Please help me, my house constantly needs painting

[Soihaveagoat]

We had thus house newly rendered 10 years ago with traditional sand and cement render. Since then the front of it which is North facing so therefore doesn't get a lot of sun has needed yearly painting. Mostly we don't get it painted yearly and the side and back could last two years or more. The front looks horrendous, loads of flaking patches. The last time it only took 6 months before the front was peeling off.

Someone must have a solution to this. I've just had another 1k quote to get it painted again, not including the paint or primer.

Do it properly with a modern silicone render which is coloured and won’t need painting. It’s a costly job initially since the old render will need chipping off but once it’s done it will save you time money and hassle

Is there some kind of damp issue?

I have a feeling that it will cost close to 10k to get the render changed to silicone which we don't have without taking out a loan. I could maybe sort 4k as I'm paying 1k every couple of years to paint it anyway.

How big is the house?

The house has no damp. It had a full damp course done ten years ago. I think it's purely because the front gets very little sun to dry it out. You can see the paint bubbling when it rains.

The house is roughly 1250sqm big. I reckon each of the three sides is 6m x 6m.

Is it rendered above ground floor level?

We are about to pay £12,800 for a triple garage and large house circa 5000 square metre but the render is downstairs only since we have cladding on the upstairs sections (so circa 2500 square metre footprint). This includes all chipping off of the old cement and paint render from the 50s

The bottom metre is brick and looks fine so that would cut it down a bit. Your house sounds much bigger than ours so maybe it's worth getting a quote for k rend. Thanks.

I kind of regret getting k rend done as front of mine gets algae stains on it, really I should have picked darker colour grey so just bare this in mind. I pay approx £350 a year to treat algae and keep it from looking bad still wish I'd saved more for cladding...

That's really bad with the algae! Seems to be replacing one problem with another.