New pebbledashing next to old pebbledashing

marc49 · 29 Jul 2009

I've had a loft conversion carried out on my 1930's 3 bed semi, the existing house and garage built in the 50's are both pebbledashed but not painted. The new triangular gable end (which is very prominant in the street scene) looks brand new but the remainder of the house walls are weathered and aged.

Is there any way that I can age the new pebbledashing so that it doesn't look so different from the existing. I don't want to paint the whole house if I can help it as this will create an ongoing maintenance issue.

I have heard that painting it with Guinness can make the new area look older! may be just a myth though, scaffolding coming down in a week so I need to act fast!

Any ideas will be considered!

Micilin · 29 Jul 2009

marc49 said:
I've had a loft conversion carried out on my 1930's 3 bed semi, the existing house and garage built in the 50's are both pebbledashed but not painted. The new triangular gable end (which is very prominant in the street scene) looks brand new but the remainder of the house walls are weathered and aged.

Is there any way that I can age the new pebbledashing so that it doesn't look so different from the existing. I don't want to paint the whole house if I can help it as this will create an ongoing maintenance issue.

I have heard that painting it with Guinness can make the new area look older! may be just a myth though, scaffolding coming down in a week so I need to act fast!

Any ideas will be considered!

It's very hard to match dashing. You could end up with the new dashing looking like badly done work.

I am interested in you theory, and would like to try it. Can you supply the Guinness for me, and I'll see what I can do with it. For your size house, I'd say one and a half kegs should do. I don't mind giving it a go, just leave it outside at the weekend

GarethSullivan · 31 Jul 2009

I've been told that eggs do a good job of aging pebbledashing but i've never tried it myself.

The-brickie · 31 Jul 2009

Milk and cows dung.. all old methods..

I've used a wash made up with black mortar dye, try a little bit first and let it dry, change the quantities of water/dye the 'age' away.

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New pebbledashing next to old pebbledashing

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