Alternatives to render pins?

[Vermilion]

50kr for a putshake sounds a lot to me. Is there any alternative to this that one might be able to make relatively easily oneself?

 

[term]

http://www.biltema.se/sv/Bygg/Kakel-och-mura/Murarverktyg/Ovrigt/Putshake-2-pack-2000022036/

20 bucks each

 

[Vermilion]

20 SEK each ok nice, now it's just 180 SEK more I have to pay in fuel

Isn't there anything I can use to make my own or something? like bending rebar you can get for free as scrap or so?

 

[Stefan N]

If 20:- each is too expensive, maybe you should put the project on hold and consolidate a bit more.

 

[oceanis]

If 20:- each is too expensive maybe the project should be put on hold and gather some more resources.

The problem for TS is probably that there is no Biltema in Ö-vik.

But fastening the board can be done with a couple of nails or by plugging and screwing if one does not want to buy a couple of putshooks that last for generations....

 

[Allmänobildad]

Of course, you can bend a couple of pieces of rebar and sharpen them. But before you've managed to get a durable shape on the iron and sharpened them, you've spent significantly more money in time.

 

[Vermilion]

Then I interpret it as there is no simple cheap option with easy adjustment.

 

[PappasHammare]

Don't buy Biltema's anyway as they are quite bad ... the tip breaks for nothing

 

[schmakita]

Brick up lanes to deduct against and you avoid all problems and definitely the most economical!

 

[oceanis]

Build up tracks to align against, and you'll avoid all problems and it's clearly the most economical!

You use "putshakarna" when, for example, you're building corner walls. You have tracks when you're plastering in the middle of the wall.

 

[schmakita]

Putshakarna are used when, for example, you are plastering outer corners. Banor are used when you are plastering in the middle of the wall.

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