Nephew Will puts his mark on the house.

My nephew Will is a UK trained plasterer and he had been working in Australia for a couple of years. Luck would have it he had popped back to the UK for a month and wanted to do something for the house. 
I said he could come over and help me get the main lounge walls and upstairs landing rendered and teach me at the same time, an arrangement we were all chuffed with as you should be able to see by the results. 

Here he is being “protected” by the cat and dog.



Here is the scratch coat on. 
I will post a separate post on the technical bits of the job like mix and consistency and preparation later.








And this is the method used to get it up to him on the scaffold. We had it down to a fine art in the end, and I could reach him when he was working at 3.5 meters.
I used a long handled "cornish" shovel, taking a "hawk" full of muck from the wheelbarrow and hoiking it up to him in one move. AS you can imagine at the beginning there was muck allover the place but after a little practice we had it "sorted" 

This is where one end has been second coated





Here is the same wall staring to look more like it blending in with the newly pointed and sand blasted stone wall 2011, The photos don’t really do it justice as I have the light wrong so I will post some more when I take the next batch. 






And how it looks when complete with the lounge doorway. We are it has to be said "well chuffed"