Rendering in Winfrith Newburgh, weather side first
The south west elevation takes the driven rain, so that is the wall that cracks, blows and greens while the other three still look sound.
The site visit is free and so is the written itemised quote. Thomas Hannen prices every job himself.
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Rendering in Winfrith Newburgh usually starts on the south west side. That wall takes the driven rain, so it is where render cracks, blows and greens while the other three still look sound. It is often the one elevation that needs cutting back and re-rendering in lime, silicone or monocouche, and the rest may only need patching. Damp showing inside that wall is a plastering repair.
Winfrith Newburgh walls crack at the window corners, go hollow low down and green over on one face. The crack runs down from a window corner, wide enough to take a coin. The hollow patch shows when you knock it. And one face goes green and streaked while the rest of the house stays clean.
All three are the same story at different speeds. Water gets behind the render, cannot get back out, and frost breaks the bond. What we do in Winfrith Newburgh depends on what the wall behind is made of, so the free site visit is spent tapping the elevation rather than measuring it. Then you get a written itemised quote with the hack off, the beads, each coat and the scaffold on separate lines.
The work
Weather side first, then the rest of the house
We survey and work an elevation at a time in Winfrith Newburgh, because that is how the wall fails. Tapping and hacking off. Before anything is priced the elevation is tapped with a scutch hammer. Sound render rings, blown render sounds like a drum.
Hollow areas on a Winfrith Newburgh wall come off to a firm background, and if a third of a face is loose it is cheaper to hack off the lot than chase patches for a week. Then we clean down, prepare and stabilise a soft background with a primer, and cut a key where the wall is too smooth to hold a coat.
Pebbledash and Tyrolean. Plenty of houses in Winfrith Newburgh carry a dash finish thrown over sand and cement. It sheds water well while it is stuck, and it is a nuisance once it has parted because the dash hides the crack that let the water in. Bays can be cut and matched, though matching thrown dash is honest work rather than invisible work.
Modern systems. On a Winfrith Newburgh cavity wall in good order we use a silicone thin coat: primer, a mesh and scrim reinforced basecoat, then a through-coloured topcoat scraped or floated to a texture you pick off a sample board. Monocouche is the one coat alternative, tougher on a big plain elevation. Older acrylic and polymer rich finishes tend to craze.
Traditional and lime. Sand and cement still has its place on garages, outbuildings and plinths. On a period solid wall built pre-1919 it does not, and neither does anything plastic rich. Those walls shed moisture through the face. A modern topcoat leaves it trapped, pushes the damp inside and blows the render off in sheets. There the answer is lime under limewash or a breathable mineral paint.
Render over external wall insulation. On a cold wall EWI is worth asking about: insulation board fixed and dowelled on, a render carrier and mesh over it, then the same silicone topcoat. It is the one job where a thermal gain pays for the render, and Part L sets what a renewed wall should reach. It also thickens the wall, so sills, reveals, eaves and pipework all move out.
Beads, cracks and staining. A bellcast bead at the base throws water off the plinth, stop beads finish the render at reveals and verges, and stainless beads go on wet walls because galvanised ones rust and stain the face. A hairline crack is cosmetic; one that takes a coin will delaminate the coat around it over a winter and spall the arris off a brick behind. Green algae on a shaded face is a cleaning job unless the wall behind is wet.
How it runs
Render repairs and new render in Winfrith Newburgh
Thomas comes out and taps the whole elevation to find where the render has blown. The quote he writes covers the scaffold, sheeting, getting the wall ready, which render and how many coats, beads and stop ends, and making good. Thomas is your contact through every coat.
Older walls in Winfrith Newburgh may be stone, flint or cob that must breathe, so we repair them in lime render. Newer block walls can take sand and cement or a silicone finish. The scaffold goes up on boards where the ground is soft, with the lane kept open. Windows and paths are sheeted, and we do not render in frost or heavy rain. Hacked off render leaves each day. If the wall behind is worse than expected, you see pictures and a cost and decide before we go on.
Winfrith Newburgh is a conservation area, so rendering a wall that has never been rendered needs planning permission from Dorset Council, as rendering an outside wall explains, while repairing existing render like for like is maintenance. On a listed building a change of material or colour needs listed building consent. The village is in the Dorset National Landscape, so what shows is looked at closely. Insulation behind render has to meet Approved Document L.
Cost
What decides the cost of rendering
Render is never priced per square metre by us. The wall underneath and the weather it faces decide it. The platform. A low extension is done off a tower.
A two storey front on the Winfrith Newburgh village street wants a full scaffold, with a way through kept for anyone walking past, and a rear wall with a conservatory needs it built round. Because of the work at height rules the scaffold is a separate item, and it stays up through every coat and the drying time between.
Taking off the old. Patches of sound render on a Winfrith Newburgh house can be cut out and made good. If sand and cement has lost its grip, or pebbledash is hollow across a whole gable, it all comes off first, and that is often half the labour.
Matching the wall. Stone, flint and cob want lime so moisture can get out. Block walls on a newer house can take sand and cement, a monocouche or a silicone thin coat over insulation, each at its own price.
Facing the weather. BS 8104 on exposure to wind driven rain treats a south west gable as the hardest case, so drips at the sills, a proper bellcast and sealed stop ends earn their place there.
When you compare, check the number of coats, whether the old render is fully removed, and who pays for the scaffold.
If it has started to come away
Render blown, cracked or falling away
Call us, not the form. When render cracks or starts to sound drummy, rain gets behind it and the next frost levers it off, so a small patch becomes a big one over one winter, especially on a south west gable.
If a piece has already dropped near a door or path, rope it off. On the first visit to a Winfrith Newburgh house we knock off anything loose, cover the gap with a sheet if rain is due, and sound out the wall to find the edge of the hollow area before we price it. Booked work runs Monday to Friday, 8am to 6pm. For render falling now, phone, and we will return any call we miss.
Worth knowing
Why the south west wall costs more than the other three
Buildings do not weather evenly. Wind driven rain arrives from one prevailing direction, here the south west, so one face gets far more water thrown at it than the other three. That is why you can stand on the lane and see a cottage with a perfect front and a green, cracked, patched flank, and why a render quote priced as one figure for the whole house is usually wrong in both directions.
It changes the specification, the order of work and the edges. The specification: the exposed face wants the mesh reinforced basecoat, stainless beads and a proper bellcast, and the money is better spent there than spread evenly. BS 8104 is the code used to grade a wall's exposure to driven rain, and it is why a sheltered courtyard wall and an open field elevation are not treated alike. The order of work: if the budget stretches to one face this year, do the weather side rather than the one you see from the drive. And the edges, because driven rain works at openings, verges and the base of a wall rather than the middle of a surface, so that is where the hours go and where a cheap quote quietly saves money.
Who you are dealing with
The renderer you will deal with
Boscombe, where we are based, is 19.8 miles from the village. We render in Winfrith Newburgh, Wool, East Knighton, Chaldon Herring and the villages along the Frome valley, and Dorset Council handles planning and building control there.
The company is Bournemouth Roofing & Building Ltd, registered in England and Wales, company number 15471719. It is run by Thomas Hannen, who taps the wall and prices the render himself. A verified customer gave us 10 out of 10 on Checkatrade. You are not charged for the visit, or for the written quote with its line by line breakdown. Before you book a visit in Winfrith Newburgh, you can read our customers' Google reviews, word for word, on our reviews page.
Planning at a glance
Do you need planning permission in Winfrith Newburgh?
Most repairs in Winfrith Newburgh 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.
| Question | In Winfrith Newburgh |
|---|---|
| Who decides | Dorset Council is the planning authority for Winfrith Newburgh. Dorset Council's heritage pages set out what it controls. |
| Conservation area | Yes: Winfrith Newburgh Conservation Area. Check whether your street is inside the boundary before changing anything visible. |
| Listed buildings | Yes, there are listed buildings in and around Winfrith Newburgh. If yours is one, work can need listed building consent. |
| Protected landscape | Inside the Dorset National Landscape (formerly AONB), so anything visible from outside gets more attention. |
Questions
Questions about rendering in Winfrith Newburgh
Which wall should we do first if we cannot do all of them?
In Winfrith Newburgh the wall facing south west comes first. It takes the driven rain, so it cracks, blows and greens first, and it is the face where waiting costs you money. The sheltered elevations usually go another few years without getting worse.
How do you know whether the old render has to come off?
We tap it: sound render rings solid and blown render sounds hollow, and the hollow areas have parted from the wall behind. We do the whole elevation on the site visit and tell you how much has gone, because that is the number that sets the price, not the square metres.
Our cottage has solid walls. Can we still have a silicone finish?
Usually not, and we would talk you out of it. A solid wall sheds moisture through its face and a plastic rich topcoat seals that face. The damp goes inwards instead and the render comes off in sheets, taking some of the wall with it. Those walls get lime and limewash.
Can you match a patch of pebbledash?
We can get close and we will not pretend it is invisible. Thrown dash varies with the aggregate, the mix and the day, so a patched bay shows in low sun even when the texture is right. On a small area that is fine. On a full face, take it off.
How long does a rendered elevation take?
On a straightforward two storey face, a week to ten days once the scaffold is up, plus drying time between coats. Hacking off blown render adds days, and cold or wet weather stops work rather than slowing it, because render put on in a frost will not hold.
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Thomas comes out, taps the elevation, tells you what has actually blown and prices the hack off, the system and the scaffold line by line. The visit and the quote are free.