Hi all wonder if anyone can help me with a problem i have .
In 2006 i had my house rendered after a large extension the builder did the rendering and i painted it it was completed in august 2006 and i after asking the builder how long i should leave before painting painted end of september.
The following year the render started to crack and has progresivelly got worse with big chunks falling off .
After many phone calls to my builder he eventually came to veiw in august 2008 took a sample and had it analysed this aparently came back as inconclusive .He agreed that he would come spring of 2009 and redo the job he did not turn up until the second week in july stripped it all off the front of the house and duly disapeared.
I had a phone call to say he was having a second analasye done to make sure he did the job properly and to see that what ever the problem was he did not repeat it .
At the beggining of august 2009 i rang him to ask when he would be starting the job and he said as soon as there was a reasonable weather forecast he would start ,this week beggining the 10th the weather is forecast to be good i rang to ask when he would be starting he then tells me he is sending an expert to explain to me how it was the paint that caused the failure of the render and it was not his responsibility to put it right.
Now i have a dillema, i can find no instances of paint causing the failure of outside render in this way i followed the instructions on the cans of paint in applying it it was a waterbased paint and it was wickes masonary paint.
I would be interested if anyone out there had ever had render fail in this way and what were the causes .
Obviouslly i am livid that he should wait so long to now tell me he is not going to do it and i have wasted a lot of time and money on this .
So if anyone can help i would be grateful for thier advice.
Phillip
In 2006 i had my house rendered after a large extension the builder did the rendering and i painted it it was completed in august 2006 and i after asking the builder how long i should leave before painting painted end of september.
The following year the render started to crack and has progresivelly got worse with big chunks falling off .
After many phone calls to my builder he eventually came to veiw in august 2008 took a sample and had it analysed this aparently came back as inconclusive .He agreed that he would come spring of 2009 and redo the job he did not turn up until the second week in july stripped it all off the front of the house and duly disapeared.
I had a phone call to say he was having a second analasye done to make sure he did the job properly and to see that what ever the problem was he did not repeat it .
At the beggining of august 2009 i rang him to ask when he would be starting the job and he said as soon as there was a reasonable weather forecast he would start ,this week beggining the 10th the weather is forecast to be good i rang to ask when he would be starting he then tells me he is sending an expert to explain to me how it was the paint that caused the failure of the render and it was not his responsibility to put it right.
Now i have a dillema, i can find no instances of paint causing the failure of outside render in this way i followed the instructions on the cans of paint in applying it it was a waterbased paint and it was wickes masonary paint.
I would be interested if anyone out there had ever had render fail in this way and what were the causes .
Obviouslly i am livid that he should wait so long to now tell me he is not going to do it and i have wasted a lot of time and money on this .
So if anyone can help i would be grateful for thier advice.
Phillip