Hi there, we got some great advice and help with a roofing problem a few years ago so here goes with another......
We finished an extension 3 years ago with rendering being the last job. little bits of the top coat started to come off fairly soon after so earlier this year we got the bloke who did the job to have a look "yeah ill patch it up for a couple of hundred quid"
So he comes round to remove the loose render and almost the whole of one wall is now gone and the job is now "4hundred quid plus materials"
What is worse is his diagnosis being that the tiles don't stick out far enough past the cement board so water is running under the cement board and behind the top coat of render. So he set about moving the tiles knackering the mortar joint and breaking some of the tiles. I don' t think he realised we have a scaffold tower and were able to take a look - the broken bits were left up there so he could stick them back together and make the edge look nice. he is a renderer not a roofer!!
**We have no choice but to redo the end so obviously don't want to get it wrong potentially for a second time. should the tiles overhand the cement board, be flush or even in a bit?**
The renderer wants to put horrible plastic "easy verge" over the end as it will sort out the problem (no thank you!). My feeling is the render problem has more to do with the fact it was applied July 03 when the weather was red hot and it dried too quickly not bonding properly.
Anyway have a look and see what you think pic 1 is the mess he has left us with, 2 is the other gable so you can see what this one looks like only a week ago. 3 is the stuff of the top coat and 4 shows some of the undercoat.
Thanks!
We finished an extension 3 years ago with rendering being the last job. little bits of the top coat started to come off fairly soon after so earlier this year we got the bloke who did the job to have a look "yeah ill patch it up for a couple of hundred quid"
So he comes round to remove the loose render and almost the whole of one wall is now gone and the job is now "4hundred quid plus materials"
What is worse is his diagnosis being that the tiles don't stick out far enough past the cement board so water is running under the cement board and behind the top coat of render. So he set about moving the tiles knackering the mortar joint and breaking some of the tiles. I don' t think he realised we have a scaffold tower and were able to take a look - the broken bits were left up there so he could stick them back together and make the edge look nice. he is a renderer not a roofer!!
**We have no choice but to redo the end so obviously don't want to get it wrong potentially for a second time. should the tiles overhand the cement board, be flush or even in a bit?**
The renderer wants to put horrible plastic "easy verge" over the end as it will sort out the problem (no thank you!). My feeling is the render problem has more to do with the fact it was applied July 03 when the weather was red hot and it dried too quickly not bonding properly.
Anyway have a look and see what you think pic 1 is the mess he has left us with, 2 is the other gable so you can see what this one looks like only a week ago. 3 is the stuff of the top coat and 4 shows some of the undercoat.
Thanks!
