Wet dash to exterior of Edwardian house, or silicone render?

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Please see the attached photo of the outside of our house, we are going to have the first floor front elevation dashed with hopefully a white stone rather than the original brown stones, as the dash on the houses on our street have been painted white. Its had some sort of tyrolean put on top of the original dash, and we have removed this off the bricks on the ground floor and had them repointed with lime mortar. Since these photos we have hacked off any loose tyrolean off the first floor too.

I was thinking would silicone render with a larger stone (!? - dont know the correct term, is it roughcast). I heard that the silicone render holds its colour better, cheaper than the pebble dash option and lower maintenance? IMG_7CAE93579458-1.jpeg IMG_7EEB84EFF317-1.jpeg IMG_515A28932156-1.jpeg
 
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Are your walls solid or cavity?

If solid you may want lime render dash for the walls to breath
 
Solid. Only want to replace the original dash where it was already present on the first floor. Also I heard silicone render is “breathable “?
 
are you thinking of a thin coating product like K-rend?

I have only ever seen it with a flat smooth or rolled surface
 
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I’ve seen something called k rend silicone dash receiver, after it’s applied I suppose the house is dashed in a similar method to normal dashing?

got a quote for a grand to do 1st floor front elevation in this stuff
 
I’ve seen something called k rend silicone dash receiver, after it’s applied I suppose the house is dashed in a similar method to normal dashing?

got a quote for a grand to do 1st floor front elevation in this stuff

so I can get the area pebble dashed for half this price. Been thinking we would use polar white spa but been told its more of an off white. Any one got a pic or any experience of it being used for dashing?
 
So Ive got a sample of polar white spar 3 - 8 mm, the stones look smaller than on neighbouring houses, so would like to go a bit bigger than the sample maybe 10mm. Cant get them in polar white though. The dasher recommended putting something else on like maybe Canterbury Spar i suppose, and then painting them . But can you paint the dash straight away? I thought some is loose and would come off so you need to paint much later.

Also the dasher says he can move some of the poles on the scaffolding away from the front wall, and dash the front with the scaffolding still up. Ive also been previously told best to dash with no scaffold so no lines on the finish where the scaffold tubes were in front of the house?!

Any thoughts advice greatly appreciated.
 
You will struggle painting pebble dash
rough cast or wet dash is paintable
Or you could go with a silicone render with 3mm stone that would look very close to what you already have plus you can get it colour matched
 
Yes thats one I'm been looking at too now I'm torn between that an mono wet dash
 

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