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Rendering and External Wall Record

A free printable rendering job record sheet — each elevation's substrate, prep, beads, coats and finish, with every coat by day, batch number and weather.

First page of the Rendering and External Wall Record — Trace a crack, a colour difference or a failed bond back to the batch, the day and the weather, instead of guessing which wall was done when.
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2 pages. Choose your paper size — both versions are laid out identically, so neither one gets shrunk to fit.

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What this sheet is for

Trace a crack, a colour difference or a failed bond back to the batch, the day and the weather, instead of guessing which wall was done when.

Who it is for

Renderers, plasterers and external wall insulation installers, and builders recording a subcontracted render job.

How to use it

  1. Write the system, finish and colour once at the top, and whose scaffold it is.
  2. Take one line per elevation: what the wall was, what you did to it, which beads and mesh went on.
  3. Log every coat on the day it goes on, with the batch number from the bag and the weather as it actually was.
  4. Fill in the joints, cills and guarantee reference, and have the customer sign it.

What is on the sheet

2 pages, in this order:

Page 1

Printed under the title: One rendering or external wall job: each elevation's substrate and preparation, the system and coats that went on, and the days and weather they went on in.

The bag's figures, your record. Mix ratios, coat thicknesses and the time between coats are the figures on the bag and in the maker's data sheet — write in the ones you followed. The sheet holds which product, which batch, which day and what the weather was doing.

Write-on lines: Customer · Address · Started · Finished · Render system & maker · Finish & colour · Scaffold on whose hire · Old render removed by

Elevations — one line per elevation or separate wall area

Table, 4 rows: Elevation · Area · Substrate · Preparation done · Beads & mesh · Coats applied · Finish

Coats by day — one line per coat per elevation — weather as it was, not as forecast

Table, 23 rows: Date · Elevation · Coat · Product & batch no. · Weather & temp · Covered / protected · Applied by

Page 2

Write-on lines: Movement joints & sealant · Cills, reveals & pointing made good · Guarantee / registration ref · Waste removed?

Signature strip: Customer signature · Print name · Date

Questions

Why does the sheet not say how long to leave between coats?

Because that figure belongs to the render system you are using and the weather on the day, and the maker's data sheet is where it lives. The sheet records which product, which batch and which day, so the interval you followed can be shown afterwards.

Do I need the batch numbers?

They are the reason this sheet exists. A shade difference between two elevations or a top coat that will not bond is a batch question first, and the bag is long gone by the time anyone asks.

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