Recent content by dudley69

Hello all, We've just had our render repaired after it started to fall off in big patches off the top of our wall. The builders stripped back the top metre or so of the wall across the whole elevation, and rendered with Lime render (the house is an 1830s construction with solid brick walls)...

Hello all, We've just had our render repaired after it started to fall off in big patches off the top of our wall. The builders stripped back the top metre or so of the wall across the whole elevation, and rendered with Lime render (the house is an 1830s construction with solid brick walls)...

One thing to add - the guys who did this are well reviewed, and the render itself seems solid when up close.

My house's render needed a repair (it was falling off at the top), so I got 3 quotes for replacing, effectively, the top 1.5m of render across the top of the front wall. The scaffold has just come down and it looks like this. The builder says that it need another coat of paint (it has 2 coats...