10mm Stop Bead, PVC Render Bead Without Mesh 2.5m

This 10mm stop bead is a plain white PVC stop bead, 2.5 m long, for a render coat around 10 mm deep at the edge. It has no mesh wing. Fixed where the render ends, at a reveal, a door head, a soffit or another material, it leaves a straight, finished line. It is not the 10 mm corner bead, which is a separate listing.

10mm Stop Bead or 10mm Corner Bead?

Both are white PVC, both come without mesh and both are 2.5 m long, so they are easy to mix up in a basket. The job tells them apart.

• The render stops along a flat edge, at a window or door reveal, a soffit or a meeting with brick or cladding: order this 10mm PVC stop bead.
• The render wraps round an external corner, with both faces finished to one arris: order the 10 mm corner bead.

A rendered elevation nearly always needs some of each. Count the stops and the corners as two separate lists.

The Profile and What It Does

The bead is a perforated PVC flange with a nose along one edge, and nothing else: no wing of glass-fibre mesh. The render is laid up to the nose and struck off flush with it, which sets both the line of the edge and the depth of the coat there.

Four reasons it is the one to pick for a 10 mm coat:

• Matched depth. It is sold for a coat of about 10 mm, the middle size of the range.
• No wing to bed. The plain profile suits an edge with no reinforcing mesh to tie into.
• A true line. The nose gives the trowel something straight to finish against.
• Whole-length ordering. Every piece is 2.5 m, so the count is simple arithmetic.

Choosing Between 6, 10 and 15 mm

UK merchants size a stop bead by the render depth it finishes, so the coat at the edge decides whether the 10mm stop bead is the right one. The Renders World range runs five sizes, all 2.5 m:

• Coat nearer 6 mm — the 6 mm stop bead, or the 6 mm stop bead with mesh where the edge is bedded into reinforcing mesh.
• Coat around 10 mm — this bead.
• Coat nearer 15 mm — the 15 mm stop bead, the deepest in the range.
• Coat nearer 3 mm, bedded in mesh — the 3 mm stop bead with mesh.

Only the 3 mm and 6 mm sizes come with a mesh wing. When one wall carries render of more than one depth, each edge gets the bead that matches its own coat. The full render stop bead range shows the sizes together.

How Many Lengths to Order

List every run where the 10mm stop bead will go. Divide each one by 2.5 m and round up.

• a 3 m soffit line: 3 ÷ 2.5 = 1.2, so two lengths;
• a 7.5 m run: 7.5 ÷ 2.5 = exactly three lengths;
• a window: the head and each side are counted as three separate runs.

Counting run by run rather than by total metres avoids coming up short, since an offcut rarely reaches the next one.

Before the Order Goes In

• Measure at the edge. Check the coat where it stops; if it is nearer 6 or 15 mm, change the size.
• Separate edges from corners. Stop beads go on edges, corner beads on external corners.
• Round up per run. Each run is its own count of whole 2.5 m lengths of 10mm stop bead.
• Drawings naming a profile. Call 023 8200 2442 with the specification before you order.

Fitting the Stop Bead

Fix the bead first, then render up to it. The Renders World guides cover the method and the details around it:

• Setting out and fixing the bead: the stop bead fitting guide.
• Openings, where stop, corner and drip profiles meet: render detailing at windows and doors.
• Picking a profile for each detail: which render bead for which detail.

Ordering, Delivery and Returns

Orders are processed the same day when the stock is there, so add the 10mm stop bead to the basket with the render it finishes.

• Delivery: quoted by the team once the order is in; parcels up to 25 kg go next day, kerbside.
• Collection: Unit 9A, Central Trading Estate, Southampton SO14 5JP, Monday to Friday 7am to 5pm and Saturday 7am to 12pm.
• Returns: within 14 days in original condition for goods bought directly from Renders World; special orders and promotion purchases excluded.

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