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Ideally I want to get the rendering fixed this year. I was trying to avoid doing the rendering first, then disrupting everything around it...

Ok this really is the last question :mrgreen: I am trying to think how I can line the internal walls as quickly as possible so that the plants are disturbed the minimum amount... Can I use a bitumen based roof adhesive like this...

Thanks everyone... :) Just one last thing. I am pretty sure that this not applicable.. but there are no chemical DPC options available to me?

Ahh no I didnt realise it was flexible.. what is the minimum bend radius or is it really bendy!? Do you have a linky? What holds it in place? Or is that a dumb question? Cheers, Mark

Ahh yeah sorry, what I meant was that I would not be able to put in the extra protection board in around the curved bits. So let me get this right.. dig out as best I can.. try and clean up the wall, apply liquid DPM, then a DPM sheet. Now, should I also apply liquid DPM on the external...

Hi again. Allegedly we had sealant in the mix, but that didnt work... also quite a lot of the render that has blown is not on the earth retaining parts. On my thread it was suggested to use DPM liquid on the external wall as well before rendering. Certainly that is what I will be doing when I...

Cheers Dec, at least I can get on with some bits..

Another issue I have (look at the photos) is that most of the walls are curved, so at best I am only going to get sheet in :?

That's a very helpful thread, thanks! I wish I had looked a bit further. As has been said, a lot of blown render threads! OK, so I am looking at damage limitation... are we really saying that I need to dig out everything and start again? The main earth retaining walls have blown so its no...

Damn, I wished I had asked a similar question when I did this last year! I assumed that the builder would take this rather serious issue into consideration.. See my thread (sorry, I should have just added to this one rather than create new one but I didnt see it until this morning)...

Hi there, Last year had the garden done and there are a number of earth retaining walls. These were rendered and a lot has blown off over the winter/spring. Now not all of these are on the earth retaining walls, some are just faces that were exposed to some heavy snow drift etc... Now a...

OK thanks for that I'll start up a new thread. But going back to the original post, on the areas that the render is good (not on the earth retaining parts) and the sandtex has peeled off how should I prepare/repair it....

Thanks for that. I hadn't thought of drain holes, and presumably neither had the builder. Does nobody think its a little strange that the builder didn't factor in that the retaining parts would need lining/protection? Again though, I have to point out that the only places that the render has...

Its not on a house its on an external seating and bedding area...

I didnt do it myself, but was told that pva was added to the mix, but the guys I have had round to quote have commented that the scratch was not deep enough, and commented on the colour i.e. poor mix etc... OK, so digging out hundreds of plants is not really a solution.. what options are...

Ironically the insides seem to be ok, its the external face that has had damage. It all seems to be where the snow and ice built up over the winter. I have had a couple of quotes, and one guy did say it should have been lined, but when looking at it now said there was not a lot of options for...

Yep I'm inclined to agree with you there, but what do you do? Cut out all the render and start again... On the whole the majority of it seems to be OK (so far...)

Hi there, started a new thread after reading the painting external render thread. Basically we had a seating area and various flower beds built out of brick and block (on various levels) and rendered last year. It was painted with a couple of coats of Sandtex but over the winter lots of...

At a guess would say suspended wooden flooring. I need to go and have a good look really...

I don't think so, I can't recall seeing any air bricks, and there is a lean to conservatory at the back.