Hi all
I was wondering if anyone was familiar with the type of bay window construction in the picture attached. A chunk of what would seems to be render has fallen off from below the guttering and I need to sort it.
It’s my mum’s house and she has got a quote for £500 to fix it but it seems to be a bit steep to me. The guy who quoted used terms like, "rodded" and "cast of concrete" so not sure what that meant?
I’m not a builder but I would have thought you could make a cost effective (less than £500) but functional repair by doing the following:
- Remove the guttering (for access)
- Remove the old plaster rendering at this level across the whole width of the bay
- Fit plasterboard or expanded metal mesh (cut to size), to the existing wooden lathing (and anchor it via more solid available members with perhaps wire, screw or nails etc).
- Then re-render/build up with the appropriate product and re-peppledash or paint it
- Replace the existing gutter with the correct fall, ensuring that the sections where it seems to have leaked (causing the problem) are water tight by an appropriate method.
I’d really appreciate it if anyone could let us know how they might approach this or let me know if I’m just being naïve and proposing nonsense.
Sorry lots of questions there : - )
Cheers
I was wondering if anyone was familiar with the type of bay window construction in the picture attached. A chunk of what would seems to be render has fallen off from below the guttering and I need to sort it.
It’s my mum’s house and she has got a quote for £500 to fix it but it seems to be a bit steep to me. The guy who quoted used terms like, "rodded" and "cast of concrete" so not sure what that meant?
I’m not a builder but I would have thought you could make a cost effective (less than £500) but functional repair by doing the following:
- Remove the guttering (for access)
- Remove the old plaster rendering at this level across the whole width of the bay
- Fit plasterboard or expanded metal mesh (cut to size), to the existing wooden lathing (and anchor it via more solid available members with perhaps wire, screw or nails etc).
- Then re-render/build up with the appropriate product and re-peppledash or paint it
- Replace the existing gutter with the correct fall, ensuring that the sections where it seems to have leaked (causing the problem) are water tight by an appropriate method.
I’d really appreciate it if anyone could let us know how they might approach this or let me know if I’m just being naïve and proposing nonsense.
Sorry lots of questions there : - )
Cheers