Pebbledash: To Remove or Render Over? Assessing Your Home’s Exterior
Pebbledash is everywhere on Bristol and Bath’s inter-war and post-war housing, and across the many pebbledash jobs we’ve surveyed and carried out, the single biggest finding is that sound, well-bonded dash is often better rendered over than hacked off. Whether you remove it or render over it should come down to the condition of what’s […]
How to Clean and Maintain Render — A Bristol Plasterer’s Guide
The green staining most homeowners think means their render is failing is almost always just surface algae that cleans off. Across the rendering work we do and get called back to across Bristol and Bath, we see the full lifecycle of render — from fresh installs to jobs we’re asked to assess or repair ten, […]
Lime Plaster vs Gypsum Plaster — Which Your Bristol Wall Actually Needs
Lime versus gypsum isn’t a quality contest; it’s a compatibility one. Across hundreds of Bristol and Bath jobs, the clear pattern is that almost every damp or blown-plaster callout in an older home traces back to gypsum applied to a solid wall that needed lime. It’s Not Which Is Better — It’s Which Suits Your […]