Cladding or render.
Discussion
The render on the top half of our house is a nasty rough cast type finish, I've been told people do it to cover all the old cracks and keep costs down.
Anyway, it looks dirty and a bit wavey and at best needs painting.
I wanted to cover the top half with cladding and the lower front half in render but now I think I'll just do the top. Or what do you lot think? Here's the options.
A. Clad the top half in cement board in an off white.
B. Re render the top half in an off white k rend or similar type render.
C. Clad top half off white and also render bottom half (just front of house).
Pros to each but it appears that to either render or clad the top half costs will be similar.
Downsides for me are the cedral off white still looks bloody white to me, it may well look very out of place. I'm also unsure if any of the other colours they do go with red brick?
The worry with render is cracking, the guy I'd use is confident it won't crack as it has some give and he would mesh it all up. The other worry is I've seen some of these modern renders look quite grubby because the grain is sort of open. The front of the house is north facing so I'm concerned it may go green quickly.
The other (first world problem I know) is that if I have it rendered then it will appear pretty much the same so the bang for buck so to speak is less. Cladding would make it look very different from every angle. I'm just not sure if thats good or not.
Anyway, it looks dirty and a bit wavey and at best needs painting.
I wanted to cover the top half with cladding and the lower front half in render but now I think I'll just do the top. Or what do you lot think? Here's the options.
A. Clad the top half in cement board in an off white.
B. Re render the top half in an off white k rend or similar type render.
C. Clad top half off white and also render bottom half (just front of house).
Pros to each but it appears that to either render or clad the top half costs will be similar.
Downsides for me are the cedral off white still looks bloody white to me, it may well look very out of place. I'm also unsure if any of the other colours they do go with red brick?
The worry with render is cracking, the guy I'd use is confident it won't crack as it has some give and he would mesh it all up. The other worry is I've seen some of these modern renders look quite grubby because the grain is sort of open. The front of the house is north facing so I'm concerned it may go green quickly.
The other (first world problem I know) is that if I have it rendered then it will appear pretty much the same so the bang for buck so to speak is less. Cladding would make it look very different from every angle. I'm just not sure if thats good or not.
An acrylic render like JUB would be ideal. The existing may need hacking off to the original brick depending on current condition and then rendered smooth - primed - and acrylic on top, I'm a renderer and I advise against K-rend as it discolours very quickly. If you are going down the monocouche route (k-rend) there are far better products that achieve the same finish - the actual k-rend brand is probably the worst to use and most prone to cracking, it's known as krackrend in the trade.
K-rends thincoat acrylic render is decent though - an alternative is traditional cement render and paint it with a good external paint - there are also other systems, drydash etc etc
FWIW I think cladding can look a bit cheap and nasty.
K-rends thincoat acrylic render is decent though - an alternative is traditional cement render and paint it with a good external paint - there are also other systems, drydash etc etc
FWIW I think cladding can look a bit cheap and nasty.
Edited by GG89 on Thursday 16th March 20:43
The house is about 25 years old but has definitely been re done to some extent in the past. There are cracks but hairline and not too bad, paint would probably cover the worst tbh if I went down that route.
The guy I use just suggested some kind of silicone render, I'm unsure of the name of it but he rates it and like you doesn't like k rend types.
He has said the whole thing would need to be primed, meshed and then two coats. He says he's pretty certain it won't crack.
The guy I use just suggested some kind of silicone render, I'm unsure of the name of it but he rates it and like you doesn't like k rend types.
He has said the whole thing would need to be primed, meshed and then two coats. He says he's pretty certain it won't crack.
m3jappa said:
The house is about 25 years old but has definitely been re done to some extent in the past. There are cracks but hairline and not too bad, paint would probably cover the worst tbh if I went down that route.
The guy I use just suggested some kind of silicone render, I'm unsure of the name of it but he rates it and like you doesn't like k rend types.
He has said the whole thing would need to be primed, meshed and then two coats. He says he's pretty certain it won't crack.
sounds reasonable; just have a contingency for hollow bits that have ingress water so need hacking off?The guy I use just suggested some kind of silicone render, I'm unsure of the name of it but he rates it and like you doesn't like k rend types.
He has said the whole thing would need to be primed, meshed and then two coats. He says he's pretty certain it won't crack.
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