Re-rendering house

[Mamaemmeline]

I'm after some advice from those who have done this or know more about this than me!

The render on our house is cracked and sounds hollow underneath. We have had various quotes for removing and re-rendering with the coloured render and had decided on a company and got booked in. The cost was 10K. It's a large, unusual shaped semi.

With the cost of living issues and 10K just being an awful lot of money I've started to doubt my decision and wonder if it might be worth just trying filling and painting. The quote for this was £1700. Has anyone done this and regretted it as the cracks came through? Are there any other repairs that I'm not aware of?

You might as well knock off anything loose and have it patched to match & painted. Don't do mini surface crack fills & paint over. You don't necessarily have to re-render the whole thing.

If you are getting the whole lot redone you will almost certainly make your house warmer. You could even add some external insulation at the same time. Patching it is a short term fix and will need repatching every 5 years whereas doing the whole thing will mean you can ignore it for a good 20-30 years.

This is so funny. As we speak my DH is rerendering the porch. We were quoted £1000. But once we started flaking off the bubbled paint around the "crack" we realised it wasn't that bad, could be fixed and filled by us and painted over.

I checked with colleagues who know more about the trades, building regs etc and they confirmed it was fine!