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House Rendering in Halifax & West Yorkshire

Render keeps the weather out until it cracks, and then it holds the water in. We repair render that has started to fail, put new render on where it suits the wall, and take old cement render off stone where it is causing damp inside.

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What's included

Everything covered under this service

Sand and cement render on block, brick and extensions, lime where a stone wall needs to breathe, and blown or cracked render cut out and made good. Painted afterwards by the same team.

  • Blown and cracked render cut out and made good
  • Sand and cement render on block, brick and extensions
  • Lime render on solid stone walls
  • Removing failed cement render
  • Repointing stone once render is off
  • Beads at corners, reveals and above the damp course
  • Garden and boundary walls
  • Masonry painting over new and existing render
  • Scaffold arranged and itemised

The detail

How rendering jobs actually run

Repairing render that has failed

Render fails in the same few ways: hairline cracks that let rain in, hollow patches where it has come away from the wall, and crumbling at the base where the wall stays wet. We tap-test the whole elevation, mark what has come away, and cut back to sound render.

The patch is built up in coats to match the thickness and texture of what is there, then the wall is painted so the repair does not show. If most of the wall is hollow, we say so and price re-rendering it whole.

New render on block, brick and extensions

Extensions and newer walls in block or brick usually take a sand and cement render in two coats: a scratch coat for the key, then a float coat finished flat or textured.

Beads go on the corners, around windows and doors, and above the damp course, so the edges stay straight and water drips clear of the base of the wall.

Render on solid stone

Most houses round here are solid stone, built to get wet and dry out again. Cement render stops the drying. Water gets in through cracks and stays in the wall, and it shows inside as damp patches and blown plaster.

If you are thinking of rendering a stone house, we will tell you honestly whether it is a good idea. Where render is the right answer on stone, it should be lime, which lets the wall breathe.

Taking old render off

Where cement render is trapping damp in a stone wall, the fix is often to take it off. It is noisy, dusty work, and the stone underneath usually needs repointing. We do the pointing as well, so it is one job, not two.

After that the wall is either left as bare stone or re-rendered in lime.

Planning and conservation areas

Repairing existing render to match normally needs no permission. Rendering a wall that has never been rendered can need planning permission, and inside a conservation area it does. Hebden Bridge, Sowerby Bridge, Todmorden and Halifax all have one.

If the house is listed, any render work needs talking through with the council first.

Weather, scaffold and painting

Render needs dry weather above freezing while it cures, so most of it is booked between spring and autumn. Scaffold is arranged by us and itemised in the quote.

Once the render has cured, we paint it with a masonry paint that suits it, so the render and the paint come from one team.

How we quote

Fixed price, not a rough rate

Rendering is priced after a site visit. The area of wall, height and scaffold, how much old render has to come off, and the state of the wall underneath all feed into the quote. You get a fixed written quote with scaffold and prep itemised.

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Areas we cover

Renderingacross the Calder Valley & West Yorkshire

Most of the rendering we do is in the Calder Valley: Hebden Bridge, Sowerby Bridge, Mytholmroyd, Todmorden and Halifax, where stone houses take the weather off the moors and later extensions are rendered block. We also cover Brighouse, Elland, Ripponden and Huddersfield.

Regular patches

Not listed? Give us a call, we travel further for the right job.

FAQs

Rendering: common questions

The ones we get asked most often on rendering jobs.

  • Do I need planning permission to render my house?

    Not to repair existing render to match. To render a wall that has never been rendered you may, and in a conservation area you do. Check with your council before committing.

  • Can you render over Yorkshire stone?

    We can, but on solid stone cement render often makes damp worse, because the wall can no longer dry out. If stone is going to be rendered, lime is the right material. Often the better answer is repointing and leaving the stone bare.

  • My render is cracked. Does it all need to come off?

    Not usually. We tap-test the wall, cut out the sections that have come away, and re-render those. If most of the wall is hollow, re-rendering it whole is the better spend, and we will say so.

  • Can you match our existing render?

    Usually closely. Smooth, floated and textured finishes can be matched. Pebbledash and old roughcast are harder to blend, and a patch shows until the wall is painted.

  • How long before new render can be painted?

    It needs to cure first, which is a few weeks rather than days. We give you a date, and paint it ourselves if you want.

  • What time of year can you render?

    Render needs dry weather above freezing while it cures, so most work runs from spring to autumn. We move a booking rather than render into frost or driving rain.
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