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We are have our EWI finished with 1.5mm silicone render and plan to iluminate the walls with up/down lights, so need a good surface finish.
Looking at the my plasterer's mesh and skim coat under makes me very worry that the finish will not be flat good.

I understand that there is still the top coat to go on, but given it is only a 1.5mm by understanding is that it will reflect the skim finish and therefore should be representative of the final result.

But I do't want to be over reacting, in the event that this is an acceptable skim coat finish that will still give a give finish.

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That looks rough to me. Have you seen other examples of their work? Is it possible your render will be finished with a scraped coat? 

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We had good renderers, but up or down lights are savage at showing up everything!!! Consider using then to light up plants or flower beds or the driveway instead IMO

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It is hard to tell, but the base coat looks much too rough in parts for a 1.5 'gritty-coat' to 'hide'. The 'tramlines' simply should not be there. A little off-flat, maybe; tramlines, no. They should have been sponged out when the render was stiff but still 'moveable'. Of course we have not seen the whole surface but (assuming everything is now hard as a hard thing) the 'tramline bit' needs another coat, in my view.

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