Hi
Can anyone provide any advice on how to repair and maintain exterior textured coatings? Our victorian semi is covered with a cream textured coating - this is generally in good condition however this coating is cracked in two places - inspection suggests that the pointing around two bricks is cracked and the coating has come off one half of a brick and a further spalled brick near the chimney. Water is clearly getting in through this cracked brick as there is a huge damp patch in a bedroom exactly in line with this breached area of coating.
We do not know what brand of coating was applied to the house and only want to patch the pointing and achieve a good colour match and have no idea whether we need a general builder to fix this, a specialist textured coating supplier, or whether we can do this ourself (with very limited diy experience!)
Our building survey obtained when we bought the house suggested that the textured coating would need repainting about now - can we simply use exterior masonry paint or would be be better off using silicon paint in the area of the leak to prevent any further water ingress!
Can anyone offer any advice?
Thanks in advance......
Can anyone provide any advice on how to repair and maintain exterior textured coatings? Our victorian semi is covered with a cream textured coating - this is generally in good condition however this coating is cracked in two places - inspection suggests that the pointing around two bricks is cracked and the coating has come off one half of a brick and a further spalled brick near the chimney. Water is clearly getting in through this cracked brick as there is a huge damp patch in a bedroom exactly in line with this breached area of coating.
We do not know what brand of coating was applied to the house and only want to patch the pointing and achieve a good colour match and have no idea whether we need a general builder to fix this, a specialist textured coating supplier, or whether we can do this ourself (with very limited diy experience!)
Our building survey obtained when we bought the house suggested that the textured coating would need repainting about now - can we simply use exterior masonry paint or would be be better off using silicon paint in the area of the leak to prevent any further water ingress!
Can anyone offer any advice?
Thanks in advance......