Kent

Rendering in Folkestone

Render, repair, pebbledash removal and external wall insulation for Folkestone homes — with a free survey before any price is quoted.

Across Kent, ragstone and flint cottages, oast houses, Victorian terraces and coastal housing dominates, and coastal weathering at Margate and Dover, lime work on ragstone is what we are called out to most often.

Folkestone sits in a part of the UK that gets drier than average inland, exposed on the coast — worth factoring into any render decision. Kentish ragstone is porous and traditionally lime-rendered, while the north kent coast takes some of the most persistent easterly exposure in the south east.

How we approach a job in Folkestone

Every Folkestone enquiry starts the same way: we come out, tap-test the existing coat, check the substrate behind it and look for the reason anything has failed. Blown render is nearly always a symptom — of a leaking gutter, a bridged damp course, a cracked sill or an over-strong mix — and re-rendering over an unresolved cause simply buys a couple of years.

We will survey the property, tell you what the walls actually need, and put it in writing with a fixed price.

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