House facelift

[paulw123]

Jonesy23 said:

I would sound a general note of caution about face lifting a house - I know the render/new roof /coloured frames/etc. thing is sort of popular right now but remember it will be horrendously unfashionable all too soon plus anyone that does it makes their house stand out as having been redone. Always better to work in sympathy with what's there than to convert too far.

The artex of our time, can’t wait till it goes out of fashion.

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Just to update this. The scaffold came down a week ago and i'm pretty pleased overall. The render looks much better than before. It's chalk white, so less magnolia than it looks in the photo. The cladding is grey James Hardie plank.

We had them insulate the section of roof above the front door which has made a huge difference. There was nothing in there before and on cold days you could feel the heat being sucked out of he house at the front.





Next is to do the driveway, some internal plastering, decorating, carpets etc etc etc

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jas xjr said:

are there any specialist paints available for the windows?
good luck and i am looking forward to the completed job

You have to lightly sand,prime with a UPVC primer (rustoleum do one) and then paint with your preferred paint.