Can you get smooth render?

Worth mentioning is that if you have pebbledash as your existing render, you can create a smooth render by covering it over using our One Coat Dash Cover. This creates a perfectly flat surface to which you can either apply a thin coat render or you can paint it with a Silicone Paint.

Is Coloured render any good?

Advantages of tinted/ coloured render Rendering a wall with tinted renders offer a timeless and beautiful quality that painted surfaces simply cannot achieve. Coloured renders offer a tough, flexible and water-resistant finish with long-term exterior protection, designed for brick walls.

Is K Rend a smooth finish?

K Rend are committed to quality, excellence, integrity and teamwork. Texture – K Rend products come in a variety of textures from smooth and refined to textured and traditional.

Is K Rend better than normal render?

K-rend and other scratch renders are also more likely to crack than more modern thin-coat renders. It’s not that they are bad products – in fact K-rend is probably the UK’s best selling render – but the unavoidable fact is that any render applied that thickly is more likely to crack.

What can I use instead of render?

Similar to render are roughcast and pebbledash. These are coatings where render is reinforced with pebbles, gravel or even shells, to create a hardwearing layer over the home. This is often seen on coastal homes as it stands up to the elements.

How do I get a smooth finish on render?

A smooth finish – also known as a traditional, sponge, or float finish – is achieved by smoothing down a base coat render with a sponge float and coating with an external quality paint.

Does Coloured render fade?

The coloured render system, once applied to the walls of a house, gives the external surface of the building a long lasting, damp proof, durable wall finish, with a never fade colour you can really stand back and admire for years to come, with zero maintenance!

Is K Rend worth it?

3 Answers from MyBuilder Plasterers We use K Rend and we find it to be a more superior product to sand and cement render. The main benefit of using it is that it is maintenance free once done. If the old render is cracking I would strongly recommend removing the old render first back to bare brickwork.

Is silicone render better than sand and cement?

Depending on your budget and requirements, you could choose between monocouche and silicone rendering which are much more superior to the conventional rendering methods made from cement and sand.

Does K Rend discolour?

“Krend is a silicone based render making it waterproof and highly insulated. If it is applied correctly and rubbed correctly it will not lose its colour within two years.

Can you put render on in one coat?

One Coat Render can be used For interior and exterior use and has been formulated for single coat application, reducing the total drying time and can be over coated once fully cured. It is suitable for tradesmen with experience of applying render.

What are the advantages of self coloured render?

The main advantages of the self coloured render are that firstly you save on painting costs as it does not require painting at the end of the job.

What is render colour and how does it work?

The colour is contained in a special pigment, which is mixed into the render, meaning that when it is applied to the outside of a building, the wall surface is a rich, uniform colour of your choosing that requires no painting at all ever again!

Why choose colourrockcote coloured renders?

ROCKCOTE Coloured Renders offer a tough, flexible and water resistant finish with long-term exterior protection, designed for Australian conditions. Tintable to any commercially available colour, the advantage of Coloured Renders comes with the depth of colour that permeates the entire render layer maintaining a rich, full colour.

What is the best type of rendering for old homes?

Lime render: Lime render is the best option for old homes. It is flexible and breathable so suited to period properties to alleviate damp problems. Cement render: This is the standard choice on external walls. It can be mixed on site and the materials used are cheap but as it takes two to three coats, labour costs soon add up.