To ask if you've had your house repointed?

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How much did you have done and how much did it cost? The survey has come back on my (hopefully) new house with damp - caused by knackered in some areas, and poorly done in other areas pointing.

Also the chimney stack needs repointing, flashing and flaunching.

Am I about to have to withdrawn my offer on my potential new home because it's going to cost me both kidneys an arm and a leg?

Our house has concrete rendering. We found a builder who has chipped it all off and re-rendered. He's also going to repaint it all. Total cost £3,000. Found him on Check-A-Trade, and he's doing a brilliant job. It's taken a bit longer than anticipated, because of all the rain we've had.

sueelleker That is useful information for me. I have something like pebble dash and that is in a bad way. I was worried about the cost but something of the order of £3000 is not quite the heart attack level I was worrying about
Thank you for that info

We had the front of ours repointed, with lime mortar. It came in at around £500 if i remember correctly.

Terraced house and only the front was done £750 about 5 years ago. Think we had to get some scaffolding. That’s London.

Thanks :) ours is exposed brick so hopefully not so much 😟