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Hello,
We are looking to silicone render the complete outside of our 3 bed house - to replace the shoddy old painted pebbledash on there at the moment.
House is a 30's build, solid brick with no cavity wall so we are losing a lot of heat at the moment and getting a bit of penetrating damp from cracks in the existing render and cold damps walls inside some of the rooms
We've just had a load of work done to renovate the inside of the house and new windows fitted throughout.
We opted for nice flush looking windows but have recently realised the mistake we chose in that if we now get the external render done, if there is insulation to be added to the exterior walls, the nice flush windows will now be heavily recessed. This is something I could probably live with, as I value the practical over the aesthetic but my partner is almost totally against as she thinks it would look awful.
We are thinking about the option of just getting the render applied without insulation but I seem to remember reading somewhere there are building regs that say if you get over 30% of your house rendered you MUST have insulation added also - is this true?
The other option would be adding insulation to the inside of the house on the external walls but this isn't really viable for us as it would cause a major upheaval, not to mention significant loss of floor space and we've got a 3 month old baby with us so worried about the dust etc.
Getting to the point -
My question is, are there any external render solutions that enable you to taper the render leading to the window to prevent it being too recessed or boxed in?
Has anyone had this issues and can suggest any other solutions?
Thanks!
We are looking to silicone render the complete outside of our 3 bed house - to replace the shoddy old painted pebbledash on there at the moment.
House is a 30's build, solid brick with no cavity wall so we are losing a lot of heat at the moment and getting a bit of penetrating damp from cracks in the existing render and cold damps walls inside some of the rooms
We've just had a load of work done to renovate the inside of the house and new windows fitted throughout.
We opted for nice flush looking windows but have recently realised the mistake we chose in that if we now get the external render done, if there is insulation to be added to the exterior walls, the nice flush windows will now be heavily recessed. This is something I could probably live with, as I value the practical over the aesthetic but my partner is almost totally against as she thinks it would look awful.
We are thinking about the option of just getting the render applied without insulation but I seem to remember reading somewhere there are building regs that say if you get over 30% of your house rendered you MUST have insulation added also - is this true?
The other option would be adding insulation to the inside of the house on the external walls but this isn't really viable for us as it would cause a major upheaval, not to mention significant loss of floor space and we've got a 3 month old baby with us so worried about the dust etc.
Getting to the point -
My question is, are there any external render solutions that enable you to taper the render leading to the window to prevent it being too recessed or boxed in?
Has anyone had this issues and can suggest any other solutions?
Thanks!