Exterior brick restoration v repainting

[Milvi]

Hello all,

I'd love to hear any thoughts about this. We've been quoted over £5k to remove paint from the front exterior of our house.

I'd much prefer it, but I guess repainting it in a different colour (it is currently dark red, which we don't like) would be much cheaper (I assume around £1k or less including sills etc).

But perhaps restoring the brickwork would be better long term?

Any experiences of either?

Thanks!
Milvi

It is very difficult to remove paint from brick. Usually it is sandblasted and that destroys the surface of the brick, especially if they are a soft brick. They’d also probably need repointing.
You don’t say how large your house is or the area to be painted, but you’d be very lucky to get an exterior paint job for £1000.
I’d go with the paint and make sure that proper exterior paint was used.

Google strippers of sudbury. They can remove most stuff from most other stuff. They can almost certainly sell you something to remove the paint without sandblasting

Thank you for the replies

We were faced with this issue, our house had been painted with plastic paint so was causing water damage also. We had quotes to get paint and render off and repair or re render and they were all more expensive than what we are doing. We are removing outer skin of bricks and rebuilding in new brick the out walls, also means we can redo the wall ties as house is 100 years old and put in lots of insulation.

We are currently having outside of house repainted as part of house renovations. Can't remember exactly how much that was but def more than £1k.

The other option was to render in something that doesn't require painting, however that was much more expensive.

The render which doesn't need painting is called k rend. It was really expensive when we looked into it.