Why PVC plas­ter beads, ren­der beads, angle beads, plas­ter trims?

You get absolute free­dom from cor­ro­sion and stain­ing, which can often occur with gal­vanised steel beads dur­ing a lengthy dry­ing out process.

How do costs of PVC plas­ter beads com­pare with stain­less steel beads and gal­vanised steel beads?

Used exter­nally, they are sim­ply the most eco­nom­i­cal beads you can buy. For plas­ter­ing and drylin­ing, they are com­pa­ra­ble in price to gal­vanised steel beads, but with far less wastage from casual dam­age on site and in tran­sit; and with zero stain­ing dur­ing lengthy dry­ing out times, PVC ren­der beads are the best value option.

Are PVC beads approved by any national authorities?

The British and Euro­pean stan­dard for exter­nal ren­der­ing is BS EN 13914–1:2005, which per­mits only stain­less or PVC beads to be used in all situations.

My local retailer/supplier only sells gal­vanised beads and stain­less steel beads, but I want to try your PVC beads. What can I do?

Get in touch with us! Alter­na­tively, ask your retailer/ sup­plier to do so by con­tact­ing us today.

I haven’t an account with Ren­der­plas. What’s required?

Con­tact us today — open­ing a trade account takes a cou­ple of minutes!

My plas­ter­ers never give me enough notice before they run out. What’s the ser­vice like for PVC beads from Renderplas?

We have a north­bound deliv­ery run on Tues­days and a south­bound deliv­ery run on Thurs­days. Please place your order by mid­day of the pre­vi­ous day (WAST) to ensure your order makes our deliver date. We can, by arrange­ment, offer a spe­cial next day deliv­ery ser­vice for orders of 10 or more boxes. Con­tact us today to place your order.

The archi­tect has spec­i­fied stain­less steel beads and not PVC beads. Surely he knows best?

If through-coloured ren­der has been spec­i­fied, steel beads give a sil­very arris on the cor­ner. PVC beads get around this as they pro­vide a colour match to most stan­dard renders.

I’m wary of using new prod­ucts. How long have PVC beads been around?

Ren­der­plas was estab­lished in 1990, solely to intro­duc­ing British made PVC beads to the UK mar­ket. In Amer­ica, they have been used for over 70 years and are now the pre­ferred choice of Bead­ing prod­uct. With this her­itage, and with the sim­i­lar­i­ties in the UK and WA Build­ing Stan­dards, the time is right for builders, retail­ers, archi­tects and home­own­ers to incor­po­rate best-in-class prac­tise for their house­build needs.

I’m using sand and cement and fin­ish­ing with paint. Will the paint flake off PVC beads?

Absolutely not! All Ren­der­plas Beads are paint and tex­ture friendly.

Are PVC beads envi­ron­men­tally friendly?

Our white PVC beads are 100% made from recy­clable win­dow grade mate­r­ial and all pack­ag­ing and off­cuts can be recy­cled. Used PVC beads can also be recy­cled when build­ings are decon­structed mak­ing them com­ply to, for exam­ple, the UK envi­ron­men­tal stan­dard known in the indus­try as ‘Part L’.

How are PVC beads fixed to the wall?

Adhe­sive mor­tar dabs at 500mm cen­tres will some­times be used, though bed­ding into a con­tin­u­ous line of mor­tar pro­vides more sta­bil­ity when vig­or­ously trow­elling off. PVC beads are so much sim­pler to cut due to their plas­tic com­pound base.

I usu­ally have to order up to 15% more beads than needed due to dam­age on site. Can PVC beads help avoid this?

Emphat­i­cally YES! PVC beads are almost impos­si­ble to crush acci­den­tally and retain a ‘mem­ory’ when flexed.

I’m an archi­tect and I want more details on PVC beads. What next?

You can down­load tech­ni­cal draw­ings directly from this site by click­ing here to use with your CAD pro­gram. Alter­na­tively, please con­tact us to receive a brochure detail­ing all our PVC beads.

I want to spec­ify an ivory ren­der, but do not want the beads to be promi­nent. Can PVC beads help?

Apart from our stan­dard cream colour, Sand, we can sup­ply all exter­nal PVC bead in a vari­ety of colours — even our move­ment joints, which blend per­fectly with ivory, sand, buff, beige and cream ren­der coat finishes.

Do gal­vanised beads ever meet the Aus­tralian Stan­dard for Exter­nal Rendering?

There is no cen­tralised indus­try stan­dard in WA, NT, QLD, VIC, NSW. The British and Euro­pean stan­dard BS EN 13914–1:2005 — Exter­nal Ren­der­ing stip­u­lates that only gal­vanised beads that are hot dipped after fab­ri­ca­tion can be used. They are not suit­able for con­di­tions of high humid­ity and salt in the air or back­ground sub­strate. PVC beads can be used in all situations.

Which pro­files are stan­dard angle beads?

Ren­der­plas has rev­o­lu­tionised bead­ing design so that there is no stan­dard angle or cor­ner bead. There is a PVC angle bead or cor­ner bead for each ren­der depth. See the Prod­ucts sec­tion for more information.

We are using a through-coloured ren­der but can­not find a stain­less steel bead to match. What can we do?

PVC beads are ide­ally suited for through-coloured ren­ders. Our exter­nal PVC beads are avail­able in up to twelve nat­ural colours, includ­ing expan­sion beads. We will be pro­gres­sively releas­ing the colour range into the WA mar­ket from our White Drylin­ing Beads (prod­uct code CB2)and Sand Cor­ner Beads (CB4, CB6), Stop Beads (RS6, RS10), Bell­cast Beads (B15) and Move­ment Joints (MJ10) as we extend our prod­uct range to meet cus­tomer needs.

Nor­mal drip beads sag when applied with­out a sup­port­ing bat­ten. Will PVC beads do that?

Power­Beads won’t! The unique box sec­tion in these sec­ond gen­er­a­tion PVC beads mean they are so rigid, they are plumbed straight in sec­onds. Con­tact Us if you want to learn more about these rev­o­lu­tion­ary beads.