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Ask your QuestionIf i fit a steel in above my window how do i go about rendering it so it matches the house? What can i use for the render to stick to?
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"You need to put expanding metal on. You can bed it into your scratch coat when set you can top coat.
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"Use timber in the web of the steal work cut tight. Then get a render board, measure and cut to the opening size, fix it to the timber and then render on to this."
Answered on 16th Dec 2020 - Member since Sep 2020 - report"External wall insulation, sold at any builders merchants."
Answered on 16th Dec 2020 - Member since May 2019 - report"You can make timber wedges, fit these within the steel then fit eml to them then render or make a timber frame around the steel or use strap banding then fix eml then render."
Answered on 16th Dec 2020 - Member since Oct 2019 - report"If it is an tsk timber nogs inbeteen and cover with Galvenized mesh then light scratch coat to cover mesh then top coat when dry
It may be advisable to put some polythene behind the mash to stop the render falling through"
"Box around beam with baton plaster board and skim into existing walls"
Answered on 17th Jan 2021 - Member since Mar 2019 - report