Rendering A Garden Wall & Brick Steps With Sand And Cement (Plastering For Beginners) 

Thank you so much for this very clear and detailed vid Blaine. As a humble surgeon who loves nothing more than wasting time on projects which annoy my wife ("just pay someone, please just pay someone"), I'm very proud to report that even she was surprised how it turned out. Could not have done it without you - many thumbs up!

good videos... you are a good craftsman. Im in the PNW (Seattle, WA. part currently) U.S. and have been a cement mason for....dang, almost 30 years now. The early years were primarily pouring and finishing concrete with my last few focusing on mostly patching...which covers a broad aspect of work, materials and applications. I'd have to say one of my strengths comes from using great techniques picked up from other people and incorporating into my own methodology, it has set me apart from a good deal of folks mostly for the better...sometimes not, lol. I'm telling my background for reference that I do have a very solid background as a cement mason and you take what I'm saying as real talk. your work is legit... not that you don't know, and its good to see variations from other countries that are similar and also the differences. Good work all around and great tutorials for beginners, giving great basic core techniques and showing craftsmanship at its finest, you sir, are all Aces as far as I'm concerned!! BTW, I shouldn't forget the original reason for the comment now should I, lol. I really can't put enough emphasis on how important of a tool the sponge is, personally. OTJ in this particular area they look at it as a hack tool....IMO, it is delusional to overlook the importance of a good clean sponge and seeing you use it properly as a finishing tool is a great representation of that!

Ok so, rendering is a "trust the process" thing ! During the scratch coat I was like 🤨 Second coat 🤔 Final result 👏👏👏 You did such a nice job! Cheers from France

Thanks . Very helpful . I'm just sat watching rendering videos in my kitchen preparing to render an old stone wall in my garden . Got some good tips from this video

Superbe travail. Je fait le meme métier que toi depuis + de 30 ans c est le plus beau métier du monde. Continu ton bon travail j adore regarder tes videos. Salutation du Canada. Québec.

Nice job. When I saw the condition of the wall and the steps, I didn't think anyone could do much with it. But it turned out great.

'Keep the gear' luv it!! as a fellow Manc, the gear never gets wasted. Nice work mate!!!

Spot on..easy to follow the way you have shown, even the novice can attempt it..thanks very much..I've saved your video .top man.

Hi Blaine great video I have enjoyed over the years the content and skills you have captured for all to learn from. Thank you Martyn.

Superb job. You have just given me an idea of how to change my garden walls now without knocking them down and building them with something else. Cheers.

Impressed with the angles .Class

So no adhesive needed! I like it. I've got an old wall like this to render at the weekend. I only need to pick up some lime so winning! 💪

Thanks for this video. It has helped me out loads rendering a planter bench for the first time and I’m well happy! Thanks again 😊

Loads of plasterers out there but not all have that kind of finesse when it comes to freehand. Brilliant work I love watching the videos. ;)

U wouldn't think that was the same wall and step. Great job.

Enjoyed watching the master at work. Will render some steps in a few weeks... cheers

This looks the absolute nuts, especially regarding how it began.. you should be proud dude, you're absolutely nailing your trade.

Nice and neat, I know render notoriously doesn't last long due to changing elements when exposed, but I think you did such a fine job the weather should make an exemption 👌

Nice. I’ve got to do rendering next week so thanks for the tips.

This is an excellent beginner video, thanks mate!

I'm not a builder nor am I looking to plaster but your videos are pretty interesting. The finishing is top notch.

Finished rendering my first wall today, thank you so much for taking the time and effort in making these videos to help others. Big 👍 thumbs up!!!!!

I had never thought of using my level like that. Great work!

Very informative video. Like the way you use a spirit level to get accurate edges, without having to use beads.

Lovely job. Am inspired to get my broken garden walls like this as look fab

Im gonna give my small wall a go now. Brilliant vid.

Love your vids... love watching you work.. thanks for the upload.

I love every moment of your video Mac Thank you and I learned a lot

Stunning work mate

No beads, now we're talking! Could never get used to those refinas, messed up my work with it and havent had the confidence to give it another go! Nice job 😎👍🏻😂

Great job Finishing product was amazing !!

Great work. Thanks for the tip on building out by throwing it on.

EXCELLENT WORK.

Amazing transformation - top class!

Enjoyed that mate, good skills thanks

Fantastic job !

Wow. Fab job 👏🏼

Gosh that looks so good!

Lovely work

Looking forward to giving it a go.

Lovely job!

Looks awesome mate 👌

Excellent job 👍

Using the level as your bead, a good tip there and one il be using

Great new music, Blaine. And a lovely job as always. If you ever have to render a house, can you do a video on that please :D

Great video. Thanks for sharing..

Excellent result but then again you are a professional👌

Bloody fantastic job mate. 👌

Great job. Very interesting

Nice crisp angles, a really nice job.

Great job 👏

Awesome video mate, really helpful for my upcoming jobs! Cheers

Was dreading doing it myself but with this easy to watch video and easy instructions I’m going to have a go

Wahoo amazing job!!

Nice video.. I followed the steps.

Great work! Thanks for sharing

Nice and neat 👍

Amazing work (as ever)

Can’t believe I’m watching render videos while waiting for render to go off( I’m a spray renderer/plasterer) I hate sand/cement with a passion it looks garbage when sun hits but the sand you’re using there looks nice mate! In Birmingham it’s terrible! The best I’ve ever seen is from the west coast- it’s called “Home sand” I was in Somerset and it’s dredged from the Bristol Channel! It’s jet black and rubs up amazing! Well done with that wall lad looks great 👌

This video has give me confidence to try it myself. Thanks Wish me luck

Good job again mate, as always

Nice one fella.Great work.

Love your work mate

Top work that mate proper plasterer 💪💪

Classy bit of work

Love your video's.Greetz from the Nerherlands

Excellent job my friend

Class!

Your work is beautiful and inspiring to watch, many thanks for a great video. I love you channel. Please when you built up the first coat of render, you threw the render on and left it to rest undisturbed, for how long? Please also, you did not try to flatten or compact the first coat to the bricks, so was the force of throwing the mix enough to ensure it was compacted enough to the brickwork, rather than laying it on with a trowel? From experience my friend and myself both laid bricks for a small piers, I kept touching up my render after laying it and he laid his bricks and render one time, it looked ugly and mine looked lovely. His brickwork is solid, has lasted and mine has all the cracks. Knowing when to leave? Kindest regards..

Really nice clean work. 👌

Thanks for all of your videos. You have helped me so much with my DIY projects. How long do you wait before rendering on those newly laid bricks

Nice tidy job that mate

Absolutely amazing job....and really well tutorialised (thats not a word - but it should be) - I actually feel I can do this now.....Ill still probably destroy the place and more than likely have to throw the whole garden in the skip but.....nothing ventured.....

Great video lovely work

Great work

Sweet 👌👍

smart job bud👍

You're a better man than me. I tried not using beads and just couldn't get all three edges straight! As soon as one was right, the other got messed up :O

Hi there, this is great craftsmanship - nieve question alert- how long after the main layer did you wait before you did the float work?

Nice work!

Mint bro.

Awesome

I use both those plastic floats to sand cement screed wet area floors, they’re real good.

You are an absolute diamond! I used all these tips today topcoat rendering a few walls and it turned out great. I thought having no beading it would be rubbish but your great advice kept me on track. Subbing fo sho!

Thank you.

Hi This is great, I'm doing an old chimney and got rid of the loose render then filled in the voids. It worries me how I'm going get the render the stick good on so do you bond after stretch coat or not? Many thanks Steve

Just hoping to render some damaged steps never done it before so could you please advise on what materials I will need and what procedure you went through on this great video what is floating and why do you do it for example thank you

Nice one bud 👍

This guy is really good

Great video will give the spirit level a try as wall is similar to what i have to level off 👍

Thanks very much for posting this, it has been educational for me and will likely save me some money. I don't know if you're a professional renderer but hats off to you for the render, it looks great, but why didn't you take that middle step down a couple of inches? Would have been easy to do and left you with 3 nice equal sized steps.

Thanks very Informative.

Hi that is a good well job done. I have a similar area like yours to do exactly like that. I'm not a bricky either. I was thinking of using this as a seated area so what do I do about the area of where the earth is? For example shall I put click deck there or just cement the top? Also can you tell me what I need e.g type of cement, ect.... Thanks fella 👍

Great video buddy

That looks bang on

Very tidy 👍🏻

Nice Job thanks for sharing. I'm a Sydney sider so the word your looking for when describing Melbourne weather is.... RUBBISH! Cheers Mate

Great work here as that wall was very curved. What ratio mix do you use? And what goes on the mix exactly? Thanks in advance

Great work mate. Hi from Melbourne 👍

Impressive.