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Thanks for the reply, had the boss round today and he thought it was a bit patchy in places so we will be getting the painters back to look at it.

Hi I wonder if someone can help me. Just had the outside of my house rendered and painted. The painters used a brush round the windows and then used a roller on the larger parts of the wall. When I look up at it close up, from my patio, I can clearly see the difference , when I look from the...

Steve...thank you for these , they have helped put my mind to rest, I met with the project manager today and i am confident that we will get to here we need to be, probably with a triangular fillet along the ledge, but still to be agreed. The double brick ledge on some of the houses is exactly...

Thanks for the reply Vinn. On the bell cast, the common practise on the houses around me is to render flaring out to the evade of the brick ledge. So i would be happy with that. I am only learning about bell casts after the event and looking at what i consider to be poor finish at the bottom...

Yes there is, and that is the plan. On asking for one, there was one before and the agreement was hack off and replace , so i thought that meant replace the render with a bell cast not replace without one. Also all the houses around me that are rendered have one, there is not a single house...

Thanks Steve, Could I ask, the water falls to the ledge, the brick gets soaked, the water goes through the brick running down the inside of the cavity. I think. As the brick get waterlogged will the water not be sucked up by the render behind the paint as well as running down behind the wall...

I tried to edit the post again, on then size of the job, the house is 12 metres at each side, with one side being mainly window.

Ok the full story is. The house is 110 years old, the top half had two renders on it and bricks on the bottom half, separated by a decorative ledge two courses thick. It is cavity wall. The renders were, an original rough cast that was covered by a thick layer of render that was like a badly...

our house is a detached house two storey house with render on the top half and brick on the bottom. There is a brick decorative ledge separating the two floors it sticks out about an inch. The render has been taken to the brick ledge but no bellcast put in , this means that the rain water will...