Spray on coating and cement renders can damage old houses. Spray on coating was often sold as a cure for damp and tired weathered walls.Plastic-type spray on coatings can exacerbate damp problems with solid walls. If you are looking for a spray on coating and render...
Cement Pointing Rendering and the problems they can cause The risks of using cement materials on old period houses Below you will see some pictures of the irreparable damage that sand & cement (concrete) pointing and rendering materials can do to old solid walls...
Lime render and Lime pointing with stone cleaning to a solid wall stone house What can be done with the walls once cladding has been taken off? Is it possible to clean stone-work or will the walls need a new finish? Using a range of historic lime finishes we can...
Brick cladding tiles with stone corner cladding Quoin stones Specification: Clad the walls with brick tiles cut from 65mm bricks, apply and fix solid piece corner-stones to provide castle quoin effect The render on this detached bungalow was looking a little tired....
Paint removal from brick & Acid brick wash Before we could remove the paint from this brick house and acid clean a survey was arranged to test the best paint cleaning method. If you are considering cleaning paint from bricks and acid cleaning brickwork then...
Stone Cladding Removal London house Thousands of London homes were treated with stone cladding and pebbledash in the eighties We have removed stone cladding and pebble-dash from many London houses. A brick cladding system using e-claimed London bricks was considered...
Brick tiles & self-coloured render K Rend Brick Tiles & corner brick slips cut from full bricks with expert installation service. Here we remove pebble dash and stone cladding. The pebble dash was hollow and falling off the wall, cracks had also appeared in...
Tyrolean Render section on 1970’2 house What is Tyrloean Render Tyrolean render has been a very common finish over the last few decades. In part due to its relatively cheap cost and the ability to cover up defects due to its texture. The texture of this render...
Insulated brick cladding, using brick tiles, totally transformed this house from a concrete Pre-Fab into a warm insulated brick cladded house.Brick cladding used was 15mm clay brick slip. The brick slips are frost resistant and being clay are colour fast Brick...
This detached house was treated to a brick cladding facelift The old brick work didn’t match the bricks on the extension and the tiles on the apex section were looking a bit drab. The homeowner even tried hiding the brickwork with ivy but got fed up of the invasive...
Another ugly duckling restored. This property is in North London the owner contacted us to seek advice in the removal and cleaning of the building. As you can see from the pictures the state of the brick work once the cladding was removed meant that the cleaning of...
Problems with stone cladding Problems with stone cladding can be caused by badly fitted cladding. Problems with stone cladding can then occur usually in the form of dampness or detachment of actual stone cladding. This can cause serious damage to property....
Brick cladding with insulation Before the days of building insulation, this style of wood cladding was quite common in the sixties (1970’s also saw the introduction of Plastic PVC cladding). Extensions or small panel areas were often built alongside more traditional...
Brick tile slips 15mm thick were used on the existing brick which was drab also extensions had been built with different bricks that didn’t match A brick cladding make-over using thin brick tiles transformed this house. Installed were Celina Klinka slips a...
