Determine whether cement or acrylic render was used on your concrete walls.
Concrete render feature wall.
Before applying the cement render you have to check a few aspects regarding the brick walls therefore make sure the wall is plumb and it doesn t have any irregularities.
If the work history of the walls is unavailable there are a couple ways to try to figure out which kind was used.
For rendering course bricks you may need to add a little water to the surface before you start.
Rough textured render combined with vivid colour on a feature wall.
They used a concrete render for around the fireplace and the support pillars.
There are a couple of different techniques to applying render.
Cement rendering is the application of a premixed layer of sand and cement to brick concrete stone or mud brick.
Renderers use trowels rollers sponges and other tools to apply render.
Tilt the hawk onto the trowel and then apply the render at a 45 angle or you can place the hawk s edge on the wall and brush up from there.
Please excuse the poor image quality of these pictures they were taken on an old iphone but how good does concrete render on an interior wall look as a feature.
It is often textured colored or painted after application.
If you have to render an old brick wall you have to remove first the coats that covers the bricks by using a chisel a hammer and a palette knife.
The first picture in the gallery is of my friend s apartment.