Rendering in Owermoigne, repairs and full elevations

Panel and bay repairs. Where a discrete area has blown, it is cut back to a firm, straight edge, then we clean down, prepare and stabilise the background and cut a key where it is too smooth, and the coat is built back up to meet the old surface. Matching a smooth finish is straightforward. Matching pebbledash or Tyrolean is honest work, never invisible work, and we say so before you spend the money.

Tapping, and knowing when patching stops paying. Every Owermoigne elevation gets tapped, not just the bit you have noticed. Sound render rings and blown render sounds hollow, and hollow areas have already parted from the wall. Once a third or so of a face is loose, patching stops being economic and it is cheaper and better to hack off the whole elevation. That figure goes on the quote so the decision is yours.

Cracking, staining and green faces. A hairline crack on an Owermoigne wall is cosmetic. A crack that takes a coin is a route for water and the coat around it will delaminate over a winter, so it is cut out, not filled. Green algae on a shaded elevation, and the streaking under a leaking gutter or a blocked downpipe, is a cleaning job unless the wall behind it is wet, which is why the rainwater goods get looked at during the survey.

Full elevations, modern systems. On a sound Owermoigne cavity wall a silicone thin coat is the usual answer: primer, a mesh and scrim reinforced basecoat, then a through-coloured topcoat scraped or floated to a texture off a sample board. Monocouche does it in one applied coat and suits a long plain elevation, sand and cement still does for garages and plinths, and older acrylic and polymer rich finishes are the crazed ones.

Lime on the older houses. A period Owermoigne cottage built pre-1919 has solid walls that stay sound by breathing. A plastic rich topcoat leaves moisture trapped, drives damp inside and blows the render off in sheets within a few winters. Those get a haired lime basecoat, a soft topcoat and limewash or a breathable mineral paint instead.

Beads, base and insulation. A bellcast bead at the bottom throws water clear of the plinth, stop beads finish the render at reveals and verges, and stainless goes anywhere the wall gets wet, because galvanised beads rust and stain the face. Where a spalled brick arris turns up it is cut out and made good first. On a cold cavity wall, EWI, external wall insulation board with a render carrier, is worth pricing while the scaffold is there, with Part L setting the thermal standard.

Render has no honest rate per square metre, because the old coat decides the job. The old coat. New render over sound brick is quick. Where blown sand and cement or loose pebbledash has to be hacked off first, the work grows a lot, and none of it shows from the road until someone taps the wall.

Which system. Lime render, traditional sand and cement, a monocouche through-coloured render and a silicone thin coat over insulation are each priced differently. An old solid wall has to breathe, and hard cement on it holds water in, so lime is often the right answer on older walls in Owermoigne.

Reaching it. A single storey Owermoigne back wall comes off a tower on firm ground. A two storey gable needs full scaffold. A wall you can only reach through a farm gate is hand loaded. The work at height rules make the platform a priced line.

What moved it. On clay, a crack in render can come from movement in the ground rather than the render itself, so we check that before patching.

Ask others which system they are pricing and the number of coats, whether the old render comes off first, whether beads, bellcast and stop ends are in, whether the scaffold is included, and what happens to the sills and pipework.

Owermoigne is 22 miles from us in Boscombe, and we render in the village, Crossways, Warmwell, Winfrith Newburgh and the villages between Dorchester and the coast road, with Dorset Council for planning and building control.

The owner, Thomas Hannen, taps the walls prices the work himself, and is the one you ring. We are Bournemouth Roofing & Building Ltd, registered in England and Wales under company number 15471719. Checkatrade carries a 10 out of 10 for us from a verified customer. The visit and the written, itemised quote are both free. Before you book a visit in Owermoigne, you can read our customers' Google reviews, word for word, on our reviews page.

Most repairs in Owermoigne 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.