Rendering in Canford Cliffs

Blocks of flats. A lot of the homes in Canford Cliffs are flats. Where a block is rendered, whether in a smooth painted coat or a thin coat system, the usual faults are cracks at the corners of openings, hairline crazing across a whole face, and staining that runs down from balconies and copings.

Where the render on a Canford Cliffs building is sound we cut out and fill the cracks, clean down, and put on a breathable coating. Where it rings hollow we hack off the blown area back to a firm edge and rebuild it in the same system, so the patch does not show as a different texture once it is painted.

Silicone thin coat and monocouche. For a full re-render in Canford Cliffs we would usually quote a mesh reinforced basecoat, a primer and a silicone topcoat in a float or scraped texture, or a through-coloured monocouche. Acrylic and polymer systems are cheaper, but on a wall this close to the sea we would rather have the silicone, because it sheds water and holds its colour. A sample panel goes on the wall first, since a white on a chart can look blue on a north face.

The older detached houses. Among the big Canford Cliffs plots are inter-war and earlier houses, often red brick at ground floor with render or pebbledash above. Those are usually solid or early cavity walls, and some are pre-1919. On a solid wall a plastic-rich render traps moisture and pushes damp inside, so we would repair in sand and cement or lime to match, not wrap it in a modern system. Dash can be matched for aggregate, not for ninety years of weathering, so a patch on a frontage often means doing the whole elevation.

Beads, bellcast and edges. Stainless or PVC stop beads at the reveals, angle beads on the corners and a bellcast over the damp course so water drips clear. Galvanised beads rust here and stain the new wall.

External wall insulation. If a solid wall is coming back to brick anyway, EWI is worth pricing at the same time. Insulation board or a render carrier takes the same basecoat and topcoat, so the thermal gain costs one scaffold instead of two.

When we would talk you out of it. Green algae on a shaded face is not a render fault. A clean down and a biocide wash fix it for a fraction of a re-render, so that is what we would quote.

One person to ring from the first visit to the last. The quote is itemised, not a figure on the back of a card: access and scaffold, protection, preparation of the existing wall, the system and number of coats, beads and stop ends, and making good on separate lines, so you can compare it properly against anyone else's.

On a Canford Cliffs job nothing is left open or unusable overnight. The site is swept at the end of each day, not the end of the job, and what comes out leaves with us. If something turns up once we start that nobody could have seen, you get a photograph and a price before we carry on.

Re-rendering in the same finish and colour is maintenance. Both the Canford Cliffs Village and the Branksome Park and Chine Gardens conservation areas take in parts of the suburb, so if you want to change the finish or the colour of a wall seen from the road, check the council keeps the list first and read the Planning Portal guidance on external walls. Insulation under render is building control work to the Part L standard in Approved Document L. On a block of flats, the freeholder or management company agrees the scaffold and the work before we start.

Ring rather than use the form. A section that sounds hollow when you tap it, or a crack you can get a coin into, is letting water behind the render and the frost does the rest.

We make the loose area safe, sheet it if the weather is against us, and price the elevation once we can see how far the blown area actually goes. On a block, tell the managing agent the same day, and keep the car park or path under the loose area clear until it has been taken down. Scheduled work runs Monday to Friday, 8am to 6pm. For anything urgent, ring rather than use the form, and if we cannot pick up we ring you back as soon as we can.

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Canford Cliffs sits on the cliff top, well under half a mile from the beach and not much further from the harbour. Walls here take wind-driven rain and salt that a house two miles inland never sees, and it is not spread evenly.

BS 8104, the code for assessing wind-driven rain on walls, treats exposure as a question of which way a wall faces and what shelters it, and that is exactly what we find: the face towards the sea crazes, stains and blows years before the one behind it.

So we do not price every Canford Cliffs elevation the same. On the exposed face we want a mesh in the basecoat, a silicone topcoat rather than a cheaper acrylic, stainless beads, and a bellcast and sill details that throw water clear. The sheltered side of the same building may only need cleaning and a coat. If a quote treats a seaward block and a sheltered one as the same job, ask why, and ask what the beads are made of.

Nearby places we also cover for rendering, with straight-line distances from Canford Cliffs, and the other trades we offer in Canford Cliffs itself.

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