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Post by cannyfradock on Aug 3, 2012 16:01:36 GMT
Turkey
Great pics....and a nice insight into your rendering techniques. Can't wait to see that beauty in action......
Terry
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Post by turkey on Aug 3, 2012 16:09:10 GMT
I would say short cuts or bodges really was nice to smear about after the vermicrete layer, I can see why folks would find building a clay oven therapeutic.
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Post by turkey on Aug 6, 2012 12:20:21 GMT
it seems I never manage to organise myself correctly but plough on I do. This time, I had my brother over to help with the render and it was not till after the tennis I managed to get him into the garden and of course wickes had closed... then I realised I only had one bag of sharp sand not two. I decided with a nice thin coat I could probably make do so off we went mixing very accuratly due to the cement dye and the very real thought of having to replicate the mix soon. I was going to use 9.2.1 / sand.lime.cement. but ended up with one bag of sand (about 19.5 of my measuring pots) and 3 lime and 2 cement. Should have written all this down as this is now from memory and I am not 100% sure as looking at it I would have thought 4 lime, but i think we only did 3, we had to sieve each one due to the large lumps in my bag.... ahh the joys of back yard building lol. What I found was this bag of sharp sand was more like sharp ballast as it had loads of quite large (for sand) pebbled in it, which made a think render impossible as all the time the pebbles where fighting with the float. It really was an uphil strugle and I was quite down beat doing it. I think the final look is not so bad but I was hoping to get better finnish. We had to use our hands in the end to float it to get a decent ish finnish. We ran out so the squirel tail at the back is yet to be renderd but is pretty much invisible even from the extreme sides so it will not matter if that is slightly different in colour. All in a good evenings work, but not happy with the sand, nor the lack of planning. anyhow here is the photo, the monkey is my brothers contribution to the overall artistic merrit of the shot lol
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Post by pete123 on Aug 6, 2012 15:36:28 GMT
Another brilliant job.
How did you avoid trowel marks in the final finish? Did you use Terry's tip of waiting 2 - 3 hours & using a sponge in circular motions?
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Post by turkey on Aug 6, 2012 15:55:55 GMT
i did not know about the sponge, we where wearing surgical gloves to protect out delicate skin from the cement and lime (lesson learnt there a long time ago), and just used our hands to work over the oven, really this was needed because of the huge stones in there and the float was just dragging them upwards making huge gouges. its not a smooth finnish but its not so bad, although I have not seen how it has dried, as when you work the top layer you bring the water to the surface really so hopefully this has set hard and not sunk back down to reveal Brighton beach as it seemed when I started once its dry and stopped raining here (oven is covered) I will try to get some more detail shots to see how it really looks up close as that pic looks better than I remember it looking when I was up close and swearing at it lol
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Post by pistolpete on Aug 6, 2012 21:37:24 GMT
That looks lovely, great colour and looks like a great finish too. Know what you mean by the peddle comment, my feels like its peddle dashed!
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