Can you get rid of pebbledash on the outside of a house?? if yes, how?

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Seen a great house today, (no not backing on to the station this time), all totally refurbished and good size rooms, but the outside of the house is so uuuuugly, all brown pebbledash - can one get rid of this unsightliness????

Get a few children around and get them to do seven-uppsies up the side of the house. That'll get rid of the stones in no short order .

yes, you can get it scraped off I believe, but quite expensive.
i think you could also put something over it. can't think what it's called

aren't I helpful? lol

I think that it may be very expensive to remove. Also there is always a worry that the brickwork under the pebbledash would be damaged by its removal.
Would a better solution be to have the house painted. Just because it's brown pebbledash at the moment doesn't mean it always has to be. The house next door to us is white-painted brick to first floor level and then white painted pebbledash above. It looks pretty good. OUrs is all white painted brick, and I'm sourcing a company to perhaps, maybe, remove the paint so we can have a lovely mellow brick house instead.

thanks bookworm

you can have the pebbledash hacked off with an electric chisel type tool(can't think what its called!)but basically it will be there for a reason-you'll probably find the bricks underneath spalled and damaged.then you are gonna have to have it rendered,so unless you can do it yourselves any builder is gonna see major pound signs! if its basically sound and not hollow in places (any dampness inside the house could be caused by this)then you could get it painted-i would say this is definately the easier option.

Painted pebbledash is tolerable.I sympathise.I live in pebbledash HQ (North Wales)

I nearly managed to clear one side of my parent's house when I was about 10 .

They weren't so amused though. Very 70s pebbledashing. Maybe getting it painted would better? Removing the dashing might damage the brickwork underneath.

ok, guess i would potentially have to get it painted then!! is that pricey too??

You could have it rendered over the pebbledash to a smooth finish if you don't want your house looking like it is made of cottage cheese.

Painting costs will depend on size of house - can be done yourself for the price of the paint and the hire of a scaffolding tower, so couple of hundred quid.

I like painted pebbledash (as long as it's white). In Scotland it's a traditional thing, called harling, I think. Lots of arts and crafts era houses covered in it - Hill House (Charles Rennie Mackintosh) for instance.

Mind you, I spent all my childhood holidays in N Wales with relatives. Probably has something to do with it.

Most of the houses where I grew up had pebble-dashing so I'm ambivalent about it. I wonder if someone had a pebble-dashing franchise in the late 60s/early 70s . I'm sure a 1930s semi wouldn't have been pebble-dashed when it was built . Or would it?