Rendering in Moordown

Blown dash needs patching. On a Moordown house, pebbledash is a sand and cement coat with small stones thrown into it while it is wet. After decades of weather, water gets behind it at a crack or a sill, frost pushes it off the brick, and whole patches sound hollow when tapped.

Where the blown area is small, we hack back to a sound edge, render in a matching basecoat and dash it with stone to match. The patch never quite disappears, and we will tell you that before we start.

Re-rendering a whole elevation. When more of a Moordown wall is hollow than sound, we hack the lot off, clean down and stabilise the background with a primer, then apply a mesh reinforced basecoat and a finish. That can be a new dash, a scraped through-coloured monocouche, or a silicone thin coat that sheds water and resists algae. Each has a different look and upkeep, and we bring samples. A typical side of a house is about a week including drying time.

Bays, sills and the bottom edge. The front bays on inter-war houses are where render cracks first, at the corners and under the sills. We fit new stop beads and a bellcast bead above the damp course so water drips clear of the wall instead of wicking up behind it.

Older solid walls. The Victorian and earlier houses in Moordown, a minority here, have solid walls, not a cavity. On a period wall like that, cement render traps moisture in the brick, so repairs go back in lime and the finish stays breathable.

Bungalows and extensions. Smaller walls, usually done off a tower, and often a chance to render a newer extension in the same finish so it matches the house.

External wall insulation. If the render is coming off anyway, it is worth pricing EWI at the same time: insulation board fixed to the wall and finished with a render carrier and topcoat, which improves the thermal performance of the whole elevation, because the scaffold and the prep are already paid for. It needs building control, and details at the eaves, sills and reveals, which we go through at the visit.

When we would talk you out of it. A few hairline cracks in sound render do not mean a new coat. Algae and green staining come off with a clean, and fine cracks can be filled and left. We will say so instead of selling you a full re-render.

No rate per square metre, because the square metres are the easy part; what is already on the wall decides the price.

Getting to it. A pebbledashed first floor on a detached house, a bungalow gable you can reach from a tower, and the upper floors of a Wimborne Road shop with the pavement below are three different set ups. A bungalow gable comes off a tower, a three storey elevation wants a scaffold, and the platform has to stand for the whole system rather than a day. The work at height rules are why it is a priced line rather than something folded into a rate.

What is already on the wall. Rendering over sound brick is one job. Hacking off blown sand and cement, or a pebbledash that has parted from the background, is another, and it is the part nobody can see from the road. We tap the whole elevation before quoting, because the hollow areas set the hours.

The system, and what the wall behind it needs. Silicone thin coat over insulation, monocouche through-coloured, or traditional sand and cement all price differently and behave differently. On a solid wall that has to breathe, a plastic-rich modern system traps moisture and moves the problem inside, so the right system is a wall decision rather than a colour decision.

Comparing quotes for a Moordown render? Ask which system is being quoted and how many coats, whether the old render is being hacked off or overlaid, whether beads, bellcast and stop ends are included, whether the scaffold is in the price, and what happens to the existing sills and pipework.

We cover Moordown and all of BH9, from Wimborne Road into Winton and across to Kinson, with BCP Council as the planning and building control authority. Our Boscombe base is just over two miles away.

You are dealing with Bournemouth Roofing & Building, the trading name of Bournemouth Roofing & Building Ltd, registered in England and Wales, company number 15471719, which you can look up in a minute. Thomas Hannen's business, and he is the one who comes out to price the job, not a salesman. A verified customer's 10 out of 10 on Checkatrade. The visit and the written quote are both free. Before you book a visit in Moordown, you can read our customers' Google reviews, word for word, on our reviews page.

Most repairs in Moordown 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.