class as always Blaine. 👍👍
Thank you mate!!
Plucking up the courage to do a garden wall..loved this video, thank you
Good luck 🤞
Hi Blaine hope you are well pal. What ratio of sand/cement do use please and what type of sand? Many thanks Mick
Very interesting and informative video. Appreciate your time and effort in producing it.
In the states we use a green float with a handle. My grandfather would call it a magic float. Magically makes the wall beautiful
That's interesting!! Thanks fur the insight my friend 👍
You explained it well, taken your time
Fantastically well explained.
Cheers matey, glad you enjoyed it!!
Love watching you videos again got to render therlite blocks what ratio mix would you use.
Thank you pal. I'd say 5:1 scratch with mesh and 6:1 top my friend 👍
Good stuff mate!! You guy's do it alot different to us down here Australia. Shout out from Victoria cheers mate 😁
Great hearing from you pal!! Cheers 👍
Hey Mate. Awesome Vid. I do rendering nearly everyday. I would suggest getting yourself a brass nozzle hose end for your hose. It as a perfect spray for sand finish render. Also for the love of god get yourself a new bigger float. I’d recommend a larger Refina diamond float and a proper sand finish sponge. Will make it so much easier bud. I can send you a pic of what I mean if you like.
Hello mate! Thank for your kind words and I'll definately take your suggestions en board. Haha yeah that is a tiny float - it's coming to breaking point so I'll be getting a new one. Are the Diamond floats nice to use on sand cement then? I heard they were just used for the internal referring? Yes please mate, I'd love to see it! Thanks for all your help. It's good to hear from a profession like yourself, cheers 👍
Plastering For Beginners cant seem to send a pic on these comments.. but yes the Diamond floats work well on S-C. The diamond indentations on the underside do a great job of filling any small hollows etc as well. Plus a bit bigger than a standard float. Look at sand finish sponges as well. Basically a sponge with a handle on it. Nice and flat surface and you can speed through the finish. Whe I work out how to send a pic I will.
That's great thanks for that pal. I'll get a diamond float I reckon so thank you for the recommendation! Cheers 👍
Plastering For Beginners I sent a pic to your email from your page. All the best mate. From down under.
@@ciadiac which diamond float do you recomend and whats a sand finish sponge...the refina ones?
Going render the back wall of my concrete council shed watching this as helped as itl be first my time rendering then ill paint it a bright funky color as a focal type point 👍
Good stuff pal!! Enjoy
Lovely job. And you kept it easy and simple, to follow, 👍
Can I put the base coat on first before beading as some mesh was visible after scratching the top coat ?
right to left or left to right surely gotta just be down to what hand you put it on with no ?
Excellent work and fantastic at explaining what you are doing and how to do it. Really appreciate your time doing these videos 5 ⭐️
Great work mate
Colin Male
I liked the video very much, good presentation and very high quality workmanship.
Would you ever consider using Mastercrete Cement instead of OPC, it states on the bag it is suitable for rendering!
What typebof sand did you use.
I did the pillars next to my gate, and was told to use grit sand? I did but it was a mare to get on. I did it in the end but I thought next time I would just use building sand.?
Fantastic video, thank you. I’ve just build connecting garden walls as raised beds out of concrete blocks. I’ll be rendering them in the next couple of weeks. I have a couple of questions if you don’t mind?As they are new walls, should I apply any stabilising solution first? I don’t think I do, just make sure they are brushed down .. I wanted to check first. Second question, as they are raised beds, do I need to be concerned with damp? Should I apply a waterproof coat before/after the render (or not at all?). Thanks so much.
excellent video! the a to z of rendering; found it very useful with lot of tips. Cheers pal !
Thank you for your kind words and thank you for watching. It means a lot to me 👍
Hi question if I have a block retaining wall that gets really wet what’s the best way to prepare the wall for rendering? Thanks
Not sure if youve done this before but the handheld garden sprayers that you pump are great to wet the parent material before doin work. Quick and efficient I’ve found. Lmk what you think! Much love from NY
Great vid btw!
Hi Sean! Great hearing from you mate. I actually use them a lot - I've featured a lot of the sprayers in my previous videos but I smashed mine up last week. Dropped a scaffold board on it ha! They are ideal for rendering, I totally agree! Thanks for the comment and thank you for watching 👍
Hi , what is the materials you use including lime as you mentioned and how you mix them , timing as well , thanks
Hi fella, love your vids. I'm a plasterer my self but I don't do allot of rendering. Why start right to left when as a natural right hander I plaster left to right? Cheers fella, keep up the good vids. 👍👍
Thanks a lot mate. I really appreciate that!! So you render right to left to work the render into itself. And you also have a depth to follow from which helps you keep an even thickness when you're applying the render 👍
The banksy of rendering..love it
Ha cheers pal!
How long is it ok before you can paint on top of the render as there seems to be mixed reviews on this matter
Great video! Been watching several of your videos lately !
Great video buddy , i like that its more in-depth with the diffrent stages. Keep up the hard work , look forward to more videos. 👍🏼😎
Good work I got a question I'm about to render a large side of a house from gable end to floor I notice a few big houses have two or three breaking points from gable end to floor as the wall is to big to do in one hit I'm assuming what would you use as a breaking point a bead of some sort?
Excellent video and makes me want to start rendering my own concrete block garden wall. Trouble is, it's 120m long and covered in painted flaky old tyrolean render. Might be a lifetimes work considering I've never done it before 😜
Good work and nice video mate.
Something helpful might have been to mention how to calculate quantities needed for the materials.
When the wall gets old and you want it to look new again, do you rerender the wall, how do you go about doing that without destroying the wall itself?
Amazing job! Well done! I wish I was as skillful as you and get my walls rendered.
Thank you matey! I really appreciate that...just keep practicing and you'll get there my friend 👍
Thank you for this informative video! 🍻
Not a problem 😊
ive got a rendered tiny toilet outhouse and part of it under the render is wall and part of it is wood or something, and the render is totally cracked where the wood is on both sides ...like there was once a door there....now im not sure how to approach this job....should i just knock out the render in the door way ..and rerender it ...or do i have to remove all the walls render and totally re do it ?
Great video. Thanks for sharing.
Welp, I've watched this vid multiple times now, and it pushed me to have a go myself. It definitely isnt easy for a first timer but like everything practice makes perfect I guess. You make it look way too easy! I'm only doing the front facing walls of my house and it took me nearly a damn day just to get one quarter of it done with just one coat. Which brings me to a question : Is the top coat actually needed? I was trying to see if I could get one coat down and then paint it after a week or two of curing. I keep seeing differing opinions on top coats but you seem to be the man to ask.
Hi!! Well done on your efforts so far. I'd always recommend a top coat because it's another layer of protection - not only that but that's the cost that gives your lovely, flat finish. It's good practice but I suppose you could get away with one coat.
@@PlasteringForBeginners Thanks mate, I'll see how I go , might be a good time to experiment.
Thank-you. Great video.
Nice! You make it look easy!
Cheers mate!!
Hi ya quick question. I've got pebble dash house and basically i have cement blocked up an old external door way. the blocks sit about 1/4 to 1/2 inch deeper than the pebble dash. so that old door that's blocked up way needs to be packed out first (to be level with the pebble dash). What would you suggest? Pack it out level with pebble dash scratch it, let it dry and then put another scratch coat over the whole wall? or would you just build it out and carry on with scratch coat over the whole wall?
Also MASSIVE thanks to your videos, as they have helped me plaster my new house. I thought I was good until i knocked a light over!! acted as an up light and showed how terrible i was, however that mistake enabled me to get really nice smooth flat walls, using light from all angles!
Best videos on the internet for plastering and rendering 100%
Thanks again and all the best from down south ; )
The videos you do are some of the best for explaining what to do. With regard to the SBR, I have got concrete blocks to render. The previous owner has painted some of the blocks (I think for choosing a colour). Would you put the SBR directly on to the wall as well as in the mix? Would this help? If you do put it directly on to the wall, do you render immediately or do you wait for the SBR to start to go off. Your advice would be much appreciated, thank you.
Another fantastic video Blaine!
I have a question please...I am needing to take on a (similar) project, but my current surface is a previously rendered and painted 1930’s house wall, that looks like it has been patched in places.
The surface IS already firm and solid, (just a bit rough and unsightly).
I really don’t want the massive job of hacking off the existing render, so what can I do to ensure a good bond between that old painted render surface and new the mesh / skim coat that I’m wanting to apply?
I’m really hoping you’ll tell me there’s some sort of brush-on bonding additive that I can use as a key?
Thanks in advance.
Hi mate. Good question - I would at least try to remove the old paint from the render but after that there's a product called Rendagrip. Apply this to the background before rendering and once it's died, you're good to go. Hope this helps and good luck pal 💪
If you add lime do you use plas or waterproofer also...?
Very helpful. I'm a plasterer but only really been doing interior plastering in my first year of business and want to expand my services.
Couple questions.
If you had a bead on the right side of the wall on your final coat would you of worked from the right side of the wall like you did on your scratch?
Would a water sprayer be easier than water and brush?
I've seen a few renderers using speed skims for their ruling off. Any opinion on that?
When you was rubbing the render down, was that a wooden float?
Thanks!
Thanks for posting this it's really insightful. I wonder if you could help me though. I'm rendering my bathroom wall this weekend and I wondered if you think the blue circle ready mixed morter is ok to use? I notice you use different mixes on your 1st and 2nd coat so I'm concerned that the ready mixed won't be good enough. Im going to apply a coat of SBR this evening and another coat before I put on my scratch coat. Thank you
I wouldn’t use it to be fair - I doing like that type of render. The pre-Mixed bags like OCR is brilliant...I just don’t like that one. Try OCR if you want something to work with thats pre-mixed. Hope this helps 👍
@@PlasteringForBeginners thank you this did help alot! i did a scratch coat with the blue circle and it was horrific. i went and got the OCR from wickes after i saw your message and it was so much smoother and easier, however i still couldn't get my float to smooth it and it was just falling off like sand. i left it to dry unsmoothed because ive multi finished over the top and it looks fine but i have external walls i need to render too so would be good to know what i did wrong. thanks again.
Also, do you come out as far as tonbridge and malling? i'd like someone to come and quote to skim over 5 artex ceilings and the hallway and landing wall and ceiling. once the rewire is done
This is better than a thousand book .s thanks grat vid
Great job lad, looked perfection
Thank you mate 👍👍
Hi man, whats the mix ratios for each coat and how much lime did you say to add? Cheers
Great video ... Austrian you said 4 sand and 1 cement and lots of SBI
What is a lot of sbi and what is sbi?
Thats a lovely job! 👍🏻
Cheers pal!
Skimmed a wall in my own house yesterday (2 coats over a bonding coat on a solid wall ( i don't do plastering for a living), It looks good, BUT I STILL can't seem to master the art of the down-swing when skimming, so lots of up-swings for me to get hollows & imperfections out. Do I need to apply more pressure with the trowel on the down-stroke at all?? Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks !
Top work again Blaine.
How do you treat the wall when you scrape flat large areas and it doesn't come flat and small chunks fall off so how do I overcome this problem.
Whats the mix for that wall..4 to 1? Please.
going to try and render a wall,what length and width of trowel should i get,cheers
Now then bud was wondering what u would to go over render that has been painted it’s solid wud u recommend rendagrip or something else 👍
At last a decent video on here showing all the steps (apart from the bit when your camera died!) nice one mate keep up the great videos 👌🏼👍🏼
Thank you mate! I really appreciate that and thank you for watching! Cheers pal 👍
You used a plastic corner bead.... is it ok to use a metal/alum type?
Hi, out of interest exactly how much waterproofer do you put in your scratch coat?
Good job u make it look so easy, couple of questions i struggle with keeping the depth when applying render presume its just by eye until top coat and leveling? When you leveling i presume your dragging up alone the edging (left arm) and then just guessing with right arm as in trying to keep level.. great videos though thanks
Hi mate. To be honest it's all in the ruling - it's actually quite a strange skill because you are just guessing really. It takes a lot of trial and error but one day it just clicks. Just keep practicing. I know it sounds like a cop out but it's the best answer I've got!!
Do you hose down the wall to keep the cement hydrated for curing? Great video mate much appreciated.
I do use a sprayer on hot days but I was just mentioning in a previous comment that I smashed my hand one up last week. Just haven't got round to buying another one yet ha!! But yes... You are right 💪
Plastering For Beginners how many times would you spray if it was hot? And would you spray something like KRend?
How would you go about rendering a blue board fence ie using laminated timber posts and timber frame. Blue board then attached to frame on both sides. The info I’ve managed to find says use acrylic render base then a coloured acrylic render top coat. What are your thoughts. Thanks in advance and thank you for taking the time to put these videos together, great work.
Great looking wall,
Cheers matey!!
Great vid mate. Would you recommend a light mist spray on a wall to stop it drying out too quickly on a hot day. So after the sponge of?
Thank you mate I really appreciate that! It's a good idea actually because I have seen render craze before on hot days so it could help. Just make sure it's a light haze because it could affect your finish if there's too much pressure!
Cover it aswell if it’s possible to keep the suns rays off it.
Nice work mate,I’m in the trade myself and loved it from day one..think you’d be a cool guy to work way lol.👍🏻
Thanks pal and it's good to hear from a fellow spread. Cheers mate, good you're coping during these strange times 👍
Nice job, sponging is the most satisfying part. Do you have any videos of rendering over painted brick or any tips on how to do it? Thanks
Don’t is the best advice, strap it and put a carrier board on. 👍🏻
TOP man Great vid Incredible, your the best on youtube NEW SUBSCRIBER All the best mate kev
Ha thank you so much kev. I really appreciate that, cheers mate!!!