Colin McLeod
New Member
Hi all. Looking for advice as to what to do re a newly rendered garden wall. The wall is constructed of concrete blocks with block paving to the rear elevation and the garden to the other.
I appointed a contractor to render the wall (front and rear elevations and across the top) in Monocouche render after having found him on one of the 'trusted' websites' where he had over 30 'recommendations'
I'm concerned about the finished job (note - despite my best DIY attempts I am not and will never be a plasterer so I might be overstating the problems). In summary my concerns are - and I have attached photos to show the areas of concern....
1. The beading used throughout the job is stop bead instead of angle bead. Does this mean that the render will only 'adhere' to one side of the bead (the side where the mesh is) and could pull away/crack from the other non meshed edge....it has already cracked open at one corner after only 4 days
2. The beading looks a right mess to me....bad alignment to end joints and corners?
3. On the block paving side the render has been applied right down to the blocks with no beading at the bottom - does this put it at risk of rising damp/staining?
4. On the garden side there is no beading applied to the bottom edge - the render is applied right down to/below the soil level - again a rising damp/staining problem?
5. On the top surface the render is concave and when it rains the water pools on the surface - problem with staining?
6. The corners where the beads are supposed to meet look totally botched?
7. At one corner the render is already cracking away from the adjoining render after only 4 days.
8. In some places where the render meets the beads the render sits proud of the beading and has been chamfered in resulting in a very poor looking finish
9. At the end of one wall there is no render applied to the vertical surface resulting in a very dodgy looking end to the joint with the adjacent wall
If the job is as bad as I think it is I'm looking at what options I have to remedy this problem- both in terms of the rendering itself and getting back all or some of the £850 I paid.
My main concern is that the whole job is botched and needs redoing which means taking off the render and starting again - in your opinion is this the only real option or am I overstating the possible problems? Would I instead be able to render over the top in the good old fashioned sand and cement render assuming the monocouche has adhered properly to the concrete blocks.
Comments welcome
I appointed a contractor to render the wall (front and rear elevations and across the top) in Monocouche render after having found him on one of the 'trusted' websites' where he had over 30 'recommendations'
I'm concerned about the finished job (note - despite my best DIY attempts I am not and will never be a plasterer so I might be overstating the problems). In summary my concerns are - and I have attached photos to show the areas of concern....
1. The beading used throughout the job is stop bead instead of angle bead. Does this mean that the render will only 'adhere' to one side of the bead (the side where the mesh is) and could pull away/crack from the other non meshed edge....it has already cracked open at one corner after only 4 days
2. The beading looks a right mess to me....bad alignment to end joints and corners?
3. On the block paving side the render has been applied right down to the blocks with no beading at the bottom - does this put it at risk of rising damp/staining?
4. On the garden side there is no beading applied to the bottom edge - the render is applied right down to/below the soil level - again a rising damp/staining problem?
5. On the top surface the render is concave and when it rains the water pools on the surface - problem with staining?
6. The corners where the beads are supposed to meet look totally botched?
7. At one corner the render is already cracking away from the adjoining render after only 4 days.
8. In some places where the render meets the beads the render sits proud of the beading and has been chamfered in resulting in a very poor looking finish
9. At the end of one wall there is no render applied to the vertical surface resulting in a very dodgy looking end to the joint with the adjacent wall
If the job is as bad as I think it is I'm looking at what options I have to remedy this problem- both in terms of the rendering itself and getting back all or some of the £850 I paid.
My main concern is that the whole job is botched and needs redoing which means taking off the render and starting again - in your opinion is this the only real option or am I overstating the possible problems? Would I instead be able to render over the top in the good old fashioned sand and cement render assuming the monocouche has adhered properly to the concrete blocks.
Comments welcome