How can you replicate the pebble dash effect on a new area of render ?
Question:I'm rendering a small area outside and neen to give it the pebble dash effect. Does anyone have an effective way of doing this , without spending ages
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At best you might achieve something acceptable. However pebble dash is not something exact and there is always the influence of the man who did the first part of your existing pebble dash just like your efforts will reflect your influence.
However what I suggest is that when you begin the project you set about to remove the existing straight line effect of the original unless it was done up to something like a pier wall. This would have the effect of taking the eye away away from an obvious add-on effect. (I hope you understand what I am saying here.
Now, I will always recommend that you either go off to your Lending Library or go to the search engine for 'pebble dash rendering' because all of the contributors will have had experience in the skill. (Yes it is a skill and not a stick it up slap it up affair).
There is a recommended mix for the mortar and take note of this from your research.
I also recommend that you practise first on an old wall somewhere so as to develop your initial skill.
I hope my comments are giving you a line of positive direction so that you will achieve a good result.
Easy, rolled up cloth or a sponge dipped in paint is the cheapest (messy) way.
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If you want to replicate it, you need to find a similar pebble to that on the existing. The predominant one used, was a pea gravel, so called because of the size of the aggregate.You simply throw the pebble against the unset render using a small shovel or similar and keep doing it until the coverage you want is there. However, if it is not pebble dash but Tyrolean render, then that is slightly different, the aggregate and mortar being mixed together and applied with a tool that that you can probably hire. It's a receptacle with a paddle and you turn the handle throwing the mixture on to the render.
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