My concrete rendered walls were sprayed with a paint type finish before we brought the house, unfortunately they failed to prepare the walls at all so it is now coming off in big chunks.
I've started stripping the paint off using a pressure washer and it's mostly coming off fairly easily (although it is very messy). This has revealed a lot of cracking in the render below that will presumably need repairing prior to repainting.
I had the walls looked at by a plasterer/renderer last year and he thought the best solution would just be to fix external insulation to the exterior because this would only require knocking off the loose paint and would be fairly quick.
My local council is offering 50% back on ewi until the end of Sept but the part that is putting me off is the total cost. The scheme indicates total cost of around £13k for a semi, so I would need to find £6.5k, which seems ridiculous.
I had a look and priced up the material at £2.5k for 65m2 and having watched a slightly bigger house round the corner get done by a single bloke in about 6 days can't belive that it's £10.5k for the labour involved (which apart from the rendering appears fairly low skilled).
Has the scheme massively overestimated the costs in their literature (I'd have to pay £100 for an assessment before I could then ask for a quote )?
I've started stripping the paint off using a pressure washer and it's mostly coming off fairly easily (although it is very messy). This has revealed a lot of cracking in the render below that will presumably need repairing prior to repainting.
I had the walls looked at by a plasterer/renderer last year and he thought the best solution would just be to fix external insulation to the exterior because this would only require knocking off the loose paint and would be fairly quick.
My local council is offering 50% back on ewi until the end of Sept but the part that is putting me off is the total cost. The scheme indicates total cost of around £13k for a semi, so I would need to find £6.5k, which seems ridiculous.
I had a look and priced up the material at £2.5k for 65m2 and having watched a slightly bigger house round the corner get done by a single bloke in about 6 days can't belive that it's £10.5k for the labour involved (which apart from the rendering appears fairly low skilled).
Has the scheme massively overestimated the costs in their literature (I'd have to pay £100 for an assessment before I could then ask for a quote )?
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