Rendering in Barton on Sea

Tapping comes first. Sound render answers dead, blown render drums. On a salty Barton on Sea wall the drumming often follows a line of corroding beads rather than a crack, so we work the arrises and the sills as carefully as the open wall. The chalk marks set the scope.

Hacking off. Render that has parted from the background comes off to the block or brick. The wall is cleaned down, anything friable stabilised, salts brushed off, and the background left to dry before a new basecoat goes on. Nothing is skimmed over a hollow area.

Silicone thin coat. A polymer basecoat with a full mesh, a primer, then a through-coloured silicone topcoat scraped to a texture. On the Barton on Sea coast that is usually the right answer: the colour is in the material so there is no paint film to blow off, it sheds driven rain, and it washes down.

Monocouche. One through-coloured material in two passes, scraped back the next day. Handsome and low maintenance, and it wants a sound even background, so it suits a newer wall better than a much-repaired one.

Sand and cement, pebbledash and Tyrolean. Most of the original render on the late 1950s and early 1960s stock in Barton on Sea is a traditional scratch and float, often dashed or given a Tyrolean flick. All repairable, and matched from a sample panel on your own wall.

Beads, bellcast and stop ends. Beads are where a coastal render in Barton on Sea is won or lost. Beads go in stainless, never galvanised, because salt gets into galvanising and the rust expands and pushes the render off along the edge. A bellcast throws water clear at the foot, stop beads finish at the soffit and the verge, and every sill gets a proper end stop.

Cracking, delamination and staining. Map crazing is a surface fault, a crack from an opening is movement, and frost finishes off either one. Salt keeps a wall damp between showers, so algae comes back faster in Barton on Sea than inland and is treated rather than blasted, because a lance takes the face off a thin coat.

Render over external wall insulation. With EWI the render becomes the weather face of the whole system, over a render carrier board or the insulation itself, with a mesh basecoat and a thin coat over it. Beads, sills and pipes are all reset to the new thickness, and on an exposed wall the mesh runs the full elevation rather than only at the openings. It is a thermal upgrade worth pricing while the access is already there.

You will not get a square metre rate from us. Measuring the wall is easy. What is already on it decides the price.

The platform. A clifftop bungalow gable in Barton on Sea can be done from a tower. A chalet gable with a dormer, or a two storey block on Marine Drive, needs scaffold, and it has to stay up through every coat. Because of the HSE's work at height rules, access is a line of its own.

Hacking off. If the existing render is sound, we can go over it. If sand and cement has blown, or pebbledash has let go of the brick behind, it has to come off first, and you cannot tell that from the pavement. Tapping every part of the elevation tells us how much is loose from the background.

Which system. A silicone thin coat over insulation, a through coloured monocouche, and a traditional sand and cement render all differ in cost and in how they behave. In Barton on Sea, silicone sheds salt spray and rain better. An older solid wall needs to breathe, and a plastic rich finish would trap the damp, so the wall decides the system.

Corners and edges. Beads, bellcast, stop ends, sills and pipework. On the seaward side, stainless or plastic beads last longer than galvanised ones, which rust and crack the render along the corners.

Ask other quotes which system they are pricing and how many coats, whether they are hacking off or overlaying, and whether the scaffold is included.

A house on the clifftop here faces open water with no hill, no woodland and no other buildings in the way, and the wet weather arrives from the south west.

That puts these walls near the top of the exposure scale, which is not a figure of speech: BS 8104 is the code that grades a wall for wind-driven rain, and it is what a render should be specified against on this road. It also explains why the seaward elevation of a bungalow can be shot while the road side looks almost new.

On a wall facing the bay, choose a through-coloured finish rather than a rendered wall that has to be painted, because a paint film on an exposed coastal wall is a maintenance job for ever and a chip lets salt water in behind it. And expect wind to move the programme. Render cannot be applied in a strong breeze, a sheeted scaffold up here behaves like a sail and has to be dropped when it blows, and coats need protecting while they cure. A quote written as though the weather will not interfere was not written by somebody who has worked on this clifftop.

Rendering in Barton on Sea means a seven and a half mile trip from the Boscombe base we work from. We take on bungalow gables, houses and flats there, and in New Milton and Milford on Sea, all under New Forest District Council.

Bournemouth Roofing & Building Ltd is registered in England and Wales, company number 15471719. Thomas Hannen is the owner, and he taps your wall and writes the price himself. You will find a verified customer's 10 out of 10 for us on Checkatrade. The visit costs nothing, and nor does the written quote with every item listed. Before you book a visit in Barton on Sea, you can read our customers' Google reviews, word for word, on our reviews page.

Most repairs in Barton on Sea need no application at all. What decides whether a change to the outside of your house does is who the council is, whether a conservation area or a listing applies, and whether the place sits in a protected landscape.