Rendering

[Gilly]

We've got a small problem on the front of our house where the slate between the ground and first floor bay windows is looking tired, as is the brickwork under the ground floor bay window.

Our lass wants wood there to replace the slate and to paint the brickwork. I wondered whether a clean render would suffice.

Been trying to get some pics of what I mean but I'm struggling. Does it make sense? I wouldn't want the whole front doing really, just below and above the ground floor bay window. What would be a rough cost for this?

 

[~Divine~Wind~]

Are teh bricks below the window frost damaged? Faces coming off and the like

 

[Gilly]

No, but we live on a main road and they hadn't been cleaned for decades. It'll take a sand blaster to get them right again and they'd need repointing at that point anyway.

 

[~Divine~Wind~]

ah right was just gonna mention ours are frost damaged and have been rendered over, don't know how long ago this was but it looks like an utter mess now. Next project when the bathroom/kitchen/sitting room are done

 

[Gilly]

Does it look a mess because they're damaged, or because it was done badly?

 

[~Divine~Wind~]

No entirely sure if it was done well/badly or just a long time ago tbh, was like this when we bought the house, even pointed it out to the valution people

So the front of the bricks were frost damaged, they were rendered over now the render is frost damaged lol

Were looking at lowering the pavement/path along the wall and redoing some of the brickwork eventually, should help a tad as the path does look to be higher than usual.