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Thanks for the kind and unkind comments guys (y) it’s giving me perspective, at least. The front was brick acid-ed after the god-awful render was removed, twice. Also a labourer spent the best part of a day using a grinder with an abrasive flap disc/sandpaper to remove the most stubborn remains...

Also no idea what the previous pointing was, the house was built in 1880, it’s in the Lancashire area near to a canal. The mortar before was quite flaky. Still have to dig out new foundations at the back for an extension, so it will be interesting to see what the existing house is sat...

I tend to agree, even if it was an ‘ugly duckling’ to begin with it shouldn’t make shoddy work acceptable? Referring back to the facelift analogy, that would be like a surgeon purposely botching the job, because the ‘patient’ was not good-looking in a classical sense. Feel like I need to defend...

If I’d have known beforehand that this would be the outcome - never would’ve employed him. I paid him on fourth day because he assured me that this kind of finish is ‘quite normal’ and it would be ‘all finished off with a bit of brick acid’ after 3/4 weeks of drying out. Not being a builder I...

Not sure about that...check out this render BEFORE. I don’t think anything could be quite as bad as that

Totally wish I’d done it myself as I would’ve taken my time and defo made it a bit prettier. I will see what the guy has to say for himself, but does anyone have any ideas about how to rectify this? So far I’ve tried to stay away from sandblasting the front, but would it look better if it was...

The brickwork was largely entire, apart from above the doors and window arches where the render had ‘stuck’ to the triangle patterned bricks and they broke off when removing render. Attached pictures 1) After raking out old mortar 2) after Brickie I paid £650 repointed

Here are the progression pics: what he did on day 1, 2, 3 And 4. Close ups of the rough edge finish I’m talking about - is this acceptable?

I have a small mid terraced Victorian house. The front was clad in some awful crumbling concrete render which was trapping damp, so recently I removed this myself with an sds. Drill and a lot of swearing. Underneath I was pleased to find the actual brickwork was in half decent condition, however...