To think pebbledash actually looks really nice?

[riotlady]

It’s one of those things people on property shows always react to as if it’s hideous but I really like it! Although I think white pebbledash looks better than brown. Reminds me of my Grandma’s house by the sea.

The classier more characterful large detached houses here have it.

It looks far better than some of the modern trends that will date terrible such as totally grey rendered homes with grey or black UPVC window frames, fasciae and sofits and grey/black/brightly coloured rock doors.

Council houses here don’t have pebble dash, just funny grey or beige bricks.

See exhibits a b and c for reference

@Bluntness100 for "between the wars" houses in my part of the south east, it was a fashionable thing. The house I live in is very similar to Ginfordinner's photo. I'm going to pinch @NameChange84's phrase - the classier more characterful large detached houses have it here (although I've never thought of my house in those terms before ).

YANBU. It’s not my taste but you don’t need strangers on the internet to validate your choices. If you like it then it’s a personal preference.

I think it might be about to come back into fashion.

Noooo! I grew up in an Irish council house at the height of Irish councils' addiction to covering all their houses in bloody pebble dash and it is super-ugly. The only plus is it wears well.

@ktp100

I think it's hideous and if you ever accidentally scraped a limb on it as a child you will also know it's evil!

That brings back the memories...

I like it painted white

@bluefoxmug

eastern european prefab

Oh those ones! (Didn’t know you called them prefab)

They look ugly! I agree!

I think when it’s half a house, particularly the top half, And painted properly it looks better because the effect of it is muted. It’s when it’s a whole house it becomes problematic,. And rather unattractive,

Let’s face it though, it’s not nice stuff.

@ktp100

I think it's hideous and if you ever accidentally scraped a limb on it as a child you will also know it's evil!

A trip to A and E for me in the 1970s say it all!

It's ok painted, but not natural brown or grey.

Nope, it’s so bloody ugly I just had my house rendered to get rid of it all

I had to google pebbledash too...known as harling round these parts (or at least on the street that I grew up on
As In “oh mum...I’ve skint my arm on the harling ”

@NameChange84

The classier more characterful large detached houses here have it.

It looks far better than some of the modern trends that will date terrible such as totally grey rendered homes with grey or black UPVC window frames, fasciae and sofits and grey/black/brightly coloured rock doors.

Council houses here don’t have pebble dash, just funny grey or beige bricks.

Yes that seems to be a thing round here too. Lovely 1930 houses with 1930 features ( including pebbledash) rendered/ plastered white and totally smoothed over with no nice features and horrible grey windows, grey doors. Ruining their original looks and making the houses stick out like sore thumbs! This look will really date imo. Like when you see a lovely victorian home covered in stone cladding when that was briefly fashionable in the 80's - a travesty!

It looks far better than some of the modern trends that will date terrible such as totally grey rendered homes with grey or black UPVC window frames, fasciae and sofits and grey/black/brightly coloured rock doors

Ha ha, that’s my house. To be fair, it was built in 1950, so the space can take it.

When I was younger I would have said YABU but as I've lived in a pebble-dashed house for the last 18 years I have to agree with you. It actually looks quite nice. But that's mostly because the houses in my street are all pebble-dashed as that was how they were designed. It looks crap on a Victorian terrace.

People are conflating pebbledash with roughcasting(Harling in Scotland).

The stuff that’s white/painted is rough cast where the stones are mixed with the mortar before application and there is less density of stone as a result.

Pebbledashing the stones are added once the mortar has been applied to the wall and are at a density that covers the mortar completely.

You like it because it has a happy memory attached to it. Understandable.

The rest of us are not wrong though. Yack

You'd have you work cut out to graze your skin on rouughcast.

Roughcast

@JuanitaJuanita you might be right but my Grandma also had hideous patterned carpets and collection of porcelain figures, and I don’t covet those!!

@MbwaKali

It’s hideous. A lot of houses where we lived in Scotland are caked in the stuff. Grey weather and grey pebbledash - ugh!!

Ye what is it with grey pebbledash in Scotland!

It's horrible, I'm glad I've never lived anywhere it's the norm.

I think it's all about the associations. I love it as it reminds me of the houses in the city where I was born.